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Anyone in the UK get their Tab?

Went into Carphone Warehouse and the man was oblivious to when it was out. Told me theyd have it in a few weeks, I told him its meant to be launched today and he then said itd be there in a few days and that id get an email telling me it was in stock.
Ridiculous.
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just order it online for same day delivery mate!
http://www.carphonewarehouse.com/laptop-redirect/samsung-galaxy-tab
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-Galaxy-Device-Cortex-Android/dp/B0042D75TU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1288602012&sr=8-1
http://www.expansys.com/samsung-galaxy-tab-android-tablet-16gb-201135/

Ive already preordered it via them for in store pickup
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I just got back from carphone warehouse here in sheffield and they got stock in today, so hopefully you'll see them soon wherever you are.
I stopped by in the Vodafone store and they said that they will have stock tomorrow (thats where I'll be shopping as I have a vodafone signal booster) so it'd seem that 'right now' is when its supposed to be happening. Not that you'd know... No-one seems to want to make a fuss *sigh*.
If anyone gets their tab today or tomorrow (before me) can they confirm that the Tab has the full phone functionality in it ?
All the contracts seem to offer just a data line, which is ... fine... i guess... Since I'm just going to trade my Galaxy S sim card into it, but I need to know that I'll be able to get texts and use the phone. Otherwise I'm going to be a seriously pissed off panda bear.
So yeah... an open call to UK guys getting a Tab... Trade your smartphones SIM into it and check that it'll make/recieve calls and texts.
If they've disabled the phone aspect, I swear to god I'm going to embark on an urban terror campaign... Or just ***** on the internet. Either way. I want a Tab cuz its a phone not just a dataline. I want a phone replacement, not a small iPad.
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While I was in carphone warehouse, they said they are tossing in a 16gb card with their Tabs (not sure if its just them or general thing) and I know that they are offering some other cool free stuff which I saw on the guys screen, but he didn't go back over it so I don't know what it is. Anyways, good luck.

I think the phone capabilities is a UK only thing, so youre in luck unless theyve changed things :| then ill also be a pissed off panda bear
I guess at first itll be shipped to major cities, then sent out to smaller ones later in the week.
Reguarding the 16gb sd, did they say if that was if you purchased/pre ordered there and then? The people in Norwich didnt even know you could preorder it! Must have been living under a bloody rock for the past month.
Im getting a T-Mo 30 day sim contract for unlimited data and 100 mins & texts. Have my Desire for another 1 1/2 years so I should probably make the most of my contract
Ill be so angry if i get an email later telling me its arrived at the store
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GANJDROID said:
Ive already preordered it via them for in store pickup
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Me too. Went into my local store as they never answer the phone. Not had any delivery yet today. They say their delivery is usually after 3 and sometimes just as they are closing. They took my number and said they will call me when they have their delivery. We'll see. Customer service on the phone is useless. They know nothing. And still no email saying it's on the way to the store.

GANJDROID said:
I think the phone capabilities is a UK only thing, so youre in luck unless theyve changed things :| then ill also be a pissed off panda bear
I guess at first itll be shipped to major cities, then sent out to smaller ones later in the week.
Reguarding the 16gb sd, did they say if that was if you purchased/pre ordered there and then? The people in Norwich didnt even know you could preorder it! Must have been living under a bloody rock for the past month.
Im getting a T-Mo 30 day sim contract for unlimited data and 100 mins & texts. Have my Desire for another 1 1/2 years so I should probably make the most of my contract
Ill be so angry if i get an email later telling me its arrived at the store
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I don't know about the SD card thing. The guy said they are doing it for all the Tabs, and implied that you only get whats in the box, so it would seem that its included with every unit, but I couldn't swear to it.
The phone thing is kinda weird. We've been told for ages that we'll have the capability, but no-one is selling it as a phone. Like NO-ONE. They're pushing the video calling thing, but thats a data thing, not an actual 'phone' thing. Without ANY phone stuff on the contract, I don't even know if a contract will give me a phone number or anything. I'm particularly pissed because I was assuming that it would drop on contracts similar to smartphone contracts, but everyone is pushing ~£500 with pointlessly expencive data-only contracts. I saw one that was £20 a month for 2 years and still £450 up front! REDICULOUS! I already have an unlimited data contract and wifi practically everywhere I am for any length of time except public transport. I just cannot understand what the hell they are doing with this pricing... Totally ignoring the only thing that makes the Tab better than the competition. RAAAAAAAGE

