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[One (M7) General] Shasarak:
If you're buying SIM-free then Phones 4U may be a good choice (although they seem to have bumped their prices up a little just recently - I wonder if my pre-order will be charged at the price they were displaying when I placed it?).

Black: here

Silver: here

With the recent P4U price rise, Amazon now looks like a better deal, though - higher price, but they bundle a free HTC Wireless Media Link device.

Black: here

Silver: here
[One (M7) General] Wh1techapel:
The wireless media link is making me look at the Amazon deal now, I'm not sure whether or not I should trust Amazon as they've burnt me a few times in the past.

Has anyone else bought tech directly from amazon?
[One (M7) General] kenny17430:
I did a pre order with amazon for the HTC one X, and the phone was released on the 4 of may (can't remenber the date exactly) and I received it in the morning of that same day. SO In my experience I had a good one.
[One (M7) General] daleski75:
I hope not as I also pre-ordered from phones4u because it was far cheaper than anywhere else, checked my credit card and it still says £459 pending so I think we should be ok.
[One (M7) General] Wh1techapel:
Just placed the order, the link to the Media Link is not the right one, you have to search for the one that's sold by Amazon for the promotion to work.

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That's reassuring. I guess my orders that have messed up in the past have been 3rd party sellers.

Thanks.
[One (M7) General] Shasarak:
If you have a correct link, I'll edit my earlier post.
[One (M7) General] Wh1techapel:
Your links work fine, it's when you have to add the Media Link to the basket, you have to select the one sold by Amazon not the one which is cheapest (Accessory shop)
[One (M7) General] pavan-g:
Price attention phones 4 u

Hello guys

i just ordered the HTC ONE from phones 4 u, as it now stands they are £30 cheaper than other retailers for a sim free handset. i was actually hoping to pay £459 instead of £489. But nevertheless still cheaper than the rest... Save that £30 and spend it on the double flip htc one case. That just looks amazing to me!!
[One (M7) General] catachresistant:
Can't believe Phones4U upped the price. I should have got in there sooner :(

I wanted to buy it shortly after release in case there was a repeat of the production/QC issues which plagued the One X.
[One (M7) General] vizzy:
You can also get that case from amazon for 21 pound, or UK Mobile Store for 16 pound in total.
[One (M7) General] :No-Frost::
Does anyone trust in handtec??? They have the preorder at 419 pounds so it looks like a very good deal to me (I'm from Chile in South America) so they ship the device to my country :D
[One (M7) General] dario2411:
Hello guys and gals. I have made HTC One fun page on Facebook. Feel free to join us

Admins are welcome. (just pm. me on facebook page)
[One (M7) General] NiCk.JaY:
http://www.trustpilot.com/review/www.handtec.co.uk Reviews look fine
[One (M7) General] daleski75:
Brought stuff from there before and never had an issue.
[One (M7) General] NiCk.JaY:
International shipping not a problem?
[One (M7) General] clarkgable:
That is really annoying! I was going to pre-order at P4U for the £459.95 price tomorrow. Won't be doing that now it's up to £489.95. Might wait for CEX to offer it in March, they offer brand new devices at reduced cost and 12 mth warranty, as well as B and C grades too
[One (M7) General] kalo88:
I spoke to Phones 4 U today regarding stock levels.. not sure how true this is but they said the following:

Me: What's supply going to be like for the sim free HTC One, I noticed you guys put it up £30 but I'm a bit concerned your taking tons of orders and won't be able to fulfill them or you'll prioritise contract customers.

P4U: You will be fine, when we know we will exceed the expected stock we will stop selling them.

Hopefully that re-assures people :)
[One (M7) General] Shasarak:
When I was in Phones 4U's "flagship" store two days ago (the one on Oxford St in London, near Bond St) and asked about pre-ordering, I was told that, in-store, they weren't taking orders for the phone SIM-free, only on contract; but obviously they were taking SIM-free orders on their website.

Make of that what you will.
[One (M7) General] kalo88:
Yeh sim free is online only, the store is really just for contracts
[One (M7) General] daleski75:
Never done international as I live in the UK but if you can use a well known courier then it should be fine.
[One (M7) General] RCJ89:
So those who pre ordered earlier are lucky as the price has gone up by £30.
[One (M7) General] KidCarter93:
Anyone got a rough estimate of what price I'll likely have to pay if I wait for it to be released?

