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Any type in particular?

To be honest, I am so unsure. i was thinking maybe the iPhone or the Samsung Galaxy Ace....but I look at other phones as wel and I really don't know what to go for. Also, I don't know if I wanna get a contract phone.

iPhone and Samsung Galaxy Ace aren't in the same league haha. How many minutes/texts do you use right now, and do you think you'd make use of the internet on the go (most phones you buy now will work with a wifi system, if you have one)

Lol, to be honest I really don't have a clue about the best phones ever. I was also thinking of getting a blackberry, but it's the major debate between people I know - "iphone/blackberry/android is better" so I'm so clueless. At the moment I use a pay as you go phone.

If you pay for a certain number of texts each month but you haven't used them all by the end of the month, do the un-used texts get taken over to the next month for you to use, or do they dissappear?

I had my phone stolen last night so I'm on the hunt for a smartphone under £100. Thought I'd found one, the Orange San Francisco is apparently good and Orange are giving £30 off to lots of people. But since people were talking lots about that offer of HUKD and other sites Orange have set the requirement of needing a number that has topped up each month for three months. Quite annoying because my dad is an Orange user but rarely uses the phone so doesn't qualify and neither does my old Orange number I was looking to reuse. I could still buy it for £100 + £20 top up but when they're giving it away for £75 with free £10 credit I feel I should take my business elsewhere when they're suddenly being so anal about who qualifies as an Orange user.

So any recommendations for a phone around £80-100? Normally I'd wait for a good deal before buying a phone but I can't sit around and wait. Orange actually suggested I use my dad's crap phone and top it up for a few months and THEN try to purchase the phone I want from them. I mean what planet are these people on?

I'm looking for a new phone, here's what I need:
- pay monthly needs to be under £15
- need a decent/unlimited texts
- need a decent amount of call time (no less than 50 mins)
- preferably a smartphone
- needs to be on either orange or t mobile
- NEEDS TO BE RELIABLE (unlike my ****ty tocco lite that doesn't seem to receive texts properly)

I was thinking maybe HTC Wildfire S?

Why on earth do you need Everythng Everywhere? That alone is going to limit your choice massively or waste you a lot of money.

What do you mean by Everything Everywhere? I'm willing to spend up to £20 a month, because I'm not made of money/daddy doesn't pay for everything and am an unemployed student atm (although my placement should be £13-15k it's not till the second year).

I'm applying for / will be on a placement throughout my two year contract so need a decent amount of minutes and need to be contactable (hence the amount of minutes needed, the fact that it needs to be a smartphone, the fact that it needs to be reliable and Orange/T mobile are the only networks that I can get signal in the middle of nowhere that I live AND at university).

I don't care if it limits my options, I was looking to see if there is actually a phone that can meet those requirements.

Do you need a data plan with the contract? If so you'll be struggling big time to meet all those requirements.

When you say you want a payg sim do you mean a sim only rolling contract? that'd be your best bet for getting decent minutes/texts/data. 3 mobile are the best value for money from £10 a month depending what you want. Check them out http://threestore.three.co.uk/simonly.aspx?id=1183

As for phones it depends how cheap... Assuming you're talking less than £150 you wanna be considering the two htc wildfires (wildfire and wildfire S), motorola defy is reasonably cheap now, and the orange san francisco and the new orange range they have coming out soon (Stockholm, monte carlo). Hope that gives you some ideas!

Thanks again for the reply, I'll have a look at the devices you suggested.

As for the 3mobile, their SIM only £15/month thing is what I'd like but like the giffgaff goodybags it says "offer valid until 31st July". I am coming to England in September and I would like (almost) unlimited data for the whole year so I can use skype to call home, talk to friends etc when I am not at a computer so preferably I wouldn't like to change phone numbers constantly following the offers different networks have each time. Am I really asking for too much?