Mobile phone dilemma.

[RetroPug]

Or buy a new phone outright, get a 10 pounds per month giff gaff sim card and stop giving phone companies hundreds and hundreds per year!

This. Apart from mine is sim only from o2.
Also otterbox do awesome cases. Had one on my 3gs for years.

My gf had an O2 locked phone and it transferred to giff gaff with no issues, however giff gaff uses the O2 network.
I'm actually on vodafone sim only as every year I phone and pretend I want to leave and they drop the price...must remember to do that again soon.

buy a handset with cash and youll be a lot less careless with it

I've had a barely used HTC for 3 years and got an S3 as a replacement, both £100 unwanted contact upgrades.

Precisely this, and then 120 per year rather than 300-500.