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Smart Ultra 6 smartphone £100

boatman
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edited 12 November 2015 at 2:38PM in Mobiles
http://shop.vodafone.co.uk/shop/pay-as-you-go/vodafone-smart-6-ultra-payg/sku86605-grey

Great phone for the money, better than anything at the price.
5.5" screen, 2Gb Ram.

If you need to unlock it, cost apx £3 for a simple unlock code on ebay.
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  • FreddieFrugal
    FreddieFrugal Posts: 1,752 Forumite
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    boatman wrote: »
    http://shop.vodafone.co.uk/shop/pay-as-you-go/vodafone-smart-6-ultra-payg/sku86605-grey

    Great phone for the money, better than anything at the price.
    5.5" screen, 2Gb Ram.

    If you need to unlock it, cost apx £3 for a simple unlock code on ebay.

    Poop only had mine about two weeks and already cheaper!

    Was still a great deal then!
    Mortgage remaining: £42,260 of £77,000 (2.59% til 03/18 - 2.09% til 03/23)

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  • forgotmyname
    forgotmyname Posts: 32,994 Forumite
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    Similar to a Galaxy S4, slightly bigger screen but a lower spec screen and processor.
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  • cookie365
    cookie365 Posts: 1,809 Forumite
    Here's a good comparison against some other pretty good budget phones, it does pretty well:
    https://recombu.com/mobile/article/best-budget-value-phones
  • Arklight
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    Amazing they can sell it for that little.
  • NiftyDigits
    NiftyDigits Posts: 10,459 Forumite
    Arklight wrote: »
    Amazing they can sell it for that little.

    Not really.

    Standard price for this kind of model in China, eighteen months ago.

    Example: K Touch Nibiru Mars One H1 from March 2014 £102 back then. Much the same spec at the Smart Ultra 6

    People just pay too much for phones in the first place. A triumph of marketing over common sense.
  • NiftyDigits
    NiftyDigits Posts: 10,459 Forumite
    Arklight wrote: »
    Amazing they can sell it for that little.

    Not really.

    Standard price for this kind of model in China, eighteen months ago.

    Example: K Touch Nibiru Mars One H1 from March 2014 £102 back then. Much the same spec at the Smart Ultra 6

    Same with now well known names such as Huawei Honor 3X Pro. Available for £85, perhaps less.

    The Smart Ultra 6 is similar to these eighteen month old phones, but with Android 5.0 installed.

    People just pay too much for phones in the first place. A triumph of marketing over common sense.
  • buglawton
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    edited 13 November 2015 at 12:30PM
    Found out that BBC iPlayer Radio app for one, cannot be configured to use the SD card on Android to store those huge downloads for offline listening. Eg a 6 Music Programme at 400 MB. My Huawei has 4 GB internal storage and I already get Memory Full. Would need to root the phone to solve it.
    Therefore a 2 GB internal memory is going to be very limiting indeed even for kids or as a backup phone.
  • ballyblack
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    edited 13 November 2015 at 11:10AM
    You are getting confused buglawton

    The Ultra 6 has got 16gb internal memory not 2GB

    The 2GB is the RAM

    http://www.gsmarena.com/vodafone_smart_ultra_6-7313.php

    .
  • d123
    d123 Posts: 8,750 Forumite
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    buglawton wrote: »
    Found out that BBC iPlayer Radio app for one, cannot be configured to use the SD card on Android to store those huge downloads for offline listening. Eg a 6 Music Programme at 400 MB. My Huawei has 4 GB RAM and I already get Memory Full. Would need to root the phone to solve it.
    Therefore a 2 GB internal memory is going to be very limiting indeed even for kids or as a backup phone.

    Your Huaweii has 4GB storage, not RAM.
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  • buglawton
    buglawton Posts: 9,246 Forumite
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    Yes I meant internal memory in the first place, corrected.
    16 GB is quite respectable.
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