Mobile phone stuff

Desert Orchid

Desert Orchid

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I'm looking for a new deal on a mobile phone.

What I don't know is how many MB of data per I'm going to need if I want to access oddschecker and make bets. I don't plan to watch races via the phone. It's really just to access sites (eg hotmail, oddschecker & bookies) that are filtered out at work to get bets on at the midweek festival races.

My new job (starting Monday) is only two days (Monday-Tuesday) per week so I'd be using my laptop at home the rest of the time.

My current phone is a Samsung SGH 600 (I think), about 5 years old (maybe only 4). Should I go for a new sim or a whole new phone?
 
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500 mb was OK on my old Windows phone, but with Android it's nowhere near enough and you have to turn everything off after you have used it, otherwise it keeps running and using data sitting in your pocket.
 
walsworth said:
500 mb was OK on my old Windows phone, but with Android it's nowhere near enough and you have to turn everything off after you have used it, otherwise it keeps running and using data sitting in your pocket.
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I would agree with this - I used to sit on the bus every day on my Windows Phone with my tablet tethered to it playing online poker. I never ran out of data on a 500MB tariff.

I now have an android phone on a 1GB tariff - I tend to run out of data a week or so before the end of the month. I have lost count of the number of times I've unlocked the phone and found it merrily downloading app updates from the Play store as well as apps downloading internal data - despite me putting all settings to download on Wifi only.

If Microsoft could get their finger out of their arse and get some of the apps I like onto Windows Phone, I would go back in a shot as it is a much better phone OS than Android or iPhone - but they just aren't there. Even the Skype app on Windows Phone is rubbish - and Microsoft own them!
 
Do you still get Windows phones? (Not that I could claim to know what they are.)

I'm sure the deal I was offered last month (never got the chance to get back to the shop) was something like 200 minutes, 500 texts and 500MB data (for £7.50 pm x 24m) on a Nokia 520, which I'm sure the guy said was a Windows phone.

I was in yesterday and it's a different deal this month. £7.70 for a Huawei Y300 with 150 minutes, 500 texts and 500MB. I think. I checked the phone at Which? and it doesn't get much of a write-up so binned the leaflet.
 
DO,

You are probably thinking of the old "Windows Mobile" phones - these were windows phones from version 3 up to 6.5. I used to write programs for these in my job - they were crap!

Microsoft launched Windows Phone 7 a few years back which was a completely new operating system - they are now on Windows Phone 8(.1 I think is the latest version and by all accounts is very good). All Nokia phones are now Windows Phones - your best bet would be to call into somewhere like Carphone warehouse and ask to try them.

If you aren't very techie, I would avoid Android like the plague. If you are getting a Windows phone, definitely go for a Nokia one. The 520 would probably be a good choice - it offers decent battery life for a smartphone, which will probably be the biggest difference you will notice - you'll be charging them up every night with moderate to heavy use.
 
Cheers, Flagship. It was Carphone Warehouse that were doing the offers I mentioned. They have deals on Nokias so I might check them out.

I need a phone that's compatible with my laptop. My current phone used to upload photos to my PC no problem (using something called something along the lines of PC Studio or something like that) but for some reason I couldn't do it latterly and then it turned out PC Studio (or whatever it was called) wasn't compatible with my laptop. I've since scrapped the PC altogether so exclusively use the laptop but I want to start selling stuff on ebay and need to be able to transfer photos from a mobile phone on to my laptop.

I feel such a thicko in all this...
 
I'm shite with this sort of stuff as well.

What do people think of the Giffgaff 'goodybags'? 12 quid a month for 250 minutes and unlimited texts/internet seems reasonable enough to me?
 
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