Phones4U - good deal or not??

teaspoon1

I came across this deal, is it a good deal and a good phone? Sorry to be thick, but I don't change my phone that often and am not as mobile-savvy as you lovely people.

Any advice welcome. Thanks.

http://www.phones4u.co.uk/shop/shop_contract_details.asp?ItemKey=232776&MPItemKey=233144

aj3001

Well, the phone is a clearance model so obviously about to be updated, but I am not familiar with that model to comment on the phone too much.

If you were to purchase that exact same plan (Dolphin 30) via the Orange website it would be £25 insted of Phones4U £30 and you would get a better range of phones, don't be fooled however by Orange giving you unlimited texts, because that is subject to a fair useage of 3000 texts, which Phones 4 U just makes clearer.

The question I would be asking myself however, is if you don't change your plan that often, and don't seem to be as up on mobiles - which you admit yourself, why do you need a plan with so many minutes and texts? Could you not look into a Simplicity or Sim only plan and keep your current phone? O2 and Vodafone offer these options

chris3349

Its available on a 12 month deal at mobiles.co.uk on dolphin or racoon £30 a month plus 9 months by casback making it about £7 per month plus i think £40 quidco. Plus other cheaper deals with other networks use the web site below to compare the best deals i just used it to find my phone deal

http://comparemobiles.com/compare-prices-and-deals/

teaspoon1

aj3001 wrote: »

Well, the phone is a clearance model so obviously about to be updated, but I am not familiar with that model to comment on the phone too much.

If you were to purchase that exact same plan (Dolphin 30) via the Orange website it would be £25 insted of Phones4U £30 and you would get a better range of phones, don't be fooled however by Orange giving you unlimited texts, because that is subject to a fair useage of 3000 texts, which Phones 4 U just makes clearer.

The question I would be asking myself however, is if you don't change your plan that often, and don't seem to be as up on mobiles - which you admit yourself, why do you need a plan with so many minutes and texts? Could you not look into a Simplicity or Sim only plan and keep your current phone? O2 and Vodafone offer these options

Well, I actually do use a lot of voice minutes, 300 +100 texts is roughly what I need. And my current phone has almost given up.

Perhaps I should have said that I'm not as savvy with mobile deals, rather than the phones themselves!

The Phones4u deal is with £270 cashback, which is paid automatically 28 days after you connect IIRC, so no faffing around with deadlines etc. And this makes the deal effectively worth £15 a month. What do you reckon??

teaspoon1

chris3349 wrote: »

Its available on a 12 month deal at mobiles.co.uk on dolphin or racoon £30 a month plus 9 months by casback making it about £7 per month plus i think £40 quidco. Plus other cheaper deals with other networks use the web site below to compare the best deals i just used it to find my phone deal

http://comparemobiles.com/compare-prices-and-deals/

I can't find this deal...

teaspoon1

Here's another one, any good?

http://www.mobilephonecentral.co.uk/gift-deals/tmobile-nokia-3109/combi30-12/ipod-shuf?ref=mobile4&adnetwork=af

teaspoon1

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Anyone able to help?