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Best smart phone for <£200?

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  • digp
    digp Posts: 2,013 Forumite
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    martinchris wrote: »
    Recently I purchased a Sony Xperia U for my wife. She is very happy after getting this phone as her gift. It's a perfect package of lots of functionalists at affordable price.

    do you work for sony?
  • MillicentBystander
    MillicentBystander Posts: 3,518 Forumite
    digp wrote: »
    do you think it will come down in price or go up at that point?


    Good question! No-one really knows (and those that do aint telling!) but my personal view is it may actually increase in price as my suspicion is Voddy are subsidising it at the mo. Time will tell.
  • buscape
    buscape Posts: 874 Forumite
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    digp wrote: »
    do you think it will come down in price or go up at that point?
    Will probably go up much like the Nokia 710 did after being at £100 for a bit.
  • digp
    digp Posts: 2,013 Forumite
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    The display visibility is awful when outside.

    Is that your experience also?
  • digp
    digp Posts: 2,013 Forumite
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    buscape wrote: »
    Will probably go up much like the Nokia 710 did after being at £100 for a bit.

    I doubt it.
  • Quentin
    Quentin Posts: 40,405 Forumite
    edited 25 July 2012 at 9:17PM
    Originally Posted by MillicentBystander viewpost.gif
    ..... £80 net would be more than a steal for this phone!
    The huawei is on sale at very, and if you are a first time buyer they have a £30 discount code 23EPW (off min £60 spend).

    Also cashback sites do around 6% cashback too on first time very purchases, bringing the delivered price down to around just £67
  • digp
    digp Posts: 2,013 Forumite
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    Very are overpriced to begin with.
  • Quentin
    Quentin Posts: 40,405 Forumite
    digp wrote: »
    Very are overpriced to begin with.

    How can they be in this instance? Vodafone price is more than very, though the final price with very is much less if you use the code!
  • digp
    digp Posts: 2,013 Forumite
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    Sorry, I meant generally, not in relation to this deal though, I agree, but then the Huawei is not all that.
  • Quentin
    Quentin Posts: 40,405 Forumite
    digp wrote: »
    Sorry, I meant generally, not in relation to this deal though, I agree, but then the Huawei is not all that.

    I'm neither recommending huawei nor very, just pointing out a money saving way to get this phone cheaper. (And your opinion of the phone isn't reflected in this thread anyway!!)

    (But wonder why you bothered to post about very being "overpriced" - where is the relevance?)
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