Thought as much myself. To be done in the hour is also pretty damn good.
Thought as much myself. To be done in the hour is also pretty damn good.
It literally takes these places 10 minutes to do. Huge mark up but yeah it's not a bad price considering the alternatives.
Got my S8 yesterday and got chance to set it up this morning. I was hoping it wouldn't be an network locked phone, hoping companies stopped doing this. Obviously I was wrong. Got in touch with with Vodafone and they refuse to give me one until I've used a Vodafone SIM in it for 30 days as a fraud prevention measure. Went back and forth on this saying I'd prove/provide anything they asked to prove it wasn't fraud. They responded telling me it was an essential requirement as a fraud prevention measure. Obviously going in circles.
Given I've now an expensive brick unless I can unlock it, are there other ways to unlock it?
It seems there are 3 options.
1. Put a Vodafone Sim in it for 30 days
2. Buy a code on Ebay
3. See if a friend/family member is a Vodafone customer who can get it unlocked through them.
Yeah, eBay. About a tenner.
It's shameful for me that eBay has been around for so long and I didn't even consider it. I'll get on it now.
Sent my phone into a company to sell it so I didn't have to bother with Ebay:
Your phone has pressure marks on the screen also scuff marks on the bezel.
We aim to offer a competitive market price and can confirm that we are able to pay you £13.00
The only reason why I sent it in was because they offered £130. Fucking charlatans, I guess Ebay it is.
Yeah they do that a lot - it's basically their business model.
I managed to crack my screen on the weekend after drinking too much. Not sure whether or not it's time to retire the one plus x or keep it going for another day. It's such a cracking phone.
I was aware but I didn't realise it would be that much of a reduction.Originally Posted by SvN
Send it to o2 or EE recycle.
They're only offering £90.
Selling for a lot more on Ebay but I don't have the box for it which will affect the price.
Watch them send a different phone back and you'll just accept it like a bitch.
Did you install Android O on your Pixel C yet @Sir Andy Mahowry? Very usable for a beta.
Not yet, will do so though.
Edit: It's downloading.
I like it a lot. I don't think much has changed but there are no negative changes that I've seen.
Looks a lot smarter too.
Starting to think of replacing my phone (galaxy s5) as it's getting very slow and the battery life is pretty turd now.
What's a decent budget smartphone now? I think I'd rather but something outright than be locked into a contract for two years.
Budget budget or something mid range?
The Moto G5's are the best budget ones. Going up a bit, take a look at the Moto Z Play, Honor 8 Pro, and the OnePlus 3T. All will have anything you'll want, the first two are battery beasts.
I feel that the Oneplus is a bit of a battery beast too and it charges up really fast.
True, the dash charge is the best I've ever seen on a phone. Only one you could realistically plug in for 40 mins from empty and have enough for the day.
The other two have 4000mAh batteries and that 625 processor though that is a real low user.
Budget budget. Those last three are all about £400. The G5 looks more about what I was thinking.
Take a look at the Lenovo P2 also. Never got my hands on one but apparently it's very good too and has an even bigger battery (5100mAh) with the same chip as the 8 Pro and Z Play. Around €275 so I'd say you'd get it for £200.
Check out the Wileyfox range on Amazon. They're about £80-£100 and I don't have any complaints at all.
I was looking at their website the other day. Have you got one then? Which one? What's it like? What's with the other version of Android they use? Is it basically just the same?
Their website still says Cyanogen, which is dead so unless they get something else like Linage you probably won't see updates. Cyanogen was basically standard Android like you find on a Nexus phone but with more options.
EDIT: Was getting mixed up, Cyanogen is still alive. It's CyanogenMod that died and became Linage.
https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/24/cy...rt-of-a-pivot/
Is it not the other way around?
I didn't realise it had died so I might avoid that then.
