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Benefits of Updating Your Mobile Handset

By Max Marston


On both pay as you go and contracts it is always worth thinking about upgrading your phone. Mobile phone contracts are usually two year terms with shorter contracts costing more per month and offering less. Upgrade options on the contract itself usually only become available a month or two before the contract ends and as new generations of phones are released in less than the year after the previous one your phone will be long out of date. With the latest mid-tier phones such as the Samsung Galaxy Ace and HTC Gratia offering extremely competitive features upgrades are very attractive.

New generations of phone will have greatly improved features such as higher resolution screens, with resolutions having doubled over the last generation this is the difference between something you can use as a phone and something that you can watch movies and play the latest games on.

Processing power has increased a lot, a year or two ago a 400 MHz phone was not unusual, now the top phones have gone over 1 GHz with many of them sporting dual core processors. The newer processors will let you use the latest apps and mobile games as well as being powerful enough to drive up to 1080p video recording.

Network data signals have also improved enormously, the latest two formats are known as 4G and LTE, Long Term Evolution, offer data rates that can compete even with home broadband while on the move as long as the local telecommunications infrastructure has been upgraded to support the new formats. These upgrades make streaming films and music to your mobile when you are anywhere possible as well as making loading web pages near instant.

With time phones inevitably get damaged, from small screen scratches and body scuffs up to more serious damage such as cracks in the screen and bent data ports. An upgrade can be an economical way of dealing with this rather than attempting to get a phone fixed with its costs of parts, labour and sufficiently insured post to and from the repairer. It is also easy to lose peripherals such as data and charger cables which can be surprisingly expensive to replace.

Getting a new contract to upgrade a phone can also come with a wide range of free gifts such as laptops, flat screen TVs and even a Playstation 3 console. Another option to using a contract replacement as a way of upgrading your phone is to use the free month offers from the free gifts so even if your old contract has not expired you will be paying no more while the new contract is free.

Upgrading to a reasonably priced phone like the Samsung Galaxy Aceor HTC Gratia can be a good way of providing phones for other family members or partners, by moving to a new phone the older one can be sim unlocked and used with a cheap contract suitable for their minutes and texting as well as mobile data needs.

With good deals on new phones available from contract providers as well as specialist online phone sales companies shopping around will find you a good deal to get phones such as the HTC Gratia at competitive prices.




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