How to Save Money on Your Mobile Phone and Tarrif

Let’s face it, Apple and Android are very similar when it comes to mobile phones. No matter which you get, you can still browse Facebook or Snapchat your friends in exactly the same way. The big difference is price. Apple iPhones are very overpriced for very little benefit! You are paying extra for the “cool” brand, but who cares about a logo! And even if can afford and iPhone you’ll soon be tied-in to buying more Apple products like dongles, adaptors, headphones, iTunes, etc because Apple refuse to be compatible with any standard technology! Unless you have money to burn, get an Android phone.

• Phones are all very similar these days, there is really no need to keep getting a new one every year! Love the one you have and take care of it. You would soon get bored of a new phone again anyway!
• Instead of buying a new one, upgrade the one you have by deleting old apps, reorganising your homepage, or adding a new case/wallpaper!
• You can get very capable, powerful and stylish Android phones for as little as £99 - and you will not be tied into a contract or particular carrier. As an example, take a look at the phones on http://www.wileyfox.com/. 
• Once you have a SIM-free phone, you are free to choose whichever carrier and tariff that you like. I would recommend the 321 tariff from Three. It is just 1p per megabyte of data, 2p per text and 3p per minute of phone calls. Yes it is pay-as-you-go but don’t let that put you off! It is so easy to top-up just by going to the website on your phone (even if you have no credit it will still let you). And because you only pay for what you use, it is easy to save money! Like this:
• Always switch to WiFi when at home - then you do not pay for data!
• At a friends house or pub, etc? Ask for the WiFi password!
• Even if WiFi isn’t an option you can still save data on your phone by using the Opera web browser. It is very similar to Google Chrome but compresses the data so that you pay less! Enable data savings in the settings, you can even turn image quality down to low and won’t notice a difference! Just lots of data savings (70% in my case!). 
• Save even more data on your Android phone with Opera Max! 
• Remember to cache (or download) any music you want to listen to before leaving the house. That way you can use WiFi instead of mobile data.
• Avoid text messaging, use a messaging app instead (such as Google Hangouts, Allo, Whatsapp, Facebook messenger)- it is much cheaper!
• When calling people, it is cheaper to phone-over-internet (using WiFi) using an app like Skype or Google Hangouts rather than calling normally.