CPW have finally updated the Tab page:
http://www.carphonewarehouse.com/laptop-redirect/samsung-galaxy-tab?intcmp=hp-hp-hero-4-v1-1134
£530 with no contract or £530 with some crap Vodafone contract. Wooooo! [/sarcasm]
Anyway, reguarding the phone capabilities. Most/all screenshots of the Euro/UK tabs have either a Phone or Contacts shortcut on the homescreen. But it is strange that companies arent making a big deal about being able to make calls. :/
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Urgh. This is straight up bull****.
Also, why the hell is the carphone warehouse price for a vodafone tab HIGHER than the vodafone price ? I thought the point of going there was cuz they got stuff cheaper than straight from the network.
The vodafone prices are £499 + whatever contract. Its not much of a difference, but im seriously not happy that they want full list price on a contract. What the ****?
Has anyone seen ANY decent subsidies in the UK ? Isn't the german one going for like 100e + 17.50e a month ? See thats what I'm talking about.
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O2 want £600 btw. So thank god for small mercies.

Exactly. Full tab price and a £20 contract (?) shows how much they think about their plans. People in the Vodafone shop actually knew what a Tab was too!
If only we followed suit with the Germans. Their plans make sense. Where as ours are a bloody shamble.
Emailed CPW about when they think theyll actually have the tab and surprise surprise, no response.
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GANJDROID said:
Exactly. Full tab price and a £20 contract (?) shows how much they think about their plans. People in the Vodafone shop actually knew what a Tab was too!
If only we followed suit with the Germans. Their plans make sense. Where as ours are a bloody shamble.
Emailed CPW about when they think theyll actually have the tab and surprise surprise, no response.
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That really sucks. Hope you get it sorted soon.
There's two things here that both combined I'm pissed about (more so as the day wears on). Firstly, I'm going to have to pay for the whole device up front. Second, I'm not going to have a spare service plan to kick around. If I were getting a decent subsidy OR a nice mins/txts/data bundle then I'd be cool.
Now I always knew that this wasn't going to be a cheap device, but I don't think anywhere else in the world is being hit as hard as us on the upfront price. Even the ****ing yanks who pay through the nose for every other mobile device are being told that $600 or £375 is full retail price. What the hell is that ?

LostAlone said:
That really sucks. Hope you get it sorted soon.
There's two things here that both combined I'm pissed about (more so as the day wears on). Firstly, I'm going to have to pay for the whole device up front. Second, I'm not going to have a spare service plan to kick around. If I were getting a decent subsidy OR a nice mins/txts/data bundle then I'd be cool.
Now I always knew that this wasn't going to be a cheap device, but I don't think anywhere else in the world is being hit as hard as us on the upfront price. Even the ****ing yanks who pay through the nose for every other mobile device are being told that $600 or £375 is full retail price. What the hell is that ?
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Maybe/hopefully T-Mo & Voda will realise how high everywhere is charging compared to the rest of the world and knock it down. A lot.
If not, then T-Mo sim only deals are the best imho. 100 mins & texts and unlimited data for £10 or upgrade to 300 (i believe) for £15. I dont want to be tied to another overpriced contract tbh. :/
But, the Tab is £530 new, my Desire was priced at £500 brand new. I sure as hell would have paid the extra £30
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CPW are a real shambles these days. I eventually got an email saying mine had been shipped to the store today and giving me a DHL tracking number. Great! Only problem is that the tracking number shows it was already delivered to Sheffield in November LAST YEAR! Phoned them AGAIN and it still hadn't been shipped yet. They promised me it was being shipped today for delivery to my London store tomorrow. Of course, I could have just gone to Oxford Street today and picked one up!
By the way, the CPW website shows definitely it is a phone as the 3 contracts include minutes. Also, seems CPW supply it with a 16gb card.

