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Play.com have just reduced the prices of some of their SIM free mobile phones as part of their summer sale with the following deals looking even more of a bargain than their normal cheap sim free prices:

The new LG KC550 Orsay is only £169.99 with free delivery as is the brilliantly indestructible JCB Tough.

The new and very popular Sony Ericsson C902 can be bought for £299.99

However for those of you waiting for the current must have smartphone on contract, the HTC Touch Diamond Play.com have the sim free version for only £399.99 here.
What is a SIM Free Phone?

Sim Free phones are phones that are ‘unlocked’ and ready to use on any mobile phone network. These are great if you already have a sim card and just need the phone without entering into another monthly contract.

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If you already have a Nintendo Wii and you’d like a free Wii Fit for your Wii then you can now get one free when you agree to a low cost 12 month mobile phone contract.

Line rental starts at £20 per month on a 12 month contract or £15 per month on an 18 month contract.

For best value O2 75 with 125 texts costs £25 per month on a 12 month contract and offers a good choice of free phones including the Nokia 6300 Black, Samsung J700, Sony Ericsson K800i, Sony Ericsson S500i Copper, Motorola U9, LG Shine, Nokia 5310 and others.

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Available from next week, the new Samsung F480 Tocco is a 3G touchscreen phone with HSDPA 7.2Mbps for high speed data access. It has a 5 megapixel camera and a large 2.8 inch display with a haptic touchscreen interface. Sources tell us it will be free on a 12 month contract, from £40 per month.

Built from high quality materials, the Samsung F480 has a flat face with a glossy black surround and comes with a wallet-style leather case.to protect the screen. There are just three keys on the front of the phone. On the side of the F480 you’ll find a camera shortcut key, a volume rocker control and a hold key which locks the keys and screen.

The Samsung F480 uses the colourful, award-winning Croix touchscreen interface and provides haptic vibration feedback. The built-in music player is reminiscent of the iPod touch. Music can be played in the background while other applications are being used. A widget allows you to pause and skip tracks from the home screen as well as providing quick access to the full music player application. With about 230MB of internal memory there’s enough space to store a decent selection of music. Memory can be expanded up to 8GB using a microSD card.

Other features of the Samsung F480 include an FM radio with RDS, stereo Bluetooth, a brilliant organiser, a good web browser and course a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus, face detection and video stabilisation. The Samsung F480 is a good all-round device with plenty of features that should keep you entertained for a very long time.

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700 xnet minutes and 250 texts per month. Line rental is £40 per month and you’ll receive £440 cash back from Mobiles2YourDoor/Phones4U, which is effectively 11 months free line rental. Cash back is paid by cheque in four stages and you have 60 days in which to send off each claim. This is a 12 month contract.

The Prada phone by LG is a unique, sophisticated and elegant mobile phone with the first complete advanced touch interface. It’s a stunning-looking device, just 12mm thin and weighs 85g. It has a 3 inch touchscreen with an easy to use interface, simply touch the screen with your finger to select the option you want.

The Prada phone has a 2 megapixel camera with Schneider Kreuznach lens, flash, zoom and video record. It also has a built-in FM radio, an MP3 player and a video player. Videos can be viewed in widescreen by turning the phone sideways. There are several games built in, plus all the useful features you expect in a modern mobile phone; address book, organiser, alarm clock, Bluetooth, web browser, Macromedia Flash and a document viewer, supporting Word, Excel, Powerpoint and PDF files.

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Expected in July or August, the new BlackBerry 9000 is worth mentioning now as it’s been a whole year since the last all-new BlackBerry hit the market. There have been several updates of the BlackBerry Curve and BlackBerry Pearl but only colour and specs of these devices have changed.

Dubbed BlackBerry Bold, this all-new BlackBerry has HSDPA, a powerful 624 MHz processor and the new BlackBerry OS 4.6. It has a large widescreen display with a high resolution of 480×320 pixels. As with all modern BlackBerry devices, the BlackBerry 9000 Bold has a QWERTY keyboard and a miniature trackball for on screen navigation.

In terms of connectivity features, the BlackBerry 9000 Bold has GPS with BlackBerry maps pre-installed. It also has Wi-fi, 3G, tri-band HSDPA and quad-band GSM.

All of the usual BlackBerry features are present including a decent camera, Bluetooth, web browser, media player with DivX support and a 3.5mm stereo audio socket. There’s 1GB of internal memory for storing video, music and other media. Memory can be upgraded to 8GB using a memory card.

Unofficial news is also circulating about two new devices, a flip phone codenamed BlackBerry Kickstart and a touchscreen device codenamed BlackBerry Thunder. The BlackBerry Thunder is expected later in the year and is rumoured to have a full touchscreen interface with no physical keyboard.

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