Guest madu Posted January 14, 2003 Report Posted January 14, 2003 My supersonic mathematical+logical mind counted the real costs of this goddamn phone!! The phone turns out to be well F**KING expensive!! Just look at it this way: You pay anything from £0 to £129 for the phone - I paid £100. Plus you pay anything between £25 and £XXX monthly. I'l take my £40 (not to scare myself with the total just yet). Then you might need GPRS when it is not free anymore. You also need a memory card - it is a must, just as some of the software like explorer and ia album, and gprs when it is not free. Plus a few games, a decent case and a decent pair of headphones+handsfree... Let's count £100 x 1 SPV £40 x 12 Line rental £100 x 1 SD Card £20 x 1 All-Exp & IA Album £100 x ? Other small costs. = 100+480+100+20+100 = £800 So you pay on AVG (very small avg) almost a grand for the bugger in 1 year!!! WOW!! Minimum (min contract, no soft, no SD..) = £400 No maximum, but a good situation would be round about £1000 with the soft you need all the mem cards and upto £60 Line rental. Add to this another £50 per month for GPRS (even countin 1/2 year of contract on paid gprS) and that would easily add up to £1500 per year!!! Right, off to sell my phone!! Anyone up for buying one??
Guest Firaas Posted January 14, 2003 Report Posted January 14, 2003 Mine's considerably cheaper: Phone free. Line rental £372 for the year (4 months at £31, 8 months at £25) 64mb SD card (does me) £33 £13 for IA Album £418/year
Guest spacemonkey Posted January 14, 2003 Report Posted January 14, 2003 OH MY GOD.... but seriously... did you not know this is why they practically give phones away. It's not cos Orange is a Benevolent entity. This is the same with any phone. You can buy the phone for £200-£300 on pay as you go or you can get it free if you sign up. Contract costs are no higher on the SPV than other phones. Except maybe the £6/month GPRS starter bundle, but then you can just quit that... only pay it if you want it. As to the other costs you quoted... 128Mb SD Card is £40 and you only need this if you want to watch movies/listen to MP3s £20 each for IA-Album and All Explorer... I think it's nearer £20 for both and you don't have to buy them. So, basically, the phone is no more expensive than any other phone you get on contract. Yes you'll have more costs if you want to extend the effectiveness of it's non phone features. Yes you'll pay for Data on this which you wouldn't on your 6110, but you'r 6110 doesn't let you do anything with Data... I think you need to calm down, this is just the way companies get money from consumers in the modern world, it's all over. For instance I have unlimited Movies on the big screen for a 12month commitment to direct debit £10/month, hey good deal... but x12 months that's £120 OH MY GOD...
Guest Rob.P Posted January 14, 2003 Report Posted January 14, 2003 My phone and SD Card were free, sort of, as I traded/sold my PDA and bits and pieces for £180, so still got £40 spare. First phone bill with the SPV was a lot more than usual though, I'll put that down to the "honeymoon" period though. All things considered I think GPRS is gonna come down in price, it has to.
Guest madu Posted January 14, 2003 Report Posted January 14, 2003 That's all true and the way things work.. unfortunately. But that's not the way you think of it, running to the shop with your tongue on the shoulder, just to get that 1 reserved SPV that you've been wanting for ages.. And guess what?!?!? It's not even what it was advert'd to be.....
