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Posted 8 April 2016
Apple iPhone SE 16GB for £289.99 - 64GB for £379.99 @ O2
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About this deal
This deal is expired. Here are some options that might interest you:
Silver, Rose Gold and Gold all in stock.
Space Grey currently delivered within 1 week.
16GB Model
Select the 30GB tariff - £49.99 upfront and £45 per month.
Pay off the device plan of 24 payments x £10 per month = £240, plus £49.99 upfront = £289.99
64GB Model
Select the 30GB tariff - £19.99 upfront and £50 per month.
Pay off the device plan of 24 payments x £15 per month = £360, plus £19.99 upfront = £379.99
O2 will unlock this for you for free immediately once you pay off the entire handset cost.
Credit to modilwar for spotting the cost of the 16GB model!
TCB and Quidco not available on the iPhone SE unfortunately.
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Space Grey currently delivered within 1 week.
16GB Model
Select the 30GB tariff - £49.99 upfront and £45 per month.
Pay off the device plan of 24 payments x £10 per month = £240, plus £49.99 upfront = £289.99
64GB Model
Select the 30GB tariff - £19.99 upfront and £50 per month.
Pay off the device plan of 24 payments x £15 per month = £360, plus £19.99 upfront = £379.99
O2 will unlock this for you for free immediately once you pay off the entire handset cost.
Credit to modilwar for spotting the cost of the 16GB model!
TCB and Quidco not available on the iPhone SE unfortunately.
iPhone5 vs iPhone 5s vs iPhone SE compare
gsmarena.com/com…969
- rodman
critical eurogamer review
eurogamer.net/art…iew
- neal
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My pleasure
Step 1 - Stop being lazy
Step 2 - Learn to read
You're welcome
Nah she told me she'd rather 4 than none at all....it's the quality rather than the quantity apparently
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That's not true, please just read the terms and conditions, it's really not that complicated.
o2.co.uk/ter…ent
"if you cancel this Service Agreement during your 14 day Change-Your-Mind Period, any Equipment Agreement that you agreed to at the same time for the supply of any Equipment will also be cancelled unless you choose to pay in full for your Equipment in line with the terms of a Device Plan"
Step 1) Phone arrives
Within the 14 day cooling off period...
Step 2) Call o2 and say you want to buy the handset (24 x £15 for the 64GB)
Step 3) Get o2 to unlock it, either over the phone or fill in the request form (o2.co.uk/app…elp?qid=1&q1=2&route=unlocking&case=Handset%20Unlocking%20Form&cm_mmc=affiliate-_-47868-_-blank-_-blank)
Step 4) Cancel the the monthly contract, there is no cancellation fee, no requirement to pay the first month. This is a legal right anyone taking out a mobile phone contract has.
*smashes head on desk*
1 - you pay off the 'Phone' side of the contract and this allows you to immediately cancel the 'Airtime' part of the contract with no charge (providing it's within the 14 day cooling-off period within which you wouldn't get a charge anyway if you were to cancel everything). You might get a pro-rata'd amount of Airtime in your 'final bill'.
2 - This phone basically has all the innards of the iPhone 6S aside from 3D Touch and a barometer. It also has the same screen tech as the original iPhone 5, which offends some people but has doesn't really bother me as it's still a bright and clear display.
3 - this is the cheapest new iPhone ever. Whether you like Apple or not, that's irrelevant. If you don't like Apple simply go away as this isn't the thread for you. For anyone else, this is substantially less than RRP and is therefore a good deal.
A mod might be able to clarify this, but I'm pretty sure the comments system in HUKD isn't for 'showing people the light' when it comes to their choice in phone. However much of a rip-off people may think Apple products are, it's really none of their business what a free-willed British citizen chooses to spend his or her money on. Comment on whether it's a good deal with respect to the RRP of the product, sure; but telling people their choice of phone is wrong is just not cool if you ask me...
Well, **** me.
