Sub £100 android? huawei g300?

robnut · 2 Oct 2012 at 14:28

Having just sold my s2, looking for a cheap android phone. Bought the wife a huawei g300 the other week and it seems great, are there any alternatives?

Tatsuki · 2 Oct 2012 at 15:56

I think below £100 you will not find a better device than the G300.

robnut · 2 Oct 2012 at 15:59

I have a problem, now, the ascend aint in stock anywhere, as it was £60 in tesco the otherday.

Been looking at the nokia lumia 710/800 as i have never had a windows phone, are they a good choice?

Nymins · 2 Oct 2012 at 16:45

The 710/800 will "feel" a lot better than the G300. Windows Phones are all very snappy performance wise, the specifications now look low compared to Android phones, but the software is designed to always be fast.

The only reason not to get a Windows Phone would be for the odd app that it doesn't have, but they will increase greatly when Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 comes out. (Note though, the Lumia 710/800 will only get upgraded to Windows Phone 7.8).

robnut · 2 Oct 2012 at 16:46

Only app i want really is satnav and whatsapp. Ill take a look into the lumia.

visibleman · 2 Oct 2012 at 17:23

robnut said:
I have a problem, now, the ascend aint in stock anywhere, as it was £60 in tesco the otherday.

Vodafone and Very.co.uk have stock.

MURDEROUS G · 7 Oct 2012 at 08:52

visibleman said:
Vodafone and Very.co.uk have stock.

I was thinking about getting one of these and Googled around and found a very.co.uk "£30 off for first-time shoppers" promo code (have to spend >£60 to redeem the code, phone costs £99, so total phone cost £69, seems good).

I went to very.co.uk to place the order and after giving the usual details re. name, address, phone number etc the next thing the site wants you to do is sign a legally binding credit agreement where they are extending me £1k of credit?

The hell is this? I don't want to sign some convoluted credit agreement, nor do I want £1000 to spend. I just want to buy a damn phone. If anybody has used this retailer in the past could they spell out in simple terms wtf this is they want me to sign and how shopping with them actually works?

Meatball · 7 Oct 2012 at 11:54

Very.co.uk operates very much like Littlewoods and Next. You create a store account with them and they give u a maximum balance to spend with them. Usually they're very low interest or even interest free for a certain period. It's almost like having a store card. If you don't meet minimum monthly payments then you get bent over. I'd just sign up for Very.co.uk, buy the phone, pay the balance straight away and then forget about the account.

moogle · 7 Oct 2012 at 13:30

Meatball said:
I'd just sign up for Very.co.uk, buy the phone, pay the balance straight away and then forget about the account.

That's exactly what I did, you can pay it off right away (not using their credit) or use the buy now pay later choice.

The £30 gets refunded once your card is charged.