The UK Mobile Phone Blog

Unlimited texts – Good for you, bad for your phone

More than 100 million text messages are sent across mobile networks, every day in the UK. With the networks offering more and more text bundles with their tariffs, such as the Orange unlimited text bundle on Dolphin 35 tariffs, those figures are just likely to grow and grow.

The increase in popularity of text messaging has had some unfortunate side effects, however. As you can see from the picture, some mobile keypads are not as strong as others. The pictured phone belongs to a colleague here at mobiles.co.uk and she has only had it for 9 months!

So, with this in mind, here are Mobiles.co.uk top three tips for increasing the life of your mobile phone keypad:

1. Cut your nails – Seriously, ladies, do they really have to be so long?
2. Wear gloves – The soft cotton kind are found to be best
3. Don’t text, call – Unlimited texts are great, but do you really need to hold a whole conversation by SMS?