My galaxy S was about £500 too, but I sure as hell didn't pay that upfront. In fact I won't have paid the original price until next summer.
That's kinda my point.
The kinda contracts we get on regular smart phones are a nice way to spread the cost of a really expensive device over a much longer time frame. From my point of view there is simply no point in getting a tab with any kind of contract, which aggravates me.
Normally they are real happy to sign you onto a contract, but here there is genuinely no point. I mean £30 quid off when you sign up for 2 years ? For something I won't even use *shakes head*.
Up until now I was just going to spread the cost out and have a spare contract sim for family/friends/whatever. Now, I'm not getting the SIM nor spreading the cost.

I went for the £30 saving with their one month rolling 1gb data contract, including 1 month free. So I may cancel after a month or two and I will still have saved. Also, having bought through Quidco, I should be getting cashback as well. Looks like it could even be £40 as that's what's been tracked by Quidco.

i was all set for this since im due for an upgrade from my 3gs but to my horror no minutes on any contracts, the 24 month contract has 100 minutes but thats it. Not really enough, 300 would have been fine.
Think im gonna get a Archos again and look at other tablets next year. Will probably stick with the 3GS. Unless of course some more options are given, you would think that one of the networks would allow you to use it as a phone. But oh no!!

Yea - Got mine from Car Phone Warehouse - Last one in stock but we are definitely getting shafted over this...
I payed 299 with a 24 month contract as I needed a 3G card anyway for a dongle.
Vodafone want Minimum £424 up front...
I am an early adopter and have waited for this device for a couple months but I would advise that people wait for a further 2 weeks or so when the prices come down as the networks are clearly playing silly £$"$£$ with this.
All contracts car phone offered had no minutes I couldn't believe it...

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CPW are a real shambles these days...
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Better and better! Got a new DHL number last night. Checking it this morning and it says its held at the depot because of an INCOMPLETE ADDRESS! And this was for collection from a CPW store. Couldn't even get their own address right!

Rushed home from work to Cambridge. Tried to go to PCWorld/Curry's but they weren't open. Called CPW. Their machine said they were open until 8. I walked to the mall and they were closed. It was only 5:30. Why does everything close at 5:30 here? Do businesses not like making money from people who work during the day? Lol. BTW I'm a "yank" working on an RAF base.

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Rushed home from work to Cambridge. Tried to go to PCWorld/Curry's but they weren't open. Called CPW. Their machine said they were open until 8. I walked to the mall and they were closed. It was only 5:30. Why does everything close at 5:30 here? Do businesses not like making money from people who work during the day? Lol. BTW I'm a "yank" working on an RAF base.
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Well, everyone in the UK has tea and crumpets at 6 so it gives us time to get home in time
GOOD NEWS THOIGH! Just got 2 emails; one saying they'll contact me again when my order has been processed and the other saying its been dispatched from their warehouse
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Price of play

Just was wondering what everyone paid for their plays. I paid 549.00 right from a rogers store here bit seen them as high as 900.00 on ebay.
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£295 off ebay, brand new

Nothing, was an upgrade on my contract

Contract upgrade, so 160 euro's only. Prices for new play's are around 500 euro over here

if you pay attention to ebay now there are alot online now. the google io was 2 days ago i think and most developers are just selling to get rid of. i got a brand new one for $475 shipped.

