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Carphone Warehouse is preparing to launch the cheapest monthly offer on the market – an £8.99 a month tariff on T-Mobile.The 18-month deal will offer users 100 minutes and 100 texts. It is not yet known what handsets will be available and when the deal will hit stores, but the handsets are likely to cost around £150.

In launching the offer, Carphone will match 3 by offering the cheapest pay monthly tariff on the market. 3 launched a £9 monthly tariff in the New Year called Mix and Match 100, which offers users 100 minutes or texts, or any mix of the two.

Source: Mobile Today

November will bring us a lot of new handset launches: T-Mobile G1, Blackberry Storm, Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 to name a few.

Now we have another new affordable touchscreen phone, LG KP 500 launching on Carphone Warehouse. This mid range touchscreen device which I have blogged about here, will be available on £25 per month contracts and on prepay for around £159.95.

Mobile market in UK before Christmas becomes very crowded. If you are looking for a new handset this season, it is worth going to shops this weekend and try all of those new handsets yourself!

Via Mobile News

We have reported about Nokia’s Comes With Music service earlier this year. Time has come for first Nokia with this service enabled to hit the stores. The Carphone Warehouse has announced that it will be offering the Nokia Comes With Music service exclusively on Pay As You Go, with a range of Nokia 5310 XpressMusic handsets this autumn.

Owners of Nokia handsets enabled with this service will be able to download unlimited songs from Nokia Music Store catalogue during first year. Songs from a range of great artists – past, present and future – will be offered to subscribers for a one-off cost and to make the service even more attractive, the downloaded tracks can be kept on the users handset or PC forever – for no additional fee.

The Nokia 5310, will be available with the unique Comes With Music service for a one-off cost exclusively from over 805 Carphone Warehouse stores and online. Furthermore, the handset will also be available with eight colour variants, exclusively at The Carphone Warehouse, ensuring that all customers are catered for.

Music catalogue consists of artists that record with Warner Music, Universal Music Group International and Sony BMG Entertainment.

Via 24-7pressrelease.

Apparantly you can get an iPhone for £169 from Carphone Warehouse without a contract! Friend of mine told me that last Saturday he walked into the Carphone Warehouse and bought one without a contract. All you need to do is to say that you are existing O2 customer, register your details for warranty and that’s it! Sales person didn’t even ask for O2 number or any other proof of O2 contract.

You will be asked to activate your phone through iTunes, but if you are not intended to use it on O2 network, then you don’t need to do that. Just unlock your phone and use it on the network that you are on. There are plenty of resourses on the net on how to unlock your iPhone, check this site for example: http://iphone.unlock.no/

Following price slash on iPhone last week, I guess Carphone Warehouse doesn’t mind giving them away without contract, they need to get rid of them as many as possible before new version comes out this summer.

If you have bought this phone without contract, share your experience with us!

If you are waiting for a new exciting phone to buy or upgrade to, here is a short list of interesting phones that are coming soon to Carphone Warehouse.

Nokia N96 – Expected August 2008 This is a successor of Nokia’s popular N95 model. Details of this phone were leaked on German Nokia website last month. This phone packs impressive features: 16GB Internal Memory Wi-Fi and HSDPA Nokia Maps application with Assisted GPS DVB-H tuner for live TV Broadcasting Windows Media Video and Flash Video support 5MP camera 2.8 inch display
Motorola ROKR E8 – Expected May 2008Motorola ROKR E8 has touch-sensitive controls which change according to the feature that you use. If you are using music player, they change to music player controls, if you are using phone, they change to phone controls. This phone was designed for people who enjoy music on their mobile, it support Windows Media Player 11 and you can synchronise your PC playlists to your phone easily. 2G internal storage Stereo Bluetooth Headset support 2MP camera FM radio, MP3 and AAC playback
Samsung F480 – Expected May 2008Another touch screen phone from Samsung. This model has decent connectivity and 5MP camera. Camera has a flash and image stabilization. UI controls are customizable and respond with slight vibration to your touch. 2.8 inches touch screen HSDPA connectivity 5MP camera with autofocus, flash and image stabilization