Not interested in contracts by the way.
[One (M7) General] daleski75:
I normally never pre order but this time I did and good job with that £30 increase but still its cheaper than clove, amazon etc.
[One (M7) General] itsmemuffins:
I still think Amazon has the best price if you include the free media link and super saver free delivery.

No matter who is cheaper the shipping always ends the price on par.

I also find Amazon easier to deal with if you need to do a return for any reason. :good:
[One (M7) General] Jonathan_A:
Just had a thought, I'm in the US and according to AT&T's website, you can cancel smartphone contracts for $325. Now would any of you US residents consider getting the phone on contract cheap just to cancel it so you can get whatever goodies AT&T (hopefully) bundles, plus the $100 or more back for purchasing it?

Edit: NVM, looks like it'll probably be like $100~200 on AT&T and therefore defeat the savings.
[One (M7) General] RCJ89:
I pre ordered mine on a new contract and get free case, headphones and should get the free speakers aswell, then i am going to terminate my current contract (£433). As opposed to just buying the phone for £460 at the time and getting no goodies with it.

I notice that p4u advertise the old version of the urbeats headsets while cpw advertise the new design with the flat cable etc. I hope p4u example is just for illustration purposes and i get the newer headsets.
[One (M7) General] kalo88:
Clever idea tbh lol
[One (M7) General] craftycarper1:
£433 buy out?.....what deal did you go with in the end?
[One (M7) General] RCJ89:
Yea £433 because I have about a year left on my contract.

I got the exact same vodafone deal I got now lol, 37 a month unlim mins, unlim texts, 1gb + 2gb wi fi and free phone.

When I rang vodafone to tell them my plans they said that is one of the smartest things they have heard.

because

£460 phone

£25 case

£80 headsets

£200 speakers

= £765

So I save £332 by getting a new contract
[One (M7) General] kalo88:
What speakers?
[One (M7) General] djbenny1:
am i missing something here?

you are spending £433 and getting absolutely NOTHING in return, you think thats "a good deal"?

what worries me more is that vodafone would say its the "smartest thing theyve ever heard"

as much as i love having a new phone, that is absolute lunacy
[One (M7) General] RCJ89:
Ok let me break it down for you. If I stick with my current contract and just buy the one outright it would have cost me £460 from phones 4 u. All I would have got with the phone is just what generally comes in the phone box, like the normal headsets, usb cable and charger.

Because I took out a new line I get a free case worth £25, free pioneer speakers worth £200 and free ur beats headsets that are worth £80 pounds.

If I had just bought the phone sim free I would have been spending £27 extra, £460 vs £433 to start off with, then I would have then had to by the case for £25 and headsets for £80 because I needed new headsets anyway, I wouldnt have neccesarily bought the £200 speakers but as one of the first 200 customers to pre oder from phones 4 u, I get them free.

Phone, headsets and Case would have cost me £565 but I get it all for free by taking out a new line.

I pay £433 to cancel my current line as I wont need it anymore and I am saving myself £132, wheres the lunacy?

whats more the date the phone comes out is my mins change over day. So I wont even have to pay pro rota charges for when you take out a new line before the billing cycle date.

Btw vodafone said it is one of the smartest things they have heard not the smartest thing they have ever heard.

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https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&r...H6WLRyhnSPXUIFvxo-O-zGQ&bvm=bv.42965579,d.d2k Pioneer XW-SMA3 wireless speakers. they retail for around £200.
[One (M7) General] djbenny1:
I know what you are saying, but to me you are saying :

"I am paying £433 to get this phone and I'm still paying £37 a month for the next 2 years"

That, to me, is insanity.

But hey, it's your money. You must have plenty of it if you can throw it away like that :)
[One (M7) General] jhericurls:
Wow, just wow... It getting all Apple in here. £433 to buy yourself out of a contract only to get locked into another 2 year contract. It's just a phone!

