Best Smart Phone Under £120

[hotrod]

If you buy a contract handset, it'll be locked to that network.

Yeah but you can easily get them unlocked can't you? I'm no expert, but they used to unlock them on Blackpool prom for a fiver - or has it all changed now?

 

[masona]

Not sure how they make their money. This was the same firm that last year sold me an (admittedly very cheap) Alcatel handset, with a £10 top-up (which I used anyway) for 10.01p....

Now, the cheapest handsets they do are a fiver, plus a £10 top

I've got a friend working aboard making mobile phones and they are knocking out these mobile which is only costing the suppliers £1 ! it's a joke when some of them are expensive! The reason they are cheap because of the high demand.

 

[ckelly10]

Tesco do some great deals - I got my Samsung android phone for £10 a month for 2 years. For that I get unlimited phone calls, unlimited messages (SMS) and unlimited internet. Cant really go wrong

 

[hazetimesfive]

I'm suprised theres no HTC's on your list, they do some cracking phones, i've just upgraded from a HTC desire HD to the Samsung Galaxy S3 just for a change......wished i hadn't of bothered, should of listened to brain and not heart and stuck with HTC and got the One XL.........think the S3 will be on ebay soon

I think S3>desire HD

 

[Big Tone]

I like my HTC Desire HD but the screen is impossible to see in outdoors daylight. Is there a good one in this regard anyone?

I also don’t find it very tactile, either that or a delay in the processing speed, because sometimes I have to press the function twice or more for it to operate. Also, I thought my mob’s camera was good until I saw my sister’s Samsung which is much brighter, clearer and with more faithful colours.

I’m ready to throw it in the bin now anyway cuz some Nob told me how good Groupon is and ever since I can’t get rid of the stupid offers I keep getting every day.

Tooth whitener or anusol cream anyone?

 

[crank39]

I'm suprised theres no HTC's on your list, they do some cracking phones, i've just upgraded from a HTC desire HD to the Samsung Galaxy S3 just for a change......wished i hadn't of bothered, should of listened to brain and not heart and stuck with HTC and got the One XL.........think the S3 will be on ebay soon

I think S3>desire HD

S3 much better than my old Desire HD no question but i just can't get on with the stock text keyboard, on the Desire HD running v2.3 gingerbread the phone pad style keyboard is excellent, Samsung S3 running v4.0 ice cream sandwich they've decided to seperate the zero from the space bar and move the space bar to the right so when texting everytime i press space i end up typing bloody zero , i know theres mre important things in life to worry about but this really is infuriating.

I've tried so many different keyboards from the play store, finally found one with the '0' and 'space bar' combined which is great, brilliant.....or so i thought, now this keyboards T9 dictionary is pants, it must hold about 10 words, never choses the one you want, its auto punctuation has a mind of its own, its just much hard work just to type a short text message, give me the 'STOCK gingerbread keyboard anytime yet you can't get it anywhere.

I just hope the HTC one XL although still running v4.0 ice cream sandwich uses a different keyboard, before i sell the S3 for the HTC i'll have to find out otherwise i may as well keep the S3 and hope that when the v4.1 'jelly bean' update comes through it might have a better keyboard on it or wait even longer for the v4.2 'lime pie' update, not holding my breath though, these are probably just appearance updates forced upon Google (android) by Apple arguing Google broke various patents and making it too similar to the iPhone OS, anyone whose followed the Apple vs google, Apple vs Samsung, Apple vs Android, Apple vs HTC, Apple vs Motorola, apple vs the whole bloody world (california exempt) court cases will know what i mean

 

[JohnD]

obviously, you can patent a rectangle with a black border

 

[crank39]

Lol thats what Apple claimed in the last patent court case, they claimed anything 'rectangular' with 'rounded' corners was a patent infringement, luckily for us 3 british judges threw the claim out saying you cannot own the rights to such a generic shape or words to that effect, they also claimed buyers would not get confused on which one to buy as the galaxy tab is 'not as cool' as the iPad

http://news.sky.com/story/999320/apple-loses-samsung-copyright-appeal

 

[Big Tone]

What they, planet Apple, don’t realise is that the more their head sticks up their own arse with pettiness the more people like me are going to leave them. (Or in my case never bother in the first place).

