A few months ago we posted an article here about how nowadays, it is so much easier to avoid being tied down into a long-term mobile phone contract and actually getting the device you want SIM free and still save money in the long-term.

Following up on that article we would like to introduce a guest post by SIM Only Contracts a specialist website that compares SIM Only Deals so you can easily find the best offers and get great value for your money.

For those of you who aren’t familiar with what SIM Only is and how it may benefit you we would like to explain this in more detail.

The concept of SIM Only is what it says on the tin so to speak. It’s just a SIM card but it combines the benefits of a pay monthly contract and pay as you go SIM card minus the mobile phone.

SIM Only cards are free to purchase and offer better value for money than most long-term mobile phone contracts and PAYG SIM cards. Part of the reason that you will get better tariffs for less money with SIM Only is that the mobile phone companies don’t have to subsidize the cost of the mobile phone. This also means that to attract customers the networks must offer better value than their competition instead of using the phone as the selling point.

This then leads to some of the following great benefits of SIM Only Deals

- Easy set up. If you have a phone already or are thinking about getting a SIM-Free mobile then all you need to do is insert your SIM Only chip into your device and away you go.

- Flexibility. Typically SIM Only deals are 30-day rolling contracts. This means that you can cancel the contract at any time after that period and also change to a better SIM Only deal on another network if you want to.

- Value. SIM Only deals have the capacity to offer you great value for money tariffs with unlimited texts, unlimited Internet and loads of free minutes available on many tariffs starting from just £10 per month.

- Cross network minutes. All SIM Only contracts include minutes to other networks so you don’t have to worry about calling friends and family who are using another company to you.

- No top up. There is no need to worry about topping up your SIM card. Having a rolling contract means that if you go over your Free call or text allowance you can still use your phone without the inconvenience of having to add credit.

- Choice. SIM Only deals are available on all the major networks including Vodafone, T-Mobile, 3, O2, Orange and Virgin Mobile. This means there is plenty of competition between them that creates even more minutes, texts and data for even better value for money.

There are now 12 and 18 month contracts available that offer even lower prices if you don’t mind being tied down to a long term contract.

SIM Only deals are great for people looking to save money on their mobile phone costs. Whether you have a phone already or purchase an unlocked, SIM Free phone, a SIM Only contract will give you great value for money, flexibility and cost effectiveness over the long term.

There are currently some awesome deals available including 200 minutes and unlimited texts from Virgin Mobile and 600 minutes, unlimited texts and Internet from T-Mobile. O2 also offer free bolt-ons including free Internet, extra minutes and more so look out for these too.

If you would like to compare SIM Only deals visit SIM Only Contracts and purchase online today.

Nu stiu cati aveti un Eee sau netbook de 1.6 Ghz, insa ajung incet, incet sa fie de moda veche daca e sa le comparam cu noul HTC HD2.

Ce este asa de ‘frumos’ la el? As putea in primul rand sa scot in evidenta procesorul sau, un Snapdragon de 1 Ghz. Ar mai fi apoi memoria sa RAM de 448 MB si ROM de 512 MB, suportul ce il ofera pentru Windows Mobile 6.5, camera cu auto-focus de 5 mega pixeli si durata de viata a bateriei (490h in standby). Astea ar fi cam cele mai importante carcteristici ce l-ar putea propulsa intr-un top al vanzarilor incepand din 14 noiembrie, atunci cand va fi disponibil pentru toti, sau mai bine spus pentru toti care doresc sa se rasfete – pretul porneste de undeva de la 900$ sim-free.

Deci daca nu va trebuie urgent o geaca, un fular, niste manusi, niste schiuri sau nu tineti neaparat sa petreceti de revelion, puteti linistiti sa va aruncati banii pe asa ceva (cred ca asta as face eu).

UPDATE: HTC HD2 a aparut, si supriza, are pretul de 520E.

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For close to 4 years now, I’ve been an Apple convert.  The time has passed by quickly, and I don’t regret making the switch one bit.  My first Apple product was technically my 40GB iPod photo which now looks like a giant brick! I can’t believe I used to carry that around with me! But then, I can’t believe I used to carry my walkman and 5 or 6 cassette tapes to school each day, nor that I used to have a little bag with my discman and a few CDs in it that I used to wear around me.  Something I forgot until my iPod had to be sent away for repair during my second year of university was that CDs JUMP.  How we’ve come to expect perfection!  Or I have, anyway – I have no patience for songs skipping, I have little patience for my iPod taking a while to get its head round a song I want it to play.

