Buy £20 worth of Orange PAYG credit and get a free phone!

Former_MSE_Natasha

What's the deal?

Go to an Orange shop, and while stocks last, buy £20 of Pay-As-You-Go credit and you'll get a free Motorola F3 or Alcatel OTE 230 pink.

Who's this good for?

This is primarily a 'granny in the glove box' phone; i.e. one that's just kept and used for emergencies. It's also useful for those with an existing Orange PAYG who plan to top up £20 anyway.

To keep the sim active you need to top it up by at least £10 every six months.

Simply buy your credit in an Orange store to get one of the free phones which you could either keep, give-away as a gift, sell or Recycle For Cash.

The shop window may say £30 top up required

These are old posters - we've had confirmation from the Orange press office that £20 is all that's required plus MSE Andrea popped into a store to confirm this.

What are these phones like?

Both phones are very basic models.

• Motorola F3. The Motorola F3 (note:this link's for picture purposes only, as the offer isn't available online) is a simple phone but is dual band (you can use it overseas) has a speaker phone, monophonic ringtones and comes in black.

• Alcatel OTE 230. The Alcatel OTE 230 pink (again, the link is just to show you what the phone looks like) is a flip phone with polyphonic ring tones, Java™ games and applications and up to 10hrs talk time.

Who isn't this deal good for?

This is bog standard pay as you go deal; it's only the free handset that makes it cheap. So if you're planning to use it for lots of calls, don't get it. Instead read the Cheap Mobile Deal System.

Call & text charges

On Orange's 'Speak Easy Bonus Top-Up' PAYG plan, calls to any network or landline are charged at 15p per minute and texts 10p each, plus you'll get some free bonus texts around 30 days later for topping up by £20.

Can they be unlocked?

Many phones can be easily unlocked (see the Free Mobile Unlocking article), so you can just plonk any sim card in it and it works. Sadly these two phones can't be unlocked for free.

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Lemony

I can't find any links that actually say you get a free phone if you spend £20?

Is the offer only available in shops?

Lemony x

molerat

Lemony
Selected quotes from the OP

MSE_Natasha wrote: »

Go to an Orange shop

Simply buy your credit in an Orange store to get one of the free phones The shop window may say £30 top up required

• Motorola F3. The Motorola F3 (note:this link's for picture purposes only, as the offer isn't available online)
• Alcatel OTE 230. The Alcatel OTE 230 pink (again, the link is just to show you what the phone looks like)

justicewhite

Do you need to get a new PAYG deal? Or, can you get the phone by buying credit for the existing PAYG SIM card?

angellotz

Tony5101 wrote: »

Hmm...this is a link through to Ebay????

indeed it is..hmmm

gatwick

Please can you tell me in which countries the dual band Motorola F3 works

Thanks

£sd

My wife just went in to an orange shop & the deal was you had to put the £20 on the free phone - it wasn't free if you wanted to top up your existing orange payg phone.

jammyjam

Anyone know how much it costs to unlock these? I need a new phone, but want to keep my existing number

geordie_lass_2

jammyjam wrote: »

Anyone know how much it costs to unlock these? I need a new phone, but want to keep my existing number

You can bring an existing number to Orange from another network, I'm not 100% sure if you can do this on PAYG though but I think you can. You would need to get a PAC code from your existing network.
Orange will be able to give you more details if you ask in the shop, a couple of years ago they used to give you a bonus top-up for doing this.

skibster

I like the pink phone! But as I don't need one right now, here's an FYI if you want a "granny phone" (meaning you won't make many calls on it): Tesco doesn't require you to keep topping up to stay active. I bought £30 of airtime a year ago and got a free phone from Tesco. I still have probably £20 or so of airtime left. I think the sim card will stay active no matter how long I take to use that time up.

teamburnett

any idea how long deal will be on for? can't believe I've just been in town and not sure when I'll get back in for a while!!