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The top five mobile deals this month

Rachel Wait
by Lovemoney Staff Rachel Wait on 09 February 2011  |  Comments 2 comments

Check out the top five mobile deals for the month of February.

The top five mobile deals this month

It’s a new month and that means it’s time to check out the top five mobile deals, according to Recombu.

1. HTC Desire

Web browsing is fast and easy with the HTC Desire, which boasts a super-fast processor and an amazingly responsive capacitive touchscreen.

Its sharp 3.7 inch AMOLED screen makes the onscreen keyboard a joy, providing more space to type and play with. It also holds a 5 Mega Pixel Camera, 3.55mm headphone jack and music player! All yours for just £28.08 a month with unlimited texts, free minutes, internet and a free handset!!

500 minutes, unlimited texts, 500MB internet, free orange speaker, free handset, 24 month contract – Only £28.08 per month with Orange.

2. Nokia N8

The Nokia N8 is a solid, smart-looking phone with its aluminium casing. The phone features an amazing 12 megapixel camera which produces astonishing photo quality. The 3.5 inch touchscreen is bright and very responsive  and you can pick this phone up for only £30 per month, including 500 minutes, 5,000 texts, 1GB internet, plus a free handset!

500 minutes, 5,000 texts, 1GB internet, free handset, free phone, 24 month contract – Only £30 per month with 3 Mobile.

3. BlackBerry Bold 9780

The BlackBerry Bold 9780 has an easy to use Qwerty keyboard, perfect for writing emails or browsing the web. It also comes with Social Feeds built in, giving access to all your social networks in one place, from BlackBerry messenger to Twitter and Facebook.

It also runs on the new BlackBerry OS 6 and gives access to your favourite  apps from the homescreen as well as a media player and 5 Mega Pixel Camera. This is a great deal at only £30.64 a month, including a free flexible booster and unlimited blackberry mail!

300 minutes, 300 texts, unlimited blackberry mail, free flexible booster, free handset, 24 month contract – Only £30.64 per month with T-Mobile.

4. Sony Ericsson X10 Mini Pro

The Sony Ericsson X10 Mini Pro is a small phone but features a full slide out Qwerty Keyboard making sending emails that bit easier.

Android 1.6 has been adapted nicely to work on the smaller display and the touch screen works well with only a gentle swipe needed to get anything done. Yours for just £20 per month for 100 minutes, 500 texts, 250MB internet and a free handset!

100 minutes, 500 texts, 250MB internet, free handset, 24 month contract – Only £20 per month with Vodafone!

5. HTC Wildfire

The HTC Wildfire is a low-cost smart phone great for those on a budget. It’s small and compact but this doesn’t stifle its excellent features. The camera has a great touch-to-focus feature making capturing those pictures even easier. Available for only £20 per month with 500 minutes, 5000 texts, 1GB Internet and a free handset… what a bargain!

500 minutes, 5,000 texts, 1GB Internet, free handset, 24 month contract – Only £20 per month with 3 Mobile!

To compare all the best mobile phone deals visit Recombu.

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Comments (2)

  • mlaker
    Love rating 8
    mlaker said

    The best deal depends very much on how you use the phone. For example, suppose you're a light user, or that most of your phone calls are made to family members. Suppose also that you're happy to keep the same phone for three years instead of two. (It's the green thing to do, and it'll save you a packet.) You could buy an HTC Desire outright for, say, £300 (or less on Ebay), get a free Sim from giffgaff, and buy a £10 goodybag every 30 days, entitling you to unlimited free calls to family and friends on giffgaff, 150 minutes a month to other numbers, unlimited texting, and unlimited Internet use (hence no nasty surprises if you get carried away on YouTube one month).

    Cost with Orange: £28.08 * 36 = £1010.88

    Giffgaff: £300 + £10 * 37 = £670

    (The giffgaff cost reflects the initial cost of the phone plus the 37 thirty-day goodybags that you'll buy during the three years.)

    You save £340 and you still have the same gorgeous phone. If you keep the phone for more than three years, the cost difference is even larger. And, if you exceed your prepaid talk time, giffgaff charges you 8p per minute for phone calls; Orange charges you 20p per minute.

    I'm not yet a giffgaff customer, but for people who can afford to buy a phone rather than getting a "free" phone on hire purchase from one of the major telcos, giffgaff does look like a better deal.

    (For anyone who can't find £300 without borrowing, I question whether spending £28 a month on a mobile phone is a good idea. Get a cheap phone; use the difference to pay off debts and then build up savings. A grumpy middle-aged man speaks!)

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  • snowchick
    Love rating 7
    snowchick said

    Thanks for this MLaker - just what I needed. I had a normal phone quite happily for the past 20 years or so but all my colleagues had android phones and I felt i was either missing out or should bring myself up to date. I wanted to treat myself to a toy but I am allergic to anything which ties me into a contract. I am currently on orange pay as you go. I have a plan which gives me 5 free texts a day and so I very rarely go over this. On average i top up £10 every 8-10 months. Really. I never use my mobile to chat just the old 'I am at the shops, shall I buy xyz...' kind of calls. I got a HTC wildfire for myself for Christmas on PAYG. I have broadband at home so use this to download, play games etc.

    My friends and colleagues have told me I am STUPID not to have the phone on a monthly purchase contract. I have explaiined til I am blue in the face only to be looked at like I am totally insane. I tried to point out i am far from stupid. Your above post proves me right.

    I will print it and show them.

    Thank you!

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