BillMonitor

Over the last couple of weeks we’ve been thinking hard about how to make it as easy as possible to get the handset you want from BillMonitor. Often on phone sites we found that it was too easy to get caught up in slightly different versions of the same handset, so we stripped all that complexity out and trimmed down our list of phones.  When you’ve searched for the handset you want, you’ll be able to pick between the different styles and colours as much as you like by clicking on the handset by the plan you’re interested in.  We’re really happy with the way that this works and we hope that you will be too.

This opens up a whole load of exciting new stuff for us, like searching by colour and offering the best prices from multiple retailers.  It’s a big step forward in our aim to map out the whole mobile market!

Last week T-Mobile re-designed their Flext tariff to appeal to higher end users, boasting a huge £100 a month tariff and massive allowances. If you’re looking for a high-priced tariff with huge allowances, you might see the larger Flext plans popping up on your searches.

The BillMonitor team has always felt that personalization is of huge value on the mobile channel- as there is just less space for the user to browse and discover. So we really liked Handmark’s new platform Pocket Express being fully customizable (we just hate to waste time when checking the snowfall and our stock portfolio on the way to Gstaad for a week’s skiing) . Better still there is the easy ability to share this information (via direct download link)- so we can gloat over the latest Oxford United triumph (ahem) at the press of a button.

Best of all, if our limo happens to break down on the way to the slopes, Pocket Express’s very own Jeeves, the “MobileCierge” service can rush to the rescue. Mr MobileCierge delegates his work to a team of round the clock personal assistants who can apparently answer almost any request, anywhere in the world, whether it is personal, travel, medical or emergency-related. We are very interested to hear the feedback from this part of the service – or what about an anonymous live stream of user requests Handmark? Alas we fear MobileCierge, like his colleague Jeeves, might just be too discreet for those kind of revelations…