Guest Ed Posted January 14, 2003 Report Posted January 14, 2003 SPV=£101 12 Months contract=£257 £358 (Not got it yet though :))
Guest Emad Posted January 14, 2003 Report Posted January 14, 2003 I figured mine would be about £400 including bits n bobs - cheaper than a lot of other phones on the market - look at the 9210 or the 88xx series, now those are pricey.. Also, I'm almost certain they're making a loss on these things - after all, is this reallly as cheap to make as a 7210/T68/any other phone at the same price? (I got mine free, so lotsa phones are at that price ;))
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted January 14, 2003 Report Posted January 14, 2003 The price you pay for the phone is due the the amount of R&D that went into it...the physical components that the phone comprises of are reletively inexpensive. Take CD's for example, cost about 30p max to physically make but you pay a tenner a time for them. As for my annual costs SPV: £100 Contract: 1 Mnth £31 3 Mnths £25 8 Mnths £19 128meg SD card: £50 IA Album/All-Exp/Worms: £40(ish) Which comes to a grand total of: £448 Then theres call costs and gprs. I intend to use gprs for email headers only after the bundle expires, so the £4 500k/mnth should be fine. So by this time next year i dont expect to have spent much over 500 quid, which incedentally is the cost of a sim-free phone ;). Its not that shocking really, me and my flatmates shell out nearly 150 a month between us just for our internet line :lol:
Guest awarner [MVP] Posted January 14, 2003 Report Posted January 14, 2003 SPV £99 + Free G-Shock watch -£50 aprox Line rental @ £13.99 =£167.88 4 Months GPRS @ £6 =£ 24 32MB card £29.99 Total £320.87 + software Tennis,slurp,intersteller flames,full house casino all-explorer. these are all extras so can we realy include them in the phone's total price? The watch is cool thanks Orange something right ;) after numerous calls not gatting back to me etc 28 day delivery??? try over 50!! after chasing :lol:
Guest Shire29 Posted January 14, 2003 Report Posted January 14, 2003 Pop down to any high street mobile phone shop and ask to buy a new T68i or 7210, GX10, GD87 or 7650 handset. Add minimum calls, messaging and GPRS, and it will be about the same cost. OK so you do have the additional costs of SD card and apps, the apps well we know where we all stand on that one, the SD card, has a million uses. I bought mine with a cruzer, which comes in really handy, and it'll keep most of it's value if you want to sell it on. When the phone first came out I thought I would have to pay close to £200 on contract, £99 and £31/month, bargain. Cheers, Shire
Guest chewie Posted January 15, 2003 Report Posted January 15, 2003 Well im looking at about £1200 over the year, this is one damn expensive phone ;)
Guest weswes19 Posted January 20, 2003 Report Posted January 20, 2003 Mono, Where you get Worms from? I need it on my phone Pweseeeeeeeee ;)
Guest weswes19 Posted January 20, 2003 Report Posted January 20, 2003 Mono, Where you get Worms from? I need it on my phone Pweseeeeeeeee ;)
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted January 20, 2003 Report Posted January 20, 2003 It's in development apparently. See http://www.modaco.com/viewtopic.php?t=1825 for further details
Guest richto Posted January 21, 2003 Report Posted January 21, 2003 Why do so many people seem to be paying £100 for the SPV? Are you all stupid or something? It was 99 pence from most sites on Talk 200 from day one. And you can change to any tarrif after 120 days
Guest Firaas Posted January 21, 2003 Report Posted January 21, 2003 I think many sales reps/a lot of literature seems to imply that you should stay on the Talk 200 plan for the year - and it tends to be those that are desperately looking for a bargain who find out what the case actually is. Previously when I went into an Orange Shop, I was told by the assistant that I could change after 3 months, but it was frowned upon. He offered to change it on my behalf the day after purchase...
Guest MECX Posted January 21, 2003 Report Posted January 21, 2003 yeh but think of the cost to buy an Mp3 player, internet explorer, video player,digital camera and pda---all this would not fit in your pocket and would cost a hell of alot more than the SPV. :roll:
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted January 21, 2003 Report Posted January 21, 2003 Also buying from the link for £100 allowed me to change my tarrif the same day i signed up...
Guest weswes19 Posted January 21, 2003 Report Posted January 21, 2003 I paid £130 for it and Im on a £31 a month contract I feel Ive been had but then again everywhere was out of stick and Im the kind of person that cant wait
Guest dava Posted January 22, 2003 Report Posted January 22, 2003 For info, I am on Orange Everyday 50 (£15 per month), I paid £80 for the SPV and I have no other costs (no GPRS costs as they didn't set this up) other than a 128MB SD card at £48 and IA Album at £12. Total = £320!
Guest youngerpants Posted January 22, 2003 Report Posted January 22, 2003 someone forgot to mention my £150 per month phone bills and the future medical expences of having the tumor removed from the side of my brain i hold my phone next to
Guest weswes19 Posted January 22, 2003 Report Posted January 22, 2003 I work in the NHS younger and know some good Doctors want me to have a word and see if theyll do a SPV Special Discount?
Guest spikex Posted January 22, 2003 Report Posted January 22, 2003 This is what I'm paying (if Orange ever get stock!). £89.99 for the phone then £12.99 a month for line rental.. Works out to be about £245.87 for 12 months.
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