HTC Desire HD Deals

otester

GeoThermal wrote: »

Plenty of people work as hard as they can and still can't afford to buy certain items with a single payment. For some people working 16 hours a week or less is as much as they can do. Others work long hours for low pay. Everyone's circumstances are different and you can't generalise. A 3310 would be luxury to some people. It's all relative.

With the invention of the web, becoming an entrepreneur has become even easier, no excuse!

CityWalk_2

Are you on drugs or just very naive? My parents are well off but they couldn't afford to buy a phone outright! I was very well off last year and I'm big into gadgets and electronics. But I would have to think twice before shelling out mega money on a phone. Budding entrepreneur's who are smart, would also realize a phone decreases in value and therefore invest there money in something else.

Anyway.

Free Phone
£80 quidco
Panther 30 24 months
300 Minutes
unlimited texts
750mb
22.50 a month

Total £460

[Deleted User]

So i've got 500 quid in the bank - do i :

1. keep it there incase i need it for something important (e.g. need to fix heating/car)
2. plonk it on a phone

I'll keep my rainy day money thanks

Anyhoo, i only pay 25 a month (and had 45 cashback) for my DHD, with 500 mins/1gb net/600 texts, 2 year contract. So that works out at 555. The phone was free through e2save.

Now presume i bought a new unlocked DHD from play.com, for 499.. well, that means it only costs me 2 pound 33p a month on my phone contract

Even if I was paying 10 quid a month for my contract, that would mean the handset cost would have been around 315 quid.

People who buy unlocked handsets direct are chumps - you're not receiving any of the subsidy that the phone manufacturers give the networks.

MARKMAKAVELI

MARKMAKAVELI wrote: »

Orange
24mnth - 300min - unlimited texts - email & 500mb internet - £17.50 p/m plus £150 for handset
plus £80 cashback from orange meaning handset cost is £70.

Looks like Im going for this deal.

Whats the deal with the cashback, is it pretty straight forward or do they have you bending over backwards trying to get it back? Also whats the average turnaround?

Thanks

otester

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ringo_24601 wrote: »

So i've got 500 quid in the bank - do i :

1. keep it there incase i need it for something important (e.g. need to fix heating/car)
2. plonk it on a phone

I'll keep my rainy day money thanks

Anyhoo, i only pay 25 a month (and had 45 cashback) for my DHD, with 500 mins/1gb net/600 texts, 2 year contract. So that works out at 555. The phone was free through e2save.

Now presume i bought a new unlocked DHD from play.com, for 499.. well, that means it only costs me 2 pound 33p a month on my phone contract

Even if I was paying 10 quid a month for my contract, that would mean the handset cost would have been around 315 quid.

People who buy unlocked handsets direct are chumps - you're not receiving any of the subsidy that the phone manufacturers give the networks.

Looks like you got me on that one.

But contract also means you sacrifice a lot of freedom, when I go abroad I can swap to a local sim or at home if my provider starts giving me trouble.

Also you can get a DHD a lot cheap by buying a HD2 and sticking the DHD ROM on it.

CityWalk_2

otester wrote: »

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Looks like you got me on that one.

But contract also means you sacrifice a lot of freedom, when I go abroad I can swap to a local sim or at home if my provider starts giving me trouble.

Also you can get a DHD a lot cheap by buying a HD2 and sticking the DHD ROM on it.

You can't get a DHD by buying an HD2 and custom rom'ing it! The DHD has a larger better screen, improved processor and 8mp Camera with dual flash among other things! Thats the same as saying you can have an Imac by sticking OSX on your HP laptop.

And. Whats to stop you putting a foreign sim in your phone abroad. I do it all the time.

otester

CityWalk wrote: »

You can't get a DHD by buying an HD2 and custom rom'ing it! The DHD has a larger better screen, improved processor and 8mp Camera with dual flash among other things! Thats the same as saying you can have an Imac by sticking OSX on your HP laptop.

And. Whats to stop you putting a foreign sim in your phone abroad. I do it all the time.

The DHD does have a lot if improvements (lot newer than the HD2), I was talking from a money saving POV, the DHD ROM runs perfectly fine on the HD2. Only things not working is the camera.

Most important the screen size is the same on the HD2 as the DHD, but screen quality is better on the DHD and I never use cameras on phones so that bit sin't something I look for otherwise I would have got an X10.

Quadrant score wise the DHD beats the HD2 by about 250 points (1728 vs 1950) when runing the DHD ROM, Desire ROM gives ~1950. Nexus One being 1300.

My next phone will most probably be the one Acer just announced for April 2011, basically same as DHD but 4.8" screen + 2MP front-facing camera.

I like to upgrade within 12 months so a contract would over-run that, not to mention the other issues.

I was under the understanding that contract phones are locked? Or are you with O2 (which doesn't lock them)?

MARKMAKAVELI

MARKMAKAVELI wrote: »

Looks like Im going for this deal.

Whats the deal with the cashback, is it pretty straight forward or do they have you bending over backwards trying to get it back? Also whats the average turnaround?

Thanks

Please please please can someone answer me re: cashback turnaround? Thanks

fozmcfc

fozmcfc wrote: »

I've decided to get it as a sim free handset and it's nearly 3 years since my last phone and I have a deal on my credit card of 0% interest until June 2011.

At the moment I've been told roughly 12 days with mobilephones direct, but I'm not so sure reckon it might be nearer a month.

Really looking forward to getting the phone, but the only thing that concerns me is the size of the phone. For years I've been a fan of smaller mobiles, but nowadays with them being much more than just a phone, I'm coming round to the idea that bigger is better.

After 3 times being told that they hadn't yet got the stock and nowhere else seeming to have stock of this phone as a sim free handset (except for the rip-off CPW), I ended up cancelling and have gone for a sim free HTC Desire.

Pleased with the phone, apart from the usual poor battery life. Gord knows what the HD versions battery life is going to be like, with that bigger screen etc...Be prepared people you are going to need to charge it daily and if you use it for more than an hour, most likely you'll need to charge it two or three times a day.

Springy

I am with Orange and will be able to upgrade on the 8th December (21 month). I want to get the Desire HD, but all the upgrades available are not great.

The best place I have found is at mobiles.co.uk with cashback ontop. Apart from this it has been pretty awful finding any good deals. All the good deals are for new customers. Is it worth phoning Orange upgrades? All can I terminate my contract at 21 months even though I have a 24 month contract and go through orange rentention and do it that way?