Shiny Shiny Toys
Nov. 4th, 2009 10:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kingandyMobile phone contract renewal time has come around again! To recap: Last time I took the £5/month discount, and bought myself a new phone 7 months later, so my current phone is only about a year old. I'm reasonably happy with it, though the screen is getting a bit scratched up (as I always thought would happen with a slide phone - largely because I put it in my pocket with my keys. This is why I always went with a clamshell before). I'm not using the camera very much but it is on occasion useful.
However, T-Mobile are offering me shinies. I can get a T-Mobile Vairy Touch or Samsung Tocco Lite completely free. (Actually, now I check the PAYG prices, the Tocco is marginally more impressive Naturally they're pimping their own T-Mobile phone more than others, but I don't really think a £40 phone is worth giving up the monthly discount.)
In fact this year I'm being offered a £6/month discount if I pass up on the phone, so in a year I'd save more or less what they're asking for the Tocco ... and considering it's an 18-month contract, financially the discount is clearly a better deal.
But ... I'd have toys. I'd have toys now.
Mmmmmm toys.
However, T-Mobile are offering me shinies. I can get a T-Mobile Vairy Touch or Samsung Tocco Lite completely free. (Actually, now I check the PAYG prices, the Tocco is marginally more impressive Naturally they're pimping their own T-Mobile phone more than others, but I don't really think a £40 phone is worth giving up the monthly discount.)
In fact this year I'm being offered a £6/month discount if I pass up on the phone, so in a year I'd save more or less what they're asking for the Tocco ... and considering it's an 18-month contract, financially the discount is clearly a better deal.
But ... I'd have toys. I'd have toys now.
Mmmmmm toys.
Re: Android!
Date: 2009-11-06 09:23 am (UTC)The HTC Hero is technically worth it, as it's apparently £350-£400 on PAYG, so it would be a £200-ish saving. But I don't really need a full-blown organizerphone, I've got my iPod Touch for that...