to upgrade or not to upgrade
Posted on Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 10:21 by Michelle
Nokia 5800
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Nokia N95
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My contract with o2 is up, it has been quite an expensive contract for the last few months £35 per month, which is for 600 minutes, 1000 texts and unlimted browsing. I had an 18 month contract and a better rate for the the first 12 months, but I had to pay the full price for the last 6 months. With my contract up for renewal there are negotiations to be had. I like O2 as I've always found them to offer the best prices and recently their customer service has improved 100%.
My options are,
- keep this tarrif and have a new handset Iphone or Nokia 5800 at no charge. £630 (18 month contract)
- change to another pay monthly tarrif, and have £150 credited to my account £480 (18 month contract)
- change to the simplicity tarrif, pay £20 per month for 600 mins, 1200 texts and unlimited web. £360 (month to month, but over 18 months)
I use most of the minutes I have right now, and I'm definitely using the web bolt on a fair bit, so the above compare well. For me it's ultimately all about the £££'s making it a no brainer especially as simplicity is month to month and not a long term contract, should something better come along it will be a snip to change.
As a geek though I did want to upgrade my phone, I know how the Iphone works and all the reviews I read said the Nokia 5800 was superlative to the Iphone in everyway. I had O2 send it out, (I know that you have 14 days to see if you like it, but 1 was enough) and I sent it straight back, it is nice enough, but does not compare to the interface of the Iphone. I use my N95's camera a lot, it takes fantastic high quality photos, it is 5 megapixel and has a Carl Zeiss lens, for a phone it takes lovey pictures. It's a bit clunky, but it's my phone, camera, calendar, alarm clock, nightlight, and has a nice interface for facebook, and I'll be making do with it for a while longer.
I use most of my minutes talking to the kids when they are away at school they are also on O2 and I recently learned of the O2 favourite places, I tried to put a link but the O2 site is playing up, anyhoo with a £10 top up you get 500 free minutes to any landline (say no to 0870) or other O2 number, which means the kids can now phone me instead of dodgying my phone (hanging up before I answer so I call back).
4 free O2 Pay & Go Sims are available here.
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