What I expect from my mobile phone
Once you have decided which provider you are going to use it can be a nightmare choosing the actual handset model. The media is everywhere telling you which phone you should have. tv commercials, billboards, radio ads, magazine adverts. And of course your friends are always there with the reasons why THEIR mobile phone is the best there is because it has the latest cool ring tone on it.
The important thing is to decide what you want the most from your contract phones. This means (and this if important) what you rely on it for the most. Secondary is what you would LIKE it to do for you.
This is my list of what I expect from my mobile phone:
- Receive and make calls (obviously!)
- Send and receive texts/MMS
- Access the WWW…ok I’ll settle for facebook
- Take some stunning photos (on mad nights out which can be posted to facebook with the main purpose of embarrasing your friends)
- Not charge me extra for doing all the above
- Not dial people by accident when I’m sat watching football (swearing and singing football songs) with my mates
- Not resemble a brick
- Not look lik a credit card
- Not require re-charging after a 30 minute facebook browsing session
What I desire from my mobile phone is to watch the TV I missed from those catch up websites. But that said I wouldn’t sacrifice my essentials to be able to do those and wouldn’t pay the earth for them either. I have a computer at home and to be honest watching catch up TV on my phone when I’m at the pub with friends wouldn’t go down too well.
Looking around there are a number of decent handsets from the main providers and it’s these I prefer to stick too simply because they tend to have the widest choice and their name means they are most likely to provide the best service and have the best customer care (as difficult as that may be to imagine!). So the top mobile phone providers on my list are:
3 mobile – Get the latest 3G mobiles, the best in mobile content and services such as mobile TV, music downloads and mobile Internet, and internet connection with Mobile Broadband.
Nokia – Wide range of mobile phone devices and contract deals and of course the full range of Nokia phones the moment they come onto the market.