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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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After weeks of basically toying with internet gossip mongers, Nokia have finally released details of the Nokia 5530 XpressMusic, the strangely numbered new version of the 5800. The lower number might be in some way related to the reduction in dimensions, weight, and even features in the all new, slimmed down version. Like so many Nokia phone’s, the 5800 was something of a slow burner. With the looks of the long rumoured original a league below that of their obvious competitor the iPhone, many wrote off the 5800 when it was released, but the feedback from those who’ve taken the plunge has been almost uniformly high, and it’s no surprise the sequel is now confirmed.

The 5530 XpressMusic is going to launch at a far lower price than the 5800 (and indeed far far lower than many of its competitors) and there’s a few simple reasons why Nokia have been able to achieve this. Like a model of a post-credit-crunch business, in fact, the Nokia 5530 XpressMusic has slashed and booted out everything previously employed that has now been deemed inessential. Gone is the 3G capabilities (the WiFi being deemed enough connectivity), gone is some of the screen size (though the remaining 2.9” screen is being forced to work even harder, resulting in a much crisper image) and gone is the GPS (with the hope being users want to navigate little more than social networking sites). And you know what, we think they’re all good choices, and it really shows. The 5530 still plays music better than an iPhone (better even than an iPod), still has widescreen video viewing, still has a great, intuitive operating system. Check out a full rundown of the stats in this Nokia 5530 review.

So it’s already got our vote. This is the point we’d normally point to a video to back us up, but seeing as how Nokia seemed to have slashed their marketing budget as well and got an intern to make this demo video, you might need to believe us despite it, rather than because of it…

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