iPhone App to Track Spending

Katie-Kat-Kins

sarahs999 wrote: »

DOn't forget that lots of people on this site aren't skint or in debt, they are just interested in good deals and bargains.

My iphone 3GS was bought secondhand from a colleague who was upgrading to the iphone 4. I run it on a £10 PAYG deal, which is the same price as my old phone. I would never go back to the old style of phone - I can do so much on it, from my grocery shopping to taking audio notes to making my life just that bit more organised, which I'm eternally grateful for as a full-time working mum.

I too would like to know if MSE is planning any apps. The demotivator is a great idea.

Exactly, if you are really skint (like some of the people in DFW and O/S) then you probably don't have a smartphone at all. You would sell it and get a cheap basic phone instead. But if you are trying to get the best for your money then many people will find an android phone a more sensible choice!

Understand your choice though, if offered a good secondhand iphone then it can certainly be a good deal.

Personally I didn't know anyone selling a smartphone so I shopped around, did research and then got the best functionality I could on the best deal I could. The iphone didn't come close to the various android phones on the market.

chuckley

pen and paper. however i have an accounts bit in my diary where i record it all and then transfer to a speadsheet. that way i have backup if I lose the diary or the comp fails.

SeriouslySeekingtoSave

Londonboy wrote: »

I am sure it is out there somewhere, but I find it amazing that people want to have an application which helps them save money downloaded onto what is a hugely expensive mobile phone, usually on a long contract with a high monthly charge! There is already a saving of circa £25-£45 a month by not having one of these silly devices and instead having a PAYG basic phone.

Well speaking for myself I was using a very ancient Nokia phone until a year ago. One of the ones with green screen! Everytime I thought about getting a new one I'd just think 'what do I want a phone for? Ring people and text. Does my current phone do that ? Why yes it does!' and I'd stick with it. I was on a PAYG as well so it probably cost me less than £5 a month.

But then I saw my friends iPhone... and for the first time I didn't think 'what does that iPhone do'? and then decide I didn't need it. Silly device? My iPhone has changed my life! I bought it duty free when I went through Singapore and I have a rolling contract with Tmobile for £10 a month which has very little phone and text time but unlimited data download, and that is what I use my phone for. It's a computer that I carry around in my pocket and I use it for absolutely EVERYTHING! Especially now that I catch the train into work and don't lose connection as I did with the tube.

I'm very very careful with my money, but if I lost my phone I'd buy another one tomorrow

Londonboy_3

The genius of Apple is that they have come up with a device that, though it didn't exist only a few years ago, is now seen by people on this thread as critical and life changing. Brilliant marketing and no shock their profits were astronomical again for 2010.

It isn't critical of course unless you intend to live a life much like the characters in the classic film The Matrix, but the marketing to make its customers believe that it is critical is truly brilliant.

sarahs999

Two very different things, critical and life-changing. 'Critical' it is not. Life-changing it is. It makes life easier in many ways, most of which I didn't anticipate until I got mine.

*KT*

As a person with Deaf friends for me it is both. I can contact my friends in the language we use. That's HUGE!! There are some other phones on the market I can do this with I know, but checking out the quality, for me, iPhone was the only one with visual quality good enough for Sign Language use.