Do I buy a new phone or get a contract ?

[bigtree]

If you had a good ipone 11 or 12 for trade in, I would have bought it from you. Heavily considered a refurbished one for John but difficult to vet the sellers and what you might get and it’s origins. I have an 11 which is daughter’s old one and absolutely fine.
Have just bought John a new 12 so for once he is one up on me!

We will be selling 2 iphone 12's if we take out the contract.

 

[Riverbankannie]

We will be selling 2 iphone 12's if we take out the contract.

One day too late, although I haven’t collected the new one yet ………

 

[nabsim]

When I needed a new phone a couple of years ago I looked around at contracts and outright purchase. Best I could find then was with Sky mobile. I went with lowest sim plan as they didn’t work for me, never fitted the Sky SIM and continued using the one I had from 3.

Not looked at deals since so don’t know if this is still a viable option but worth a look. Prior to that I would never even though of Sky for a phone

Edit, the deal was for an iPhone 13 Pro Max which was the top iPhone at that time

 

[Landy Andy]

We prefer Iphones and thinking of upgrading to the iphone 15pro.

Apple allow you to pay for the phone in monthly payments at zero interest, I believe. If you want to spread the cost, and also you can part x old ones with them.

 

[Nigel P]

Or just hang on for the next model!

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[Nirvanauk]

We prefer Iphones and thinking of upgrading to the iphone 15pro.

Just got one, and a fantastic camera. Only issue I have that it does get hot but this is a known issue and Apple are working on a fix.

 

[carolyn]

I am unfortunately a slave to iphones I’m embarrassed to say. I blame my daughter. When she did her Erasmus year in Madrid and Porto in 2010/2011 there was no whatsap , you only had imessage and that was so novel and I got sucked into buying iphone 3’s for us as my baby was very isolated working in an engineering company(my excuse and I’m sticking to it)!

Until recently I’d always bought my iphones plus a sim only deal. In the Summer Martin Lewis advertised a iphone14 with a 2 year contract from O2 , 60gb, for the cost of the phone. Even taking into account the fact that O2 are the worst for the annual price increases it was too good a deal to miss. I’ve diarised the 23 months to give 30 days notice to cancel.

As he says iphones are never money saving but if you want one then find the cheapest way to get one.

Nick has an android phone plus Lebara. He’s happy. It’s my little weakness.

 

[philann]

Just updated my iPhone SE to a 15. Got £90 trade in and paying the rest at £29 per month for 2 years. Generally keep a phone for 4 years (or until I lose it!)

 

[BikerGraham]

last year I replaced both the company phones with new contract deals. Previouly I had seprately bought the phones and sim deals but this time the deal through Vodafone was cheaper than separately. I even factored in a 15% mid-term price increase (CPI + 3.9%) for this year and also 10% for next year and it was till cheaper. So occassionaly they do happen. Mind you they were both on unlimited everything with EU roaming (25GB roaming data limit though). So expensive sim deals anyway.

I noticed the deals were withdrawn not long afterwards as I think they had made a mistake. Oh dear never mind.....

 

[iandsm]

I would rather cover my "Thingy" in treacle, wrap it in barbed wire and shove it into the front entrance of an ant's nest than have anything sold by Apple.

I buy my (Samsung) phone(s) outright and have sim only deal with Vodafone and Nos...


JJ

Are we to take it you are not keen on Apple products for reasons you wish to keep confidential ?

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[Nigel P]

Just got one, and a fantastic camera. Only issue I have that it does get hot but this is a known issue and Apple are working on a fix.

 

[AJM2]

I always buy my phone separately and use that leverage to get a better deal with a provider. I also keep it until I regard a new spec as being worthwhile buying a new phone for, really can’t see the point of having the ‘latest’ just for the sake of it.

 

[Spriddler]

Pristine refurbished. My phone retailed at £1100 at the time, got it without a mark on it and a 12 month warranty for £760.

Good Lord! £760 ? That's more that I paid for my first camper.
I've had a £30 text and calls only PAYG Doro for 15 years which does everything I need except enabling me to use pay-by-phone parking so I don't go to those places - and I don't miss them.

 

[herald_400rl]

Good Lord! £760 ? That's more that I paid for my first camper.
I've had a £30 text and calls only PAYG Doro for 15 years which does everything I need except enabling me to use pay-by-phone parking so I don't go to those places - and I don't miss them.

You spends your money you make your choice.

 

[royandsharont]

Pristine refurbished. My phone retailed at £1100 at the time, got it without a mark on it and a 12 month warranty for £760. Had it nearly 2 years and in another couple of years when I replace I'll do the same.

herald_400rl and iandsm Can I ask where you go for a good quality refurbished iPhone

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[Grianan]

I bought a new iPhone 15 from John Lewis. Had £250 in JL vouchers so was a bargain. I also got back £65 for the 5yo iPhone 8 Plus I traded in.
We use a Tesco SIM which suits at the moment with Home from Home extended again. I’m past the contract date but happy with deal.
New phone is great - much faster and camera better. I also love the clock when I wireless charge it at night. Just tap screen to see it and it doesn’t keep you awake.

