I suppose that I'm going to have to get one of those new-fangled phones..

[Karabiner]

NOKIA N97 is very easy to use for old people, I'm living proof. Got unlimited internet, more calls and texts than I can use for £29 per month back in the late summer so don't know if its a great deal but fine for me.

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WIth hindsight though I kinda wish I'd got an iPhone

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N97 ftw!

Otherwise, the iphone is pretty good too. Blackberry's are great phones too, however, it comes across from your post Ralph that you won't really be using alot of the features which make a Blackberry worthwhile.
For internet, I'd go for a N97 or iphone.

He wants the App that collects his OAP.

Thank you for your input Tony, I'm sure you're all too familiar with this aforementioned feature.

[Zero]

I would highly recommend the BlackBerry Curve 8900, it's an amazing phone. You can text, ring (obv), email, facebook, yahoo, flickr, msn, etc etc, and also you can surf the internet really easily because of its tracker ball and qwerty keyboard. The amazing thing about it for me is that it makes receiving emails and facebook message just like receiving a text, and you can link up several accounts so that you don't have to laboriously check all your accounts everyday. Also it has BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) which is instant messaging for phones which is very handy if you have friends that have BlackBerrys, its £5 a month for this extra service but there is no limit so it is effectively like a free form of texting, you can send pictures etc through BBM aswell. At the moment I am on Flext35 contract on T Mobile, so I pay £35 a month (18 month contract) and that gives me £180 worth of credit to spend on texts and phone calls but I also get unlimited web'N'walk (so unlimited internet) and then I pay £5 for the BBM and other BB services, I think it's quite a good deal but if you look about the T Mobile and 02 sit you will probably be able to find a cheaper deal. I would rank this BB as the best phone I've ever had.

Got one of these for work and they are incredibly practical too, although I do find the keyboard (using symbols etc) very clumsy compared with ordinary predictive text phones or the N97 for that matter

fat fingers?

[Karabiner]

I'm leaning towards the i-phone as most people say that it's idiot-proof.

All I really want to be able to do is surf the net a bit to check out results etc. and maybe access my e-mails.

[cia260895]

apart from the calling/text function on the i pod touch, does the i pod touch do everything the i phone does? aps surfing etc?

and with the touch would you get internet access ok or do you have to subscribe for internet access?