Which Phone?

[richard_mey]

I'd recommend the N95 8GB. The original N95 had bad battery life, and a lot of other problems. This one, with generic Nokia firmware on it, has been good to me for the last couple of years. 3G/Edge/HSDPA, 8Gb internal memory viewed as a separate drive in the file system, 3.5mm headphone jack, good podcasting and music applications.

You can pick a seocnd hander up cheap off ebay, and since I'm guessing you're quite technical, you can save some money by getting a vodafone branded one, and putting generic firmware on it yourself. There's no logos or difference in hardware with the vodafone ones, but they do fetch less and most people will just accept the crap software branding.

If you want to spend more than the £130 for that phone, the E71 has a 2.5mm headphone hack, and better battery life. To go over your budget you could get the E72 which has more software improvements over the E71, better battery life again and a 3.5mm headphone jack.

Unless you're really emailing a lot from the handset, the E71/E72 are perhaps overkill. Unless I'm mistaken the E71 and E72 both support USB charging, but best to look that up. I know my N95 8GB does not, but with the Nokia AC-8 transformer it charges up in under an hour and a half from empty to full, so the USB charging thing has never bothered me.

If it's not a business phone your after that doubles as a good all-around personal phone, you can maybe scrap my E72 recommendation, to keep your costs down.

[FiveTimes]

Get a Blackberry curve. no need for all the gizmo's

WHS

Great phone

[FarmerPalmer]

htc touch cruise or one of htcs other Windows phones.
Brilliant pieces of kit

[krytonsheep]

You can get a sim free Nokia 5800 for under £200 from play.com. Has 3G/Wifi/high res screen + 3.5mm head phone jack.

[Spacecadet]

http://www.prepaymania.co.uk/mobilep...l?AF&source=af

Here's one, same one I've got.

HTH

Ta

Will have a consider over the holidays

In the meantime the X1 is on final warning

[Diver]

those are almost £300, or am I'm looking in the wrong place?

http://www.prepaymania.co.uk/mobilep...l?AF&source=af

Here's one, same one I've got.

HTH

[Diver]

those are almost £300, or am I'm looking in the wrong place?

Down to about £250 now in some places, or free on some contracts.

I have one and it's excellent

[Spacecadet]

Get a Blackberry curve. no need for all the gizmo's

those are almost £300, or am I'm looking in the wrong place?

[Diver]

Get a Blackberry curve. no need for all the gizmo's

[Spacecadet]

Under £200 SIM free
Needs email/web (prefer 3g connection)
Preferably 3.5mm headphone jack