Wait till the phone is out and get it sim free, your paying £433 for nothing. Sim free price is £480 now which isn't far off.

At least reduced your tariff before you buy out your contract and go full retard.
[One (M7) General] djbenny1:
If he's smart, this must make you Albert Einstein lol
[One (M7) General] tfat1000:
Everyone is free is free to make their choices boy if he's doing so it means he can afford it
[One (M7) General] RCJ89:
Contract has nothing to do with it because I am still going to be paying £37 a month either way, difference is its adding another year on. Next year when the contract was due to end I was just going to upgrade my line with a new phone like I have always done.

What i am looking at here is soley the cost of the phone and the accesories and I have just looked online at how much the speakers are are they are even more expensive than I thought depends on where you go the prices range from £200 - 270 and I can even sell the speakers for £200 or so and make money off them.

Rather than buy the phone for £460 sim and then have to buy the accessories on top of it, I am paying £433 instead of £565
[One (M7) General] djbenny1:
I found a picture of the office after you called Vodafone

But seriously.

Last year you could have been on a sim only deal for like £15 with the exact same minutes etc you have now.

If you were, you could now buy the sim free One and because you obviously like changing your phone so much, 12 months from now you could do the exact same thing again and all the while you are only paying 15 a month instead of 37.

Even if you did that now and bought the One sim free, in 12 months time you could move to sim only and you would save like 250 there over the course of the following year or you could get a free phone then. What you are doing is completely retarded.

I guess I'm Stephen Hawking.
[One (M7) General] matheus_sc:
can anyone confirm a date for uk? i buy in clove.
[One (M7) General] RCJ89:
That line doesn't make much sense because I am already in a contract so if I was just buying the phone for £433 I would still be paying £37 a month anyway.

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I don't always change my contract or my contract phone, I normally keep my contract til upgrade then upgrade and get a free phone.

Regarding changing my phone alot, I just bought another phone as a spare phone or sometimes I get given phones. I never changed my contract phone for example when I had my S3, I just bought a One X aswell but kept my S3.

Vodafone wasn't doing the price plan I am on as a sim only deal 12 months ago. They do one now and it's £20.50 a month.

Just checked my account its £396 I am to pay to cancel my line and as I have said before I will still be paying £37 a month until this time next year when I would have just upgraded and got a free phone and as I have been with vodafone a number of years I get discount on the next line I take out so it wont be £37 that I am paying it will be £29. So from the 16th I will be paying £29 a month rather than £37.

With the free speakers I get with this phone I can sell them and make £200 off them.

Anyway I am not going to clog the thread up any longer

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March 15th
[One (M7) General] djbenny1:
Let's say HTC one is out tomorrow.

Your way you spend 390 and tie yourself into another 2 year contract at 37 a month (and an epic speaker >.>) I'm assuming the phone is free on 37 a month

My way you spend 460 or w/e sim free was plus 390 over the remainder of your contract. Then you get a sim only deal and pay about 15 a month for same tariff.

Your way £1280 over the next 2 years (and your wonderful speaker)

My way is less than £1100 with no speaker (which you probably won't get anyway) and the phone is definitely unbranded - not sure how vodafone works with branding

Anyway that's my 2c
[One (M7) General] RCJ89:
That isn't how it works when you buy out your contract with Vodafone, do not know about other networks.

When you buy out your contract with vodafone you only pay the line rental charge not the v.a.t. if I stayed in contract I get charged for the v.a.t which brings the price to £487

Your way: £487 for the next year at £37 month + £490 for phone + £80 headsets + £25 case + £200 speakers + £246 @ £20.50 a month from next year for 12 month plan (there is no £15 plan) and lose 1.25gb wi fi = £1, 528 over next two years (even if we minus the speakers) = £1, 328

My way: £396 to cancel + £696 for two year contract at £29 a month + free phone + free speakers + free case + free headsets = £1, 092 (save £436, £236 without speaker cost) even if was £37 a month = £1, 284 ( save £244, £44 without speaker cost) and if I sell the speakers makes an extra £200. So saving ranges from £244 - £636 but yet what I am doing is retarded, ok cool.
[One (M7) General] KidCarter93:
This is why I don't wanna be on contract again. Too much unnecessary confusion.
[One (M7) General] :No-Frost::
I've just pre-ordered my HTC One at:

http://www.handtec.co.uk/htc-one-32gb-silver.html

Considering that they deliver worldwide I think it was a very good deal, actually it was the cheapest dealer I've found... The phone will be available on my country but around June or July and I really want to upgrade my phone :)

