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August in the mobile phone world is like the calm before the storm. OK I’ll let the secret out, the biggest handsets are normally released in October and November but as yet we have had no word on any big releases (apart from Samsung and Sony Ericsson, but more on them in another post). Her we have decided to pick out our favourite mobile phones and the best deals around. We are also being a little controversial and including not just Nokia handsets, please forward your complaints to the comments section.
1) Nokia N97 deals – The mother of all Nokia phones, we think that it’s great (even if we are a little biased. It is available on Vodafone for £40.00 per month with 600 minutes and unlimited texts, not half bad.
2) Nokia N86 deals – the gaming phone of choice. This simple yet effective phone is built on N-gage technology. 400 minutes and 3000 texts on Orange for £25.00 per month seems like a pretty good deal.
3) Nokia 5530 deals – The slimmer version of the Nokia 5800 is still a winner and at half the monthly cost of the N97 is great for those on a budget. Did we mention that you get the same amount of minutes and texts as well?
4) HTC Hero deals – Android has to be a concern for Nokia, can Symbian compete? Time will tell. In the meantime the HTC Hero is the best Android offering out there and 400 minutes and 3000 texts for £28.53 is pretty good in our opinion.
5) Samsung Jet deals – Another Android phone and a seriously underrated one at that. We love it (not as much as the N97 though) and you can get it for £26.11 on Vodafone with 300 minutes and unlimited texts, a great offer if we may say so ourselves.
6) Blackberry Curve 8520 deals – An updated version of an already popular brand of handset. This is the phone for the email generation. That is of course if you don’t opt for the Nokia E75. You can get this on O2 with £170 auto cashback which makes this seriously affordable.
7) Sony Ericsson W995 deals – Because we are Nokia lovers, we bumped this one down the list a bit, but for £21.00 per month you can get this great handset which has arguably the best music features of any phone out there.
LG Crystal deals – This novel handset looks the part, but you pay for looks. O2 offer the best deal here, with 400 minutes and 500 texts for £30.00 per month. Not bad, but not great either.
Do you know of any other handsets we should have mentioned? If so let us know. And before you say the iPhone, we didn’t want to give it any more publicity. We know it’s great and we also know it will set you back the best part of £1500 over the duration of your contract. In our opinion there are cheaper alternatives out there.

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Like gossiping? Then you’re going to love the Nokia 6760 slide.

Well, actually, let’s qualify that: if you life gossiping in the new, virtual, not-having-to-actually-meet-people way, then you’re going to love the 6760. Because if you’re someone who stands out in your stockings, pinning the laundry up and chatting to the next door neighbour then the Nokia 6760 slide might not be up your cobbled street. Or if you enjoy whiling away 4 hours in the bakery pretending to deliberate over the white-iced iced buns, or the pink ones (it’s got to be the white ones, right, they have raisins in them!), but actually just getting all the latest news about who’s sleeping with who and who’s an alcoholic these days, then again, you probably won’t be hunting out these Nokia 6760 slide deals any time soon.

However, if, like these imaginary people above, you are not 70 years old / living in the 1950’s, then you might be interested here. Because the 6760 is one of those hella ugly phones with the slide out QWERTY keyboards that we can’t work out the appeal of but that you kids seem to get all frothy at the mouth about. And yes, we might be closer to the ’50’s than most of you, but not that close.

But then we don’t spend 90% of our waking lives glued to some form of screen or other, messaging/tweeting/facebooking/emailing/googletalking/etc’ing a bunch of people who probably live with 500m of us and would quite like to actually meet face-to-face. Such is the relentless course of time and progress. Check out this Nokia 6760 review for a more stat-based opinion, or have a look at these 6760 deals

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Nokia have always built solid, durable phones with decent battery lives. In fact, we know people who are still using Nokia’s with LCD screens from about seven years ago that are still going strong. Not so with so many other manufacturers of course, especially in these days of new 18-24 month contracts. Because a disturbing trend happened in the days of 12 month contracts in which phones started to get built just for the length of that contract and no more. So that if you waited, say, 14 months, you’d suddenly find that your battery was barely lasting a day, your screen looked like it wanted to go into retirement and the whole casing started to feel just a little bit like it was going to fall apart in your hands. And don’t get us started on how mayfly-like iPods are…

Which is why it just plain makes sense that it’s Nokia who are bringing one of the world’s most rugged phones to the market. The Nokia 3720 Classic is, in fact, just about the strongest mass market phone we’ve ever seen. And as much as we’d like to explain it to you, there really is no better demonstration than the video below. Obviously the Nokia bods employed here are being just a little bit tender with it (because come on, who hits that softly with a golf club?!) but even with that slight reserve you can see how the Nokia 3720 is one strong little puppy.

So, if you work on a construction site or other dusty / dangerous environment, or if you just happen to find yourself always wanting to make calls in the middle of your morning swim, then this little thing could be just what you’ve been looking for. You can click here for the official page, or just have a look at this Nokia 3720 review for a full rundown on all the specs and stats.

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It’s not often that we’ll direct your attention straight to a video on this blog. In fact, if we’re honest, the video is normally a bit of a filler, something we’ve spent all of 2 minutes trying to find and pasting in in some vain attempt to make it appear as if we’re all technical and savvy with the ways of blogging. Today, however, thank to the Nokia 6710, is different. Very different indeed. Because we want you to watch the video right now.

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There we go. So, now you know about the Nokia 6710 Navigator, right? Now you know, in fact, how to stalk a girl using her phone. Because, come on: ladies if a complete stranger turned up at your door with a bunch of flowers and told you he was there because he’d searched through your phone to find personal details to track you down, you’d call the police, right? Or at least give him a crowbar to the face.

Fair enough, this illegal piece of propaganda does a decent if cheesy job of showing off what the 6710 has to offer – maps, mapping and more maps – but we think Nokia could have found a slightly smarter way to do it. Anyway, check out this Nokia 6710 review for a full rundown of all the things it’s capable of, or have a look at The official Nokia page, which luckily manages to avoid all incitements to breaking the law.

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