So I have been having a moan on Twitter, and after a week of nothing, they offer to email me. Within 2hrs of first email contact....
....and the phone is actually unlocked. So whoop-de-****ing-doo, but what the hell has the last week been about? All it took was for someone at their social media dept to flick a switch? I...but....argggghhh.
*head explodes*
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Your missus has a 4 incher?
That would be a let down.
Because for a lot of us, it's really not that complicated.
Had a look at the iPhone SE yesterday in Tesco and couldn't believe that several years ago I had a phone that size. It felt like I needed a magnifying glass!
Would never go back to a sub 5.5" device personally.
For someone called "common sense" you are really are doing your best to display how rare this trait really is, probably the greatest oxymoron in the english language. Let's state the enlightened obvious right now, specs are complete bs, they are meaningless. If you want to buy a phone based on cpu clock speed, ram and camera resolution (not to mention battery mAh, screen resolution, etc...) then go ahead, however you don't need to be particularly bright or do much research to realise that it means nothing. Let's take the camera for example, it doesn't matter what MP you have if you partner it with a poor lens or crap controller s/w, look at HTC's continual failure to produce a decent camera with near identical specs to equivalent samung/lg.
Moving onto CPU, are you really trying to convince Abstractly that his cpu is superior to the A9 chip in the SE? C'mon, you're either wildly misinformed or an outright fanboy and conman and being hugely disingenuous to a user who posted a serious question and then gets what I can only describe as crap in response with the tone of someone who trying to sound like he knows what he's talking about while pulling the wool over another user's eyes.
I've been developing software for 20+ years with the past 5 years spent developing for iOS/Android and even Windows Phone (I believe there's still the odd user out there). I can tell you that when it comes to application and performance benchmarking and the work we have to do to squeeze out performance that the only benchmark you'll really see an android device match or beat an iphone is on parallel/concurrent operations that get to leverage the cores. In isolation the core performance of these CPU is nowhere near that of an equivalent core used in the Apple A range of CPUs. That's how Apple can get away with less cores and still top or remain near the top of most benchmarks. At the end of the day if you want to compare CPUs, use a benchmark, not some arbitrary clock speed/core count which is meaningless.
Let's take geekbench 3 for example which is a commonly used single/multi core benchmark used in reviews. A good source of results for android is browser.primatelabs.com/and…rks. Taking the leading score in each category gives the Nexus 9 singe core at 1882 and the S6 Edge multi core at 4520 (the mini 2 in reviews got around 1100 iirc). Rough figures for the SE put it at around 2500 single core and 4500 multi core so let's agree that where CPU is concerned it's on a different planet to the htc one mini 2. Even the very latest Samsung S7 is still hovering around 2100 single core perf. So that's the latest and most expensive android device still performing worse than Apple's budget handset where single core perf is concerned. If you want an example of what this means in the real world and have some idea of webbrowser/javascript underpinnings take a look at this article - meta.discourse.org/t/t…889
It's the same with the camera, if you think the sensor in the mini 2 and associated optics produce better looking photos than the SE which has the same internals as the 6S and comparable to the latest and greatest android handsets then you're optician is probably rubbing his hands as we speak. Just pull up some review sample shots yourself and do the comparison.
I could go on at length with regards to the rest of the comparison. It's also worth highlighting where there are very key areas where some android devices offer features we'll probably never see from apple in it's h/w and OS, e.g. removable battery, microsd, customisable launchers (in fact pretty much anything is customisable if you want to spend the time).
So at the end of the day, you have two very capable OS's on a vast range of h/w offering a different perspective on what makes an ideal smartphone. You pays you money and takes your choice. My beef was that your answer was just plain misleading and/or misinformed. I admire your enthusiasm for android, I use both platforms on a daily basis and love specific aspects of android that unfortunately we'll probably never see on iOS. I also appreciate iOS and it's different offering. Some of the android fan's key criticisms of iOS are also iOS' major strengths. The fact that it's a closed system with a much more regimented store publishing process provides a number of benefits in security, privacy and safety (for that reason alone I tend to only use Nexus devices if I have to use an android device for real world usage).