So the Silver is for me :)
[One (M7) General] daleski75:
The pending amount of £459 from Phones4U has now disappeared from my credit card is there something I need to worry about?
[One (M7) General] vizzy:
Had it been charged to your card or just completely dissappeared
[One (M7) General] gallifreyangirl:
Can you tell me where you preordered it nd network o get that deal.
[One (M7) General] kalo88:
My phones4u payment has disappeared from my card too...going to ring them in a bit to check everything is ok
[One (M7) General] pnnorth:
This is standard - the hold on your card will only be there for a few days before it is released by the CC company. The transaction will still go through.
[One (M7) General] manook:
This. The same happened with my order for my N4. Charge disappeared but still went through fine...
[One (M7) General] pnnorth:
You need to factor in the proceeds from selling your old phone for a true comparison. Presumably you can offset a fair chunk of the cost of buying out your contract by selling the phone you received as part of the original contract.
[One (M7) General] Reckless187:
I just got off the phone with Vodafone, my original reason for ringing them was to find out when my upgrade was due on one of my two lines. I basically ended up pre-ordering the phone even though I was originally planning on holding out til after the S4 announcement. I have no willpower whatsoever!!!

I've basically ordered the One (in silver) on a 12 month contract, £47 per month, Unlimited Minutes / Texts and a one off handset cost of £99, reduced from £199 for loyalty reasons (been with Vodafone for years) The Sales girls basically rang me back as I was typing out this message to say she managed to get me the lower price after speaking with the manager!! She also agreed to up the Data Allowance from 1GB to 2GB a month! And I can upgrade 72 days in advance of my contract running out!!!
[One (M7) General] NiCk.JaY:
Dude, you got lucky :p
[One (M7) General] Reckless187:
Yeah true! I priced up the total I'd pay over 12 months including handset cost versus the total I'd pay over 24 months with a free handset and 12 was the cheapest option and now with another 100 quid off, its a no brainer!!!
[One (M7) General] RCJ89:
That is what I did I did sell my old phone my galaxy S3 sold it for £360 and my buy out for the contract is £396 pound.

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There is no such deal!

What I was explaining was i signed up to a new contract with vodafone £37 a month 24 months, I get a free HTC One, free £25 case, free £80 urbeats earphones, free £200 speakers.

If I just bought the phone for £460 at phones for you when it was £460, I wouldn't have got the free headsets, or free case or free speakers. I would have had to buy the case and headsets separately and would have cost me £535 in total.

Now instead of buying the phone sim free, I am going to buy out my contract as it is cheaper! I thought it was £433 which is cheaper than the £460 I would have had to buy the phone for and that is why, our fellow friend said that is like me saying to him I am buying the phone for £433 and still have to pay £37 a month. That is why I said to him that makes no sense because If i buy the phone outright I would still have to pay £37 a month for the remainder of my contract anyway. On top of that I normally upgrade my phone to a new free phone anway, so I would have still been paying £37 a month come upgrade time next year.

Then everyone was telling me it is stupid to do that I should just have bought the phone, then buy all the accessories separately which comes up to more money and when I looked on my account it is actually £396 to cancel my line not £433.

Now because I am taking out a new line with vodafone I get all the free accessories, I can sell the speakers for £200 and have a extra £200 in my pocket and for taking out a new line I get discounted from £37 a month to £29 a month for the whole duration of my new contract.
[One (M7) General] pnnorth:
Not sure why people are moaning about your deal then. All you've effectively done is buy out your old contract with the money from selling your s3 and then committed to a new contract with some extra stuff thrown in.

Edit ...the above assumes that you want to stay on contract. For someone like me, who uses more data/txts than minutes, sim free plus £12 a month with giffgaff is the cheaper option.
[One (M7) General] RCJ89:
Thats what I have said I normally just stay on contract and upgrade my phone.