However, I never considered getting an iPod as becoming an Apple convert.  Once I saw how easily my iPod worked and how straightforward the menus were, I became interested in getting an Apple laptop, especially as my current laptop was slower than a dinosaur.  During my first year of university, I had lots of problems with anti-virus software and protecting my computer.  It became ridiculously slow, and in addition to that, the laptop I had had a poor attempt at imitating Microsoft Office.  In the end, I had enough, and just before Christmas 2005 I ordered my first Apple laptop, an iBook G4.  It took me a month to get used to the fact that there was no right-click button, that the tabs and x’s and everything were in different places.  Also to get used to the fact that as a Mac, my computer was practically already virus-immune without constant annoying updates from AVG and Spybot and Norton Anti-Virus.  The resolution and picture quality was far superior than what I had been used to, and although there were several software compatibility issues, they were a lot easier to overcome than I had feared.  The aforementioned Microsoft Office was no longer needed, as I didn’t require any spreadsheets, and I could open and create word documents in TextEdit.  So it was all good!

Of course, it’s not all been problem-free.  I’m now on my third iPod (which is just over a year old), a 120GB silver iPod classic.  I’ve had it just over a year, and apart from the fact that the click wheel only clicks in the headphones, it is behaving quite well. For a while it was working extremely slowly, but the iPod software update on Snow Leopard fixed it and it’s back to normal.  I have had a lot of iPod issues in the past, having to send back my iPod time and again and getting replacement ones.  Particularly in the case of my first iPod (the photo one), I got into a rhythm of hitting it and knocking it in order to get it to behave and function, which in retrospect was quite ridiculous.  My second iPod, a 5th-generation iPod classic with video, still works, though it went through a period of deleting itself of all my music which was why I got a new one.  Because I have such a huge amount of music (though 120GB is more than enough space, and I haven’t come close to filling this iPod yet, with 35GB still free!), having to reload it onto my iPod is a MASSIVE pain, and now I use a handy program called iLinkPod to back up my iPod every month or so.  It’s a great security blanket, and ensures that I never lose my songs (something which is a much more real concern with digital music – it’s far easier to lose a file than to lose a CD), nor my formatting – I am a little bit anal about how I categorise my songs and make sure that everything has the correct artwork.  So with my new iPod, I bought AppleCare to keep it under guarantee for a lot longer, and I feel a lot more secure now.  And everything is working fine!

The introduction of an Apple Store to Bristol has also been a great advantage.  Up until the opening of Cabot Circus last September, there was an Apple retailer in Temple Meads which was more or less hopeless when it came to fixing any issues that I had.  Problems with my first laptop and its CD drive went unrepaired because they were so pathetic in their service that I just preferred to persist with the problem than get it fixed by them. (When my CD or DVD would skip upon putting it in the drive, I would just beat the base of the computer and it would work.  Again, I am glad to say those days are long gone!)  When my hard drive finally corrupted (I think to be fair, that was my fault because in Spain, I would leave my computer on my bed and it would overheat lying on the thick blanket that I had bought), it was easier just to buy another laptop than get it fixed by them and face their judgement.  Also, their costs would probably have been close to the cost of another laptop anyways.  I bought my second laptop in Easter 2007, and I still have it today!  The one time that I had a problem with it, last Christmas when it would only work with the power adapter plugged in, I took it to the Apple Store in Cabot Circus, who repaired it and although they had said that providing a new logic board would cost £400 (a price I decided I was prepared to pay), they fixed it for no charge.  It was a lovely Christmas Eve present, and to this day I’m not sure if that was a mistake… I just got out of the store clutching my laptop before they could change their mind!

Updating my operating system to Leopard and recently Snow Leopard has kept my laptop current, and although it is 2 and a half years old now, I don’t feel that it’s been left behind or is lacking anything. I have got a Microsoft Office replacement now called NeoOffice, so that I can plot my anti-snacking spreadsheet and make a beautiful printable CV.  Using the real Microsoft at work has made me appreciate Apple all the more.  My Dell laptop starts up and shuts down so slowly; it installs updates at a snail’s pace; Microsoft Office is actually not that user friendly, with certain apparently-advanced functions being a rigmarole to discover.  And don’t rely on the help section – it only helps you with incredibly obvious things, and anything more technical is a struggle to even find according to their index system.  I conclude that their help sections must have been written by morons, and this week at work, I have solved my queries by using Google, seeing that the Microsoft help section had failed me so.  In short, I can’t see myself going back to Microsoft.

