Did you get the Spotify with that? The Ace etc. will be pretty cheap as they will be classed as 'entry level' phones, although still amazing technology themselves

Yes but just a three month trial, after that you have to subscribe to the £10 Spotify deal to continue with the phone service, I didn't bother because I hardly used it on the phone and so went back to free Spotify if I still travelled a lot with my job I'd take it though.

Three's best deal IMO on the Samsung Galaxy Ace is for £13 per month and with that you get:

100 minutes
5000 texts
All You can Eat Data (Unlimited Internet).

And because you're upgrading you'll get 2000 Three to Three minutes added on.

You can get it at £10 per month, same deal, if you were to take out a second handset on contract. So you could get your wife on a HTC Wildfire at either:

£10 per month
100 minutes
5000 texts
250 MB Internet

or

£13 per month
100 minutes
5000 texts
All you can eat data (unlimited internet)

And that would get your Samsung Galaxy Ace at £10 (you get a £3 monthly discount on either line). Three would add 2000 Three to Three minutes to both handsets too.

I'd recommend you put them on a SIM only deal.

At Three they can do 200 minutes, 5000 texts, 500 MB of data a month at £6.90 on a SIM only deal. And the big, big, big thing they can do is cap it! No other network can offer that and what it means is peace of mind for you. It's a zero credit allowance meaning your kids can't accidentally wrack up any surprise bills!

Now there are PAYG options - £10 top up would get you 100 minutes, 5000 texts and 500MB of data but you can't cap it, you have to constantly top up and it's poor value for money when a SIM only deal you get more for your money, it's cheaper, you don't need to bother going into stores/online/ATM's etc to top up it comes out as a direct debit and the huge peace of mind for you is the fact it can be capped - you know only £6.90 will come out of your bank account - the equivalent of around £1.70 a week?

It is a 12 month contract on that SIM only but consider it. It's only for a year and like I said it's better value for money (more minutes etc), cheaper (£1.70 a week compared to a £10 a month) and you can cap it so no surprise bills (which you can't get on PAYG).

Hope that didn't sound too saleslike I do work at Three but that's the advice I genuinely give customers who are in your situation. Hope that helps.

The Samsung Galaxy Ace is a belting little phone in the mid-range Android market. I just recently put my younger brother on the £13 a month deal with Three that I mentioned to DaveO.

HOWEVER the Samsung Galaxy SII is in the top end range of Android phones and is far better than the Samsung Galaxy Ace! The Samsung Galaxy Ace is worth £130 whereas the SII is worth £420 new.

I'll run through some quick specs with you.

Samsung Galaxy Ace
5 MP camera with LED flash, auto focus, face and smile detection.
800Mhz processor.
2GB micro SD card included


Samsung SII
8MP camera with LED flash, auto focus, face and smile detection and image stabilisation with a 2MP front facing camera.
A dual core processor.
16 GB internet memory with up to 32 GB expandable memory.
4.3" super AMOLED display screen.


The SII is a very good phone! It's the predecessor to the Samsung SIII and is still barely a year old. The S3 is the S2 but with a quadcore processor and a lot of flashy features!

We are both with 3 already. If I stayed with 3 my idea was to get a new phone and swap the sim form my wifes sony (which she hates with a passion) into my wildfire, or even the new phone. If I get a new phone as opposed to just going for a cheaper contract the bluetooth has to work. It stopped working when my wildfire was updated from Android 2.2 to 2.3 which was very annoying!

I'd recommend GiffGaff. It's a bit different in that there's no call centre's as such so topping up is done mostly online, or you can do it using 02 vouchers. but If you don't mind having no call centre support its a great cheap alternative. you can get goodybags with your credit, for a fiver you get 60 mins and unlimited texts, for £10 you get 250 mins, unlimited texts and unlimited mobile data.

I've saved a fortune since I moved across from 02. they use 02's network and because they give you payback if you refer people or if you post on the forums I'm now about £30 in credit with them. so it's effectively working out as free.

I wouldn't have a personal mobile on O2's network if they paid be £30 a month.