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Should I wait or should I click the buy button?
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12/05/2012 11:52
12/05/2012 11:52
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New mobile phone time again, poll please.  I currently have a Desire which pretty much does everything that I want with the only major niggle being the appalling amount of space available to install apps. I'm also fairly happy with Android. My initial short-list for phones was the SIII and One X and that fitted in fine with my contract running out in June.
After actually looking at the One X in the flesh it's just too big for my liking so I took a step down the range towards the SII and One S. Both still have decent amounts of memory and a dual core processor with the only major difference I see being the fact that the One S comes with Ice Cream Sandwich. I'm guessing I could root a SII and upgrade the OS but I probably won't be bothering to root it.
Pricewise I don't want to pay more than my current £30/month over 18 months for the phone and I can get a One S for that, albeit paying £70 for the phone, staying with T-Mobile. That comes with 600 minutes/500 texts and unlimited internet although looking at my mobile usage over the last two years 200 minutes and 100 texts would cover it.
And to help stop anyone wasting their breath, much as I appreciate that Apple make some damn fine products, I've never bought into their style over substance pricing structure so no form of iPhone is on the list. The conclusion is that I'm after an HTC One S and I also forgot until yesterday that T-Mobile will let me upgrade in the last month so I can upgrade today if I want. However I'm wondering if the SIII launch next month will have a knock on effect to the price of other phones. Sooo......, short of the obligatory "find the best deal anywhere and confront T-Mobile customer services with that" dance, do I..... - Click the buy button now on the best One S deal that I can find.
- Wait until next month to see if the SIII arriving knocks One S prices down
- Pick another phone, suggestions taking in the above criteria welcome.
- Option 1 and 3 combined
- Option 2 and 3 combined
Up yours Photobucket.
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Re: Should I wait or should I click the buy button?
[Re: Wishy]
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12/05/2012 12:12
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A click look here suggests that the deal T-Mobile are offering me is quite hard to beat even if I reduce my minutes/texts.
Up yours Photobucket.
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Re: Should I wait or should I click the buy button?
[Re: Wishy]
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12/05/2012 13:16
12/05/2012 13:16
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Personally I'd wait and get the S3 in a month.
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Re: Should I wait or should I click the buy button?
[Re: Jim_Clennell]
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12/05/2012 13:35
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Not particularly, I'll have a look at it.
As for the SIII, as above for One X, too big.
Last edited by Wishy; 12/05/2012 13:36. Reason: missed a bit
Up yours Photobucket.
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Re: Should I wait or should I click the buy button?
[Re: Wishy]
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12/05/2012 19:52
12/05/2012 19:52
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I upgraded from a Desire to a One S on launch day just over a month ago and it's brilliant.
I also found the One X too big and if i'm honest, the Samsung S2 felt cheap and I have no doubts the S3 will too.
The One S has bevelled edges which along with the fact it's pretty thin means I don't notice the size, plus it feels incredibly well made, out of expensive materials.
I was worried about the battery life at first but I needn't have done, it's much better than my old Desire, easily get two days as long as I don't sit and play games for hours.
Plus, I lent it to a younger colleague for a bit and he said it was "sick"!
I really wanted to like the Sony Xperia S, as the styling was different enough to grab my interest and the screen is fantastic, but catastrophic battery life seems to be the cornerstone of more than a few reviews and no ICS yet either so I had to discard that idea.
Last edited by Ed; 12/05/2012 19:55.
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Re: Should I wait or should I click the buy button?
[Re: Wishy]
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16/05/2012 11:49
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The SII can be upgraded to official ICS, even the unbranded/unlocked ones like mine, bought for £250 in an "off eBay" sale  But I can't see (yet) what all the fuss over ICS is all about, I find several apps stop working (AccuWeather is the worst) and freeze the phone for 5 seconds, and there's far fewer swipe actions than I was expecting to have been borrowed from WebOS  But being a light user of calls/texts, none of the contract deals have any appeal to me, I prefer to buy outright and am happy to wait for the furore (and prices) to die down long after launch...
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Re: Should I wait or should I click the buy button?
[Re: Wishy]
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16/05/2012 11:51
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Re: Should I wait or should I click the buy button?
[Re: DaveG]
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16/05/2012 12:03
16/05/2012 12:03
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But I can't see (yet) what all the fuss over ICS is all about, I find several apps stop working (AccuWeather is the worst) and freeze the phone for 5 seconds, and there's far fewer swipe actions than I was expecting to have been borrowed from WebOS Nokia stole them all for use on MeeGo and the Nokia N9 , which is easily the best phone i have used, but the OS is as dead as WebOS and the app store is bare  Such a shame realy that Nokia did not persevere and oinstead went with Windows 7. Having said that the new Nokia Lumia 900 is very nice. Still I am more than happy with my N9, i have sports tracker, great sat nav and and all the apps i need, plus the browser is fantastic and with 64Gb of drag and drop storage it tick all the boxes for my use.
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Re: Should I wait or should I click the buy button?
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16/05/2012 13:02
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I had a good play with a few options this week and the OneS still won for me. I wasn't keen on the squareness of the Sony and Nokia and managed to knock over £100 off the overall price of the contract to the point that it was comparable to deal H2ypr mentions above. I'd agree with comments about Nokia as I had two before my Desire and the Desire couldn't really do anything significant that my N95 couldn't do three years previously. The only thing was that it (the Desire) did them a lot smoother. MrsWishy got an N8 for next to nothing (total cost being less than actual retail of the phone) around the time of the announcements that Symbian was on its way out a while ago and the SatNav app still knocks spots off anything that I've seen on Android in every respect I can think of. For day to day non-phone use such internet browsing or playing backgammon she still nicks my phone though.  FWIW my phone brand history is now Ericcsson (ie before Sony involvement) Nokia Samsung Samsung Samsung Samsung Nokia Nokia HTC HTC Thanks for the ideas all. 
Up yours Photobucket.
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Re: Should I wait or should I click the buy button?
[Re: Wishy]
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16/05/2012 22:29
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Just get an iPhone, simple.
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Re: Should I wait or should I click the buy button?
[Re: Ed]
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17/05/2012 00:02
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...but catastrophic battery life seems to be the cornerstone of more than a few reviews... Not this one: "We deliberately saved our comments about the battery to last, because this is where Android phones always fall down. But those rotters at Sony have cunningly anticipated that a mega-media device like this will need an enormous battery. The kind of battery that causes power blackouts across the grid when charging. And you know what? They have installed such a battery in this phone. A 1750mAh battery, the same as the one used in the Samsung Galaxy Nexus and bigger than the battery in the Galaxy S2."
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