Nokia, still my second favourite handset manufacturer have decided to release a mobile that comes with “free” music downloads for 12 months after purchase.

For once I had a pleasant sales call last night from Three (I currently have my mobile contract with them so it wasn’t unsolicited) offering me one of their USB dongles for free, and with

I friend I met up with last week does not have Broadband at home via DSL or Cable. Nor do they use Wifi. They actually use a Vodafone 3G Datacard, providing 3Gig of data a month for a monthly fee.

All the UK carriers now I believe are doing some form of 3G datacard - but finally with decent usage limits (1 Gig being a minimal usable level per month) - and all for varying fees. The above example, in my friend, pays

In the like of the iPhone, I thought I may hold off on a new phone… then the inevitable, my old workhorse SE T630 died..

My dilema was get another cheap phone or buy new….

Now background:
I already have a very old Blackberry for mobile email in addition to the T630 for voice, so this isn’t that important, calling, and other features are far more important to me.

Last week I was pariculararly impreseed with the 3 network, as several friends have several N series (N80’s) Nokias on 3.