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Best smartphone for £100

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  • deebee
    deebee Posts: 511 Forumite
    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
    parley Posts: 693 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    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:
    No reliance should be placed on the above.
  • Parva
    Parva Posts: 1,104 Forumite
    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.
  • 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
  • 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
    mandz13 Posts: 46 Forumite
    edited 20 November 2010 at 12:02PM
    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
  • 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
  • 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
    rev_henry Posts: 4,965 Forumite
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    Can people please read through the thread properly before asking questions as the same questions and answers keep coming up.
  • 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.
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