12 month contract, only £25 per month line rental and you’ll receive £87.50 cash back, equal to 7 months half price line rental. This is a brilliant offer even if you don’t claim the cash back.

With T-Mobile Flext 25 you get £40 monthly allowance for calls, texts and pictures. For example, you can use 200 pure minutes or 400 pure texts, or a combination of 100 minutes and 200 texts.
It’s easy to keep track because T-Mobile send you a text every week with how much allowance you have left.

The Samsung U900 Soul is the ultimate handset from the Ultra Edition range. It blends design and technology, creating a fashionable sliderphone phone that looks stunning. It’s technologically advanced too. The 5 megapixel camera has features such as face detection, image stabiliser and Wide Dynamic Range.

The icons on the touch-sensitive navigation panel change intuitively according to the functions you’re using. This makes it very easy to select items from the phone’s menu. For example, when using the 5 megapixel camera, you’ll be able to control zoom and brightness from the touch-sensitive panel. There’s also a standard slide out keypad.

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Expected in July or August, the new BlackBerry 9000 is worth mentioning now as it’s been a whole year since the last all-new BlackBerry hit the market. There have been several updates of the BlackBerry Curve and BlackBerry Pearl but only colour and specs of these devices have changed.

Dubbed BlackBerry Bold, this all-new BlackBerry has HSDPA, a powerful 624 MHz processor and the new BlackBerry OS 4.6. It has a large widescreen display with a high resolution of 480×320 pixels. As with all modern BlackBerry devices, the BlackBerry 9000 Bold has a QWERTY keyboard and a miniature trackball for on screen navigation.

In terms of connectivity features, the BlackBerry 9000 Bold has GPS with BlackBerry maps pre-installed. It also has Wi-fi, 3G, tri-band HSDPA and quad-band GSM.

All of the usual BlackBerry features are present including a decent camera, Bluetooth, web browser, media player with DivX support and a 3.5mm stereo audio socket. There’s 1GB of internal memory for storing video, music and other media. Memory can be upgraded to 8GB using a memory card.

Unofficial news is also circulating about two new devices, a flip phone codenamed BlackBerry Kickstart and a touchscreen device codenamed BlackBerry Thunder. The BlackBerry Thunder is expected later in the year and is rumoured to have a full touchscreen interface with no physical keyboard.

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The Nokia 6500 classic Bronze is now available direct from T-Mobile. New customers who buy online will receive £5 line rental discount on all Direct Flext tariffs.

Best deal is on Direct Flext 25. For just £20 per month on a 12 month contract you’ll receive a free Nokia 6500 classic Bronze with a £40 monthly allowance for calls, texts and pictures. That’s equal to 200 minutes per month to any network, or 400 texts, or any combination of the two.

The Nokia 6500 classic Bronze is just 9.5mm thick and weighs 95g, which is relatively light for a 3G phone.

Similar in size to the Nokia 6120 classic smartphone, the Nokia 6500 classic is the more attractive of the two. It’s rounded edges, bronze trim and clean lines pitch it as a 3G fashion phone. It has a 2 megapixel camera and a built-in media player. The Nokia 6500 classic comes with a generous 1GB of internal memory.

This is a great-looking phone and it’s very easy to use. If you want something that isn’t too complicated and still has the benefit of 3G then this could be the phone for you.

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The Nokia 2600 classic is a phone that’s simple to use and it has some neat little extras. It’s a piece of cake to get to grips with, but has some great features such as a built-in FM radio, camera with video record, handsfree speaker, an organiser, plus built-in games to keep your thumbs twiddling.

Available now on Virgin Mobile pay as you go for only £39.99. Buy it now and Virgin Mobile will throw in 300 texts for free. That’s 75 texts per month for four months. Once you’ve bought your phone, don’t forget to swap to Virgin’s Daily Bonus tariff. It means you pay one simple rate for most of the calls you make. Only 15p per minute to call UK mobiles or landlines and once you’ve made 5 minutes of calls in a day the next 5 minutes are free. The same applies to texts, 10p per text (or 5p to other Virgin Mobiles) and if you send 5 texts in a day your next 5 are free.

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Free Samsung U900 Soul on T-Mobile Flext 25 (12m). This is a fantastic offer. Only £25 per month line rental and a 12 month contract. Plus, you’ll receive £25 automatic cash back paid after 7 days, effectively giving you your first month free.

The Samsung U900 Soul is the ultimate handset from the Ultra Edition range. It blends design and technology, creating a fashionable sliderphone phone that looks stunning. It’s technologically advanced too. The 5 megapixel camera has features such as face detection, image stabiliser and Wide Dynamic Range.

The icons on the touch-sensitive navigation panel change intuitively according to the functions you’re using. This makes it very easy to select items from the phone’s menu. For example, when using the 5 megapixel camera, you’ll be able to control zoom and brightness from the touch-sensitive panel. There’s also a standard slide out keypad.

The Samsung Soul has 3G and HSDPA for high speed downloads and web access. There’s a built-in FM radio and an MP3 music player that boasts a digital power amp designed by Bang and Olufsen.

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Do you send loads of text messages and make hardly any calls? Vodafone’s new Unlimited Texts tariff gives you unlimited text messages at any time to any UK network, for £15 per month.

The latest Nokia 6124 classic is free on this tariff and it’s ideal for sending texts. It’s a high spec smartphone with a large screen and a well-defined keypad.

The Nokia 6124 classic is the fastest Nokia S60 smartphone available. It has a powerful 369 MHz processor yet it’s small and light, weighing just 89g. It has a 2 megapixel camera with video record and flash. Plus a secondary video call camera mounted above the screen for making 3G video calls. There are pleny of other great features with this phone, including HSDPA for high speed downloads, a media player, FM radio, expandable memory and much more.

The Unlimited Text tariff is subject to an 18 month contract. Calls are charged at Vodafone’s standard rates, which are 18p per minute to landlines and Vodafone mobiles, 40p per minute to other networks. Other tariffs are available including 12 month contracts with inclusive minutes and texts.

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