TheGoodShopGuide: Where to Buy a Mobile Phone Online in the UK.

Mobile Shop UK Mobile Shop UK began on the Internet in 1997 and have become one of the largest Internet retailers of mobile phones and associated technology in the UK. They have a good reputation for quick delivery, good after-sales and customer service - the company won the "Best Customer Service" Category in the 2002 Mobile News Awards. Mobile Shop have "Approved Direct Dealer" status with Orange, T-Mobile (formerly One-2-One), 3 and O2 (formerly BT Cellnet). Popular contract mobile phones include the Nokia 7610; the Nokia 6230 and Nokia 7200; the Sharp GX30; the new Motorola V80 with free cross network minutes and built in digital camera and the best buy Sony Ericsson K700i. They also offer a wide range of Pay As You Go phones on O2, T-Mobile, Orange and Vodafone networks, as well as mobile phone accessories - from a mobile phone hands free kit to Bluetooth headsets as well as covers and fascias. As well as mobile phones, they also sell digital cameras and camcorders along with related accessories; mobile data products including PDAs and Handhelds; Video Games and Consoles; mobile audio products - including MP3 players and Mini-disc recorders and DVD's. Our Rating: 9/10. Click here to visit MobileShop.com e2save mobiles E2save is one the UK’s leading suppliers of Mobile phones and accessories online. As an independent supplier, they are able to offer all of the latest handsets from key manufacturers, across the major networks, namely T-Mobile, O2, Orange, Vodaphone and 3. With their price match guarantee, e2save promise that if their price is beaten within 7 days of delivery, they will match it! They also offer free next day delivery on all phones to any location within the UK. handsfree car kit Our Rating: 8/10. Click here to visit e2save mobiles Dial-a-Phone. Mobile Phones UK Dial-a-Phone is one of the UK's leading specialist suppliers of mobile phones direct to the consumer - you have probably seen their ads in the press. The dial a phone web site is a fairly basic design and the range of phones is more limited than other shops, but there are some good cheap deals on offer. With next working day delivery and great prices, diala phone is a good place to buy a mobile phone online. Mostly Nokia mobile phones are on offer, and the networks available are Orange; Vodafone; One2One and BTCellnet. Recommended deals include the dial a phone Vodafone 300 and Vodafone 600 tariffs, which are available on a number of free mobile phones, including the Ericsson T29; the Sony t68i as well as the Nokia 8310 and Nokia 3330. You can search for mobile phone offers by cost, by your amount of usage, by phone or by network. If you are looking for Cheap Uk Mobile Phones, then take a look around their site. Established in 1995, they offer next working day delivery and a 14-day money back guarantee. Our Rating: 8/10. Click here to visit Dial a Phone Direct Mobile Phones Direct Mobile Phones have been a Direct Orange Dealer since they launched in 1994 and this year they have been appointed an Orange Business Specialist for Southern UK. They now offer exclusive pricing and offers on all four UK Networks, with free phones and free Mon-Sat UK delivery. All mobiles come with a 14 day money back guarantee and a minimum 12 months warranty, in some instances this is extended to 36 months. Our Rating: 8/10. Click here to visit Direct Mobile Phones O2 [Genie] Mobile Phones UK A well designed site with user-friendly navigation. Not sure about Genie Mobiles change of name to O2 / MMO2 though! Whatever they call themselves, the best part about the O2 network is that you get free sms text messaging and free mobile internet. All O2 voice tariffs include free text messaging and all pay monthly tariffs include free minutes to all networks. Plus, if you decide to keep your handset, you will save £5 a month off your line rental. Genie Sim Cards: If you choose a SIM only tariff- the SIM is provided FREE on pay monthly and for only £9.99 on pay as you go. If you choose a Pay As You Go tariff, you just need to top up at least £10 every 30 days, in order to keep your service active. Plus, with every genie sim card purchased you will receive a free ringtones / icons voucher. Our Rating: 8/10. Click here to visit Genie Mobiles [O2] Talkworld mobile phones uk Talkworld offers a brightly coloured site, which despite it's 'in your face' design is reasonably fast and easy to use. Established as one of the UK's independent mobile phone retailers since 1991, Talkworld is a direct dealer for all four networks. You can order pay monthly phones or choose any phone and connect it to any 'pay as you go' package, on any network from £59.99. A good feature of the website is the interactive section which includes a fully interactive tariff calculator to input your intended usage and find out which tariff is best for you. If its accessories you are after, they have batteries, cases, chargers and hands free kits for the most popular phones, as well as over 400 different Nokia covers. Our Rating: 7/10. Click here to visit Talkworld Comet UK - Pay as you go mobile phones The web site of this high street electrical retailer offers pay as you go mobile phones to buy online, from under £50. Prepay