Best Deal

neilcat

HELP please ! iphone 4S what is the best deal. Is the 02 deal £209 for phone + £17 a month with 300mins, unlimited text and 500mb. sounds good but I have never had a monthly plan and I am in my 60's so dont quite understand the mobile teccy things.
Thank you..
Neilcat:o

grumbler

Before asking for the *best* deal you have to decide how many minutes and texts you actually need.
£209+24*17=617.

The cheapest 4S is £449 from Apple and can be used on Ovivo PAYG (150m+150t+400Mb) for one-off £15 and £0 monthly cost.

Herongull

Why do you want to spend over £400 for an iphone?

You can get a great android phone for around £50.

What will the iphone do that you need that a good android won't?

Other than make you a magnet for thieves and muggers......

grumbler

Herongull wrote: »

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You can get a great android phone for around £50...

Come on... Decent maybe, but not great.
Not all people are skint. Many people have money and can afford spending it on luxuries.

neilcat

Thank you I do understand your question. the main reason I want an iphone is it does Face time and my grand daughter lives abroad. I have an ipad I can Face time on but a phone means I can talk to her when ever we want.

neilcat

Thank you Grumbler. I does sound better to buy pay as you go but it is a lot upfront. If I have a pay as you go can I still get face time. The deal is better as I dont use the phone much for anything else.

ZhugeEX

grumbler wrote: »

Come on... Decent maybe, but not great.
Not all people are skint. Many people have money and can afford spending it on luxuries.

Agreed. As much as it would be great to get an android phone for £50 then pay nothing every month. My philosiphy is to get the best bang for buck on the best. So for example i wouldn't want a cheap £50 phone. Rather try and get a £500 phone free on £22pm with mins/texts/data so it equals/costs less than the cost of the phone. That's value for me. Especially because i need unl data.

The fact that the OP wants a deal with 300 mins means that Ovivo would not be great for him.

Tbh that iPhone deal is quite expensive. In general iPhone's are more expensive. Is there a reason you want to go for an iPhone OP? You can get much better phones for the same price/lower. Or it could work out cheaper to buy the iPhone outright if you're a low user.

neilcat

My Hero !! thank you Grumbler.

neilcat

Hey !! who you calling an OP !!. But thank you. Its the facetime I want and a new phone so I thought I would combine the two.

grumbler

ZhugeEX wrote: »

...The fact that the OP wants a deal with 300 mins ...

Is it a fact?


OP=Original Poster
And yes, everything will work on PAYG the same way as on a contract.

ZhugeEX

neilcat wrote: »

Hey !! who you calling an OP !!. But thank you. Its the facetime I want and a new phone so I thought I would combine the two.

Sorry, OP stands for "original poster". I use it when i can't remember the username i'm responding to.

I think if you need under 150 mins then the Ovivo deal will be good for you. Only thing i will say is that make sure you're connected to your home wi-fi when using facetime when your home. That way it won't use up your data allowance for 3G.

@grumbler, sorry! misread it. Thought he said he wanted 300 mins. But that was just the deal