If you like the Motorola Milestone but want to compare phones with similar features, then check out the Apple iPhone 3GS, the HTC Legend and Google’s Nexus One.
The Nexus One is a reasonably cheap mobile phone to buy at around £320, followed by the Legend at around £380. The Milestone costs more retailing at around £450 but not as expensive as the iPhone 3GS which is selling for around £540.
T-Mobile is offering a free Motorola Milestone handset, 600 minutes and 500 texts for £30 a month. Included in this deal is unlimited access to the internet and five months half price line rental.
Another option from T-Mobile is a 24-month contract at £15 a month. The handset costs £139.99 and for this you get 300 minutes plus unlimited texts.
Vodaphone is offering a 24-month contract at £25 a month. The handset is free and you get 600 minutes and unlimited texts. There’s also four months half price rental. Another Vodaphone deal is an 18-month contract at £35 a month with 600 minutes and unlimited texts. There’s no cost for the handset and it comes with a free jawbone hands-free headset.
If you choose Orange as your provider, they are offering an 18-month deal with 600 minutes and 500 texts for £35 a month. There’s also three months half price rental and the handset is free.
The Blackberry Bold 9000 is a popular BlackBerry mobile phone model with plenty of satisfied users. It has many useful features such as Wi-Fi, which is perfect for those who work on the go, as they can connect to the internet to check and send emails wherever there is a Wi-Fi hotspot. The Bold also boasts excellent download speeds and has a very useful GPS to help with easier navigation.
With a stylish appearance the BlackBerry Bold 9000 looks elegant and modern and users will find that it is easy to operate with a clear screen and very sharp images making texts easier to see. There is also a massive 1GB memory which is ideal for those who like to store and listen to music on their phone and to take photos using the Bold’s camera function. In addition there is always extra storage space via a memory card which can mean virtually unlimited memory capacity.
As with all phones there are some downsides to the Blackberry Bold 9000. Some users find the phone a little bulky and not suitable to be carried around in a pocket while others say the camera function is a little disappointing, although if it is being used for quick shots and not as the main household camera it is perfectly adequate. Those who like to work and play may find that the lack of games included on the Bold is a bit of a letdown.
Overall this is a stunning phone with great features, and there are some good deals to be found on contract mobile phones.
If you are considering selling your old mobile phone to Envirofone, you may be interested to learn what they actually do with all those phones they purchase.
Well, Envirofone actually strive to reuse all mobile phones that are in the proper working order. When Envirofone receives a phone, they actually carry out a number of tests to make sure that the phone is not broken. Each phone is then given a grading depending on its state. Some will actually be able to be sold on to another user straight away; others will need some refurbishment before they can be used again. Of course, there will be others that cannot be used again and these particular handsets will be recycled.
Obviously, when you opt to sell to Envirofone you will be quoted a price but this is dependent upon the phone meeting their terms and conditions. Sometimes, after testing, Envirofone may need to alter their quote and they would email you regarding this. You can choose whether or not to accept the revised offer.
Once payment is made, Envirofone will list working handsets for sale on their website. Any phones that are damaged will be sent for refurbishment. However, the handsets that are broken beyond repair will be reprocessed. This is a system by which all valuable components of the phone are removed. This includes the flash memory. The remaining components are then melted down for energy recovery.
Envirofone also works hard to maintain its environmental credentials and offset its own carbon footprint.
Some of the best mobile phone deals can be found after searching online, for those looking for cheap mobile phones or the best mobile phone deals they can find it is a good idea to use the online searches to compare mobile phones side by side with no biased sales people trying to sway you one way or the other.
The Samsung Tocco handset is available through most of the big name service providers including O2, Orange and T-Mobile. All have something good to offer depending on your expected usage.
For lighter users O2 are offering a package deal including a free handset, 300 minutes of any time any network calls and unlimited text messages, a choice of free gifts or alternatively 13 months half price line rental on an 18 month contract. That makes the £30.00 per month usual line rental charge seem just that little bit more affordable.
For the heavier user or those who may be expecting an increase in usage, T-Mobile is offering £35.00 per month on a 24 month contract, 1200 free minutes any time of the day to any network plus unlimited text messages. Again some deals can also include free gifts, and alternatively you can take 17 months half price line rental.
There are offers out there with many different companies, but before you go looking, make sure you have an idea of usual or expected usage. Signing up to a tariff that is too low could mean receiving a bill at the end of the month for a vast amount of calls made over the free allocation. Alternatively, paying for a high tariff that isn’t being used is also a waste.
The LG GW620 is the company’s first Android handset and is aimed at the middle to low end of the market.
The touchscreen and the QWERTY keyboard are a great combination, working really well together. The Android operating system functions well with the hardware too. The handset is small and not too heavy but still looks classy.
The phone comes with an FM radio and the interface is well thought through, laid out well and user-friendly. There’s a dedicated music button and a 3.5mm headphone jack so you can listen to your music without disturbing those around you. The play back quality is not the best but is ok.
The camera is a good function on this phone. It is 5-megapixels and you can file your favourite pictures in a specific gallery file, a great addition to phones especially as storage sizes are increasing. The down side to the camera is that it is raised on the back of the phone, which means that the phone never lies flat.
The phone is preloaded with Google applications, Google maps, Gmail and YouTube and you obviously can download apps from the Android Market. The phone comes with a Social Network Manager that enables you to keep track of your Facebook, Twitter and Bebo accounts from the one application.
Collecting emails on this phone is frustrating as it is not possible just to call up unread emails – you have to click through all the emails sent which is extremely time-consuming.
The Motorola Z10 handset, another phone that flexes, looks similar to its predecessor the Rizr Z8 but it does have a few added upgrades.
