NEW THREAD: Cheapest iPhones article

grumbler

Check Tesco Phone Shop for £120+24x£22.
[STRIKE]And they do cap their tariffs.[/STRIKE]
Edit: Tesco Mobile cap, but the above was for O2 contracts.

fewcloudy

What Grumbler says. Myself and 2 daughters are on Tesco Mobile. On page 10 of this thread I already stated what my current contract is with them (White 4s 64gb, Unlimited txts, 750mins, 1gb of data, all capped). Phone cost £100, 2yr contract, £20 a month.

My 16 and 17 yr old daughters went from reaching the limit of their monthly texts (3000...:eek:) to hardly using anything once they got their iphones, due to iMessage and facetime. Although they are on Tesco Mobile contracts, i bought the iphones elsewhere for cash. One contract is £10 a month, the other is £25 for same as i have. We all get 250mb extra data for having 2 or more contracts, so we all have 1250mbs of data a month.

BTW, the MSE cheapest Iphone tool is hopeless, in the sense that it would be horrific to give your daughter an iphone with the stingy allowances that the 'cheapest' iphone contracts have. They are only trying to show you an iphone for the least amount of money over a set period of time, with no regard to the uselessness of owning an iphone with 100mb of data. I feel sorry for people who are maybe new to iphones and smartphones and who use that tool to buy into a 2 year contract, only to find the allowances are terribly inadequate for normal useage.

Check Tesco website and in-store for best 4s deals, they change frequently. Today there are no 4s's at all availavble on the website, that might change in a few days.

http://shop.tescomobile.com/mobile-phones/pay-monthly#monthly-min=7&monthly-max=45&minutes-min=100&minutes-max=3000&brand%5B%5D=apple&sort-by=phone-make

mintymoneysaver

Thankyou both. Tesco definitely looks like my best option. i've got a few weeks before I need to actually purchase, so I'll keep an eye on the website in case anything even better pops up, but otherwise that looks just right!

fewcloudy

No problem. Also remember the buying in-store option. I bought my 4S in-store when there were no 4S's on the website at all, so there didn't appear to be much correlation between online and in-store availability. If I had realised that I would certainly have bought my phone sooner, but I assumed the website represented 4S availability with Tescos fullstop.

BoulangerieBetty

I applied for an iphone 5 on the website MSE deal which was phone for £299 and basic £10.50 monthly plan. Next day my order was cancelled by company. I telephoned them and they said it was due to Orange credit check, checked with Experian excellent rating so then I rang Orange direct.
Told by Orange now EE sales this often happens with third party sites, the site want to draw you in but are not making much profit and so do not want to fulfil order. Anyway after haggling got a brand new iPhone 5 with 24 month basic £10.50 plan for £239 minus some phone fund credit as well as I was already an Orange pay as you customer! Chuffed!

parahandy

cashworth93 wrote: »

Hi I recently came across a phone contract comparison site simplysmartphone.co.uk they supply an impartial service and compare the whole Internet ( I've checked around) I managed to pick up an iPhone 5 white for free with 600 mins , unlimited texts and 1gb data with free unlimited wifi for only £30 per month ! I thought this was a bargain so I'd like to share this with my fellow money savers... Enjoy

Spam... Your name is on the site...:p

mintymoneysaver

fewcloudy, is this similar to yours?

http://shop.tescomobile.com/mobile-phones/pay-monthly/apple/iphone+4s+16gb?deal=8233#colour=white

fewcloudy

Hi

Sorry for late reply. Yes, very similar but not exactly the same.

Mine is also a white 4s but is a 64gb model rather than a 16gb one. In my opinion this would not be a problem to most users. I have asked a few friends and colleagues who have been long time iphone users who say 16gb is perfectly adequate. However, my two teenage daughters have spoken of running low on storage space (since Christmas). They have solved this by deleting apps they no longer need and have said that if it becomes more of an issue in the future, and perhaps they reach the stage of having to delete apps they might have paid for, then they would use The Cloud, or Dropbox, as places that offer free storage.

The only other thing I can see that is different is that I get 750minutes rather than 500. Becoming increasingly irrelevant both for me and my kids due to Facetime and iMessage. None of us use more than 200 each month!

If you buy this phone and contract, and then in a few weeks see the bigger capacity model on offer, or more minutes offered, I do not think you should be disappointed, neither is a big deal.

Hope you go for it, (or have gone for it!)

regards

fc

vkharch

Hi,

Vectoneseems to be offering a better deal than giffgsaff on sim-only iPhone - £10 UK International Saver Bundles, for 30 days you get 500mins, unlimited txt & data and unlimited vectone to vectone calls &txt, though Nano-sim cost £1.

Onthe top of it 10% extra credit when top up online and cheap internationalcalls.
[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]http://www.vectonemobile.co.uk/pay-as-you-go/bundles/UK-International-Saver-Bundle.aspx [/FONT]

Duran69

I'm surprised my latest email from MSE only gives prices for high usage iPhone 5S contracts. If you're saving money you might want to look at lower usage tarifs and save a fortune.

I've recently ordered a 5S from T-Mobile with an upfront payment of £419.99 and then £7 per month for the contract for 2 years. This works out at £24.50 per month.

Sure, it doesn't have unlimited this and that but do you really need it?