Upgrade time, from S8 plus to.. ?

kinger8938 · 5 Apr 2019 at 11:06

As always I say I don't need to upgrade, this phone is fine I'll just keep it and go SIM only. Alas, upgrade time has rolled round and I'm looking at handsets.

I'm not against trying something new (I.e. not the S10) but if that's the one to go for then it makes sense.

Keep hearing about the Huawei P30 but maybe that's a bit too different?

What's the one to go for currently?

Currently spend about £40 a month and that comes with Spotify which we use loads. To lose that it would cost 9.99 a month own to subscribe again. (I'm on vodafone)

kinger8938 · 5 Apr 2019 at 15:56

It is a bit like that isn't it? I'm not set on upgrading by any means just weighing options.

If I leave the contract to run out, does it effectively cut in half cost wise as I will no longer be paying for the phone portion?

kinger8938 · 9 Apr 2019 at 16:52

Yeah I'm going to go sim only. Partner gets me 15% off from her employer so will just go for a cost effective option and wait it out a bit

Thanks guys

kinger8938 · 12 May 2019 at 07:56

Finally just went sim only yesterday. Had to wait until the contract ended on the 10th for those deals to appear. Was really tempted to get a new handset contract but the ones I would have gone for were looking roughly around £50-55 a month.

So keeping my S8+ and gone with the 15gb data with a year of spotify. Also getting the John Lewis discount off of that making it roughly £21 a month. Considering spotify is 9.99 on it's own I'm fairly happy with that as I use it loads since having it on my last bundle.

I like that the contracts are only 12 months so can look at handsets next year when they may have advanced that extra bit more. They did say you can upgrade to a new phone from sim only after 3 months of needed but I imagine it's not that straightforward. Phones have hit a level now where they just seem to be improving in small ways but then it's been like that for years