I bought my white R800a unlocked/unbranded on Monday off a dude from Craigslist in SF that got it at a Qualcomm Android developer summit, for $600 cash.
I also noticed a bunch are on eBay for sale from the Google I/O event. Kind of sad in a way as the devs should be using them to develop better games for us!
I guess their loss is your gain

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I bought my white R800a unlocked/unbranded on Monday off a dude from Craigslist in SF that got it at a Qualcomm Android developer summit, for $600 cash.
I also noticed a bunch are on eBay for sale from the Google I/O event. Kind of sad in a way as the devs should be using them to develop better games for us!
I guess their loss is your gain
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i have the 800a as well, waiting for it to come. so the 800a is the unlocked unbranded model. i can use with tmobile without buying a unlock code?

charlieb620 said:
i have the 800a as well, waiting for it to come. so the 800a is the unlocked unbranded model. i can use with tmobile without buying a unlock code?
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If it's unbranded, yep. Just pop in your SIM when it comes and you're in business. No need for codes.

axiomjunglist said:
If it's unbranded, yep. Just pop in your SIM when it comes and you're in business. No need for codes.
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thats good to hear. thanks alot. ill let u guys know when it comes.

Got it for free on a 2 year contract will have cost at the end of contract around £840 minus insurance (well i do get thousands of minutes and texts and unlimited net, so i suppose all i good)

I got it as a contract upgrade, I pay £20 a month
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Well I got mine of ebay,
someone upgraded to the play but they just wanted the money so they sold it,
It was brand new still had the protector films on the front and back. Boxed with all accessories still in there sealed plastic bags for £300 free postage
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Mozza2k11 said:
Got it for free on a 2 year contract will have cost at the end of contract around £840 minus insurance (well i do get thousands of minutes and texts and unlimited net, so i suppose all i good)
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Not really, i get unlimited txts and internet for £5 a month on pay as you go lol
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AndroHero said:
Not really, i get unlimited txts and internet for £5 a month on pay as you go lol
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Yeah but you had to pay for the phone. And i got mine as soon as it was released was not interested in paying £450-500 when it first came out. Then all my mins/data ontop e.t.c Worked out about the same, alittle less maybe to buy the phone and use a pay as you go sim over 2 years. I like the phone so it doesn't matter all is good

Mozza2k11 said:
Yeah but you had to pay for the phone. And i got mine as soon as it was released was not interested in paying £450-500 when it first came out. Then all my mins/data ontop e.t.c Worked out about the same, alittle less maybe to buy the phone and use a pay as you go sim over 2 years. I like the phone so it doesn't matter all is good
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^This!
In my case my Play will cost me a grand total of £4.99 (for delivery) as its a free upgrade as a good will gesture as I have my company account (over 200 handsets) with them too and they always give me free stuff to keep me with them lol, I can also upgrade again in 30 days and keep the Play for nothing, same as I did with the iphone 4 and galaxy s.

Best UK Deals

This is a place holder for all the best uk deals so everyone has a chance to grab a bargain
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Carphone Warehouse: First 1000 orders get a Samsung Galaxy Tab.
Haven't seen anything else yet!

I'm no fan of the Carphone Warehouse but have to say this is a superb offer, cant see anything to pre order (as in buy outright)though unless im missing something
http://www.carphonewarehouse.com/news/coming-soon/samsung-s3

Not too bad.
Heres a damn good offer from Three UK incl FREE phone
The One plan
24 month contract.
All-you-can-eat-data
2,000 minutes
5,000 Three-to-Three minutes
5,000 texts
£34 p/m

DomCowell said:
Carphone Warehouse: First 1000 orders get a Samsung Galaxy Tab.
Haven't seen anything else yet!
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Only if you buy with a contract though... Sim-free doesn't get you the tab (unfortunately!)
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Isadora said:
Only if you buy with a contract though... Sim-free doesn't get you the tab (unfortunately!)
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Indeed, it wouldn't make financial sense for then otherwise!
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If you just want the phone on its own, o2 will be the cheapest when they finally put it up on the site!