It’s just like Tesco who want to create the biggest database on everyone and join their club chanting the “We love Tesco” morning prayer. I’m not loyal to any business and I don’t want to be in a club that would have someone like me anyway...

I mean how come the huge market of car manufacturing doesn’t suffer with the same nonsense? They can all use ABS & PAS etc...

 

[JohnD]

think how the car industry would have progressed if Ford had patented the steering wheel, or Daimler the accelerator pedal...

 

[securespark]

Guess that's why the judge poo-poohed Apple's ridiculous case...

 

[securespark]

Well, he has decided upon a Galaxy Ace.

My plan to buy it unlocked and stuff a sim in it has come unstuck. As an Android smartphone, it is connected all the time, and providers charge minimum 0.75p per day.

So, we have got it for 7.50 per month, with fewer minutes and data allowances than the HTC Desire on Tesco. That handset is a good deal, but he would not "be seen dead" with the HTC. He wanted the Galaxy Ace in white as well....

Poseur.....

 

[Big Tone]

For £10 over your budget you could have got the Samsung Galaxy II 4 GB – in cool Onyx black with dual 800 Mhz processor and double overhead underhang. Wish I’d got it myself instead of my HTC Desire HD which I bought outright for £450.

Yes, I know what you’re thinking.. “More money than sense”. Well, I didn’t want a contract. My life doesn’t revolve around mobile phones. I’m on PAYG and spend about £5 month. So I’ll be quids-in if I keep it 'til I’m 90...

 

[crank39]

Well, he has decided upon a Galaxy Ace.

My plan to buy it unlocked and stuff a sim in it has come unstuck. As an Android smartphone, it is connected all the time, and providers charge minimum 0.75p per day.

So, we have got it for 7.50 per month, with fewer minutes and data allowances than the HTC Desire on Tesco. That handset is a good deal, but he would not "be seen dead" with the HTC. He wanted the Galaxy Ace in white as well....

Poseur.....

Nowt wrong with HTC , admittedly they seem to have taken their foor off the accelerator recently probably blamed on the recent court case with Apple and have lost a fair bit of the market share which is a shame as i thought their phones are really well built and well thought out.

That said if the choice was between a Desire which is an old design now or the Galaxy Ace then its a no brainer, both run android which has steadily grown and even out grown iOS but thats only because you have 5 or 6 smartphone makers wanting to use android as their OS where as Apple iOS is exclusive to apple so only have their phones compared to the combined total of all the others bar Nokia as they're recently formed an alegence with Microsoft and use WinMo, will be good to see a once big mobile giant take WinMo under its wing, help develop it with microsoft and between them [Android and WinMo] can really stifle the Apple .

Some interesting reading here....

http://news.sky.com/story/1011430/global-smartphone-sales-boom-by-47-percent

The numbers of phones sold is just mind blowing but its good to see Android having the market share when only 5 or so years ago people rubbished it and said it would never overtake Apple while the android market only had 10,000 apps and Apple had 50,000, bye bye Apple!!!

 

[securespark]

For £10 over your budget you could have got the Samsung Galaxy II 4 GB – in cool Onyx black with dual 800 Mhz processor and double overhead underhang. Wish I’d got it myself instead of my HTC Desire HD which I bought outright for £450.

Yes, I know what you’re thinking.. “More money than sense”. Well, I didn’t want a contract. My life doesn’t revolve around mobile phones. I’m on PAYG and spend about £5 month. So I’ll be quids-in if I keep it 'til I’m 90...

Budget on this kid of plan would never have been higher than 7.50!

I don't really want a contract either, but if I had stuck to my original plan to buy the phone outright then buy a sim deal with similar allowances, I would have been out of pocket: the best sim deal I found was £7, without a handset!

Anyway, I haven't spent more than £30 on handsets...Not worth it when they get dropped, flushed down the loo, lost etcetera......