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Buyers' guide: Wi-Fi mobile phones

There are countless mobile phones on the market right now, with cheap deals and offers to be had on 3G phones, touchscreen phones and 3G smartphones. In fact, such is the proliferation of touchscreen mobile phones in the UK right now that it can be a little bit bewildering knowing which one you should buy.

We've got a growing list of reviews here at Broadband Genie, which will allow you to compare specifications between Wi-Fi mobile phones. Theoretically, it should be possible for you to carry out a quick comparison of prices and bag yourself one of the cheapest deals in the marketplace too.

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Selecting Wi-Fi mobile phones

When it comes to making a decision on the sort of Wi-Fi phones you're interested in there are a host of models to choose from, including handsets from the like of HTC becoming increasingly popular alongside the excellent Apple iPhone. However, a quick trawl through the comparison table above will reveal that any number of Wi-Fi phones are available from all of the mobile providers, including 3 Mobile, Vodafone, T-Mobile, O2 and Orange.

A Wi-Fi phone can be a great deal better than a traditional mobile phone, because touch screen phones and smartphone variants of that offer up all manner of extra functionality that you don’t get with a non Wi-Fi phone. It doesn’t matter if you've got a cheap Wi-Fi phone or the best Wi-Fi phone; they all work on the same principle. So, as long as you’ve got wireless access then you should be able to get online with your smartphone or similar style handset.

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Wi-Fi mobile phones and the internet

Being able to get online while you’re on the move is becoming and essential way of keeping connected, especially with the advent of social networking websites like Facebook and Twitter. WiFi mobile phones allow all of that, no matter what the location just as long as you can access a Wi-Fi signal. What's more, a Wi-Fi phone can be used to make calls using VoIP, or Voice Operated Internet Protocol calls, which is the same sort of technology as used by Skype.

So if you’ve got yourself a Wi-Fi VoIP phone then it can mean you'll be able to make call savings, which might also mean that you can get one of the better Wi-Fi internet phones on the market thanks to all that money you'll be saving in call charges. Touchscreen mobile phones or smart phones, call them what you will, all generally come with Wi-Fi functionality, it's just a case of what other features you think you need on a handset that'll make you come to the final decision on which model to choose.

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Wi-Fi mobile phones and features

There are a host of other toys found on board most Wi-Fi mobile phones these days, with everything from the expected web browsing and emailing tools sitting alongside amazing games plus applications for carrying out document reading and composition through to playing Sudoko. In short, a modern-day Wi-Fi mobile phone can do pretty much anything a regular computer can do.

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