New Contract and Phone

[T-Bag]

My next phone will be Sim Free. New features are mostly software these days. Even ones designed to set the phone apart like Siri, Panoramic photos or photo spheres are all software. If you can update your OS, which I did on my S3 almost trivially, then you can have the latest and greatest features on almost any phone. I got Google now (Essentially Siri for google*) by updating my phone OS. In principle the Nexus phones should always run the latest versions via OTA updates** so you should have all the latest gear without having to manually.

My suggestion would be just stick with the Iphone 4 for now and enjoy the lower contract fees. Something sim free will come out before too many months that'll be just what you were looking for. Now high quality phones*** are going to have to compete with a £240 competitor with the same specs I imagine they'll be plenty of options in the sub £300 market, and that's the point where contracts don't make much sense, well not since they've gone to a 18-24 month business model.

*Yes google did voice for phones years before Siri, but it was also almost entirely useless until google now came out.
** Earlier Nexus phones have already started to have their support dropped, looks like about 2 years is the limit, but I can see this lengthening because the CPUs and GPUs are far more capable these days than early phones.
***Ones which specification wise rival the leading phones

[Penfold]

Thanks. So is giff gaff any good? I thought some people here (Oldie?) had moved away from it as they had problems?

[smilodon]

Not sure if Oldie actually signed a deal with them.  I have a Giff Gaff sim card in my spare phone but don't have much experience of using it.
They have a busy forum with plenty of chat about reliability etc. so that might be worth a visit.
The network is on O2 but they look after their own sales, web site,  top up service etc which I have heard is a bit flakey and maybe not suitable for a work phone?



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[TheDvEight]

I left GiffGaff about a year ago becuase I wanted to sign up to a better deal on Virgin mobile but never had any problems with GaffGaff, very realiable, good customer service (via forums) and more importantly very cheap.

[OldBloke]

I have moved to Giffgaff and, so far, I'm pretty much happy with what I've got.