thanks somebody,no problem being a techy mind , my mum survived and managed to use the big laptop i left in the Philippines ,the only thing that i want is for me to be able to contact her whenever i want as she is a pensioner now ,she loves to travel a lot and a smartphone with skype will be very useful to communicate with each other rather than bringing a big laptop all the time.
yes you are correct lot of smartphones like htc and blackberry is receiving bad reviews in the PH connecting to the internet, i think i will get nokia for her just need to read more reviews and make sure that it will really work well.