Mobile Phones

Carphone Warehouse: Use for browsing and that's it.

Advantages: Lots of mobiles to have a look at and read about the features.
Disadvantages: Dirty store, misleading staff, expensive mobiles.

...are 2 different stores. The Carphone Warehouse specialise in selling mobile phone, mobile broadband, laptops & netbooks. The store is quite small and has various mobile phones on offer from 3, O2, Orange, Virgin, T-Mobile & Vodafone. They have pay as you go options or pay monthly options. The models on display are normally dummy ones so that you can feel the weight of the phone and have a closer look at the screen and the buttons etc. They do have ...
...can browse some of the features and see if the phone has the features you would like. They normally have some podiums in the middle of the store which have laptops & netbooks on and these are normally available to have a play on and test out. Quite often these models have scratches and broken keys where people have been abusing them in store and nobody seems to have noticed or if they have they don't actually care about fixing them. On entering ...

katyeverett 17.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Carphone Warehouse

PHONES4U ARE MONEY RIPPER - AVOID AT ALL COST

Advantages: SHOPS ARE EVERYWHERE
Disadvantages: POOR CUSTOMER SERVICE, SELL REFURBISHED PHONES, ALL SEALS ARE BROKEN, TELL LIES

...stock. I went to all Phones4U shops in Central London one said that the service is down so come after 3 pm, ther next one said they are sort of staff so can't do exchange, next one said I should go to the branch I have bought it from, next shop showed me a opened ex-demo box . A completely useless company for Customer service. When I called the head office they say all mobile phones box seals are opened to check. Complete liars and cheat. Once they ...

Phone4urcheat 08.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Phones4U

Dial a phone customer services are shambolic at best

Advantages: fast puchasing and delivery cheap deals
Disadvantages: apalling customer services where the staff no nothing about the company

...of insurance' when i phoned dial a phone they kept me on hold after there automated helpline had not recognised my voice for nearly an hour and when i finally spoke to a real person they were noo help whatsoever i found them rude un co-operative and were no help to me whatso ever. telling me it was not their fault it was mine (how?) however dial a cover the insurance company helped me sort this problem out within 10 minutes and they comfirmed that ...

williamski09 21.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Dial a phone

Seeing Red with Orange Shop Online

Advantages: None
Disadvantages: Too many to itemise.

I've been 'in the market' for a new mobile phone ever since, well, I read down the list of specifications on the Nokia N95; compared it against my trusty Nokia 2650 flip-phone and... Yeah, it was like comparing a Swiss Army Knife with a teaspoon. This was about three months ago and far from the craving fading with time, distance and the whole 'unlocked handsets cost twice as much as the average desktop PC' business - my condition worsened. Until, ...
...everything, in my opinion, that the N95 had and I wanted - just without the 3G, GPS extensions and 5mpx camera - an LG Shine. This was a good start. I'd done my homework; clarified all of the elements that made me both disappointed in my old handset and greening around the gills with jealousy over the N95; made myself a checklist of 'wants' (expandable memory, Bluetooth, media capable - video, image, mp3 tone); things I was prepared to compromise ...

crispybits 04.10.2007 · Read full review
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Review of The Orange Shop

Great sales team

Advantages: Sales team, choice, service
Disadvantages: Accessory prices

...So inside the Vodafone shop which is quite space, with phones on one wall, accesories in the middle, a help desk and a counter in opposing corners. Quite well laid out and spacey, I stood and looked at all the phones and there was a few that interested me. I also read the offers on the little cards that were provided "unlimted weekend texts if you spend £5 in the week" was the most eye catching offer I'd seen all day then "Unlimited internet use ...
...least. My first dealing with Vodafone had been a success of the highest order. By December of last year the phone was dead, and I again had to go phone shopping, with a budget of upto £120 for my birthday and christmas present from my mum (theres a review of the phone, the K770i on here by me) which was eventually bought in the Vodafone shop too I think, it was upgraded to a sim only deal a few weeks later with Phones 4 U who advised me it'd save ...

iamasadlittleboy 15.06.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Vodafone Shop