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Only £30 per month on T-Mobile Combi 30 (12 month contract). You’ll get 300 minutes to call any mobile or standard UK landline plus 200 texts per month. After 90 days you’ll automatically receive £230 cash back paid directly into your bank account. There’s no redemption vouchers and there is no need to make a claim.

This is a brilliant deal provided by Buy Mobile Phones, who have been delivering some of the best mobile phone deals for 11 years.

The Nokia 2630 is Nokia’s slimmest and lightest handset to date at just 66g and only 9.9mm thick. It’s a somewhat basic but very practical phone. It has a 128×160 pixel TFT display in 65,000 colours, Bluetooth, a VGA camera and FM radio plus a web browser, GPRS, MMS messaging and an email client.

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Out now on Vodafone and free on a 12 month contract from only £25 per month line rental. You’ll also receive a free Bluetooth headset if you order online and use voucher code vodablue1.

The Nokia 6210 Navigator is a fully featured slider phone with an improved sat nav system. Designed for those who want an all-in-one device, it has Nokia Maps pre-installed. The interface is very easy to use and the Nokia 6210 Navigator has clear spoken voice directions. It can be used as an in-car navigation device, or for people navigating on foot, with turn-by-turn directions. Compared to its predecessor, the new Nokia 6210 Navigator has a long list of improvements. It has a 3.2 megapixel camera, HSDPA, an FM radio and a large 2.4 inch screen, Internet and email.

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Available in white or grey, the new Nokia E71 is a Symbian smartphone with a full QWERTY keypad and a 2.4 inch display. Measuring just 10mm thick this is a very slim messaging device and could be a real alternative to a BlackBerry. Email messaging is well supported with plenty of configuration options including Gmail, Yahoo!, Hotmail and Microsoft Exchange.

With a built-in GPS receiver, the Nokia E71 comes loaded with the new Nokia Maps 2.0 application, helping you to find the best routes or explore any city for restaurants, attractions and other points of interest. The 3 megapixel autofocus camera also makes use of GPS by geotagging your photos with their exact location.

The Nokia E71 is a 3G phone with HSDPA for high speed data downloads. It also has Wi-fi connectivity, which is great for browsing the web or accessing emails when in a Wi-fi area.

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The end of month bargains have started. I thought I’d mention a couple of spectacular free laptop offers, launched today on Orange. These deals will end on 31st July.

The LG Secret, one of the coolest top-spec designer phones, is free on Orange Dolphin 35 with a free Acer Windows Vista laptop. Line rental is £35 per month and gives you 600 xnet minutes, unlimited texts and unlimited web browsing on your mobile phone.

If you prefer a Nokia, you can have the above deal with the new Nokia 6220 classic. It has a 5 megapixel camera, GPS, HSPDA and much more. It’s a brilliant phone, one of my favourites.

Delivery of your phone and laptop are free. Order before 3pm to receive your phone next day. Your free laptop will be sent a few days later when you return your claim voucher (which you’ll receive with your phone) along with a proof of address and a proof of signature.

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12 month contract on T-Mobile Combi 30 with 300 xnet minutes and 200 texts per month. Line rental is £30 per month and you’ll receive £135 cash back, which is equal to 9 months half price. Cash back must be claimed in four stages by sending off your bills at months 5, 7, 9 and 12. Even without the cash back this is a good deal for Samsung’s latest flagship, only £30 per month on a 12 month contract.

The Samsung F480 Tocco is a 3G touchscreen phone with HSDPA 7.2Mbps for high speed data access. It has a 5 megapixel camera and a large 2.8 inch display with a haptic touchscreen interface.

Built from high quality materials, the Samsung F480 has a flat face with a glossy black surround and comes with a wallet-style leather case.to protect the screen. There are just three keys on the front of the phone. On the side of the F480 you’ll find a camera shortcut key, a volume rocker control and a hold key which locks the keys and screen.

Other features of the Samsung F480 include an FM radio with RDS, stereo Bluetooth, a brilliant organiser, a good web browser and course a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus, face detection and video stabilisation. The Samsung F480 is a good all-round device with plenty of features that should keep you entertained for a very long time.

