Right, my mum's phone is dying, so that generally means I get a new one, lol.

Can anyone recommend one that isn't too expensive?

Preferably a half decent camera (I realise that they're useful now) and nothing big. A QWERTY keyboard is a big plus.

P.S. Phones are freaking expensive, I don't know how the companies get away with such extortion.

when you say not to expensive, do you mean around the £50?

Any specific type of style? e.g flip phone, touch screen?

Yeah, £50-100 max. I don't use my phone that much.

Style not important, but not one that breaks.

Check the O2 shop, you can get some good phones from a year or so ago that are still good phones, like the LG chocolate is £50 or something now and that's a really good phone.

Contract phone an option? You can get a good QWERTYcam phone for no one time cost.

I've been looking at the cheapest contracts. The Orange one doesn't look too bad (has plenty for me), and can get some pretty nice phones on it.

I particularly like the look of the LG KS360 and LG Cookie, which cost £80 and £100 respectively for O2 PAYG, but are free with Orange £15/month tariff.

Only thing about it is the £15 is a bit much for my level of use, and apparently Orange isn't too good in Newent.

Anyone know any cheaper contracts?

one of these would be perfect

Asda 4p texts Just Buy the phone from their store

Just teleport me to the holo-deck blind black guy of whom I have forgotten the name.

erm, orange is really good in newent. there's a signal thing right outside the school...

Awesome, I may have to give them a look in.

I wonder if Aaron can get me a discount

Anyone have any experience with Virgin? They have the cheapest tariff that would suit me (£8.50 for 100 minutes + 100 texts, plenty), and can get some decent phones free with it.

i swear he's broadband not mobile

going with virgin will make you so uncool it's unreal .

I don't know, I've had no experience with them ^^

Kyhas, if you meant Aaron, it was a joke

I may have to trek into Glos and have a look around. Unfortunately the nearest Virgin is in Bristol!

oh god +.+

I would stick with Orange and O2. My sister had Virgin network before.. didnt seem to like it.

Unfortunately I no longer work for Orange Business Services

I have had a virgin phone before, but then i took its cherry so it's not anymore On a serious note there pretty good for cheap phones

I would say go for Vodophone or 02 personally. 02 have some good bold-ons/tariffs

bolt-ons. Get it right! I would say O2 as well, Vodaphone is a very good network (and therefore the most expensive for a reason).

Vodafone and O2s cheapest plans are exactly the same, but you can getter better phones (albeit refurbs) with O2. However, both those tariffs aren't too good, as I would like atleast some minutes (I don't phone that much, but don't want to pay extra when I do).

Hmm, actually, the O2 24 month contract is better. Though the phones it comes with aren't too good, it still has a blackberry and an XDA Zest, which is interesting.

I'm on PAY as you go with vodaphone and i only spend about £5 every 3months?

not joking only about 12p a text which i don;t do alot, but my dad has vodaphone friends add-on he pays £7 a month i believe and 7 of us on vodaphone network have free calls to each other all month.

Up to an hour though, but you hang up before the hour and call up for another free 55 minutes if need be very handy when i keep calling them for random / slightly important clarifications etc.

Yeah, I don't use my phone a lot, but it's worth considering tariffs simply because of the free phones (as phones separate cost a lot) and as it would stop me thinking "bah, 10p, cba to text back".

Motorola Razr 2.
Hopefully might get my hands on an Iphone 3g (or whatever it is called) or something better.

Just buy a decent phone on pay as you go tbh. In the long run because you don't use your phone much it would work out much cheaper.

Yeah, though the reason I don't use my phone much is because I think "10p to text? F that".