Current best mobile phone deals, including mobile broadband, as at early December 2010 are listed and linked below. These are based on our access to the most popular online deals over the past month and are for personal mobile phone sales rather than business users.
You may be able to get individually cheaper mobile phone deals elswhere, but these have been the online advertisers with the best, or most popular, percentage sales over enquiry rates over the past month – which indicates the best value offers across the range.
Vodafone Ltd to buy direct from the network provider mobile deals
Mobiles.co.uk for any network mobile deals
PrePayMania for PAYG mobile deals
Mobile Phone Xchange to get cash for your existing mobile
Please read our mobile phone overviews to consider issues such as:
- local mobile network coverage;
- not contracting for too many minutes just to get a high value phone;
- beware of too onerous cash-back or redemption terms;
- reduced initial monthly rental which increases later (maybe for a two year minimum term);
- ‘free’ insurance if a direct-debit payment kicks in after the free period;
- broadband Internet data charges;
- international roaming charges;
- charges for calls and texts outside your package bundle and other terms and conditions.
Meanwhile, The Guardian reports that Carphone Warehouse expects the Samsung Google Android to be the best selling smartphone platform over the next 3 months – knocking Nokia off the top-spot position it has held for 10 years – but then Carphone Warehouse have an exclusive deal with Google for the Samsung Android phone so they would say that wouldn’t they. The new Google Nexus S phone runs on ‘Gingerbread’ – the latest version 2.3 of the Android operating software. The same report also refers to mobile distributors’ disappointment with Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 sales.
The Guardian also reports that Andy Rubin, who debeloped Android for Google, compliments Apple on their iPhone and their more open attitude to application development while criticising Microsoft for their already outdated ‘new’ mobile operating system. The Google Android system is, he says, intrinsically an open system designed for the Internet.
Ofcom have an official view of how to get the best mobile phone deal at http://consumers.ofcom.org.uk/2010/05/how-to-get-the-best-mobile-phone-deal/
For business mobile deals see our http://www.telecomsadvice.org.uk/infosheets/buyers_guide_to_mobile_phone_services.htm and/or our business mobile telecoms blog page at http://www.telecomsadvice.org.uk/telecoms_blog/business-mobile-phone-deals/