Nexus 6P. Probably gonna order a Pixel by the end of the month.

got the iphone 7 2 weeks ago and I do have to say moving from the samsung galaxy grand prime it's a big step and I love talking dirty to siri XD

I don't recall if I said already, but I now have Samsung Galaxy J5 (2016 model). The main reason to get it was that my earlier Galaxy Trend + didn't support 4G/LTE even though I have a 4G SIM. Being restricted to 3G in this day and age sucks.

The second important thing was that it has lots of storage space because that always seems to be the major problem in Android phones, storage space (for applications) constantly running out. A relative of mine has the older Samsung Galaxy J5 model (2014? 2015?) which has 8GB of internal memory, and even she is constantly running out of space. I tried to run the Android upgrade on her phone but it failed because it required well over 1GB of free storage, and the most I could muster was around 800MB free even though I moved all applications that could be moved to external SD card, and uninstalled some useless apps, and of course removed any cache data (especially Facebook and other social media apps seem to keep gigabytes of crap in the storage).

I hope my phone doesn't run that that as fast as it has 16GB internal storage (currently 7.59 GB used). I also have an external 16GB SD card in it, but Android is weird when it comes to the external storage. This has Android 6.0.1, and it has the same problem I've noticed in at least 5.x and probably 4.x Androids: even though you have moved an application to the external storage, whevever it receives an update, it is moved back to internal storage. So whenever you've upgraded your applications through Google Play, just must go through all the update applications and move them back to external storage (those that can be moved).

Phuck it, I guess we need 2 terabyte Android phones soon. Anyway, for now I am quite happy with the J5 2016, it works ok for anything I use it, which is not necessarily that demanding. Just some apps like checking bus schedules, sometimes browing the internets with Firefox, using it as a car navigator with MapFactor etc., basic stuff.

The default installation has lots of Samsung crap I want to get rid of, so maybe at some point I will install Cyanogenmod Android on it.

I'm currently looking to replace my Galaxy S3, which I believe is on the way out (doesn't hold a charge well anymore, quite slow and fails randomly at things) with basically anything that's better and cheap XD

The main problem seems to be most contract phones seem to only be brand shiny new expensive phones at £40+ a month... no way in hell I'm paying that.

Some what tempted with the Wileyfox phones, specifically the new(ish?) Swift 2 Plus as it's quite cheap and seems reasonable.. but you don't seem to get them on contract so it's pay for the phone up front and have a separate sim only contract or choose something else :/
My main requirement is that it accepts an external SD card as I have a quite big one I use for music and storage etc., but not many phones seem to let you these days...

Samsung E1120

(runs and hides)

If you root the phone and download an app called Link2SD it allows you to create partitions on a SD card that tricks the Android system to think it's another "internal memory" and you can install more applications there. It's possible some phones require custom ROMs as well as unlocked boot loader as well (prior to rooting).

Galaxy S 3.

Love it - 4G is great for watching Internet porn on your phone.

One of the last great phones by Nokia: the Nokia N9.

I wonder which phones can be easily rooted. I'm not interested in the Android that comes with them, as I'm not interested with the Windows that comes with new PC.

Blackberry Z30. I'm old school I know

The easiest and most reliable rooting tool is Chainfire Autoroot, so the answer is mostly Samsungs.

Oh darn, not the Samsungs! :-(
I hate the way they look.

Anyway, thanks for posting.

In The Netherlands the provider Ben offers subscriptions combined with a Wileyfox phone. You might be lucky and find a small local provider offering 1. As Wileyfox is British, you might ask them if they know.
Some phones offer a dual sim where the 2nd sim slot is either used for a 2nd sim or for an SD card.
I only know the Swift (not Swift 2) which can use an SD card of up to 32 GB for internal memory or even bigger cards for external memory.

Wileyfox comes with Cyanogen OS, so they're easily rootable.
IIRC OnePlus should also be easily rootable, though I'm not sure about the latest ones.

Well the Swift only allows you to insert a micro sdcard but why is that a problem? You can just transfer the data through explorer via cable to sd card. I mean a level 10 32GB micro sd card costs only 9.99 pounds nowadays. But yeah you need to remove the back cover to get to the sd card + remove the battery to get it out if you wan't to use it elsewhere. That is for my Wileyfox Swift - I'am not sure if its the same in the new Swift 2 range.

You can get the older ones, the original Swift and Spark on contracts (very cheaply), just not the new ones. Maybe if I give it a few more months they might turn up.
Yeah, annoyingly it would actually be helpful to have both a second sim and an SD Card (and then I wouldn't need a separate business mobile) but with second sim phones it seems to be one or the other (and the SD Card is more important to me).

It's not a problem, the Swift (and all Wileyfox phones I think) accept SD cards. It's most other phones that don't seem to any more.
I'd buy a Nexus or other Google brand phone, but they don't accept SD cards and have pitiful internal memory (because they want you to use the cloud). I don't think many Sony ones do any more either (though I can't be sure, and there are so many different Sony phones I can't be bothered to compare them and find which one might suit me)

For me the main reason was exchangable battery since more or less all bigger brand phones have built in batterys which means that you can trow it away after one year. Not sure if its not exactly the same case with new Swift 2. As for sd I didn't even think that other phones don't accept sd cards anymore.