The new Samsung Steel is exclusive to Vodafone and has a couple of fantastic launch offers, which are only available online.

Vodafone are offering 600 xnet minutes and unlimited texts for just £25 per month. That’s £10 off the normal in-store price of £35 per month. Amazing value and even better than T-Mobile’s highly publicised Direct Combi tariff which offers 700 mins and unlimited texts for £30 per month.

Encased in a tough metallic finish and similar to the Samsung Soul, the new Samsung Steel is a 3G sliderphone with HSDPA and a built-in DAB radio. It has a 3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus and image stabiliser. There’s also a secondary camera for making 3G video calls.

If you mainly use your phone for texting then Vodafone also offer a free Samsung Steel with unlimited texts for just £15 per month on an 18 month contract. No minutes are included so you’ll have to pay for calls at a rate of 18p per minute to Vodafone and landlines and 40p per minute to other networks.

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Free on O2 200 plus 200 texts (18m). Line rental is £25 per month and you’ll receive £100 cash back, which is effectively 4 months free.

The Nokia 6220 classic is a Symbian S60 smartphone with a top notch 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss lens and a Xenon flash. Despite being packed with features and technology it’s also very easy to use. The keys are well spaced, the display is large - it looks like a regular phone, a classic design and it works well.

With A-GPS geo-tagging your photographs are stamped, not only with the time and date, but also with their exact location. The Nokia 6220 classic comes loaded with the new Nokia Maps 2.0 application, helping you to find the best routes or explore any city for restaurants, attractions and other points of interest.

With 3G and HSDPA, images and videos taken with the Nokia 6220 classic can be uploaded to your blog or to a photo sharing site such as Flickr. They can also be viewed on your big screen TV using the phones TV out port. The camera features on this phone are right up there among the best. Picture quality is excellent and video can be recorded at 30 frames per second. The Nokia 6220 classic also has a decent web browser, email, an FM radio with RDS, a good media player and expandable memory up to 8GB.

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New Samsung F400 deals on O2 and Orange with 12 months half price line rental on a 12 month contract, or with a free iPod nano plus cash back.

The Samsung F400 is a successful combination of style, functionality and great sound. This slick-looking phone is an eye-catching dual slider. Slide the screen down to display a built-in external speaker or up to access the numeric keypad. It’s a good combination of style, beauty and comfort.

With its Bang & Olufsen ICE Power audio you can enjoy high quality sound wherever you go. It will spoil you with choice of MP3, AAC and WMA music formats. With the Samsung F400’s music recognition feature, simply record a snippet of a song on the phone and it will be able to give you full track details, including artist name, song and album details.

Apart from it’s music capabilities, other noteworthy features of the Samsung F400 include a 3 megapixel camera with video capture, 3G, FM radio, stereo Bluetooth and expandable memory.

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Free on contract with… (pin your ears back for this) 700 mins, unlimited texts and mobile broadband for £30 per month.

T-Mobile will guarantee that you won’t find more minutes for £30 line rental.

They will also throw in FREE mobile broadband. The Nokia 6650 has a built in USB modem and you can plug it into your laptop to get mobile broadband.

What a fantastic deal, just £30 per month for 700 minutes, unlimited texts and free mobile broadband.

So, what about the phone? The new Nokia 6650 is a stylish, easy to use flip phone and it’s exclusive to T-Mobile. With FREE Web’n’Walk it offers a high-quality internet surfing experience for no extra cost. You can go on Facebook or check your email whenever you like. It also has GPS with Nokia maps pre-installed.

It has plenty to keep you entertained too - you can watch Mobile TV, listen to FM radio and download tunes for the MP3 player. Plus, you can capture magic moments with the 2 megapixel camera with flash and 4x zoom.

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Only £15 per month on an 18 month contract with 300 xnet minutes or 300 texts per month, or any combination of the two. A brilliant no-frills deal with low line rental.

The Nokia 3120 classic is an easy to use phone that will be a breeze to live with. There are no awkward menus or over-complicated features. Everything is where it should be with nicely spaced keys. For a 3G phone it’s also slim and lightweight.

Unlike the entry-level Nokia 3120 from 2004, the new Nokia 3120 classic has a good specification with 3G video calling and a 2 megapixel camera. It has Bluetooth, a web browser, email, an FM radio, media player and a 2.5mm audio socket. The camera is basic but will be fine for snapping occasional photos. It has a flash and can also record video at 320×240 pixels.

I really like the look of this phone. If you want something that does all the essential stuff then the Nokia 3120 classic is definitely worth considering.

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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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