I've got the Wileyfox Swift. I've had it for just over a year now. What's it like? I don't really know what to say. Its Android and does everything I ask of it. Its starting to slow a little bit and its funny with the Snapchat and Facebook apps (not that I use them often), but my mate has one and hasn't had that problem. The battery life is really good, but I keep it on the lower brightness settings. I should probably add that I don't demand much from it and use Whatsapp, Messenger, Chrome and Reddit 95% of the time I'm on my phone. I download the odd game now and then and they run fine.
Actually yeah I think I was right first time because it was Cyanogen that was originally on the OnePlus phones and they switched to their own then.
Of the other two, the Moto would be closer to AOSP than the Lenovo but there's not much in it. Lenovo's skin always has a few nice touches added on too.
I've been having notifications for the past week to update my phone so they're clearly still doing something.
Anybody know anything about power banks? What kind of power should I be looking at to give me 4-5 charges?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/25000mAh-Po...rds=power+bank
Would this do it?
They never really give the charges expected going by capacity of power bank ÷ phone battery capacity, but that should give you 4 easily. The 1A outputs will be as slow as Christmas but the others will be fine.
Not sure what phone you have but if it has fast charging then have a look at this, or something like it, too.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B01N0QANOE/
I doubt mine will be fast charging as its nothing special. The battery is 2500mAh, so I think I'll go with this as its a bit cheaper. On paper I should get 6 charges out of that, so since 4 would easily do it I should be okay.
Cheers.
Yep has a 2A out and plenty for what you need. 2500mAh won't charge slowly anyway so you're sorted.
Awesome. Thanks.
Few options here: http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/bes...battery-packs/
This Essential phone Andy Rubin has done looks pretty interesting.
Bought a second sim (data only) to use in my Oneplus 3T in Croatia.
I've put roaming on the data sim and have it off on my main sim. I shouldn't incur any costs, should I?
If you're going after 15th of June then roaming charges are ending in EU countries: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-...ions-roam-home
Good ol' EU. Great for consumer protection and standardising stuff across multiple country borders. Glad we're not rejecting that because a bunch of fuckwits chucked their toys out the pram due to a bunch of made-up nonsense peddled by the Murdoch press
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It was great here too for a lot of people as all the networks put up their prices to make up for the roaming losses meaning you could get out of your contract at any stage because of the hike.
If you'd just got a €900 phone on a 24 month deal you could cancel and keep the handset
Going today, returning on the 8th.
So I needed to sort something but I've never used a dual sim.
https://www.cnet.com/uk/how-to/what-...the-oneplus-3/
Sounds like you already have it sorted. I'd say if you don't take any calls then you should be fine. See if you can turn data off completely for your UK SIM.
This HTC might be old hat as far as design goes but it's actually nice having a flat screen and bezels on a phone again. That camera too
I now have the S8. I loved the S6, this is not quite the same but the media and stuff is better I suppose.
How much of a hassle is the fingerprint scanner? That was my main reason for avoiding it, though I only had it for 5 days or so.
Why can't anything ever be straightforward?
https://www.rte.ie/news/technology/2...ng-charges-eu/
It's only complex if you're the sort of person who goes over your limit. I doubt most people get anywhere near what they have available, and even then you just go back to essentially the same cost as it would have been previously.
I asked my work and I'm on an unlimited data bundle so I can whore it.
What a time to go on holiday in the EU.
I've got the abroad stuff in my contract. Not that I ever really need it but it's nice that it's there anyway. Meant I had no fear about using my phone when I was in Poland a couple of months ago. Got a text after I got back telling me I'd saved about £30 thanks to it. Not that I'd have used it if I had actually had to pay, of course, but it's still handy.
Don't worry, the sterling conversion will still cripple your wallet regardless.I asked my work and I'm on an unlimited data bundle so I can whore it.
What a time to go on holiday in the EU.
We have S6's for the work phones and i need to renew the contract in October. Is the S8 worth getting? Basically, can people ranging from a young scally wag to a 65 yr old man, who's slightly senile, get to grips with the S8?
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