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The Sony Ericsson W980i Walkman phone is designed to allow you to listen to music as it should be heard. When closed, the clamshell looks like a portable music player with large touch-sensitive music keys, which offer haptic feedback. A great audio experience requires great quality speakers or headphones. The W980i has built-in stereo speaker but for best performance use the Stereo Portable Handsfree HPM-77 headset, which is included with the phone.

The Sony Ericsson W980i also has a built-in FM transmitter, which allows you to send whatever’s playing on your phone to other devices with a built-in FM radio receiver. You can store up to 8,000 songs on the W980i. With the recent evolution of PlayNow arena, from May 2008 you will be able to access up to 5 million tracks to maximise your music collection. The W980i’s TrackID feature, which can identify any track that you just can’t put a name to, will be fully integrated into PlayNow arena. This makes the W980i a genuine gateway to great music, as you can download the track instantly once it has been identified.

Music aside, the W980i has plenty more to offer too. It has a capable 3.2 megapixel camera, screen rotation, a built-in FM radio, HSDPA for high speed music downloads and it’s quadband so you can keep in touch from almost anywhere in the world.

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Available now on Orange Dolphin 35 with 500 minutes per month and unlimited texts. Line rental is £35 per month and you’ll receive £210 cash back, which is effectively 12 months half price or 6 months free.

The HTC Touch Diamond is a thin and good looking touchscreen phone powered by the powerful and highly customisable new Windows Mobile 6.1 operating system. The Touch Diamond has a very clever TouchFLO 3D system that allows your photos and music to be searched as you rotate the phone, or via finger gestures on it’s very impressive touchcreen.

The touchscreen itself is a 2.8 inch TFT-LCD with full VGA resolution meaning you have plenty of room to view pictures from the onboard 3.2 megapixel camera, or movies stored on the impressive 4GB internal memory. Browsing the web on this phone is great too as the large touchscreen is complimented by broadband like speed thanks to the HSDPA and WiFi data connectivity.

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T-Mobile’s latest Megadeal offers a choice of free phones with a massive £200 worth of calls and texts per month for just £25 line rental.

New customers can save £10 per month on Flext 35 (18m) when they buy online direct from T-Mobile.
This is brilliant value with 1000 minutes per month to any network, or 2000 texts, or any combination of minutes and texts.

The phones available on this promotion are the new Nokia 6650, Sony Ericsson K660i, LG KF600 Venus, Samsung U600 and the Sony Ericsson W580i White. T-Mobile have put together a good selection. There aren’t too many phones to choose from and I recommend any of the five.

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Expected this summer on Vodafone, the BlackBerry Thunder 9500 has a new Touch user interface and a new BlackBerry touch-centric operating system. It features 3G and GPS, and is likely to run on the latest 624 MHz processor.

It’s interesting that this new device has been leaked just days before the launch of iPhone 3G. The BlackBerry Thunder promises excellent media playback facilities with a wide aspect video player and a built-in music store similar to iTunes.

In other BlackBerry news this week, there have been some new colour variations launched on existing BlackBerry devices. The BlackBerry Pearl 8110 Silver is now available in silver, as is the BlackBerry Curve 8310 Pink and the BlackBerry Curve 8310 Midnight Purple.

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The BlackBerry Curve 8320 now comes in it black and it’s free with cash back on Orange pay monthly. This is RIM’s smallest full-QWERTY keyboard device and comes with Wi-fi, a 2 megapixel camera, expandable memory, MP3 and video player and a 3.5mm stereo headset jack.

Thr BlackBerry Curve 8320 Black Emerald features a powerful 312Mhz Intel processor giving you quick access to the Internet to help you keep on top of your emails. Navigation around the handset is simple with BlackBerry’s unique 5-way trackball.

A compact QWERTY keypad makes writing emails effortless, with the handset also featuring a spell checker. The camera has a flash and 5x zoom, giving your pictures greater clarity and definition while supporting all video and image formats including MPEG4.

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Orange have an exclusive online offer this weekend with their Dolphin 35 plan. Customers who buy online will receive £5 line rental discount along with 600 minutes per month, unlimited texts and unlimited web browsing on their phone.