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Only if you buy with a contract though... Sim-free doesn't get you the tab (unfortunately!)
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Bastards i didn't know that you would think if someone was to spend £500 on a phone they would give away the Tab as well.
Maybe ill take out a contract and just not pay

jonny68 said:
Bastards i didn't know that you would think if someone was to spend £500 on a phone they would give away the Tab as well.
Maybe ill take out a contract and just not pay
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I assume you are trying to be funny... Why would they make the effective price about £100 to £200 haha
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Some nice deals already
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Vodafone, Three and O2
Vodafone has it for £41
O2 for a ridiculous £46
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Three for £34, which seems to be the best deal up until now.
I'm not allowed post links though

I'm waiting for the t-mobile full monty package, had an initial email, just waiting on the pricing....
Unlimited Internet
Unlimited text
Unlimited t-mobile calls
2000 any other mins to other networks
DC
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Guys,
Honestly do not pre-order, you will always get your phone quicker from the actual shops, found that out through experience
JD

JupiterdroidXDA said:
Guys,
Honestly do not pre-order, you will always get your phone quicker from the actual shops, found that out through experience
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Not really i pre ordered my HTC Desire and LG Optimus 3d and it came to my house 9am on the day both phones were released...

Carphone warehouse on Vodafone £31 per month for 24 months, 32 gig in blue free.
800 minutes any network
Unlimited texts
500 meg data
O2 gave me such a fu©king run around with promising to match that deal, then 2 days later saying they couldn't that I decided to go to Vodafone after 11 years with O2.
Yesterday O2 send me a mail saying my order was being processed for £250 handset at £75 a month for 24 months... I was proper peeved. Sorted now, but put me off O2 a hell of a lot.
this deal is the cheapest I seen so far I think.
Edit: Carphone Warehouse also recon I'll get the handset on release day or day later... not sure I believe that, but we'll see I guess.
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Ordered mine from phones 4 U. Free phone, £46 per month on a 12 month contract with vodafone. Free 16gb card and case. 900 minutes, unlimited text, 500mb internet.
Total contract price over 12 months £552!
Should be delivered on the 30th. Highly recommended!

The-Kevster said:
Ordered mine from phones 4 U. Free phone, £46 per month on a 12 month contract with vodafone. Free 16gb card and case. 900 minutes, unlimited text, 500mb internet.
Total contract price over 12 months £552!
Should be delivered on the 30th. Highly recommended!
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That's a VERY decent deal!
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Meemo23 said:
Not really i pre ordered my HTC Desire and LG Optimus 3d and it came to my house 9am on the day both phones were released...
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Really!!!
There was lots of people that ordered the Desire HD and SGS2 only for it to be released 5 days earlier exclusively to P4U...
My mate ordered 1 month previous to this and I had my SGS2 a full week before him
JD

JupiterdroidXDA said:
Really!!!
There was lots of people that ordered the Desire HD and SGS2 only for it to be released 5 days earlier exclusively to P4U...
My mate ordered 1 month previous to this and I had my SGS2 a full week before him
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I personally have ordered many contracts for my whole family we always pre order a phone we like..
Meaning we always have the latest mobiles blah blah.. Anyway i have ordered a tonne of phones from Phones 4 U and Carphone Warehouse. We have always received our phones either on the day of release or a day earlier...

Meemo23 said:
I personally have ordered many contracts for my whole family we always pre order a phone we like..
Meaning we always have the latest mobiles blah blah.. Anyway i have ordered a tonne of phones from Phones 4 U and Carphone Warehouse. We have always received our phones either on the day of release or a day earlier...
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Your very lucky then because in my experience (all the way back to nexus one days) pre-ordering is kinda worthless... Will look forward to be proved wrong this time though
Still will prefer to walk in CPW on release day and purchase the good stuff..
JD

Current UK Deals on Note 2

If anyone is in the UK looking for contract deals
have a look
http://www.buymobilephones.net/mobile-phones/Samsung/Samsung-Galaxy-Note-II/30,106759,All,tt1,ct1

Anyone know when Three deals will start to hit the third party sites?
Thanks.