mobile phones in the comet store include the Nokia 3310E on Orange and the Nokia 3410 on O2. Other good buys include the Siemens A50 for only £49.95 on Virgin, Orange or T-Mobile pay as you go sim cards. Web only offers are available on some phones, but overall the range is quite limited. Our Rating: 7/10. Click here to visit Comet UK. Carphone Warehouse An attractive site from this well known UK high street chain - easy to use with good navigation and lots of information. Carphone Warehouse is the largest retailer of mobile phones in Europe. This great site allows you to buy or browse the perfect mobile communication solution for you. Choose from all types of mobiles phones, accessories, personal digital assistants, ring tones and landlines. Use the Assisted Purchase tool to help you select the right network, tariff and phone. Also check out the 'Encyclopaedia Mobilia' section that provides all the information you would ever need to know about the mobile phone industry. Current special offers include buy a Nokia 3310 for just £9.99 and get one years line rental absolutely free. Our Rating: 7/10. Click here to visit Carphone Warehouse. Amazon UK - Pay as you Go Phones The electronics department at amazon offers a number of pay as you go mobile phone handsets on the O2 and T-Mobile networks. Current bestsellers include the Siemens MT50; the Nokia 3310 and 3410; as well as the Samsung T100 and A300 phones. As well as prepay and sim free phones, they also sell mobile phone accessories for Nokia, Siemens and Ericsson mobiles, including Fascia Face Plates, Plug 'N' Go Car Kits and Handsfree kits. If you are looking for a good cheap mobile phone, at the time of writing the Siemens A50 phone is on offer at only £29.99 on Vodafone's Smartstep Pay As You Go tariff. Our Rating: 7/10. Click here to visit Amazon UK The Link This is the online shopping site for The Link - the UK's leading mobile communications retailer, well known for their high street stores. The site sells mobile phones from O2, Vodafone, Orange, T-Mobile, Virgin Mobile and One.tel; with a wide choice of the latest handsets on pre pay and contract tariffs. They also offer all the latest mobile services, accessories, hands free car kits and home telephones. The tariffs for contract phones are not as clearly laid out as on some other sites, which can be confusing. Our Rating: 7/10. Click here to visit The Link The Mobile Outlet An independent company, associated with all the major networks, hence they can offer value mobile phone packages custom made to suit each individual. Many of their contract mobile phones are free with competitive monthly line rental charges. Our Rating: 7/10. Click here to visit the Mobile Outlet UK Mobiles Online The first mobile phone web site to be established in the UK - they deal direct with both Orange and O2 and are approved dealers for T-Mobile and Vodafone enabling them to offer some of the best deals around. Free next working day delivery and free gifts for customers including DVD Players and Digital Cameras. Mobiles Online's Direct Dealer status means that they always get the latest phones before anyone else. They offer monthly line rental (contract) mobiles, as well as pay as you go phones, upgrades, SIM Free phones, accessories and mobile data items. Our Rating: 7/10. Click here to visit Mobiles Online Student Mobiles Student mobiles is an Internet based company selling mobile phones to the UK Youth and Student market, although any member of the public can benefit from their offers. In January 2000 Student mobiles became a subsidiary of the Carphone Warehouse and in the Summer of 2000 they signed a unique partnership with the National Union of Students (NUS) to become the recommended mobile phone supplier to the UK student market. Delivery is free. Our Rating: 7/10. Click here to visit Student Mobiles UK Phone Shop UKPhoneShop is a division of Freedom Communications who have been established selling mobile phones throughout the UK since 1984. They offer a range of mobile phones and tariffs across all of the four networks, at reasonable prices. For example, you can buy a nokia 5510 (the new Nokia phone with a digital music player; digital music recorder and stereo FM radio!) on a variety of Vodafone Tariffs from £12.99 a month. They also have a mobile car-kit / car phone fitting service available throughout the UK, seven days a week at your home or place of business. A slightly cluttered site, but finding your way around is reasonably easy. Our Rating: 6/10. Click here to visit UK Phone Shop Best Buy / Bestselling Handsets and Latest Models: Nokia Mobile Phones : Nokia 3200 | Nokia 3410 | Nokia 3510 | Nokia 3510i | Nokia 5210 | Nokia 6100 | Nokia 6510 | Nokia 6610 | Nokia 6600 | Nokia 7210 | Nokia 7250 | Nokia 7650 | Nokia 8310 Sony Ericsson Mobile Phones : Sony Ericsson t68i | Sony Ericsson t300 | Sony Ericsson t610 Panasonic Mobile Phones : Gd 87 Panasonic Samsung Mobile Phones : Samsung T100 Siemens Mobile Phones : Siemens S55 | Siemens SL55 Orange SPV - the first Windows Powered Smart Phone. Sony Ericsson P800 - the popular Sony Smartphone. Sony Ericsson P900 Smartphones now also available. Motorola MPx 200 Smartphone on Orange. Sony Ericsson T610 Sony Ericsson T310 LG 7100 Phone on Orange Siemens ST55 