Better still, look at the choice of free phones available…

Samsung Tocco, Sony Ericsson C902, LG Secret, Nokia N82 Black, Samsung Soul Black and many more. Or, for just £39.99 choose the brilliant HTC Touch Diamond.

This is a simple deal with no catches. Buy direct from Orange and receive an automatic £5 line rental discount for the life of your contract. Highly recommended.

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4 months FREE on a 12 month contract!

The HTC Touch Diamond is now widely available at all online retailers. The best deal is on Orange Dolphin 40 (12m) with a free Touch Diamond, 600 xnet minutes and 500 texts per month for £40 line rental.

The deal also comes with £160 cash back, which is equal to 4 months free line rental and needs to be claimed in four stages by sending off your bills. Or, instead of cash back you can choose a free gift such as an iPod nano, Nintendo DS Lite (£9.99 charge) or a set of GHD Hair Straighteners.

This offer is so good that I’m going to order one for myself, I just need to decide on a free gift.

The HTC Diamond brings Windows Mobile to the mainstream. It features HTC’s clever TouchFLO 3D interface. If you haven’t seen the Touch Diamond click on the phone image for more information and compare HTC Touch Diamond deals from all leading UK retailers.

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Check out this new craze which seems to be sweeping the world, well ok not the world, but it has seriously taken off in Sweden. There is a blog about it called Swedish Phone Racing where these guys get up to some crazy stuff - it is like the Clarkson and May of the mobile phone world!

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Play.com have just reduced the prices of some of their SIM free mobile phones as part of their summer sale with the following deals looking even more of a bargain than their normal cheap sim free prices:

The new LG KC550 Orsay is only £169.99 with free delivery as is the brilliantly indestructible JCB Tough.

The new and very popular Sony Ericsson C902 can be bought for £299.99

However for those of you waiting for the current must have smartphone on contract, the HTC Touch Diamond Play.com have the sim free version for only £399.99 here.

What is a SIM Free Phone?

Sim Free phones are phones that are ‘unlocked’ and ready to use on any mobile phone network. These are great if you already have a sim card and just need the phone without entering into another monthly contract.

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Only £15 per month on an 18 month contract with 300 xnet minutes or 300 texts per month, or any combination of the two. A brilliant no-frills deal with low line rental.

The Nokia 3120 classic is an easy to use phone that will be a breeze to live with. There are no awkward menus or over-complicated features. Everything is where it should be with nicely spaced keys. For a 3G phone it’s also slim and lightweight.

Unlike the entry-level Nokia 3120 from 2004, the new Nokia 3120 classic has a good specification with 3G video calling and a 2 megapixel camera. It has Bluetooth, a web browser, email, an FM radio, media player and a 2.5mm audio socket. The camera is basic but will be fine for snapping occasional photos. It has a flash and can also record video at 320×240 pixels.

I really like the look of this phone. If you want something that does all the essential stuff then the Nokia 3120 classic is definitely worth considering.

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Free on contract with… (pin your ears back for this) 700 mins, unlimited texts and mobile broadband for £30 per month.

T-Mobile will guarantee that you won’t find more minutes for £30 line rental.

They will also throw in FREE mobile broadband. The Nokia 6650 has a built in USB modem and you can plug it into your laptop to get mobile broadband.

What a fantastic deal, just £30 per month for 700 minutes, unlimited texts and free mobile broadband.

So, what about the phone? The new Nokia 6650 is a stylish, easy to use flip phone and it’s exclusive to T-Mobile. With FREE Web’n’Walk it offers a high-quality internet surfing experience for no extra cost. You can go on Facebook or check your email whenever you like. It also has GPS with Nokia maps pre-installed.

It has plenty to keep you entertained too - you can watch Mobile TV, listen to FM radio and download tunes for the MP3 player. Plus, you can capture magic moments with the 2 megapixel camera with flash and 4x zoom.

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Free on Orange with a choice of gifts including a free Nintendo Wii, free iPod or automatic cash back.

The Samsung U900 Soul is the ultimate handset from the Ultra Edition range. It blends design and technology, creating a fashionable sliderphone phone that looks stunning. It’s technologically advanced too. The 5 megapixel camera has features such as face detection, image stabiliser and Wide Dynamic Range.