Got mine today and what a beauty! I got mine on vodafone through phones 4 u on the red 2gb tariff which is unlimited calls and texts with 2gb of data for £42 a month. I was already with vodafone and still have 6 months left on my old £30 p/m contract for my note1. its going to cost me about £140 to buy out of my original contract :-/. But ....
Phones 4 u gave me £90 towards my buy out and...
Gave me £200 for my original note! I could have got slightly more on ebay but with selling fees it would have been close
Anyway I walked out with a galaxy note 2 and £290 CASH! It seemed amazing as they handed me a wad of cash and a brand new top of the range phone. (Ive had worse days). I have £140 to pay on my old contract but im very pleased overall.
I just thought id share this as an option for anyone waying up how to get there note 2.
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Three are pushing two deals at the moment
Both 24 month contracts
2000 mins, 5000 texts, 5000 3 to 3 minutes and unlimited data with tethering (this is what stole my money from Tmobile)
either,
£36/month with £69 for the handset or
£40/month with free handset
I would have preferred to get something on the new EE tariffs but i'm too impatient lol.

Hey, FYI there's £101 pounds cashback on Three's One Plan contracts at topcashback and quidco!!!

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Hey, FYI there's £101 pounds cashback on Three's One Plan contracts at topcashback and quidco!!!
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Wow awesome thanks.
Will this offer still be available tomorrow? (Well, later today)

RambJoe said:
Wow awesome thanks.
Will this offer still be available tomorrow? (Well, later today)
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Should be, Quidco usually have a count down to the last few remaining days of a particular deal. Its a shame Three only have the white one in stock I am waiting for the grey one.

EE announces they will be carrying the Note II
EE say they'll be carrying the Note II, see http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/47806/samsung-galaxy-note-2-lte-ee-uk-4g
No pricing info yet and you'll need to start on Orange or T-Mobile before transferring across. Typically T-Mobile's crappy website has no detail yet.

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Sending Mine Back to P4U

Well I bought sim free, it arrived, I had a couple of days with it and now i'm sending it back.
Why I hear you all cry ..... well quite simply because the phone is that good I'm going to commit to a 2 year contract with it. Not sure just who to go with yet, so anyone with any suggestions that would be great (I live essex/herts way and work in london, am currently on t-mobile, who have improved quite a bit last few months)
I really like it, I really do, have one or two little annoyances, but generally I can't remember the last time I enjoyed a phone that much (maybe iphone 4)
So yeah, i'ts going back but i'm gonna commit (and for someone like me who changed phones and find fault with phones all the time thats quite a big thing !!!)

I upgraded to the Orange panther 41 contract through p4u, 18 month, 600 mins, unlimited text, 1gb data, HTC One silver free with flip cover.
The best bits are, p4u gives 5 pounds discount on the tarrif so 36 per month, then they give 144 pounds cash back (directly wire to my bank 42 days after activation) so effectively I am paying 28 pounds for 18 month!
Good deal you think?
The reason I could get that was because dialaphone was doing a new contract deal, essentially the same as mine but with 4 redemptions each 36 pounds.
And I mentioned that to p4u so they matched the price.
Just checked dialaphone, they don't do this deal anymore but panther 36 with means only 400 mins and 750mb data. Same price with 4 redemption.
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h.han said:
I upgraded to the Orange panther 41 contract through p4u, 18 month, 600 mins, unlimited text, 1gb data, HTC One silver free with flip cover.
The best bits are, p4u gives 5 pounds discount on the tarrif so 36 per month, then they give 144 pounds cash back (directly wire to my bank 42 days after activation) so effectively I am paying 28 pounds for 18 month!
Good deal you think?
The reason I could get that was because dialaphone was doing a new contract deal, essentially the same as mine but with 4 redemptions each 36 pounds.
And I mentioned that to p4u so they matched the price.
Just checked dialaphone, they don't do this deal anymore but panther 36 with means only 400 mins and 750mb data. Same price with 4 redemption.
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almost the same as me, except i got mine from dialaphone - though my cashback is in installments instead of in one lump sum - dialaphone did offer me a lump sum, but it wasnt as much as im getting now - now i will get £144, they offered me £100 in a lump sum.
i might call up and ask them to switch me to the lump sum - i will probably forget all about the bill sending in thing!
also, did you use a cashback site?
with quidco or topcashback you can/could get an extra £70 cashback
edit. regarding who to go for - yea the deal h.han and I got is the cheapest of all I think, depends whether what is included fits your needs and whether orange/tmobile/ee are good in your area.

