As soon as you arrive on the O2 website, you have that familiar and rather comforting dark blue watery colour waiting for you.
And there is plenty else to look at while you are on the site as well. So let’s take a quick look round and see what O2 has to show us, shall we?
How do I find the website?
The O2 website address must be one of the shortest ones you will have come across! Quite simply, it is www.o2.co.uk.
What sections are available on the site?
The bulk of the home page has links to various other sections that you will find useful, as well as including some quick links to popular parts of the site. These include links to the store finder and also to top ups.
You will need to click on the shop tab near the top of the page to get access to all the important sections when buying a new phone or contract. You can then go through to the relevant section for your needs.
Does it have plenty of contracts on offer?
Yes it does – you have the usual Pay As You Go offer as well as the Pay Monthly option. And they also have SIM only deals if you are happy with the phone handset you have now.
You can check out all the different tariffs at the side of the screen once you are in the correct page. They stick to eighteen month and twenty four month tariffs, so you can choose between these two when you opt for a Pay Monthly deal.
What networks are they geared up for?
As you would expect from this website, you will be getting the O2 network when you buy a contract from them. This applies to both the monthly deals and the Pay As You Go ones. If another network is applicable or preferable, then you would have to find another website to check out.
Are there a lot of different mobile phones on offer? Do they provide a lot of information about each one?
Since this is the O2 website you do of course have access to O2 handsets here as well as a range of other ones as well. Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Samsung are all good examples of other handsets that you can buy or get with a monthly contract on the site.
You will spot the price underneath the picture of the handset, but this will usually say something like ‘free to £149’. This is because it depends which deal you go for as to how much – if anything – you will have to pay for the phone.
Click on any picture of a phone that you like and you will end up on the product page dedicated to it. This will take you into the first of four stages required to make your purchase or choice of tariff or contract.
The basic features of the phone are given as bullet points to the left of the large picture of the actual handset. You can also look at a 3D image if you click the link they give you and use the controls.
The key features provide you with a way to explore the best bits of the phone. But be sure to look through all the specifications as well, because these go into more depth and enable you to see all that it has to offer instead of just the main few things. Finally you can see a rating out of five stars, although it isn’t possible to read specific reviews, which is a shame.
How easy is it to order a new mobile phone online?
Well you will see the big blue ‘add to basket’ button on every listing next to every mobile phone on the site, and you don’t exactly have to look very hard to find it!
You just need to indicate in the box next to that button whether you want to buy the phone and use it on a Pay As You Go plan, or as a contract phone. After that you just need to add your actual choice of tariff and you can go ahead and make your purchase.
In conclusion
O2 is a good provider of both mobile phones and a solid network that you can use too. So if you know what phone you want, or you think they might have the tariff you need, go to the O2 website now to see if you are right.