My wife wants a new phone and after discussing what she wants to use if for it comes down to this.....

1. Good phonebook for keeping all her friends details
2. Facebook intergration
3. Good camera with facebook intergration (for nights out!)
4. Easy and fast texting

It has to be simm free as she wants to stay with the same network...

and a fair price thanks..!!!

Cheers....

Buy the iPhone 4. It's the only phone on the market worth buying. All other phones are absolute rubbish. In fact, did you know that Nokia, Samsung, Motorola, all Android phone manufacturers don't even bother putting screens on their phones anymore? etc etc etc ad nauseum by apple fanboy.

Right, now that's out the way .... seriously, that budget are you looking at?

Upto about £130 really as she doesn't want anything too fancy... and she also has the tendency to drop phones..!!!!

The Pulse Mini was suggested in this thread as an option http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s....php?t=1290286

http://www.techradar.com/reviews/pho...-690036/review

If this is anything to go by the Pulse is one to avoid.

Surprised by that review. Ive sold god knows how many of these phones and not one of them has been brought back with a complaint.

Maybe they got a bad one but that's not the only bad review. I guess someone who's never used a smartphone before wouldn't notice the downsides so much.

I think the reviewers are being a bit unfair to the Pulse Mini. I have just bought one and it is better than is suggested.

It is a £99 Android PAYG, with six months free Internet.

The screen was bigger than I expected, it has Android 2.1 and access to the Android Marketplace. No e-bay app available for some reason, I am looking in to that. Their are third party ones.

I use the stylus for entering passwords, but find that if I use a supplied alternate keyboard in landscape mode, I can type fine.

Its supposed to be slow, but I don't really find that. Maybe I am quite patient. It seems to do things more or less straight away and the camera was OK. At least it has LED flash unlike the original Pulse.

I also don't mind the resistive touch screen, as I have never used a capacitive one. The headphones were fine and standard.

If your wife has fairly small fingers and is not accustomed to owning a Desire or IPhone 4, then this would be OK for her. People with really chunky fingers might have an issue with it.

It fits well in the hand, although I might get a case for it if, I am going to be putting it in my bag.

I was using Facebook last night and that's more than workable as well as the browser. Text on the BBC site scrolls fast with down finger swipes.

On the whole a lot better than reviewed. An added plus is the merger of T-mobile and Orange of course.