Looking for a new contract, but not sure on the best phones out there?

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Wanna pay less than £25 a month, get texts, minutes and data thrown in.

I can bargain on that,

But dont know what phones are good?

I like the look of blackberrys.

I dont use the camera, but it would be nice to have one.

Primarily I want a PROPER web browser like firefox not WAP.

sat nav would be nice.

Any recomendations?

All phones these days have a proper browser - mostly Opera Mobile. Most website also allow you to overide the basic mobile sites and show the whole page as a PC would see it.

I think your price wont get you much by way of minutes and texts, and data would be a poor limit as well. You'd also be paying a huge price on a handset.

If you only want to pay £25 a month and expect data thrown along with a decent amount of calls and texts in I think you might as well keep you old phone and go for a sim only plan. If you can manage to get that with a decent phone then good luck to you.

If you are willing to pay a bit more a month two of the best phones out there at the moment are the T-mobile G1 and the HTC Magic on Vodafone. The main difference is if you want a physical keyboard or just happy with a touch screen one as they both use the google android OS.

I bought a G1 off someone and I love it. Tis like having a little computer in your pocket! I prefer the Dream over the Magic because of the physical keys. I have touch screen qwerty too, but when it annoys me I can just slide the proper keypad open! Dunno how much contracts are with them cos I just unlocked mine for my existing O2 contract.

I agree with the others though, there is no way you will get a good phone, texts, mins AND internet for £25 a month. I know, I looked around for ages for the best contract I could get as I wanted unlimited internetz. I ended up renewing my existing O2 one, as now because it's an 18-monther I could get the free internet bolt-on.

Just got a HTC Touch Diamond2 - excellent.

Blackbury 9000, 500 minutes, unlimites texts, data included. £30.

BlackBerry 9000 Bold: Latest Mobile Phone Deals from 3

Blackbury 9000, 500 minutes, unlimites texts, data included. £30.

BlackBerry 9000 Bold: Latest Mobile Phone Deals from 3

I have a Bold and can't sing it's praises enough. It never crashes or randomly stops working, it has some cool apps, you can make and receive calls on it, it looks cool, and it's Canadian which means it's brilliant obviously. The other plus point is it's not an iPhone. The camera is pants, and you cant video call, but who does that anyway.

I'm to see what Apple announce with their rumoured new iPhone.

I think I'm gonna get the Blackberry 8900 curve - has anyone used one of these?

There is a deal on the net, £24.97 a month for 300 minutes and unlimited texts, but then you can get a 500mbps internet bolt on for £5, but it is a cashback deal so it works out at £24.97 including the internet.

Never had a cashback deal though?

I rang Orange retentions waiting for them to get back to me.

New iPhone 3Gs has swayed me now. Just waiting for the 19th and I'll be on the phone to o2 for an upgrade. My N95 8GB has been fantastic since day one, but Apple have tempted me off of Nokia for the first time in 10 years.

The only down-side is the price. But I have been saving for months waiting for a decent phone to be released. It may be a foolish waste; but I'll be a happy fool.

I think I'm gonna get the Blackberry 8900 curve - has anyone used one of these?

There is a deal on the net, £24.97 a month for 300 minutes and unlimited texts, but then you can get a 500mbps internet bolt on for £5, but it is a cashback deal so it works out at £24.97 including the internet.

Never had a cashback deal though?

I rang Orange retentions waiting for them to get back to me.

If that is on O2 be very careful about the "unlimited" nature of the unlimited data bolt on as it's subject to fair use which depending on who you speak to is either it's a policy sir we won't tell you to 200-400MB per month.

I've actually gone totally the other way and got a Nokia E series and it is exceptionally good at being a phone and texts and not half bad for e-mail/web.

Since my primary goal of a phone is to have a good phone, I decided to give up on the do everything devices that do nothing particularly well.

HTH

Went for the Curve in the end, after haggling around a couple of high street places.

Managed to get the free Curve 8900 on Orange, 18 month contract, "unlimited" email and internet (500mb a month - will do me for browsing), 500 minutes and 600 texts - £25 a month.

Fairly happy with that.

New iPhone 3Gs has swayed me now. Just waiting for the 19th and I'll be on the phone to o2 for an upgrade. My N95 8GB has been fantastic since day one, but Apple have tempted me off of Nokia for the first time in 10 years.

The only down-side is the price. But I have been saving for months waiting for a decent phone to be released. It may be a foolish waste; but I'll be a happy fool.

N97 is out the same day