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March 17th, 2012

 

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Baby Harvey is born

February 14th, 2012

Finally he has arrived, after what seems like and eternity of waiting our 7th Son Harvey has arrived, he was born at 22:47 on 13 Feb 2012 he weighs 6.9lbs my beautiful wife Helen and new Son Harvey are both home and doing well.

He has met all his brothers and sisters (Rosie and Millie wont leave his side) and they all like him so much they’ve agreed he can stay.

Welcome to the world my son.

 

 

 

THE FULL MONTY PLAN – T-Mobile’s NEW proposition

February 1st, 2012

It’s T-Mobile’s biggest ever plan unlimited calls, data and texts from just £36 a month! Get a Free Apple iPhone 4S in this brilliant pay monthly deal!

For £36 a month, customers will get unlimited calls to other T-Mobile customers unlimited texts and unlimited internet, plus 2000 cross-network minutes. And from £41 a month customers get unlimited everything- including cross network calls.

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Samsung Galaxy S Advance

January 31st, 2012

With Mobile Word Congress just around the corner, we’re gearing ourselves up for lots of exciting smartphone announcements. So we’re going to start as we mean to go on by talking to you about Samsung’s latest offering, the Samsung Galaxy S Advance.

Name Baby 7 Competition

January 31st, 2012

After much deliberation Helen and I have decided to call Baby7 Harvey, we would like to thank all of you for your entries and name suggestions.

We will run another competition soon once Harvey has been born and the world has settled down.

Jamies Food Revolution

January 25th, 2012

Jamie Oliver for those of you who don’t know him – which can’t be many, is a famous UK chief.

Jamie has put his fame to good use over the years educating and encouraging healthy eating in Britains schools. Jamie has campaigned tirelessly to help provide our countries youth with a healthy balanced diet. And he has done so a great personal expense to his own career.

Jamie wants a food revolution – and as a father of 6 nearly 7 I totally agree, in fact Jamie inspired me many years ago back in the days of the Naked Chief, and I have always had a keen interest in food since then.

We have always wanted to produce as much as my own food as I could, we now have chickens and a veg patch – while we are yet to kill a chicken I murder the odd little gem for fun! And we have tons of great eggs.

It really is about time we all stood up and took an interest in what our children are eating. We are a world of ever expanding waist lines, largely due to diets and lifestyles. When is it too late to act??

Support Jamie sign the petition

Free Apple iPhone 4s Competition

January 25th, 2012

Welcome one and all to 2012 the year of the Dragon, the year our seventh child will be born. As yet baby 7 still has no name, this winter has been unlike any we have ever known – not only has it been strangely mild, its been so full on.

Helen has been very poorly developing bronchitis and very nearly pneumonia, she has been on bed rest since new years day – kids have been to school late, washing has piled up, dinners have been interesting and the world as we know it has generally gone to the dogs (We haven’t told her we can’t cope though ).

Thankfully she is much much better now,  anyway all of this has ment baby number 7 is not going to wait until the 20th of Feb. Helen is going to be taken in for induction on the 9th of Feb, if he doesn’t come before and I think he might!

So you don’t have long to enter our free name baby 7 competition to win an Apple iPhone 4s.

ShopMobilePhones guide to choosing a mobile phone deal

December 22nd, 2011

Choosing a mobile phone deal isn’t an easy task for many people. With so many different networks to choose from as well as so many different plans available to you, it isn’t hard to imagine why people can get so confused just by looking at the different deals! The first thing you need to do is decide whether you’d save money by purchasing a monthly mobile phone deal rather than being a pay as you go customer. To make a long story short, you should only go on pay as you go if you don’t use your phone that regularly, for example: you only send a few texts and make a few calls each week. Otherwise, you’d save money by getting a monthly contract, but how do you know which one is the best deal for your particular needs? Well, here are some things that you should consider:
• Talker or Texter – Firstly, you should find out if you’re more of a talker or more of a texter. This is because some plans offer you a lot of minutes while some other plans will offer you a lot of texts. What I usually recommend people to do is spend a few weeks using your phone as you’d normally use it and monitor your usage. That way, you can find out exactly how many minutes you need on average and how many texts you need on average. After you find out how many minutes and how many texts you’ll need, you can then narrow down what plans might be the best option for you.

• Who Do You Call – A lot of people usually make most of their calls to certain phone numbers. Some phone networks let you choose one or two numbers that you’ll get unlimited free calls to and this can really come in handy to a lot of people especially if you usually only call these people. Other offers include giving you free calls to certain networks; this can also work out very well if most of your friends or family are on the same network.

