Vodafone are offering 600 xnet minutes and unlimited texts for just £25 per month. That’s £10 off the normal in-store price of £35 per month. Amazing value and even better than T-Mobile’s highly publicised Direct Combi tariff which offers 700 mins and unlimited texts for £30 per month.

Encased in a tough metallic finish and similar to the Samsung Soul, the new Samsung Steel is a 3G sliderphone with HSDPA and a built-in DAB radio. It has a 3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus and image stabiliser. There’s also a secondary camera for making 3G video calls.

If you mainly use your phone for texting then Vodafone also offer a free Samsung Steel with unlimited texts for just £15 per month on an 18 month contract. No minutes are included so you’ll have to pay for calls at a rate of 18p per minute to Vodafone and landlines and 40p per minute to other networks.

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The Nokia 6220 classic is a Symbian S60 smartphone with a top notch 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss lens and a Xenon flash. Despite being packed with features and technology it’s also very easy to use. The keys are well spaced, the display is large - it looks like a regular phone, a classic design and it works well.

With A-GPS geo-tagging your photographs are stamped, not only with the time and date, but also with their exact location. The Nokia 6220 classic comes loaded with the new Nokia Maps 2.0 application, helping you to find the best routes or explore any city for restaurants, attractions and other points of interest.

With 3G and HSDPA, images and videos taken with the Nokia 6220 classic can be uploaded to your blog or to a photo sharing site such as Flickr. They can also be viewed on your big screen TV using the phones TV out port. The camera features on this phone are right up there among the best. Picture quality is excellent and video can be recorded at 30 frames per second. The Nokia 6220 classic also has a decent web browser, email, an FM radio with RDS, a good media player and expandable memory up to 8GB.

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The Samsung F400 is a successful combination of style, functionality and great sound. This slick-looking phone is an eye-catching dual slider. Slide the screen down to display a built-in external speaker or up to access the numeric keypad. It’s a good combination of style, beauty and comfort.

With its Bang & Olufsen ICE Power audio you can enjoy high quality sound wherever you go. It will spoil you with choice of MP3, AAC and WMA music formats. With the Samsung F400’s music recognition feature, simply record a snippet of a song on the phone and it will be able to give you full track details, including artist name, song and album details.

Apart from it’s music capabilities, other noteworthy features of the Samsung F400 include a 3 megapixel camera with video capture, 3G, FM radio, stereo Bluetooth and expandable memory.

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T-Mobile will guarantee that you won’t find more minutes for £30 line rental.

They will also throw in FREE mobile broadband. The Nokia 6650 has a built in USB modem and you can plug it into your laptop to get mobile broadband.

What a fantastic deal, just £30 per month for 700 minutes, unlimited texts and free mobile broadband.

So, what about the phone? The new Nokia 6650 is a stylish, easy to use flip phone and it’s exclusive to T-Mobile. With FREE Web’n’Walk it offers a high-quality internet surfing experience for no extra cost. You can go on Facebook or check your email whenever you like. It also has GPS with Nokia maps pre-installed.

It has plenty to keep you entertained too - you can watch Mobile TV, listen to FM radio and download tunes for the MP3 player. Plus, you can capture magic moments with the 2 megapixel camera with flash and 4x zoom.

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The Nokia 3120 classic is an easy to use phone that will be a breeze to live with. There are no awkward menus or over-complicated features. Everything is where it should be with nicely spaced keys. For a 3G phone it’s also slim and lightweight.

Unlike the entry-level Nokia 3120 from 2004, the new Nokia 3120 classic has a good specification with 3G video calling and a 2 megapixel camera. It has Bluetooth, a web browser, email, an FM radio, media player and a 2.5mm audio socket. The camera is basic but will be fine for snapping occasional photos. It has a flash and can also record video at 320×240 pixels.

I really like the look of this phone. If you want something that does all the essential stuff then the Nokia 3120 classic is definitely worth considering.

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The new LG KC550 Orsay is only £169.99 with free delivery as is the brilliantly indestructible JCB Tough.