The icons on the touch-sensitive navigation panel change intuitively according to the functions you’re using. This makes it very easy to select items from the phone’s menu. For example, when using the 5 megapixel camera, you’ll be able to control zoom and brightness from the touch-sensitive panel. There’s also a standard slide out keypad.

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Available now on O2, the Sony Ericsson C902 Cyber-shot phone has sleek looks and a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus, xenon flash and face detection. It’s also a 3G phone with HSDPA mobile broadband. It has an FM radio, a very good music player and 160MB of onboard memory,

The Sony Ericsson C902 lacks GPS and the outdoor durability of the similar C702, but it offers much better camera functions. It has a unique lens cover that slides open to reveal the 5.0 megapixel camera lens. The phone’s lighting dramatically signals when you are in camera mode by switching from white to blue and Sony Ericsson has placed shortcuts to the most helpful camera shortcuts around the screen of the phone. These touch sensitive icons quickly enable you to select the function you need, such as turning on the flash or switching to macro mode for close-up shots.

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The new LG KC550 Orsay has a Nintendo Wii-style gaming system built in. There are six motion controlled games. A built-in accelerometer sensor reacts to the phone being tilted and rotated when playing games such as darts and fishing. There’s a TV out socket on the phone, which means the games can also be played on your home TV. A cable needs to be bought separately.

The Orsay also has a 5 megapixel camera complete with a Schneider-Kreuznach certified lens, autofocus, image stabiliser and a dedicated camera button to capture images quickly and easily. It can record video at 30 frames per second and using the TV output it, videos can be played back on a big display.

As well as being packed with functionality, the LG KC550 Orsay is beautifully designed, incorporating sleek aesthetics and a smooth chrome finish adding an extra touch of class.

Other features include a music and videio player, FM radio, photo editor, A2DP Bluetooth, speakerphone and a large 2.4 inch screen.

Available now on Orange with a free Nintendo Wii, more deals expected this week.

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Out now and free on all pay monthly contracts from Orange.

The Motorola ROKR E8 is a dedicated music phone with cutting-edge, easy-to-use controls that allow a smooth transition from phone to MP3 player to imaging device. Motorola’s breakthrough ModeShift technology presents you with the only the controls you need, at the time you need them, instantly transforming from music player to phone to imaging device with the touch of a button. Simply move your thumb across the FastScroll navigation wheel.

The face of the ROKR E8 is a sleek, seamless panel that features the first haptic touch pad from Motorola, which provides vibrating, tactile feedback when you touch the virtual buttons. It’s light too, just 100g and 10.6mm thin. Primarily a music phone, the device lets you load songs from multiple sources and is compatible with standard connectors, software and accessories.

There’s 2GB of memory, which can be expanded to 4GB using a microSD card. The ROKR E8 also has a built-in FM radio, a standard 3.5mm headphone jack, a 2 megapixel camera and a full HTML web browser.

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New Sony Ericsson W760i mobile phone
The Sony Ericsson W760i is the first Walkman phone to offer integrated GPS and support Google Maps. It’s a great entertainment package that also includes a neat little GPS fitness application called Tracker. Record and analyse time, distance and speed every time you hit the running track or go for a walk. But if fitness isn’t your thing the W760i will keep you entertained too.

With all the usual Walkman features it has plenty to offer including shake control, TrackID and SenseMe. The Sony Ericsson W760i has stereo speakers, stereo bluetooth, an FM radio with RDS and the latest Sony Ericsson Media Center and Walkman 3.0 player. Music-wise the W760i is definitely among the best.

With HSDPA you can browse the web and download music tracks to your phone while on the move. You can also stream YouTube videos direct to the phone. The Sony Ericsson W760i has a built-in accelerometer that enables screen auto rotation. Just turn the screen on its side when viewing photos or videos and the display will automatically rotate to show a widescreen aspect.

The 3 megapixel camera is standard with a basic interface and no autofocus, which is fine as the Sony Ericsson W760i is more a music and media phone than it is a cameraphone. Nevertheless the camera does a good job and with GPS your photos can be geo-tagged, which means their exact location is saved along with the date and time. The W760i photo gallery is particularly good with some nice features such as the ability to view photos by timeline.

