Pay Monthly Contract

Zebra

Had a pay-as-you-go mobile for years, but never really used it much.

But have recently got rid of my landline and use it more - about £10 a month on Vodaphone.

Have found these two pay-monthly deals from Tesco Mobile and wondered what other people's views of the deal and the actual phone was.

http://www.tescomobilepaymonthly.com/mobile-deals/

Can't get the links to work - but one's a LG Viewty Snap GM360 and the other Samsung Tocco Lite - both at £10 per month.

Oscar_The_Grouch

Hmm... Coming up "Deal not found". What are the offers?

Zebra

Oscar_The_Grouch wrote: »

Hmm... Coming up "Deal not found". What are the offers?

Couldn't get the actual links to the products work.

But the phones are an LG Viewty Snap GM360 and a Samsung Toco Lite - £10 a month for 24 months (100 minutes and unlimited texts.)

Has anyone experience of either of these phones?

Oscar_The_Grouch

I'd go for the Samsung; better build quality than the LG and easier to buy accessories.

Guys_Dad

Look at the out of bundle costs for calls, particularly to other mobiles. (Depends upon which Tesco tariff you choose).

Then look at the cost of a cheap phone linked to a sim-only contract. Vodafone do 300 minutes plus 3000 texts for £10 on a 12-month sim only.

Zebra

Been down to Tescos and the LG phone they had was the LG KP500 Cookie - it looked similar but I think it's a different model.
Does anyone have any experience of that phone?

Oscar_The_Grouch wrote: »

I'd go for the Samsung; better build quality than the LG and easier to buy accessories.

Thanks Oscar - What sort of accessories?
I'd really only just use it for phone, texting and camera.

Guys_Dad wrote: »

Look at the out of bundle costs for calls, particularly to other mobiles. (Depends upon which Tesco tariff you choose).

Then look at the cost of a cheap phone linked to a sim-only contract. Vodafone do 300 minutes plus 3000 texts for £10 on a 12-month sim only.

Thanks Guy's Dad - 100 minutes and unlimited texts with Tescos should be more than enough, and I don't call mobiles very often.
I'm with Vodaphone at the moment - paying £10 for 100 minutes and 300 texts which is enough. So I wouldn't be any better off with them, and with Tesco's I get a free phone.

Guys_Dad

Without the phone, it is a pretty poor deal.

Even at Tesco, the phone is only £69.97 to buy and 24 months is a long time to be tied in. Particularly if the phone was to break or not be your cup of tea.

You have given up your land line, so you may actually increase your number of calls as in particular people calling on a land line won't want to call your mobile. I always call back in those circumstances and use more minutes.

But it is your call.

Zebra

I wouldn't be interested if it didn't include the phone - I wouldn't be any better off than I am now.

As I say, I'm only spending the £10 a month since giving up the landline, prior to that I wasn't spending £10 a year.

The way I see it is if I'm spending £10 a month on pay-as-you-go, I might as well be spending £10 a month on contract and get a free phone with it.

Thanks for your comments though.

I was just wondering whether anybody had experience of one of these phones.