Mobile phone expectations
When you have selected a mobile network provider it can be difficult choosing from all the handsets on offer. The media is everywhere telling you which phone you should have. tv commercials, billboards, radio ads, magazine adverts. Then your friends all have different phones telling you why THEIR phone is the best and getting offended if you don’t agree.
The important decision is what is the most important activity for your contract phones. This means (and this if important) what you rely on it for the most. Secondary is what you would LIKE it to do for you.
Here is my priority list of expectations from my mobile phone handset/contract:
1. Receive and make calls (obviously!)
2. Receive and send texts/MMS
3. Access the Internet…ok I’ll settle for MySpace
4. Take some lovely photographs (on mad nights out which can be posted to facebook 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 resemble a brick
8. Not resemble a credit card
9. Not require re-charging after a half hour phone call
My ‘wish list’ of preferences for my mobile phone is to be able to watch amusing Google videos. But that said I wouldn’t sacrifice my essentials to be able to do those and wouldn’t pay the earth for them either. 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 mobile phones, the best in mobile content and services like mobile TV, music downloads and mobile Internet, and internet connection with Mobile Broadband.
Nokia – Wide range of mobile phone devices and monthly contract deals and of course the complete range of Nokia phones the moment they come onto the market.
