http://www.techandlife.com/2009/10/the-lg-cookie-mobile-phone-my-first-impressions/ ...some personal observations on tech...and life Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:06:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.techandlife.com/2009/10/the-lg-cookie-mobile-phone-my-first-impressions/comment-page-1/#comment-26744 andy mackay Sun, 12 Jun 2011 09:59:21 +0000 http://www.techandlife.com/?p=1295#comment-26744 I just finished paying for my iPhone it was a 3G, and I was thinking of selling it and getting a PAYG phone, but when I looked at the pay monthly contracts I thought that they where actually cheaper. For £10 a month I got a rolling 30 day SIM only contract from Virgin Mobile, which gives me 200 mins talk, 3000 text and 1Gb data. On my previous O2 contract which had 500 mins and unlimited text and data, I only ever used a fraction of that, I worked out that my use averaged out at about 75 mins a month and the most it had ever been was about 110 mins a month, and I think I had maybe used just over 1Gb data over the 2 years of the contract, so the present Virgin deal will be fine for me. At £10 a month and rolling 30 days, you'd be hard pushed to beat that on a PAYG, that deal is for Virgin Media customers, but you can get similar from O2's budget carrier giffgaff. You notice that when I spike about my 3G iPhone I used the past tense, that's because about a month after I had finished paying for it I lost it, it's a good job I had insured against my own stupidity, so the insurance coughed up for a brand new iPhone4 which I picked up yesterday. Anyhoo the morel of the story is if you are going to buy your own phone, you might as well look at a cheap rolling 30 days contract as get a PAYG, the only advantage for PAYG I can see, is that once you have paid for you minutes they are yours and don't run out at the end of the month. I just finished paying for my iPhone it was a 3G, and I was thinking of selling it and getting a PAYG phone, but when I looked at the pay monthly contracts I thought that they where actually cheaper. For £10 a month I got a rolling 30 day SIM only contract from Virgin Mobile, which gives me 200 mins talk, 3000 text and 1Gb data. On my previous O2 contract which had 500 mins and unlimited text and data, I only ever used a fraction of that, I worked out that my use averaged out at about 75 mins a month and the most it had ever been was about 110 mins a month, and I think I had maybe used just over 1Gb data over the 2 years of the contract, so the present Virgin deal will be fine for me. At £10 a month and rolling 30 days, you’d be hard pushed to beat that on a PAYG, that deal is for Virgin Media customers, but you can get similar from O2′s budget carrier giffgaff. You notice that when I spike about my 3G iPhone I used the past tense, that’s because about a month after I had finished paying for it I lost it, it’s a good job I had insured against my own stupidity, so the insurance coughed up for a brand new iPhone4 which I picked up yesterday. Anyhoo the morel of the story is if you are going to buy your own phone, you might as well look at a cheap rolling 30 days contract as get a PAYG, the only advantage for PAYG I can see, is that once you have paid for you minutes they are yours and don’t run out at the end of the month.

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