Mobile phone expectations

When you have chosen your network provider it can be a royal pain in the proverbial sifting through all the handsets available. The media is everywhere telling you which phone you should have. tv commercials, billboards, radio ads, magazine adverts. Then you have your mates telling you why their phones are the best and getting personally offended when you inevitably choose something different.

The main 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. The secondary elements of choice are what you desire the phone to do.

Here is my priority list of expectations from my mobile phone handset/contract:

1. Make and receive calls (obviously!)
2. Receive and send texts/MMS
3. Access the Internet…ok I’ll settle for free web search
4. Take some stunning photos (on drunken nights out which can be posted to MySpace with the main aim of embarrasing your friends)
5. Not charge me extra for doing all of the above
6. Not dial people by accident when I’m sat watching football (swearing and singing football songs) with my mates
7. Not look like a brick
8. Not look lik a credit card
9. Not need to be re-charged after a 30 minute phone call

My ‘wish list’ of preferences for my mobile phone is to be able to watch YouTube videos. Saying that I certainly wouldn’t pay more or sacrifice my essential list to be able to do all that. 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!). My top preferred phone network and handset suppliers are:

3 mobile – Get the latest 3G mobiles, the best in mobile content and services such as mobile internet, music downloads and mobile TV, and connect to the Internet with Mobile broadband.

Nokia – Wide range of mobile phone handsets and contract deals and of course the full range of Nokia handsets the second they come onto the market.