The benefit of the flexi-phone is that it bends more easily around your ear and mouth during calls, which gives a better audio quality. One of the best features of this phone is the sound quality, which is excellent even in noisy environments.
The screen resolution makes it enjoyable to view content; images are sharp and bright, but being larger would have been a huge improvement as the screen is less than 2 inches, much smaller than comparable mobile phones such as the Nokia N95 or the LG Viewty.
Although the Z10’s keypad is an improvement on the Z8’s, typing is still awkward. Even with the keys more spaced out and slightly raised, they don’t have a lot of travel and the bottom row is too close to the body of the phone. It’s uncomfortable to use unless you use the end of your thumb.
The Z10 runs on UIQ, which means that the interface is more like that used on a Nokia or a Sony Ericsson phone. The general opinion is that Motorola have not quite cracked the nut when it comes to UIQ because there are a few problems with the interface.
The interface is slow when navigating parts of the menu or accessing certain functions. When running a few applications, a message will appear saying that the Z10 has run out of memory. It’s also not the easiest interface to find your way around; for example, changing the display settings is a bit fiddly.
The C903 has a sleek look to it with the sliding screen to the front and the lens cover at the back, though some people may find the plastic casing too cheap looking. The phone is very small and those who are not used to a smaller handset may find it difficult to operate. The numbers are very close together which may cause some problems.
The phone has a camera which offers some editing functions and extras which make using it enjoyable. The phone also has HSDPA which allows quick uploading of photographs to the computer or internet. There are video functions on the camera too which allow recording and playing. The screen offers sharp, clear and bright images.
Google Maps is pre-installed and the phone has a GPS function. An application called ‘NearMe’ allows quick tracing of nearby restaurants, cinemas and other businesses, though there is no Wi-Fi internet connection. Music can be stored on the phone but there is no headphone jack or adaptor so the in-ear headphones are the only option.
The C903 is the ideal handset for those who like a small phone which can take good photographs, but may not be the best option for internet access and emailing due to the small keypad and lack of Wi-Fi. When using the video and camera functions the battery life is not as long lasting as it might be but otherwise this is a good phone for those who do not need too much in the way of applications.
The LG Secret is made from tempered glass, carbon fibre and fake leather, materials that you usually don’t find in a mobile phone but the combination is a winner. The Secret is classy mobile phone by a manufacturer whose priority is luxury.
The phone is available from a number of networks and on contract from £20 to £30 a month, the top deal at the moment being offered by T-Mobile.
It’s a relatively thin phone, only 12mm, so it’s remarkable that it also boasts a 5-megapixel camera that can shoot both still pictures and videos as well as slow motion video. The camera has a LED flash, but picture quality in darker conditions would have been improved if the flash had been xenon.
Texting is easy on the even spaced keypad and you know when you’ve completed a task because the touch sensitive navigation keys vibrate when they’re tapped. Taking the criticism about the LG Chocolate very seriously, LG have not made the cancel key touch-sensitive.
The music player supports all file formats including AAC+, AAC, WMA and MP3 but it is disappointing that there is no 3.5mm headphone jack, although it does come with a 3.5mm headphone adaptor.
The touchscreen only works in certain menus, making it relatively useless a lot of the time. Apart from when playing games, the functionality of the touchscreen is poor.
Other similar phones to check out are the Sony Ericsson Yari and the Sony Ericsson C903.
The N97 Mini is one of the latest mobile phones to be introduced by Nokia. The original Nokia N97 generated plenty of mobile phone news and its successor, the Mini, is doing the same. Users will notice that this new mobile phone comes in a smaller package, but there are a few tradeoffs that have been made.
With the Mini package, users will get a 3.2 inch touch screen that supports 16 million colours. A full QWERTY keyboard slides easily from within the body of the Nokia N97 Mini. The built in accelerometer sensor transitions the screen from landscape to portrait based on the mobile phone’s position.
The Nokia N97 Mini is substantially smaller than several comparable mobile phones. This device is 113 mm long by 52.5 mm wide and it is just 14.2 mm thick. The Mini weighs in at 138 grams. The battery provides users with more than 7 hours of talk time or 320 hours on standby.
Users will enjoy the impressive 5-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics that has been integrated into the N97 Mini. The camera features a dual LED flash and auto focus. There is a secondary camera included in the Mini that is used for video calling. Users will have the ability to geo-tag their photos.
There is plenty of memory included with the Nokia N97 Mini. There is 8 megabytes of internal memory that can be expanded up to 16 gigabytes with the help of the microSD expansion slot.
After you have decided to sell your old mobile phone to a phone recycling company, you will want to know how much money you will get for your unit from each of the official company sites. There are ways to ensure you get the most money for your mobile phone unit and there are many different ways you can get paid for it.
For newer, working mobile phone units, you have to ensure that the phone is good to sell, which means that you may have to do some cleaning on the outside and you have to make sure it has no personal data on it. You should remove the SIM card and clear the phone of any files that you yourself may have added during the time that you have used it.
When sending the phone to the phone recycling company, you can send the more expensive type of phones through special delivery postal or courier service. However, most mobile phone recycling companies will send you a padded envelop for your unit or units. Just make sure that you have already previously registered your phone with the company before you send it. Also, make sure that the company offers a price for your mobile phone and not only the free recycling of parts.
Once you have prepared your mobile phone, it is time for you to compare the price offers of different mobile phone recyclers using the Mobile Phone Price Comparison Tool. You can also browse the internet for independent review sites as well as ‘how to’ guides for these phone recycling companies. This is the way to get the most cash for mobile phones.