 

[gus-lopez]

(CPI + 3.9%)

I really cannot understand why the scammers are allowed the "3,9%"
What is it for except to increase profits?

 

[Richard n Ann]

I bought a Samsung A54 5G earlier this year. It's brand new and an Asian import but you wouldn't know, even the language was in English when I first switched it on. Was on ebay for £320 256GB dual sim.
It's £499 on samsung website

 

[BikerGraham]

I really cannot understand why the scammers are allowed the "3,9%"
What is it for except to increase profits?

Yep and it’s is in many areas. Broadband as well as phone packages etc. been like not for a good few years now.
Think Tesco club card deals are fixed for contract term though.

 

[herald_400rl]

herald_400rl and iandsm Can I ask where you go for a good quality refurbished iPhone

Got mine from Music Magpie.

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[Soycd]

Used to have contract one's years ago but buy outright outright now. The flexibility to chop and change sim provider is great. GiffGaff will be getting binned soon due to their dreadful pricing for use in EU. I've always stuck with iPhone, currently have and SE, which has much more potential than I need. I vowed to go re-furbished last time I bought a phone but I had some Apple vouchers........I'm a bit wary of Android as their control over app security is questionable.

 

[Richard n Ann]

Used to have contract one's years ago but buy outright outright now. The flexibility to chop and change sim provider is great. GiffGaff will be getting binned soon due to their dreadful pricing for use in EU. I've always stuck with iPhone, currently have and SE, which has much more potential than I need. I vowed to go re-furbished last time I bought a phone but I had some Apple vouchers........I'm a bit wary of Android as their control over app security is questionable.

Giffgaff OK up to 5gb shite for streaming I suppose

 

[TinaLes]

Back Market for refurb phones I see a lot come up on Google, might give them a try next time.
Having read up on The I Phone 15, even though it has a 48 mega pixel camera, the new Titanium case is not as hard wearing as the previous SS casing, so after it has settled down initially from doing its software indexing, updating to latest IOS Fix software, and you have turned down the brightness, and disabled a few apps from running all the time, like maps/GPS etc, then the advice is to buy a case to protect it, as if dropped its not as hardy as the previous models with glass screens front and back.
It also has an OLED screen, which if left with an image on full time it can burn the screen, you can use the battery health checker via settings menu, if after a full charge it shows anything less than 10 hours or 80% left, its got a defective battery which can be exchanged in any Apple Store we are told.
Have I done enough to have sold this model to you yet?
If not see below link on advice to fix it before the next model release outdates it.
LES

iPhone 15 problems: 5 common issues and how to fix them | Digital Trends

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[Soycd]

Giffgaff OK up to 5gb shite for streaming I suppose

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I normally have a 10gb rolling contract but switch to the 5gb when we go to EU, so I can't go over 5gb and would just start the next months early. They have now change some of the plans so the minimum you can get is 6gb. So if you had started a new plan the day you went into EU and went beyond 5gb and used the whole 6gb, that final 1gb would cost £100. Complete rippoff. I don't use them for streaming only for phone use. I've got the plan where I can switch to a 5gb though.

 

[Minxy]

bigtree

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[dulvil]

If you do the maths, it's rare that a contract gives you a discount on the phone. In most cases, it's just spreading the cost of the phone. Often locking you into much longer contracts.

I prefer to buy SIM only contracts and buy my phones outright when I need one.

So do I,and the same advise from Martin Lewis

 

[Coastal Cruiser.]

Went for a new iPhone 14 last year from Vodaphone shop as they had a good deal, must say that I find their reception crap in a lot of places I go and was better off with my previous EE account
I just go with a 2 year contract now with a new phone as I’m not working much before when I was working the phone would only last a year
Will be going for another new phone in a years time when this one runs out.

 

[Dutch 68]

Is it I phone 12 plus ? Would like a bigger screen on my next phone

 

[nabsim]

Is it I phone 12 plus ? Would like a bigger screen on my next phone

They changed away from using the plus designation after the 8 I think. On 11 onwards you have normal phone, pro and pro max. Think they now have cut down se as well on some

Pro max is biggest screen

 

[Riverbankannie]

They changed away from using the plus designation after the 8 I think. On 11 onwards you have normal phone, pro and pro max. Think they now have cut down se as well on some

Pro max is biggest screen

Daughter has the 12 pro max but has got RSI from excessively extending her texting thumb. I don’t get that way of using one handed, I can only hold in one hand and tap with my index finger of the other hand , or use the speech to text.

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