However, there is one area of my life where I’m not willing to let Apple in.  The iPhone, while I appreciate is a marvellous piece of kit and has so many useful (and useless! ) apps as well as a slim touchscreen, iPod capabilities and Safari web browser, is just far too common.  I see it everywhere. In addition, it’s expensive and I’m not really into buying phones on contract (I get easily confused), so I prefer to buy them SIM-free and then just keep my standard O2 Simplicity contract, which gives me unlimited web browsing, and enough free texts and minutes for £20 to keep me satisfied. I see iPhones everywhere, and while they are pretty and fantastic devices, I prefer to be a little bit different.  I have the LG Prada II, which is a beautiful sleek black touchscreen phone.  However, it also has a pull-out QWERTY keyboard (one of the main selling features for me) so after a little bit of teething, I can text pretty damn quick. I also have the internet and a camera and all the other important things I wanted in a smart phone.  But for me, it is more beautiful than an iPhone, it has the designer name which makes it a little more special to me, and I have never seen another one being used in public.  I am confident that the iPhone is probably a superior piece of kit, but not by much – I am happy without all the extra apps, as long as I have my QWERTY keyboard, free internet browsing, emails, beautiful phone and unique phone.  The LG Prada II has taken me a few months to get my head around (the instruction manual is not very clear, and it does randomly do crazy things such as restart when I receive more than one email), but I have grown to love it and appreciate its quirks as much as its beauty and functions.  As I’ve only had it for 5 months, I’m not really looking into what phone I might get next (iPhone or otherwise), as technology these days (particularly with smart phones) evolves so quickly that I won’t even think about it until my current phone starts getting tired and a new one will be necessary.  However, I know that Dior have got a beautiful phone on their website…

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Genres: Action / Sim

Mobile Magazine recently published an interesting article about the number of UK users with sim-only deals, which is on the rise. More than 20% of the UK’s 30 million mobile phone users are now on a sim-only contract, as people look to reduce bills and save money.

Ofcoms latest report on the Communications Market, which is worth £52 billion, found that 70% of users would rather retain than upgrade handsets and that 20% of all mobile contracts since September 2008 were sim-only. The regulator also found that 24% of all new contracts taken out in Q1 of 2009 were for one month only, a 10% increase from the first quarter of 2008.

There are now 77 million mobile subscriptions in the UK, an increase of 3 million since last year. This means that on average, UK consumers have more than one mobile contract each. The total number of contract mobile phone users reached 30 million in Q1 2009, an increase of 3 million in the same period last year. However, pay as you go connections fell for the first time, by 100,00 to 47 million.

Essentially, this report shows that more and more consumers are opting for contract deals. The first thing that comes to mind when someone mentions a ‘contract deal’ is a free phone (in some cases with a gift as well) and a 12-24 month commitment to a £30/£40 tariff. However, more and more people are now opting for ‘contract deals’ that are sim-only and run on a month-to-month basis. Granted you won’t get a free phone, but you could easily wrangle enough cashback from the sim-only deal to buy one, and you won’t be roped into a lengthy contract. This is a great way to not only save money, but keep your mobile phone tariff flexible.

I suppose it was bound to happen sooner or later, now that it is possible to unlock the iPhone for use on any GSM carrier, but Play.com is now officially offering a sim-free version of the 16GB iPhone (s aapl) for sale on their website without having first unlocked it from O2. According to Play.com, the offer is completely above board, and takes advantage of EU regulations which ensure the availability of sim-free mobile phones to all networks.

This news isn’t to say every barrier is now removed from any UK resident owning an iPhone. There’s still the little issue of cost, and with the iPhone that’s actually not a little issue at all. Play.com is selling the sim-free version for £599, which works out to about $882 U.S. dollars (using today’s conversion rate). That’s a heck of a lot more expensive than the $599 no-contract AT&T model we’ve been hearing about lately. But can you really put a price on freedom? I sure can, and it’s a lot less than $900.

Unfortunately, I don’t really have a choice. There are no import options for North American customers, so over on this side of the pond we’ll have to stick to paying out the nose on eBay for less-than-legit alternatives. Still, I can’t help hoping that this is only the beginning of a loosening of the locked-down distribution model of the iPhone. I understand that Apple (s aapl) can’t be seen willfully encouraging sim-free sales, in the interest of keeping their carrier partners happy, but there’s nothing wrong with quietly giving up the goods when someone like Play.com points out a legal necessity, is there? Of course Canada, where I live, has the most draconian cellular racket in this or any other hemisphere, so I shouldn’t hold my breath.

Chicago (IL) – Australia will be the place of birth for of the second Android-powered smartphone. Sold under Kogan brand, the Agora and Agora Pro devices will sell unlocked for $225 and $295 respectively, without the need to sign a service contract. The fact that these smartphones will be sold SIM-free, provide some hope that domestic customers might be able to get the phone online and simply swap in their existing SIM module, opting for a pre-paid service instead of agreeing to a multi-year service agreement.

via TG Daily – Second Android smartphone to launch unlocked on January 29 for $225.