I should also mention the built-in motion sensor, which takes gaming on the W760i to another level. Simply move the phone to play the built-in 3D games - Need for Speed Pro Street and Rollercoaster Rush 3D. Sony Ericsson excel in these neat little features which help provide longevity in their mobile phones.

The Sony Ericsson W760i should not be underestimated or ignored. It’s a feature packed phone that will keep you entertained for a very long time.

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A brilliant new deal on our best-selling mobile phone. Get a free Nokia N95 8GB on a standard 12 month contract. Line rental is £35 per month on O2 with 400 xnet minutes and 500 texts per month. I have one of these phones and I highly recommend this deal.

The Nokia N95 8GB is an updated version of the standard N95. It has a larger screen – now 2.8 inches, 8GB memory and an improved battery life. Despite being a larger phone it feels surprisingly light to hold.

With a 2-way slide mechanism, a numeric keypad slides out from one end while dedicated media keys slide out from the opposite direction, converting the display into full screen landscape mode. With built-in GPS and Nokia Maps application you can locate your current position at any time, find specific routes or locate services such as restaurants and hotels and covering more than 15 million points of interest.

The 5 megapixel camera is one of the best cameras ever seen in a mobile phone and the N95 has a TV out port, enabling users to easily view photos and videos on a TV screen. The N95 is a 3G phone, which means fast web browsing, video streaming and music downloads.

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From Wednesday 16th April, the 8GB iPhone will be reduced to £169, saving £100. Available from O2 and The Carphone Warehouse. With price cuts and iPhone stock reportedly running low and not being replenished, speculation is mounting about the release of a 3G iPhone. Is now a good time to buy? Or should you wait for the 3G version, which is likely to be more expensive?

The new price combined with iPhone’s revised tariffs means that the iPhone is now reasonably good value for money. For £35 per month customers get 600 minutes and 500 texts. Two other tariffs are available with 1200 minutes and 500 texts for £45 or 3000 minutes and 500 texts for £75. All tariffs are subject to an 18 month contract and include unlimited data and Wi-Fi.

Have you recently bought an iPhone from The Carphone Warehouse? Their Ultimate Price Promise means those who purchased an iPhone from The Carphone Warehouse in the last 30 days will automatically receive £100. Carphone will send customers a credit voucher for the difference.

Did you know that activation of iPhone and connection to the O2 network is different from any other device in the mobile market? Once you’ve got your iPhone, you have to enter into an 18 month pay monthly contract with O2 and registration is done online via the itunes web site. You need to be over 18, pass a credit check and have a bank account for the monthly direct debits.


Buy a mobile phone on a 12 month contract and receive a FREE Asus Eee PC 4GB. There are nearly 1,000 deals to choose from, with a wide choice of free phones and tariffs.

The ASUS Eee PC is ultra-portable and lightweight, it uses solid-state media instead of a hard drive to make it more robust and more power efficient. It has built in Wi-Fi to get online, and comes pre-installed with an email client, web browser and instant messaging to keep you connected. Along with these Internet apps, there is a range of productivity applications pre-installed with the Linux operating system. Note that this is not a Windows PC, although there are ways of installing Windows XP, should you wish to purchase a copy separately. It’s a fantastic piece of kit and is getting rave reviews across the media.

Ideal as a travel PC, it can be used for browsing the web, accessing your email, sharing photos and shopping online without having to attach any lines or wires.



Buy a mobile phone on a pay monthly contract and you can receive a FREE Nintendo Wii with the fantastic Wii Fit. The Wii and Wii Fit will be sent 28 days after your handset is sent out. Offers available online from e2save (part of the Carphone Warehouse).

If you don’t already have a Nintendo Wii then now is a great time to grab one for free along with the new Wii Fit. The package includes the Wii Fit balance-board, which has motion control sensors, allowing you to actually do the action of a variety of sports including ski-jumping all the way through to walking the tightrope in order to help keep you fit. This puts you in control of your gaming more than ever before and can help get you in shape for summer!

Available with a range of free phones including the Nokia 6300, Samsung J700 Pink, LG Viewty and Sony Ericsson W580i.