Mobile Choice Blog

Top 5 bands who should do a Girls Aloud and get their own mobile phones

Heard about the Girls Aloud phone? It's been made by Samsung and is being sold through Phones 4 U, and is a customised version of the F210 handset. You can read all about it over on the main Mobile Choice site. But which other bands or singers should get their own mobiles? Well, here's our ideas:

1. Prince. He's in with O2 after his many many gigs at The O2 this year, and there's a raft of purple handsets being released this Christmas, which is his colour. Obviously, the PrincePhone would have to be small and perfectly-formed, like the man himself. Although less likely to break into a jazz-funk solo at the drop of a hat, ideally.

Top 5 reasons NOT to buy a UK iPhone

Last week, we covered the top five reasons you might want to shell out £269 for an iPhone when they go on sale here on 9th November. Now it's time for the flipside, where we explain why you might want to keep your wallet firmly in your pocket. While there's a lot of justified excitement around Apple's first mobile, it's not immune to criticism. So...

1. It's not 3G. Steve Jobs claims that 3G saps battery life too much, that EDGE is fast enough for web surfing on the go, and that Wi-Fi is much faster anyway. In order: it doesn't, it isn't, and it's true, but you have to be within range of a hot-spot. The lack of 3G is a big problem for would-be iPhone buyers, not least because Apple has already said it'll be releasing a 3G model next year. £269 and an 18-month contract for a phone that may be superceded within a year? Thanks for that.

Top 5 ways mobile phones make you feel old and confused

Once upon a time, owning a mobile marked you out as a young hip gunslinger, at the cutting edge of mobile communications. Not any more. Now it just shows you up as a frazzled old fuddy-duddy. Here's some examples:

1. You get annoyed at kids on the bus playing music through their handset speakers - not because you think it's rude, but because you've got no idea how to make your phone do it.

2. Your children openly laugh at the way you write text messages with proper grammar, spelling and punctuation.

3. You get your fingers tangled up playing the latest mobile games. Even the ones designed to be played with one thumb.

4. You keep forgetting to lock your phone before putting it in your pocket, meaning that at the end of an average train journey, the battery's run down, you've called your mum for 45 minutes, or you have 17 photos of your pocket fluff.

5. You think mobile TV is a silly idea. Actually, this marks you out as 'wise', not old...