• Internet Bundle – Since nearly everyone has a phone that can connect to the internet, it’s a good idea to take internet bundles in to account when you want to choose the best mobile phone deal. The amount of data that you need will depend on how much you use the internet on your mobile phone along with what you actually do on the internet on your mobile phone. If you’ve got a smartphone you’re more than likely using the internet to download apps and music, which means that you’ll need a decent amount of data each month. However, if you just use your phone to check your emails every now and again or to browse a couple of webpages then you wouldn’t need that much data.

• Contract Length – You’ll usually notice that you can get huge discounts on your monthly bill if you decide to agree to a long contract. As well as getting a discount on your monthly bill, you could even be offered a very good phone for a cheap price or even for free! This can tempt a lot of people that would be better off on a pay as you go deal to agree to a monthly fixed contract. It’s important to remember what you’re signing up to here, of course it’s a good idea to sign up to a longer contract if you are sure that you’ll be able to afford it, but if you have any doubt whatsoever, I wouldn’t sign a contract. Contracts used to always be 12 months, but now they can go up to 18 months and sometimes even higher! If you want to get the best mobile phone deal you’ll need to agree to a long contract, but only do so if you know that you’ll be able to pay it each and every month.

• Cashback – There are many cash back deals offered by lots of retailers and networks, these should also be considered when looking for the best mobile phone deal. If you aren’t too sure what a cash back is, it comes in 2 forms auto and redemption auto cash back as you would expect comes to you automatically whereas cash back by redemption requires you to request your cash back at intervals during your contract.

• Freegifts – Like the cash-back deals many retailers offer a free gift such as an Xbox or Playstation or even a flat screen TV as part of the mobile phone deal. And also like cash back some of these require you to claim your free gift 3 or more months into your contract while others provide the free gift instantly.

fortunately for you ShopMobilePhones inline mobile phone deals comparison tables show you exactly which deals are the cheapest and offer the most value, they can also be easily customised and filtered to provide the best mobile phone deals that are specific to your usage patterns.

ShopMobilePhones guide to choosing a smartphone

December 22nd, 2011

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Choosing a smartphone isn’t as easy as most people think it is. There are so many people that think you can simply go in to a shop or whatever, get some advice from the staff that work there and then purchase the phone that they recommended to you. However, it’s not always as simple as that unfortunately. If you’re like me, you’ll want to get a smartphone which can do everything that you want it to do and when there’s a good chance that you’ll be paying in the region of £200+ for a decent smartphone, you really shouldn’t just purchase one because somebody else told you that it’s good. The days of choosing a phone on its looks since it was just for calling or texting people are long gone now, in today’s world a good smartphone can do anything that your desktop or laptop can do, so it takes a lot more time now to decide which smartphone you should buy. Once you decide on getting a new smartphone, you should think about some of these factors before purchasing a smartphone:

• Battery Life – Battery life is among of the first things you should look out for when you’re searching for your new smartphone. Think about it this way, there’s absolutely no point having the best phone in the world if the battery can only last an hour or so. There can be huge differences from one smartphone to another, so make sure that you compare them. More and more people want to use smartphones for more than just calling or texting people, nearly everyone wants to be able to email people on to move, get the latest news stories while they are out and so on, so make sure that the phones battery life can last long enough for you to do all of this! (if that’s what you’d want of course)

• Keyboard – How long do you usually keep a mobile phone for? Probably over a year, right? How much of that time would you spend using the smartphones keyboard, it’d probably be a very long time! This is why you should make sure that you like the keyboard before buying any smartphone. Nobody wants to spend a fortune on a piece of technology that they cannot use to its full potential since it annoys them to use it. The type of keyboard that people like ranges from one person to another, some people like physical keyboards while others prefer keyboards that are on the screen, otherwise known as virtual keyboards. Here’s another point to remember though, just because you like virtual keyboards doesn’t necessarily mean that you’ll like every type of smartphone that has a virtual keyboard. Every one has its own software for the keyboard, some are faster than others, some need you to press on the screen harder than others etc. For example, just because you like the keyboard that’s on the iPhone doesn’t mean that you’ll like the virtual keyboard that’s on another touchscreen phone.

• Storage Space – So many people are starting to use their smartphone for much more than just a phone nowadays, which means that you’ll need more space to store all of these files. If you have hundreds or even thousands of photos, songs or whatever you’ll need a decent amount of space on your mobile phone to store all of this data. Nearly all top notch smartphones come with built in memory, such as 16GB. This will let you save a lot of stuff on to your phone but over time you could easily need more than this. But here’s the problem, does you phone have a slot for a memory card? If it doesn’t you’re out of luck, but if it does that gives you loads of options. You could purchase a cheap memory card that’ll allow you to store some more files on your phone or if you need more storage space you could spend a little bit extra!

