Best smartphone for £100

deebee

I have ordered my San Francisco online, as the orange shop is now insisting on £20 top-up!!! As I want to use my contract sim on it I wasn't gonna do that!

parley

rwalton159 wrote: »

Mike,

Having had the phone for 3.5wks I have been confident enough to remove the Orange software and add applications (apps / software programmes) that allow me to watch tv / play games / etc)

Does cost anything to watch tv on it? or does it eat into our allowances? :cool:

Parva

parley wrote: »

Does cost anything to watch tv on it? or does it eat into our allowances? :cool:

Provided that you are watching TV over a wifi connection then it won't cost you anything, indeed I watched TV occasionally whilst in Cyprus thanks to a free wifi connection at a pub. However, watching TV over the data connection can be very costly, it can use a lot of data very quickly and you could soon go over your allowance! Be very careful if watching TV this way, unless you are on a truly unlimited internet data plan from the likes of someone like GiffGaff.

mandz13

just bought my OSF after some great advise on here

£78.99 inc £10 top up and the free xmas gift box direct from orange.

im well impressed and my daughter will be absolutley thrilled at xmas
many thanks

colinicky

mandz13 wrote: »

just bought my OSF after some great advise on here

£78.99 inc £10 top up and the free xmas gift box direct from orange.

im well impressed and my daughter will be absolutley thrilled at xmas
many thanks

Could you tell me what I am missing please ? As I can only find it at £99 + £10 top up on the orange website ?

mandz13

colinicky wrote: »

Could you tell me what I am missing please ? As I can only find it at £99 + £10 top up on the orange website ?

i phoned them direct. (the number is on the orange web site)
i already had an old sim card that was last used 4 months ago so i said that i wanted a new phone and could i still use that old sim card. no problem they said. "what phone would you like?"
he then told me the price would be £109.99
i told them that my friend got 1 2 days ago for 79.99 he went away to check and then just said that he could do it for 78.99 inc £10 top up but he couldnt do it any less as id only put £30 of credit on my old sim in the last year. well i didnt argue with that but i did have to ask for my free xmas gift..lol

colinicky

mandz13 wrote: »

i phoned them direct. (the number is on the orange web site)
i already had an old sim card that was last used 4 months ago so i said that i wanted a new phone and could i still use that old sim card. no problem they said. "what phone would you like?"
he then told me the price would be £109.99
i told them that my friend got 1 2 days ago for 79.99 he went away to check and then just said that he could do it for 78.99 inc £10 top up but he couldnt do it any less as id only put £30 of credit on my old sim in the last year. well i didnt argue with that but i did have to ask for my free xmas gift..lol

Ok thanks, unfortunately I do not have an Orange sim so hey ho looks like £99 then

mandz13

colinicky wrote: »

Ok thanks, unfortunately I do not have an Orange sim so hey ho looks like £99 then

if you read through previous posts you can go buy a sim card then go home and register it then ring them and you still get the same deal.
i saw orange sims yeasterday for 75p so its well worth getting one and trying which is what i was going to do.
my daughter has lost the old sim card but i remembered the number so the man i spoke to said he would send a new sim card using the old number.
the sims were in The facory shop for 75p and i think they have them in poundstretcher and home bargains too.

rev_henry

Can people please read through the thread properly before asking questions as the same questions and answers keep coming up.

colinicky

rev_henry wrote: »

Can people please read through the thread properly before asking questions as the same questions and answers keep coming up.

If you were referring to me then I apologise but I missed that bit of info plus after going out & getting a sim card etc I then rang Orange who told me that I had not held the sim card for long enough & that they were now looking at people having the card for at least 3 months & had actually used it before you could get any kind of discount !

Things change so sometimes something new comes up so the question is worth asking again.

ps. I did ring back to a different advisor & was told the same thing.