Phone on TMobile. Nokia NGage - Get the N-Gage Nokia phone for £24.95 with 750 off peak minutes per month plus 50 free text messages per month - line rental £13.99 per month on a TMobile contract. Sony Ericsson T610 - successor to the highly popular T68i model, orange contract phone for £25 per month line rental (free handset). Special offer: Samsung D500 on T-Mobile - Free Samsung D500 phone with 6 Months half price line rental - click here! New 3G Mobile Phones available now: Motorola A830 | NEC e606 | NEC e808 Mobile Phone Insurance Pay as you go, monthly contract or sim free phone? Wondering whether you should opt for a pay as you go mobile phone or a line rental contract? It's interesting to note that the Consumers Association (Which?) recently said that if you spend more than 3 minutes a day on the phone and your monthly call charges are £15 or more, you will usually be better off with a contract phone. The advantage of paying line rental on a contract is that you will often get the phone free and a certain amount of free calls and text messages per month. Contracts are also ideal for those who want to upgrade their phone each year to the latest handset. However, if you only use your mobile phone very occasionally or just want one so that people can get in touch with you (or for use in emergencies), then you will usually be better off with a pre pay mobile phone purchase. Prepay phones are also a good buy for children and teenagers, to ensure that call costs stay under control! If you already have a mobile phone contract (a SIM card) and an old ageing handset, but want to get your hands on the latest new technology, or if you have simply lost or broken your current mobile phone - then a SIM free unconnected handset is the solution for you. All of the mobile phone retailers listed above offer monthly contract phones, while most of them also have a range of 'pay as you go' and sim free mobile phone offers. For example, MobileShop has a choice of sim free and pay as you go phones on their web site and Amazon UK sell a selection of pay as you go mobile phones. Other UK mobile phone related sites: Buy Second Hand Mobile Phones and Accessories: If you want to buy a second hand mobile phone online, you could try searching for used mobile phones on ebay.co.uk the UK's most popular auction site. Always hundreds of secondhand mobile phones for sale and can be a good place to find a bargain. Categories include mobile phone accessories, mobiles from Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, Siemens, Sony Ericsson as well as Sim Cards. Nokia phones are by far the most popular model, with thousands of second hand Nokia phones and accessories (Xpress-on covers, fascias, batteries, cases, chargers, mobile phone covers, signal boosters, etc) always on sale. Can be a good way to buy a cheap mobile phone. Red Alertz: Get more from your mobile: Get competitions, special offers and discounts sent directly to you as text messages or emails. Members sign up in a simple one-step process, and are entitled to rewards, such as free ringtones, logos, and even 120 free SMS messages every month. Simkey Simcard Backup This neat little gizmo not only backs-up the SIM card from your mobile phone, it also doubles as a micro PDA! Never worry about losing all the contacts crammed in your mobile phone again - a gadget that gives you peace of mind. Price: £14.99. Our Rating: 8/10. Other fun and useful gadgets for mobile phones include Wind up Mobile Chargers; Mobile phone controlled remote control cars and a Mobile Phone Games Console [For Nokia 3310, 3330 and 3410 mobiles]. Click here to visit I want one of those Customised Phone Covers create unique customised cellphone covers, using your photograph or other images and text so you get a phonecover which will be the only one like it in the world! They can digitally print your face, text, logo, business card, website or anything else on the cover. The aim is to produce a unique high quality cover for cell phones, computer mouse and free ecard as the ultimate mobile phone accessory / gift. TheCoverStore stock a huge range of mobilephone covers for Nokia, Ericsson, Siemens and Trium mobile phones. Waterproof Mobile Phone Cases are ideal for anybody who enjoys the outdoors, water sports or for the beach. The Aquapac ™ mobile phone case will protect your mobile against water, sand and dirt. Can also be used for GPS or a compact camera, with seals that are both air and water tight. The durable plastic cover allows you to still operate buttons and switches. Pay as you go mobile phones at the Gadget Shop Not the first place you might look for mobiles, but the Gadget Shop website has a range of handsets on the Virgin network, including the m550 Sendo; the Panasonic G50 and the Motorola c350, as well as an emergency mobile phone charger for £10 and the cordless Doro phone for home use. Need free advice? This Guardian article has good, detailed advice on choosing a mobile phone. Find deals by network: Orange | Vodafone | T-Mobile | Virgin | Note: All trademarks, product names and company names or logos featured on this site are the property of their respective owners. Any prices shown above were correct when checked, but online prices can change at any time and are not guaranteed.