Is there a phone that will last the length of the contract?

Splurge

The Wildfire range are HTC's budget range. hardly much point even buying one on contract when you could have picked one up for £150. You do get what you pay for with these cheap phones. If you wanted to be a bit cheeky you could get it insured and in a couple weeks accidentally loose it.

RikM

I only have a sample of one, to judge from...
My SGS has outlasted it's (two year) contract, with no hardware problems, and no software problems which weren't due to me fiddling
I may change it in a year or so!

lovethymini

Splurge wrote: »

The Wildfire range are HTC's budget range. hardly much point even buying one on contract when you could have picked one up for £150. You do get what you pay for with these cheap phones. If you wanted to be a bit cheeky you could get it insured and in a couple weeks accidentally loose it.

The phone I had on my contract was free, and was a Sony Ericcson Elm, which developed software problems after a few months. Vodafone didn't want to fix the software problem unless I paid £60 to also replace the cracked screen, which I didn't want to pay to do (cracked screen was fine to use and I really didn't like the Elm) I bought the Wildfire for about £160 in September 2011.

I didn't know the Wildfire was a budget phone, but I would say that if HTC are unable to sell a working reliable phone for the money, they shouldn't do so.

lovethymini

RikM wrote: »

I only have a sample of one, to judge from...
My SGS has outlasted it's (two year) contract, with no hardware problems, and no software problems which weren't due to me fiddling
I may change it in a year or so!

Nice to hear that Samsungs are still reliable, thanks for reminding me!
I don't find them as intuitive as some other makes but I suppose you get used to them.

lovethymini

BrandNewDay wrote: »

By the way, my experience with sending a phone in for repairs - under the warranty or insurance - is that you send it in, and they send it back saying they didn't find anything wrong with it. Like, the annoying thing it had been doing didn't happen for them when they turned it on, I guess.

That really blisters my paint.

That's why, in the future, I'm happy to buy something much cheaper like the Huawei. It really does work quite well and at £100 I don't feel like I have to insure it. The insurance is generally useless, anyway. They tend to get out of paying via some loophole or another.

Can I ask how long you've had the Huawei and whether it has sufficient memory?

Edit: Just saw post#20, you've had it for 8 months :-)

GunJack

esuhl wrote: »

I'm quite happy with my Samsung E2121B, which cost £14.99 (and came with £10 PAYG credit). The battery lasts for days (weeks if I don't use it much)..

I've got one of these too, unlocked from CPW, and I went through quidco for £5 cashback, so overall cost was -£0.01

esuhl

GunJack wrote: »

I've got one of these too, unlocked from CPW, and I went through quidco for £5 cashback, so overall cost was -£0.01

Ha! Very cheeky! I forgot I used Quidco too, but the phone was £19.99 when I got it, so effectively £14.99 with £10 credit... (net cost £4.99).

I certainly miss the old days of having my Nokia 3210 with a triple-SIM adapter and at least one SIM that turned a profit!

But, unlike the firms doing the old cashback deals, at least Quidco don't automatically void the claim unless you've posted photocopies of your bills with signed vouchers wrapped round a unicorn horn by recorded delivery within a 2-day window...

GunJack

esuhl wrote: »

Ha! Very cheeky! I forgot I used Quidco too, but the phone was £19.99 when I got it, so effectively £14.99 with £10 credit... (net cost £4.99).

I certainly miss the old days of having my Nokia 3210 with a triple-SIM adapter and at least one SIM that turned a profit!

But, unlike the firms doing the old cashback deals, at least Quidco don't automatically void the claim unless you've posted photocopies of your bills with signed vouchers wrapped round a unicorn horn by recorded delivery within a 2-day window...

Ahhh... I remember those days too..thankfully only one of the companies I bought from went out of business before I got 100% of the due cashback back, and I got 50% of it off them

But oh boy did they all make it difficult to claim, you had to plan it out with military precision :mad:

flexrider

lovethymini wrote: »

I'm feeling very frustrated - I have an HTC Wildfire S with numerous issues, and despite researching ways to improve/solve the problems I'm stuck with a "smart" phone that;-
has major memory problems
doesn't come out of standby a few times a day
battery just about lasts a day - (poor, but not uncommon these days)
fails to receive calls despite showing good signal.

I cannot upgrade with Vodafone until June. I have had this phone for only 15 months.

All I need is a phone that survives the length of the contract - is that too much to ask? I'm now worried that if my child's school needs to get hold of me when I'm out of the house they wont be able to, so I need to do something, whether it's a cheap as chips mobile or a smartphone with longevity....

thanks for reading

Ive got the same phone but i never have them problems my battery lasts for days sometimes.

can i ask do you leave the Bluetooth on or Wifi on
Do you listen to music alot
do you text and talk alot on the phone

Just curious

lovethymini

I dont use the phone for music or the internet, and usually no more than 5 texts per day.
As I have had terrible reception problems, I think that the phone used a lot of power looking for signal all the time perhaps?
Since the new sim card and turning off wifi, the battery just about makes 2 days.