Anyway, apologies for the length of this post, in summary iOS and Android are both fantastic platforms that we should all be thankful for, 10 years ago these devices weren't even imagined, never mind existed.
Finally for you htc one mini 2 users wondering if the iPhone SE is a superior piece of h/w, if you can live without the android platform specific advantages the answer is a resounding YES, in pretty any aspect you care to measure the SE trounces the htc one mini 2. I don't think that point is even open for debate.
Rant over...
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You need to power through, you've come too far to give up on this quest. Who wants to lead a life of simple exchanges where you pay some money, you get a product and you live happily ever after. That is boredom, not real existence!
What is a life without the thrill of a deal, the constant battle of wits with customer service, the dispute of consumer law, the endless online chat recordings to look back on with fond memories... these are the experiences that shape and mould us. Now get back out there and unlock that damn phone!!!!
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But their online chat seems geared up to produce just that.
Out of interest, Matt. What was your issue, and you must have got a quick turnaround to post a letter off and get a reply back.
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No.
The moment you receive the phone, you contact O2 and pay off the entire handset cost. They will then charge you £360. You then ask them to cancel your airtime plan, which they will, and unlock the phone, which they will.
Yes
You can't really compare US and UK phone prices as US users are typically tied to a more expensive contract, rather than buying SIM free.
Also not sure what you mean by shi model (unless a poor attempt at an expletive). Anyway, this is the new SE model (similar spec to the 6S but in the 5S shell).
Oh man you just can't read too many numbers at a time do you? YOU CAN CANCEL THE TARIFF AND ONLY PAY THE PHONE PART!!! WHICH IS £19.99+15*24=£379.99!!!!!!
I can't believe you're all so easily brainwashable. Whole new product hahaha. You wouldn't even notice the faster processor and better camera. They're selling you the same 4" LCD which is like 4 years old now. Same design, same speaker, same fingerprint, same boring iOS. But it's pink! That makes a difference. Sheep.
Why you being such an ****? The last posts are members seeking advice from the community of people who might be able to assist in quickly and / or even have first hand experience of this post. If members don't want to assist, they won't.
Become a true member of this community and help. Not the generation of trolls that are appearing with 0 contribution apart from sarcastic, unhelpful comments.
Peace!
Everyone who currently uses an iPhone hasn't *always* used an iPhone: they weren't born clutching an iPhone; at some point they've decided they prefer iOS or iPhones and have decided to get one, and subsequently stick with it. That's there choice and it's no-one's right to be unkind to someone for making that choice, just because they prefer something else. No one *made* people use iPhones in the first place, and advertisements alone don't make something astronomically successful - just ask Samsung, who spend more on advertising than Apple.
Just because an iPhone user once said the original Note was too big, doesn't mean that same person is now using an iPhone 6S Plus. Assuming that person IS now using a 6S Plus is as presumptuous as assuming that a 4" phone is better than a Note sized phone. There is no universal truth with phone sizes or manufacturers or people.
For all we know, those same iPhone users you now assume to be brandishing an iPhone 6S Plus (whilst apparently pretending Apple invented it) might actually be the people who owned a 5S and we're waiting for something like the SE to come out.
Apple users don't all have the same opinion. Some of them just want to use their phone and not be criticised for it. I'm currently an Apple user and I've had all of the Note series apart from the 5, as well as all the Galaxy Series. I have an Lg G5 arriving on Monday too. Certainly not an Apple sheep, but I like the way they do certain things in terms of software and integration.
For what it's worth, the text size on the SE is *exactly the same* as on the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus. The font is scaled according to the screen size, so you just don't get quite as much info on the screen.