djbenny1 said:
almost the same as me, except i got mine from dialaphone - though my cashback is in installments instead of in one lump sum - dialaphone did offer me a lump sum, but it wasnt as much as im getting now - now i will get £144, they offered me £100 in a lump sum.
i might call up and ask them to switch me to the lump sum - i will probably forget all about the bill sending in thing!
also, did you use a cashback site?
with quidco or topcashback you can/could get an extra £70 cashback
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Sounds a fantastic deal but i had such **** with orange a year or two back i vowed never to go back to them, now they and t-mobile have merged it might not matter that much .... if anyone see's any other good deals i'd appreciate it !!! thanks to you guys for posting this up

P4U are usually the best however i went direct through Vodafone this time and i got;
Free Phone
Free Flip Cover
£37 per month with Unlimited Calls, Text and 1GB data (unlimited for 3 months) on a 24 month contract.
Also got the phone within 2 business days of ordering

your t-mobile has gotten better recently because they now share networks with orange and also EE
i would also say don't let a free flip case from any company sway you - its crap lol

djbenny1 said:
almost the same as me, except i got mine from dialaphone - though my cashback is in installments instead of in one lump sum - dialaphone did offer me a lump sum, but it wasnt as much as im getting now - now i will get £144, they offered me £100 in a lump sum.
i might call up and ask them to switch me to the lump sum - i will probably forget all about the bill sending in thing!
also, did you use a cashback site?
with quidco or topcashback you can/could get an extra £70 cashback
edit. regarding who to go for - yea the deal h.han and I got is the cheapest of all I think, depends whether what is included fits your needs and whether orange/tmobile/ee are good in your area.
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I did not go through cashback site cos I was looking for upgrade.
I did ordered a new contract at that time on dialaphone through quidco initially, but it was a mistake, I thought I could port my existing Orange number to the new Orange contract, but that's not possible so I cancelled that. And accidentally had a chat with p4u so they offered me the same deal as dialaphone but upgrade, too good to miss so I took it.
No cashback from quidco though, but I am happy.
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gsusx said:
Sounds a fantastic deal but i had such **** with orange a year or two back i vowed never to go back to them, now they and t-mobile have merged it might not matter that much .... if anyone see's any other good deals i'd appreciate it !!! thanks to you guys for posting this up
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I don't have good experience with Orange either, their 3G is the slowest amongst all the operators because they didn't buy the best 3G frequency, and I had to upgrade 4 times since last Friday through p4u and make tons of call to Orange to remove a stupid flag in their system to get my 4th upgrade attempt approved.
But their price is the cheapest through p4u so I just took it.
Oh, by the way, the 4G from EE definitely is the fastest in all operators since the frequency band is very good.
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here's a question
like ee say you have 1gb of 4g data per month
what happens if you go over that, does 3g signal count towards that etc ???
im even contemplating going 4g ... i would go with 3 but i cant get signal in my spare room and thats where i tend to spend a lot of my time working of weekends

gsusx said:
here's a question
like ee say you have 1gb of 4g data per month
what happens if you go over that, does 3g signal count towards that etc ???
im even contemplating going 4g ... i would go with 3 but i cant get signal in my spare room and thats where i tend to spend a lot of my time working of weekends
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dont you have wifi at home?
i am assuming that by paying EE for 4g, you are simply paying for "access" to their 4g network - your 1gb will be depleted whether or not you use the 4g or not.

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dont you have wifi at home?
i am assuming that by paying EE for 4g, you are simply paying for "access" to their 4g network - your 1gb will be depleted whether or not you use the 4g or not.
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And to add to that, maybe I am misleading here, my contract is with Orange, the 3G brand of EE, so I do not have any 4G service in my tarrif, only 3G.
If you want to sign a 4G deal with EE, the price will be much higher.
With 4G service, it only means the option of connecting to 4G is there, but whether you will get 4G in your area or not, is irrelevant and those 1gb usage includes all traffic on 4G, 3G and GPRS.
If you go over, you will need to pay extra to get additional data.
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