Find Me A Replacement Phone Please.

[MrBounce]

I have a challenge: I need a new phone sometime soon(ish).

I currently have an HTC Wildfire S and I don't like it much. It's been back once because of rubbish memory (apparently a common problem on these) and now the charging is playing up (shop tested the phone on their charger & couldn't get it to work) so it's really annoying me. Contract is up in October so I still have it for a while but am told I should be able to upgrade in August. Now I know that new phones will be appearing on a regular basis before then, but I want to know what would best suit my needs? I am a bit of a technophobe so if you tell me specific "cool" features it ain't gonna mean much to me, but here's what I use the phone for:

Calls (obviously - I currently have 300 min inclusive)
Texts (Unlimited - which is apparently 5000 according to Vodafone...)
Faceache
Twitter
Some surfing (not too much) 250mb p/m easily covers what I do.
MP3 & Radio
Decent storage so I don't have to keep shifting stuff about.
Not be too damn big.

I am not fussed by showing it off to my friends as having the latest gadget, and an iPhone has too much stuff for what I am likely to use.

Ideally I would like to keep to about £20 pcm (2 yr contract fine) & to keep the same number.

Do your worst!

[VW BUSH]

I have a galaxy ace on T mobile, free unlimited internet, 500 txts, free calls to T mobile phones and bunch of other bits for £20 per month.
My work phone is a Galaxy S3, costs me nothing and appears to be good phone......

[Jay]

As you're on Vodafone go to:
http://www.moneysupermarket.com/mobile-phones/networks/vodafone/

Select the Galaxy S3 from the list, it's currently £19.79 with a 300 minute, "unlimited texts" and 250Mb data. Give them a call and speak to their renewals team or cancellations team and they'll sort you out.


The S3 won the most awards last year, I love mine andfor £20 a month you can't get much better, you're also used to Android coming from an HTC Wildfire S, albeit an older version. The S3 had 16Gb on board and an MicroSD slot.

Alternatively if you want to move away from Android, the HTC 8X is their most powerful Windows Phone 8 device and with the same contract as above from Vodafone. The cheaper HTC 8S seems like a good little phone from what I can see of my colleagues, so I can only imagine the 8X is going to be much better.
The Nokia Lumia 820 is pretty sweet too and looks awesome in red!

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/smartphones/380482/htc-windows-phone-8x


If you don't mind £27 a month for a shiny new phone, the HTC One is superb! My only gripe is the lack of a Home button which forces a virtual one which does make using it more of a learning curve than say the S3.
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/smartphones/380965/htc-one


All that said, the best advice is to go into a shop and play with as many phones as you can to see which you prefer and use the MoneySuperMarket site to get you a good deal!