Same reason people finance cars and have mortgages.
Not many people have large sums of cash lying around.
This offer from EE any good?
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Same reason people finance cars and have mortgages.
Not many people have large sums of cash lying around.
Not that extreme, I bought my s4 when Amazon dropped the price to £450 ,with my £15 p/m sim it works out over two years at £32.91 p/m, I'm sure I could have got a similar three contract from one of the better e sellers for about the same, the reason I did it this way was because of carrier bloat and quicker updates with an unlocked phone but the 3 bloat is very lite and the carriers get sw updates sooner and unlocking a phone is easy so I'll probably get my next phone on contract.
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On release I got a Galaxy S3 and a Galaxy tab 10.1 3G for £37 a month with 600 mins, unltd texts and a gig of data for 24 months, I think I got a better deal there
1gb though, wouldnt work for me at all. I've used 2gb this month over 3g just listening to google play music on the way to work in the mornings lol.
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Depends entirely on the deal.
I pay £42 a month for a Blackberry Q10 with Unlimited/Unlimited/4gb on a 12 month plan. That's £504. I paid zero up front.
When the phone came out brand new, it cost £550 sim free. Now, 9 months down the line, sim free brand new it is £290. Even if I took the contract out now I would effectively be paying less than £15 a month for service, but seeing as I bought it on release day... I have done very well out of it.
Note I got this deal by negotiating, I think the general price for it is £57 a month, which makes it a worse, but still not truly awful deal worked out on overall costing. It's weirdly set up, my plan is £57 and then I have a £12.50 pre tax discount applied....
However, my previous phone, buying straight up onto voda's 12month plan, worked out similarly, I was paying next to nothing for service in effect. I guess a lot of people can't deal with the thought of paying such large numbers a month, but as I budget yearly it makes little odds
tl;dr: consider vodafone's 12 month deals.
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Oh Purrrlease. You have got to be joking putting cars and houses on the same tier as phones. Talk about debt living and immediate gratification culture. Phones are not that expensive. Even if you only pull in 14k, save 10% for 4 months and you have enough for any top tier handset. Of course, nobody actually needs the newest exorbitantly priced iPhone, and aiming for the enthusiast/top tier market is fools money.
Bet you won't pop your head in the Apple forum and say that!!!
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The deal offered to the OP isn't too bad compared with the EE online shop price.
To get the 4G unlimited calls & Text with 2Gig data costs £29.99 per month and the Samsung Galaxy S4 phone cost is £119. You can get the phone to cost lower but the line rental increases pro-rata. Also he is getting 3 months of his 4 month remaining contact paid for him. So the offer is better than EE are offering new customers but it is still a large monthly payment and commitment to get fast 4G access.
I prefer my Nexus 5 linked to my EE 4G payg simcard, I got the 2014 free mins offer, so I am just paying £10 a month topup for 4G data.
To get the 4G unlimited calls & Text with 2Gig data costs £29.99 per month and the Samsung Galaxy S4 phone cost is £119. You can get the phone to cost lower but the line rental increases pro-rata. Also he is getting 3 months of his 4 month remaining contact paid for him. So the offer is better than EE are offering new customers but it is still a large monthly payment and commitment to get fast 4G access.
I prefer my Nexus 5 linked to my EE 4G payg simcard, I got the 2014 free mins offer, so I am just paying £10 a month topup for 4G data.