Recommend me a smartphone
tinshed
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Looking for a phone which uses android either brand new or 2nd hand. I've got around £200 to spend, I really haven't got a clue as to what's good and what's not. Ideas please folks.
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seconded ... no other option really worth considering if you have that amount to spend
it is very compact ... very sh*te too
Seriously there are better phones for your dosh
+1 for this...:)
This. Really, if you can stretch to the extra £40, it's really worth it.
Or if you can get an extra £80 get the LG Nexus 4 16Gb which again is the best phone in the sub £290 range. Don't be put off by discount phones, some of them are quite good like the Nexus 4
https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_4_8gb
Yep, direct link to the discounted LG Nexus 4 8gb..Buy it now lol. These phones are £300+ from normal retail stores.
You keep saying this. I don't think the word means what you think it means.
That is the price that it has been on Google since day one. They have never sold it for a higher price. It would be more correct to say that other outlets have are using it's limited online availability to inflate their prices.
Exactly. I think they mean "subsidised" or "aggressively priced". Looks a bit embarrassing saying "discounted" constantly when the word does not apply.
You say subsidised, I say discounted, the important thing is Google offer these products at cheap as chips prices and me and you as consumers are the winners..:D. I know a lot of our friends are buying these phones for 9 and 10 year old kids they're so cheap.
These kids will grow to like/love android so its a great tactic.
Lets be honest, you're ideally looking for a £200 phone, the best thats out there is a Nexus 4 at just under £240. You won't get a better sub £250 phone.
Never mind cheers for the info..
From another forum that I am a member of, somebody purchased 16GB one at around 8:30pm today so I suggest keep trying. Maybe a different browser or different computer.
My wildfire was a good phone in its day, but it was also sluggish. If it did not take a swim I would still be using it, but I got a Huawei Ascend G 300 as a replacement, build wise the phone is useless, but it did show me how sluggish the wildfire was.
I would not recommend a wildfire unless you just want something cheap and cheerful and then I think there may be something better out there, but not the Huawei Ascend G 300.
i would not say £239 is cheap, it may be a good price for the phone, but cheap? no.
if people are buying their 9-10 year kids these phones, then they most have money to burn. How long before it get lost or stolen?
load of rubbish, It may be ok as long as you careful with it, but the build quality is awful. It is a fast phone for the price, responsive and all that stuff. Well it was for a while.
If I bumped the thing or dropped it , I may expect it not to work, but it was treated with kids gloves and it is still failing.
You must have a faulty one - I've dropped mine more times than I care to remember and not a scratch or crack or loss of function once. It's very solidly put together. Last week, whilst ringing the missus, I dropped it down the stairs and it smacked on the laminate floor at the bottom - fearing the worst I picked the phone up to hear the wife asking what the hell just happened?
PS Got a Nexus 4 now and it's amazing but i'm not confident it would stand up to the same mistreatment!