The sim free deal he was telling me to get doesnt work out cheaper than what I am doing over the next two years and I showed him the calculations on the page before.
[One (M7) General] rizzleboi:
Just preordered my upgrade through Phones4U,

Im on Vodafone... £34 a month, free phone, unlimited mins and calls and 2gb of data, no idea how I bargained for this. Bye bye desire HD, we have been through a lot.

Also with urbeats headphones and a case. I have shure se215s but having inline mic may come in handy
[One (M7) General] NiCk.JaY:
We are in the same boat bro, too long with Desire HD, though I'll still be keeping it :)

Sent from my DHD
[One (M7) General] rizzleboi:
I'll be keeping mine, just will never be using it, the micro usb port has messed up so I have to keep it at an angle to charge...

Looking forward to this phone!
[One (M7) General] daleski75:
Good to know that this is standard behaviour with the credit card but surely now they could charge us £489 which is the price it is now when it goes through?
[One (M7) General] jmonfu:
So looking forward to the ONE, keeping my fingers crossed it will launch earlier than the 15th!

I have the original HTC Desire at the moment, have not upgraded in 3 years, so I am sure I will notice a difference or 2. Will get it SIM free, cause I prefer to have a 30-day contract, possibly will convert to a year contract, without phone though. Always prefer my phones SIM free.

Still undecided about black or silver, have to see them in the shop to judge, however more inclined to the black as I do not like fancy looking devices :)
[One (M7) General] gallifreyangirl:
What I meant was tried the Vodafone store no luck getting HTC one free in 37 a month with the accesories you mentioned.
[One (M7) General] manook:
Just re-checked my credit card statement online. Turns out Phones4u charged the full amount of £459.95 to my card (not a hold) on 19th Feb so should have one on release day, whenever thats going to be!
[One (M7) General] combat goofwing:
If iread correct he had a current contract which has 1 year to run .

He wants the phone so instead of paying £460 SIM free for phone only

He get its on contract for free with case headphones and speakers and pays the contract off right away costing £433.smart move if you really want the phone,I have 6 months left on my contract and trying to figure out a way to get phone for free
[One (M7) General] kalo88:
I spoke to P4U who confirmed my order is still ok despite the fact they put a pending balance on my credit card for like a week... then it's gone to £0 and has stayed like it.

Apparently though, that's fine!

They also said I qualify for the speakers as I was one of the first 200, the website says contract only but the woman kindly told me I qualified. If I don't get them that'll be a lovely complaint to them, their error, not mine ;)!
[One (M7) General] RCJ89:
Been to a couple phones 4 u stores today the one is still £459.95 offline also the xperia z is the same price.
[One (M7) General] manook:
Well if mine turns up with anything extra I'd be chuffed. No expecting anything so it'll be a bonus. Already ordered the double dip flip case from Amazon.
[One (M7) General] craftycarper1:
Doing my head in waiting, i know i'll get the case and buds from P4U, but waiting to find out if i qualified for the speakers is annoying, i ordered on 19th but they rang me on 21st to say it was turned down, and they re ordered it while i cancelled my Xperia Z order, then the P4U one got accepted so i'm thinking that this delay has cost me the chance of the speakers.:(
[One (M7) General] ste1164:
Hope I can go to a phones4u store and get it for £460 D: because its £480 on the website now :(
[One (M7) General] RCJ89:
Try phoning them I am going to do so tomorrow between 9am - 5pm

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Its £489.95 on the website and £459.95 in shops rather confusing.

Even more confusing is on the main page when you click on sim free phones. The xperia Z is show as £499.95, then you click on it it then shows £489.95 and even better still in shops it shows £459.95.
[One (M7) General] craftycarper1:
I started a thread on their forum but got the answer of there is no way of telling if i have been successful or not :(
[One (M7) General] kalo88:
Doesn't really make sense, if they don't know who qualifies how will they lnow who to send them to. Also goes against what the woman told me as I called to check on my order and she said "oh just to let you know you qualify for the speakers as you were one of the first 200 to order and it will follow in like 7-14 days after the phone..." i didn't pay that much attention as was in work