גם אתם מצאתם מישהו שטס לחו”ל וביקשתם ממנו שיביא לכם את המכשיר של אפל האייפון החדש, אבל לא כולם יודעים איך לפרוץ את מכשיר האיפון ולעשות לו סים פרי, ישנם הרבה מדריכים באינטרנט שיתנו לכם הסברים איך לפרוץ את המכשיר החדש שלכם.

רוב המדריכים יבקשו ממכם להתקין כל מיני תוכנות על האייפון, לא בטוח שהתוכנות שאתם תתקינו לא מלאים בוירוסים או בשאר תוכנות ריגול ואולי דרך זה יוכלו לקבל את כל השיחות שלכם או אפילו יוכלו להוציא שיחות מהמכשיר שלכם מבלי שתדעו.

חיפשתי פתרון נוסף כי לא בא לי להתחיל להתעסק עם כל נושא הפריצה של סים פרי לאייפון מצאתי הרבה אנשים שתמורת סכום לא קטן יעשו לי סים פרי לאייפון שלי וכל מיני מכשירים נוספים כמובן אבל שהם לא לוקחים אחריות, במידה ויקרה משהו למכשיר שלך בעת יצירת סים פרי זה על אחריותך.

כמובן שאני לא יקח את הסיכון הזה עד שסוף סוף יש לי מכשיר איפון חדש, אין לי אף אחד אשר טס לחו”ל ויכול להביא לי מכשיר נוסף, חיפשתי פתרון מצאתי אתר rentcenter שיש לו כרטיס סים פרי מיוחד לכל המכשירים.

ערכתי בירור לגבי הכרטיס סים פרי הזה וראיתי שממש קל לבצע איתו סים פרי פשוט שמים מעל הכרטיס סים פרי את כרטיס הסים של חברת הסלולר שלי וזהו.
הייתי חייב לבדוק את זה רכשתי מהם את הכרטיס ומייד עשיתי את זה הכנסתי את כרטיס הסים פרי ומעליו שמתי את הסים הרגיל שלי וזהו מאותו רגע האייפון שלי הפך להיות ברשת הסלולרית שלי.

גם לי עכשיו יש אייפון שפתוח לכל הרשתות ללא כל בעיה וללא כל סכנה(ומכשיר האייפון אין מילים לתאר עד כמה המכשיר הזה טוב) , עכשיו קיבלתי מכשיר אייפון מהדור החדש פשוט לקחתי את אותו כרטיס סים פרי שלי ובאותה פעולה המכשיר האיפון החדש שלי הפך להיות סים פרי.

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חברת רנט סנטר מציע פתרונות תקשורת לארץ ולחו”ל – אחד מהם הוא כרטיסי סים |SIM גלובאלי על כיסוי רחב של 200 מדינות.

היתרונות הן שיחה נכנסת בחינם לרב המדינות אשר נתמכות בשירות וחיסכון של עד 80% בשיחות יוצאות מה ששילמתם עד היום.
כמו כן חברת rent center מציעה חיבור אינטרנט בכל מקום, וזאת ע”י אינטרנט GSM שבעזרתו תוכלו להתחבר לאינטרנט בכל מקום. אך כמובן ניתן דגש בכתבה זו על כרטיסי סים לחו”ל.

אז מהו כרטיס SIM UNLOCKED ?

זהו כרטיס סים קטנטן אשר בעזרתו ובשימוש של מכשיר טלפון ברשת GSM תוכלו לחסוך המון כסף בשיחות לחו”ל. כדי להנות משירות זה, אתם צריכים להזמין כרטיס SIM FREE באמצעות מוקד ההזמנות של אתר Rent Center , ותקבלו בעזרת משלוח את הכרטיס לבית שלכם או לאסוף אותו בחברה באופן עצמאי.

אז אם יש לכם טלפון של חברת סלקום או אורנג’ תוכלו גם אתם להנות משירותי כרטיס סים לחו”ל.

אז מה בעצם מרוויחים באמצעות כרטיס סים לחו”ל (Sim Freeq/Sim unlocked)?

1. תחסכו עד 60% בהוצאות שיחות סלולריות.
2. אתם לא משלמים על כרטיס סים כלל ואין לכם התחייבות.
3. בחירת מס’ טלפון מקומי אונליין בעזרת חשבון המשתמש שלך.
4. ישנו קו VOIP אשר כבר מובנה בכרטיס SIM אשר מיועד להפניית שיחות, אפשרות לקבלת פקסים בעזרת כרטיס ה-סים.

ועוד ועוד…

על מנת להתרשם ממגוון המוצרים של כרטיסי סים לחו”ל – כנסו עוד היום לאתר Rent Center ותהנו משירותי כרטיסי סים לחו”ל במחירים אטרקטיבים והזולים במדינה.