Mobile Phones Bought a phone from ASDA tonight.

[suffolktoon]

Took a card from the display to the service desk. The unlocked phone I wanted wasn't available. They sold me another one. On the shelf all I could read was £100. When it went through the till it was £130. I queried it and they said that was the Orange price. I asked the to check it was unlocked and she said yes after looking at the end of the box.

When I got home I could see that it said no sim but on opening the box a Vodafone sim fell out. When I tried my own three sim in the phone it asks for a code.

I'll be taking it back for a replacement or refund tomorrow.

I'm wondering if they are wrong and the one I got is supposed to be locked. In that case I'd be better off getting the one for £100 and getting an unlock from somewhere.

Are there any sites that actually provide codes for free? All the ones I tried tonight, I couldn't be bothered with hassle of going back, advertised free but ended on pages wanting a payment.

 

[oneman]

depends on the phone. On some you can root and flash the radio which will unlock it. others can be unlocked in other ways.

 

[bluepassat]

Why not try car phone warehouse all there phones are unlocked...and you can get it cheaper by doing a upgrade and you can still keep your old phone

And no I don't work for them lol

 

[suffolktoon]

Why not try car phone warehouse all there phones are unlocked...and you can get it cheaper by doing a upgrade and you can still keep your old phone

And no I don't work for them lol

Took it back to my local store when I got home tonight. Don't like to ask for refunds but as their counter was getting refurbished they had next to no stock so I did just that.

Walked over to Carphone Warehouse and bought a Huawei Y300-0100. Seems to be ok. Probably does loads more than I'd ever want but at £40 less than the other phone I'm happy.

 

[bluepassat]

Good to hear...I got a LG android phone from them, got £10 off and kept my old phone

Cost me £35 for an android phone, just put my sim in worked straight away

 

[suffolktoon]

It does that HDSPA thing for the internet. Speedtest gave me 4709 kbps down and 1659 kbps up. Easily beats my BT ADSL estimate.

 

[mmonster]

Huawei phones are good, was considering the Y300 for the wife as she had a basic symbian Nokia and we thought it's time she moved onto something more advanced. Ended getting the G510 and she's more than happy with it considering she never used a smart or touch screen phone before.