Hi All

Yesterday I spoke about my Nokia freezing, well I've decided that I will splash out and spend some money for once on a new phone to save my sanity.

I am on o2 and I'd like to stay on o2, at the moment I'm on simplicity so I can cancel basically at any time. I'm on simplicity through Carphone Warehouse but I think I might go direct with O2.

I want a phone/contract that I can ring my Mum's landline on for around an hour every other day. Do anytime minutes include landline calls? On my simplicity contract I seem to pay nothing to ring landlines but I only ever use about 2 minutes of my anytime minutes?

Having looked around I'd quite like an HTC Desire (a bit of a leap from my current phone). I'll spend up to around £60 for the phone so that seems to fit. I'll need some sort of data bundle, will 500mb do me ok, I just want to check my facebook, DS and BBC News basically. I have no idea what 500mb equates to!

As you can guess from my other thread, I will need a contract with unlimited texts but to get that you seem to have to get 600minutes (well I have that now and use at max 10 minutes a month!) Seems a real waste but I'm happy to waste the minutes to get the texts I suppose, that's what I was told to do on simplicity.

I want to keep my number as well does it cost to do that?

Help!! When did phones get so complicated, I used to know all about them but now I haven't a clue!

500mb will be plenty for facebook, etc.

landline minutes will come out of your inclusive minutes, yeah.
but 02 do a bolt on, which you probably have at the moment, which gives you unlimited free landline minutes.

it shouldn't cost anything to keep your number. even if you decide to leave O2 and go onto a different network!

Yeah maybe I do have that bolt on then? I told the guy that I wanted to do landline calls but few mobile ones and he set it up like this, honestly that's the 2nd time I've been sold duff stuff. Thank you for that, I will include the anytime minutes in my bundle then. I'm excited to get a new phone!

ps. you might be able to get more for your money staying on sim only.

find out the cheapest you can get the cost of the phone on a pay as you go offer.

you'll then be able to deduct that amount and compare it against the extra you will be paying if you sign up to a new contract.
Ive had a look at the O2 website and I can't see if they do unlimited landline bolt-ons any more.

bearing in mind that you use about 900 landline minutes per month, this would be a big advantage to you.

it will, of course, mean paying for the handset upfront. I don't know whether you're in a position to be able to do this.