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Sony Xperia 1 IV 5GB £30 Upfront + £411 pm fro 3 months (Possible £300 Trade in / Possible £400 Prepaid Mastercard After 3m) £1263 @ O2
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This phone can be had for an effective cost of £563 if you have an eligible phone to recycle.
The method:
Find the Sony Xperia 1 iv on the 5 GB tariff
Select edit the plan
Reduce to 3 months
Buy
The phone is unlocked so no need to even use the sim if you didn't want to as long as you activate it.
Total cost:
£30 Upfront
£411 for 3 months
Total = £1263
Then you get:
£300 extra on an eligible trade in on a phone worth more than £0
£400 prepaid mastercard after 3 months
So after 3 months, your phones paid up, you've traded in your old phone and got £300, and you've got a £400 prepaid mastercard (which you can actually use to pay down the device plan directly).
£1263 - £700 = £563
The method:
Find the Sony Xperia 1 iv on the 5 GB tariff
Select edit the plan
Reduce to 3 months
Buy
The phone is unlocked so no need to even use the sim if you didn't want to as long as you activate it.
Total cost:
£30 Upfront
£411 for 3 months
Total = £1263
Then you get:
£300 extra on an eligible trade in on a phone worth more than £0
£400 prepaid mastercard after 3 months
So after 3 months, your phones paid up, you've traded in your old phone and got £300, and you've got a £400 prepaid mastercard (which you can actually use to pay down the device plan directly).
£1263 - £700 = £563
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226 Comments
sorted byLink to ts and cs re mastercard and some helpful numbers email addys
It states dates that the phone must be purchased, and dates that the trade in handset must be done, but isn't explicit that they have to be at the same time.
I don't have IMEI details of the trade in phone on me right now but wanted to order the Sony so it arrives sooner. O2 are a pain in the A to communicate and complain to with inconsistent answers and require a lot of chasing so I'd rather not have to contact them.
Buy the phone
Once it arrives you then start your recycle order
You use the order number from this phone as a promo code
The £300 is paid separately to the phone value. (edited)
Also what phones are eligible for full £300?
"O2 Refresh contractsIf you're on an O2 Refresh contract and leave, you won't pay ETCs on your Airtime Plan. You will need to pay any outstanding amount on the Device Plan. How this works depends on when you took out your contract.
For customers who took out an O2 Refresh contract before 17 December 2021
If you cancel your Airtime Plan and there's an outstanding amount left on your Device Plan, you must play this in full when you end your contract.
For customers who took out an O2 Refresh contract on or after 17 December 2021
If you decide to end your Airtime Plan within the first 24 months of the Device Plan, you’ll need to pay off your Device Plan in full when you end your contract.
If you're cancelling after 24 months but still within the minimum term of your Device Plan, your Airtime and Device Plans are unlinked. This means you can either; (i) continue paying for your Device Plan in instalments, or (ii) pay off your Device Plan in full." (edited)
Get the 400 prepaid card, you'll have to wait it out and stay on a qualifying tariff etc until mid December.
Once claimed... use the O2 "Switch it Up" service - this allows you to bring back the Sony Xperia and trade it for ANY new device you want. For example, Samsung, Apple etc... If you don't mind being tied to a new contract etc - but, the Switch it Up can be used any time as long as you keep your device in good condition so, pretty cool stuff.
Remember their tablets were the best out there by a country mile but they got undercut so badly by cheap Chinese ones that they exited that market too.
I have a s22 ultra and I'm a bit jealous - the phone feels really premium and looks slick. I would recommend it. And actually tempted to trade in my s22 and do the same
Crazy offer...
2. My old device is not on the o2 recycle list. Will it still get £300 cashback if I go to store?
Did all the contract stuff then my trade in (S10 plus). Got £105 for my phone. They then put the £375 (405 less the£30 upfront payment) straight back into my bank via my debit card ie not taken off the handset price dobno lower monthly fee. Will phone O2 as soon as money hits my account and pay off the £375.
Chuufed with phone so far and effectively costing me £425 for phone and 2 lots of £21.00 tariff payments.
