Anyone who pays more than £20 per month for a contract is nuts!

bigfreddiel

Cycrow wrote: »

It depends on what you are actually getting for your money.

I paid £40/month for a previous contract. But i wouldn't call it madness. Especially as at the time the phone was only available on contract. And i needed that phone for a job. If i waited a few months for it to be available on sim only it would be to late for the job

I just cannot believe that only one particular phone could do a particular job, unless of course that phone was being featured in an advert or video!

Cheers fj

bigfreddiel

Peter333 wrote: »

This is too much of a sweeping generalisation. You can't say that it's 'madness' if anyone pays more than £20 a month for a phone contract. It depends what you're getting for it, and how much you use your phone (and what for.) Paying any more than £20 a month would be crazy for me because I don't make more than £5 worth of texts on my mobile phone in a month, and only about two pounds worth of calls on it. SO PAYG is better for me, (and a cheap £10 phone!)

However, my daughter (who is at university,) pays £35 a month, and has a brand new iphone6 plus, which retails at around £500. In addition, she has unlimited texts, unlimited calls to landlines, unlimited calls to other mobiles, (no matter what provider,) unlimited internet (no crappy 4G limit!) and very cheap talk time from overseas, (I *think* it's 5p a minute,) with 200 free overseas texts a month. She has been abroad 5 times in 1.5 years, so this has come in very handy.

When she is at university, she calls us twice a week, (for 45 minutes to an hour,) and she calls her boyfriend as often as this too.

Also, most weeks she sends around 80-100 texts (to various people,) but some weeks, she sends 200 plus! And she makes lots of calls too some weeks.

In addition, she facetimes people, (or skypes them,) and uses the internet every day on her phone; sometimes for half hour a day, sometimes for 2-3 hours a day. AND she sometimes does a shedload of downloading! And she only ever pays that £35 a month.

There is no way any PAYG phone would provide all that for £35 a month - AND you would have to pay £500+ for the phone too!

We only get 100 free minutes to a mobile phone from our landline, and then it reverts to 15p a minute, so we're glad she has this package. Before she did, we were getting landline phone bills of £60-70 a month because of talking to her! Now she rings us.

It's complete madness, a sub £100 smart phone does just as a £1,000 phone.

Nobody seems to understand that the same apps work on a cheap phone as an expensive, that's the whole point of apps and cloud computing.

Have a nice day

Cheers fj

Bogof_Babe

diamonds wrote: »

I'm on 2 contracts.

1) Unlimited calls and texts £5

2) Grandfathered - 500 mins, unlimited data and texts £10



Trying to take contract 2 to unlimited mins is £30, two sims equal a 50% saving, 1 in a 2G handset, 2 in a phablet with hotspot tethering to my tablets.


Sorted!


The One Plan? not in nature or plan these days

pinkfairykelly wrote: »

£16 per month I get unlimited min's, unlimited text and 10GB of data. Suits me :-)

simax wrote: »

As we're all willy-waving...

iPhone 6 Plus 64GB - £49 phone cost

Unlimited minutes
Unlimited texts
Unlimited EU Roaming
50GB data
1000 MMS
1000 084/087 minutes
1000 IDD minutes

£17.50/month. Total cost over 2 years = £469.

Not too shabby and miles cheaper than buying outright

Any of you boasters like to put your mouths where your money is, and tell us who you are getting these deals from? I'm doubtful whether they are genuine otherwise.

Cycrow

bigfreddiel wrote: »

I just cannot believe that only one particular phone could do a particular job, unless of course that phone was being featured in an advert or video!

Cheers fj

The client wanted an app designed specially for that phone and OS. Dont know why they wanted that specific phone, but they did.

And considering i was paid considerably more than total cost of the 24month contract, it made sense to get it

Cycrow

bigfreddiel wrote: »

It's complete madness, a sub £100 smart phone does just as a £1,000 phone.

Nobody seems to understand that the same apps work on a cheap phone as an expensive, that's the whole point of apps and cloud computing.

Have a nice day

Cheers fj

Sorry but this is nonsense. While the average apps will work on all phones, its not true that all of them will.

Try running any gearvr apps on a phone that isn't the Samsung Note4 or S6.

Some of the apps i've made do not run on cheaper android devices, as they dont have the power to run them properly

Ian011

Screen size and resolution, processor speed, internal memory - all of these things push up the price.

Daz2009

Ian011 wrote: »

Screen size and resolution, processor speed, internal memory - all of these things push up the price.

not to mention having a small fruit on the back

diamonds

Daz2009 wrote: »

not to mention having a small fruit on the back

or a large human fruit attached to it :rotfl:

diamonds

Ian011 wrote: »

Screen size and resolution, processor speed, internal memory - all of these things push up the price.

you forgot the highest importance, share price

esuhl

I think Martin's figure of £18+ a month being excessive is a little high. I currently pay £10.50 a month (after cashback) for unlimited minutes and texts (and 1GB of data which I never use).

That was with Vodafone (via Quidco).