Tesco £7.50 contracts

butterfriends

I'm leaving O2 and looking for my first smartphone, occasional use only so the cheaper the better and I'm not overly fussed about which handset

Noticed the current 24 month contracts on tesco such as this one http://shop.tescomobile.com/mobile-phones/pay-monthly/htc/wildfire+s/7017

It is sooooo much cheaper than what O2 were offering that I'm wondering if there are any issues with tesco mobile? Or with that deal? I've been looking on other threads but finding the whole issue of mobiles quite confusing tbh

wakeupalarm

Tesco runs on the O2 network so coverage and calling issues will be identical to what you have now.

time2save

wakeupalarm wrote: »

Tesco runs on the O2 network so coverage and calling issues will be identical to what you have now.

True that.

flashg67

Just to add, I had the HTC Wildfire as my introduction to smartphones. Whilst there's nothing wrong with it, I soon found it struggled to cope as my needs changed. Once I saw what others could do with better/faster phones, I soon became frustrated. I found internet browsing slow, there's not much room for apps etc. For mainly phone & texting though, you'll be fine. Reasonable camera shots too.

Buzby

In this financial climate, a two year minimum term is madness - even for a 'smart' phone.

Te smart way is to go PAYG and get a subsidised handset.

sdduk

flashg67 is right the phone doesn't have a lot of internal memory so it gets full very quick and you will be forever deleting stuff

You can use an external memory card but that's mainly for pictures and music storage.

Kite2010

The best way is to get a PAYG smartphone (Huawei Ascent G300) for under £100 and then get a Sim-Only contract.

butterfriends

Thanks I decided just to go with it this afternoon, 24 months for £180 minus cashback seemed like a safe enough bet for my needs

spexs

Buzby wrote: »

In this financial climate, a two year minimum term is madness - even for a 'smart' phone.

Why?

thefishdude

the smart way is not allways pay as you go, you h\ve to work out how much t costs my contract was a £7.50 a month contract for 2 years. thats £180 over 2 years including 2oo mins a month 5000 texts and 500mb data a month. now on pay as you go the phone i wanted was £100 at time i would of saved 80quid getting it pay as you go and then had to spend less than £3.33 a month on calls and texts and data for it to have worked out any cheaper over 2 years was never gonna happen.

easy

butterfriends wrote: »

I'm leaving O2 and looking for my first smartphone, occasional use only so the cheaper the better and I'm not overly fussed about which handset

Noticed the current 24 month contracts on tesco such as this one http://shop.tescomobile.com/mobile-phones/pay-monthly/htc/wildfire+s/7017

It is sooooo much cheaper than what O2 were offering that I'm wondering if there are any issues with tesco mobile? Or with that deal? I've been looking on other threads but finding the whole issue of mobiles quite confusing tbh

just got exactly this deal for my son this xmas. No, the phone isn't the biggest/fastest/most state of the art - but at this price I considered it a REALLY good deal (plus point for a teenager - Tesco will cap the tariff, so he can't run up big bills). This tariff costs me less each month than I was forking out for his PAYG just for minutes & texts - he was using my old dumb-phone.

If you are not a real phone geek, I reckon this phone will be perfectly adequate for most folk's use. I got a galaxy S2 back at the beginning of 2012, and altho I love it and I'm tech savvy, I don't use anything like all it's capacity. How many games/apps does an average adult need on their phone at one time ?

Well done OP for going for this deal.