’So after 3 months, your phones paid up‘
Can someone explain please
(1) Nothing to pay after 3 months ( After using the £700 cash back to pay O2)
Or (2) Still needs to pay O2 £563 ( On top of the cash back claimed to be fully paid up?)
Thanks in advance!
I had the MKII and was so excited by it then found it to be one of the biggest tech letdowns I've ever had. Poor battery, poor software glitches and the camera was nowhere near as elite as was made out outside of perfect shooting environments.
I really want to believe in the Sony phones as they offer all that I'm looking for (theoretically) in a phone, I'm just reticent to get stung again. (edited)
One good thing is that Sony now give 3 years of upgrades on this instead of the 2 which was the case for previous devices.
Can anyone also confirm that when you do the order the prepaid Mastercard £400 is added automatically? So no need to add it, or claim anything. (edited)
But even worse than that is that O2 have started switching off their network in Northern Ireland. Loads of places were I previously had O2 coverage, now have none.
I've also had a UI not responding message on this thing.
The Xperia Transfer 2 app doesn't work on this phone, so you manually need to transfer everything, in my case from an Xperia 5 ii to the Xperia 1 iv. I get a message saying that the Xperia 1 iv cannot recieve data and to use the Android transfer tool. But the Android Transfer tool doesn't work on an Xperia 5 ii!
Another thing I noticed was many apps which need location won't work. You can't grant permission during the setup, even when that option is given. You'll find you can select none of the 3 options and have to exit the app setup. You then need to manually go to apps and change the permissions for each one.
O2 can have the worst ever Sony phone, back.
There is neither liquid cooling nor vapor chamber cooling system within these Sony Snapdragon 8Gen1 phones, and I guess that is the reason.
If a Lead Device Credit Agreement is terminated at any time or your Pay Monthly Mobile Agreement is terminated
within the first 24 months (whether in respect of Airtime Services for your Device, a Lead Device, or both – for
example, if you give notice to terminate your Pay Monthly Mobile Agreement for any reason within the first 24
months, you cancel it during the Change Of Mind Period, or we receive notice from another network operator that
you have used a PAC or STAC code within the first 24 months), we will treat that as notice to terminate this Credit
Agreement (subject to serving a notice on you) and, other than in circumstances where you terminate your Pay
Monthly Mobile Agreement as a result of our material breach or outside of the first 24 months, we will have the right
to require immediate repayment of the remaining balance of the Amount of Credit (whether or not accrued due for
payment). We will give you notice of our intention to do this and will notify you of the remainder of the Amount of
Credit you owe.
Please let me know what you make of this and if you've drawn conclusion as I have. (edited)
Also, in the latest terms:
"10.3 If you are obtaining credit for a Device purchased as part of an O2 Refresh tariff and you repay the credit in full
early, you can choose to continue paying for the relevant Airtime Services on a monthly basis under your current
Pay Monthly Mobile Agreement (if you have one), upgrade to a different airtime plan or leave the O2 network"
OR LEAVE THE O2 network.
Also on their website -
"If you’re on O2 Refresh, you won’t be charged early termination charges for your airtime contract.
Your estimated remaining charges will include whatever’s left on your Device Plan (including VAT) but is only an estimate and may not include everything.
You’ll find your airtime and other charges on your final bill. Your final bill will include any out-of-bundle charges you’ve incurred before termination and, if you terminate your airtime contract before paying off your Device Plan in full, your final bill will also include the lump sum you still owe under your relevant Device Plan credit agreement(s).
" (edited)
Oh and if you do this in store instead and just hand your old device to them (no need for box or cables) they can automatically take the amount off the phone monthly cost when it goes through instead of you having to wait to get the phone first then send off the device. (edited)
is the amount taken off just the trade in amount or the trade in amount and the additianal £300 ?
After offers 1200 - 300 - 400 = £500 flagship device. Its a really great deal. The staff in o2 shop can't believe it lol.
Because if this works, it will work out as £30 + (£411 x 0.75 =) £308.25 x 3 months = £954.75... after the £700 off it works out at £250-odd? (edited)