A few upgrade questions (Android / Orange)

Pawnless Endgame · 6 Oct 2013 at 18:45

1. I'm always due in a New Year (Jan 2010, 2012, 2014 etc). I got away with getting my Galaxy SII 2 months early in Nov 2011. What is the leeway nowadays? Think it's 45 days, thus mid-Nov for me?

2. Will I be moved to EE or is there still the choice?

3. Will they pressure me into their Orange Care insurance again like they did with the Galaxy SII?

4. Will I have to re-mortgage my house for a Note 3? I.e. £50/month over 2 years which is like £1200 O.o

5. Android: does app-to-SD work like portable apps for a PC? Firefox etc can be copied to a USB stick and can run on another machine regardless of the drive letter.

6. What about apps that I have purchased? Can they be app-to-SD'd to my next phone? Have got a few games including Transformers and Worms that I wouldn't mind transferring over as they were £3-£5 each. Then again, I had a separate £5 purchase of Worms on my old Sony-Ericsson P990i which I lost when I went to my next phone.

Cheers!

Em3bbs · 6 Oct 2013 at 20:42

From the apps side, you can just download anything you purchased from Google Play again as long as you use the same Google account.

BigBruiserAl · 7 Oct 2013 at 09:30

1. You have the choice 100%
2. Care is always option, yes they will try sell as they targeted on it, just decline it.
3. Yep the note 3 is still silly money at the moment

Myshra · 7 Oct 2013 at 14:24

4 - quidco, top cashback, mobile phones direct, threaten to quit. Or just don't buy a phone you can't afford if this is an issue.
5 - Nope, re-install it from the market. It's possible to do a backup via Titanium backup if you want something to look into - look up a guide.
6 - Apps are on your my apps tab now. Play Store - My Apps - All Tab. A SE P990 is 8 years old, phones didn't transfer java apps very easily in those days. If you still like worms it's on sale all the time on Android/iOS.

Pawnless Endgame · 7 Oct 2013 at 17:14

Thanks for the answers everyone!

BigBruiserAl - you said for qu.1 that I have 100% choice regarding to leeway. I thought it used to be 3 months for Orange and that it's less than that now?

BigBruiserAl · 7 Oct 2013 at 18:03

Monserrat said:
Thanks for the answers everyone!

BigBruiserAl - you said for qu.1 that I have 100% choice regarding to leeway. I thought it used to be 3 months for Orange and that it's less than that now?

Shoot sorry mate was on my tablet when I wrote that and read number one as two lol sorry.

So to confirm yes it now 45days from the end for upgrades and you can choose ee or orange 100% your choice

Pawnless Endgame · 7 Oct 2013 at 18:21

Ahh thanks! That means I'll be able to upgrade in mid-Nov :-)

Hopefully the Note 3 will have dropped by a smidgen and couple it up with a loyalty discount. For the Galaxy SII, the loyalty discount meant that I paid £32/month instead of their asking rate of £36/month.

Grrrrr · 7 Oct 2013 at 19:02

Monserrat said:
Ahh thanks! That means I'll be able to upgrade in mid-Nov Hopefully the Note 3 will have dropped by a smidgen and couple it up with a loyalty discount. For the Galaxy SII, the loyalty discount meant that I paid £32/month instead of their asking rate of £36/month.

Customer loyalty discounts don't exist in the phone world. Or very very very rarely at best. Just because they told you you got a £4 discount doesn't mean you couldn't have saved an additional £5/month somehwere else...

I'd do some web research before you make your call so you can challenge them when they offer you a crummy "deal".