On 26 Mar 2004 13:29:01 GMT, wrote:

Tim Downie wrote:
Mike Mitchell wrote:

£29.99 for a pay-as-you-go Trium Eclipse on Virgin Mobile from
Carphone Warehouse. You'll will need to buy top-up cards to make
calls. Standard UK calls cost 15p/min for the first 5 minutes each
day then 5p/min thereafter.

Extortionate!

In that case, try a tin can with a piece of string attached. Seriously, for
your purposes, you're not going to get much cheaper than that if you want a
new phone. If you're not going to make any calls the call charges aren't
going to bother you are they? This way you've got no contract or ongoing
charges.

I got a refurbished phone from Virgin (a Sendo) which was only £20, I
think they sometimes have even cheaper ones.

Ah, this Sendo thingy sounds like the business! (See below where I
have provided an update.)


Zero cost from then on if you make no calls.

That's the kind of cost I like!

MM