The new and very popular Sony Ericsson C902 can be bought for £299.99

However for those of you waiting for the current must have smartphone on contract, the HTC Touch Diamond Play.com have the sim free version for only £399.99 here.

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Sim Free phones are phones that are ‘unlocked’ and ready to use on any mobile phone network. These are great if you already have a sim card and just need the phone without entering into another monthly contract.

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Mobiles are officially the Best Online Retailer of 2008. They were the UK’s first retail mobile phone website (launched in 1995) and are now the largest web-only mobile phone store in the UK, processing thousands of orders every month. They are a wholly owned subsidiary of the Carphone Warehouse Group. With the buying power of The Carphone Warehouse they can offer 12 Months Free Line Rental on a 12 Month Contract on many phones.

I recommend the Sony Ericsson K800i, Nokia 6300 or Samsung U600. Choose any of these phones on Orange, for £30 per month. You’ll receive a free phone with lots of inclusive minutes and texts, £360 cash back plus a free Samsung B100 pay as you go phone with £10 credit.

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The Nokia N95 8GB is an updated version of the standard N95. It has a larger screen – now 2.8 inches, 8GB memory and an improved battery life. Despite being a larger phone it feels surprisingly light to hold.

With a 2-way slide mechanism, a numeric keypad slides out from one end while dedicated media keys slide out from the opposite direction, converting the display into full screen landscape mode. With built-in GPS and Nokia Maps application you can locate your current position at any time, find specific routes or locate services such as restaurants and hotels and covering more than 15 million points of interest.

The 5 megapixel camera is one of the best cameras ever seen in a mobile phone and the N95 has a TV out port, enabling users to easily view photos and videos on a TV screen. The N95 is a 3G phone, which means fast web browsing, video streaming and music downloads.

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With all the usual Walkman features it has plenty to offer including shake control, TrackID and SenseMe. The Sony Ericsson W760i has stereo speakers, stereo bluetooth, an FM radio with RDS and the latest Sony Ericsson Media Center and Walkman 3.0 player. Music-wise the W760i is definitely among the best.

With HSDPA you can browse the web and download music tracks to your phone while on the move. You can also stream YouTube videos direct to the phone. The Sony Ericsson W760i has a built-in accelerometer that enables screen auto rotation. Just turn the screen on its side when viewing photos or videos and the display will automatically rotate to show a widescreen aspect.

The 3 megapixel camera is standard with a basic interface and no autofocus, which is fine as the Sony Ericsson W760i is more a music and media phone than it is a cameraphone. Nevertheless the camera does a good job and with GPS your photos can be geo-tagged, which means their exact location is saved along with the date and time. The W760i photo gallery is particularly good with some nice features such as the ability to view photos by timeline.

I should also mention the built-in motion sensor, which takes gaming on the W760i to another level. Simply move the phone to play the built-in 3D games - Need for Speed Pro Street and Rollercoaster Rush 3D. Sony Ericsson excel in these neat little features which help provide longevity in their mobile phones.

The Sony Ericsson W760i should not be underestimated or ignored. It’s a feature packed phone that will keep you entertained for a very long time.

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The Motorola ROKR E8 is a dedicated music phone with cutting-edge, easy-to-use controls that allow a smooth transition from phone to MP3 player to imaging device. Motorola’s breakthrough ModeShift technology presents you with the only the controls you need, at the time you need them, instantly transforming from music player to phone to imaging device with the touch of a button. Simply move your thumb across the FastScroll navigation wheel.

The face of the ROKR E8 is a sleek, seamless panel that features the first haptic touch pad from Motorola, which provides vibrating, tactile feedback when you touch the virtual buttons. It’s light too, just 100g and 10.6mm thin. Primarily a music phone, the device lets you load songs from multiple sources and is compatible with standard connectors, software and accessories.

There’s 2GB of memory, which can be expanded to 4GB using a microSD card. The ROKR E8 also has a built-in FM radio, a standard 3.5mm headphone jack, a 2 megapixel camera and a full HTML web browser.

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