• Camera / Video Recordings – There’s no reason to own a digital camera anymore to be honest, since nearly all smartphones have a good camera built in. If the camera quality really matters to you, I wouldn’t recommend that you decide which one is better just because one has more megapixels. It’s a much better idea to try test it out for yourself, take a picture on the phone and see how it compares to the other. Most stores have display models that you can test out to see what its camera quality is like but if you can’t try this you could just search online and see what others think of it.

• Apps – If you think that you’d spend a lot of time on your smartphone using apps then it’s a good idea to compare one phone to another. Some phones will have a very limited number of apps which might be something that you don’t want to deal with while other phones like Apple and Android phones would give you a much better choice of apps to choose from.

• Screen Display – Not that many people worry about the screen display that’s on their smartphone. It’s usually one of the things that people forget to even think about when they want to buy their new mobile phone. This is quite weird since you’ll spend nearly all of your time staring at the screen when you’re using it so you want it to be good! In most cases, cheap smartphones won’t let you see the screen very well in any kind of sunlight, while more expensive ones should let you do this without any trouble. If you have a high budget for a smartphone, take a look at AMOLED screens – they are stunning!

• Multitasking / Processor – If you’re planning on using your smartphone a lot, you’ll more than likely be running several apps at once. Let’s say you want to listen to music, have a FaceBook app open in the background and send a text message all at once, this would put a bit of pressure on your phones processor. If you don’t have a good processor it’ll force some of the apps to shut down by itself, which isn’t something that you want to happen if you’re doing something that’s important.

We recommend you narrow your phone choice down to 3 or 4 handsets then compare their features side by side using our compare mobile phones tool you can then compare deals from the whole market by clicking “Show Deals”.

ShopMobilePhones Top 7 Android Apps

December 21st, 2011

There are a lot of people who think that there aren’t that many Android apps available on the Android market, but this isn’t true at all. Although Apply have more apps available on the App Store, there are still a wide variety of apps on the Android market. Of course Apple are going to have an advantage since they’ve been in the market for longer, but Android are quickly catching up on their competitors. Just like the App Store, on the Android market it can be difficult to tell the good apps from the bad apps, but hopefully this article will help you out a bit. Here are some apps that you should keep an eye out for:

• Skype – Skype is definitely one of the most useful apps on the Android market if you want to save money without a lot of trouble. If you’ve used Skype before, you’ll know that there’s a good few reasons why Skype is better than making calls as you’d normally call someone on your phone. The main reason is since it’s a lot cheaper. You can purchase add-ons on Skype which give you unlimited calls to landlines for a month / 3 months / 12 months and so on. This will save you a lot of money in the long run, and since you can make Skype calls on your Android phone it’s pretty much hassle free. As well as purchasing add-ons, you can also use Skype for free. By doing this the other person must have Skype installed on their phone / computer, but you can’t really complain since it’s completely free!

• Barcode Scanner – Barcode scanner lets you scan any products barcode and then find information about it online, including reviews, best prices etc. This is another app that’s on the Android market which can save you a lot of money. If you’re smart, you could even scan products while you’re in a shop so that you can see whether you could buy the same product for a cheaper price online!

• Google Maps – I’m sure most people have used Google Maps at some stage in the past, but I just have to mention this app. It can help you with directions for when you’re out and about, or just tell you where is the closest garage to your house. You can also use Google Maps to get a company’s phone number too, which can really come in handy at times.

• Tiny Flashlight – This is one of the most basic apps that’s on the Android market, but you could be surprised about how many times it can help you out! Let’s say your electricity goes and you have no candles around the house, this app could be used to light up the house for a bit before you get a better alternative.

• Smart Keyboard Pro – Think about the amount of time that you spend looking at your keyboard on your Android phone. Shouldn’t you make it look as good as possible? Well, with this app you can customise the look keyboard a lot, there are loads of options available to you so all you need to decide on is which layout and colour style is the best! (in your opinion of course)

• Snap Photo Pro – Did you think to yourself “This would make a great photo” and then once you actually take the photo it turns out to be terrible because of one little tiny thing? This won’t happen if you use Snap Photo Pro since it will take multiple photos which allows you to decide which photo is the best. It’s not nice to realise that a photo has been ruined because of one little thing, so it’s well worth buying this app at the Android market.

• Wordpress – Since more and more people are starting to use WordPress I thought that it would be good to mention WordPress. Not a lot of people know that they can edit their website on their mobile phone, but with the WordPress app which is free on the Android market you can do exactly that.

So, if you have an Android phone I’d highly recommend that you check out all of those apps.