I suggest you learn a bit about your subject material before posting not only incorrect facts but BS conclusions. The SE has 2GB ram and the CPU is the same A9 chip that's in the 6S models. If you know anything about CPU performance you'll realise that's it's not about how many cores you have. This is proven on many occasion for instance in various benchmarks (especially web perf where the performance is constrained by javascript running on a single thread) where even modern android devices struggle to compete with old iphones from 2/3 generations ago.
With regards to the resolution, your point is completely pointless (as are the rest), it's about screen density, not the resolution. The screen is 326ppi. Of course in pure resolution terms it's lower than the numerous 5"-6" devices around, they are bigger screens so even at the same density will pack more pixels.
So wait a minute...on the one hand you're calling people 'iSheep' for making the decision to choose Apple products because they like using them, and on the other hand you're saying people should make their 'OWN' decision. Which way do you want it? Surely people interested in this have already made their own decision? And if you're saying that they have been somehow brainwashed then wouldn't following your advice just be the very same thing?
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1. Ordered yesterday, received today.
2. Immediately unboxed, inserted SIM, powered on, attached phone to local network and activated phone.
3. Rang the mobile from another phone to activate the SIM.
4. Called o2. Chose option 4 for 'wish to leave' and spoke to a lovely lady from O2.
5. Asked to pay off the Device plan. No problem. 16GB for £240 (paid an additional £49 at order stage).
6. Asked to unlock phone. She offered to do this for me rather than direct me to the web form. She said it would take up to 72 hours. She said activation of the SIM was a perquisite - told her about step 3 above which she said was perfect and she said I should leave the SIM in for now.
7. Asked to cancel airtime plan. She said no problem. She advised that I would probably pay a small pro-rata'd airtime - the time between sticking the SIM in and it being disconnected, plus any charges I generated by making phonecalls etc. She said my final bill would be generated at the end of the month with £0 further monthly charges. She said due to timing of the bill cycle that there was a chance the first months airtime of £35 (paid in advance at order stage) might not recredit to that final bill in time. She said I'd receive an email with instructions on how to reclaim this if it was the case (I received the email about 5 mins after hanging up the phone).
Smooth sailing. Thanks OP.
Edit: content of the disconnection email...
Your account will disconnect on the date we've agreed and you will receive a text message with the details.
Your final bill will be ready 14 days after disconnection. This will include any refunds if you've paid in advance for any line rental past the disconnection date (this will show as a minus figure on your bill) or, if you've not finished your current contract, the remaining line rental for your contract term charged as a lump sum. There might also be some charges for any calls, texts or data you've used outside of your allowance. If you need to pay us for your final bill, then you should do this in in the normal way or if you're in credit, then you can ask for a refund at o2.co.uk/fin…und.
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Does design have an expiry date?
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Think I prefer natural disasters to possible sexy times.
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No. This is all a dream.
I agree. I am going to fight on....it's the principle of the thing. It doesn't matter if I have wasted the £50 I have saved on this deal on fine cheeses, I am going to get my satisfaction from O2 if it kills me.
I have faith in Jenny. She's a keeper. I am sure of it.
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Good luck for all those expecting phone calls, unlocks, or just the tiniest example of competence from O2 this week. For some it will be the final week of their 14 days, but don't give in, we are HKUDers godammit! We know that it's always worth spending 2 weeks of hassle for a £50 saving....who cares in the time we spent on online chat to Vikram we could have knocked out a couple of shifts at the local McDs for the same/more money. It's never about the money....it's about the principle!
Of course they haven't. It's right in the OP what they need to select, but that fiendish 'show more' puzzle seems to consistently trip people up.
I guess for some it's just too hard to click on....
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I was told to cancel the DD. After stating several times I fully expected O2 to try and take the payment and shaft my credit rating, she gave me the call log ID, deleted my bank details off their system and cross her heart and hoped to die it would all be ok.
I am still very wary.
Anyway, it's great that it seems everyone got sorted out in the end. It was a fun ride, we almost got to 1k posts, and I feel we have emerged from this whole charade richer for the experience.
....about £60 richer
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