Using Your Phone Abroad

If you travel abroad on holiday or for work, the chances are that you will take your mobile and use it to make calls, send texts and check e-mails while on the move. Using one's phone abroad does not necessarily have to be expensive, and a little research online will go a long way towards getting the best deal on both sim only and standard pay monthly phones.

According to recent surveys, one of the main worries people have is that their mobile phone bill will come out rather higher than normal if they have been abroad on holiday. We all like to let our friends and family know what we are up to, and with the decline in postcard and letter writing, much of our everyday and holiday communication is done by using mobiles - witness the surge in popularity towards picture messaging. This form of communication is perfect for sending an electronic postcard to your friends back home, but up until now we often got hammered by excessive roaming charges both to send and receive texts as well as calls.

With Vodafone's new deal on their Passport service, you do not pay any extra roaming charges while abroad this summer - no connection fees or extra costs for sending texts. You can get one of their handsets for free when on contract from as little as £10 per month.

Vodafone offers you some of the leading mobiles on the market, provided you take out either an 18 or 24 month contract. For example, the new HTC Magic is perfect for when on holiday or business abroad, because it harnesses the latest GPS technology to provide extremely accurate local mapping and directions by incorporating Google applications such as Google Maps and gmail, together with hundreds of Android applications.

Check out the Vodafone website for more info and to view their range of phones. Get yourself the new Google powered phone, sign up to the free Passport service, and away you can go to over 35 countries secure in the knowledge that you won't be paying any more on next month's phone bill than if you had stayed at home.