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Where's the best place to buy XDA IIs from UK?

Cheapest so far:
£169.99
+ £30.99 per mnth for 200mins
http://www.e2save.com/mobile/phones/disphandset.php?network=O2&handset=XDA2S

I doubt you'll find it much cheaper than that. I got mine for £9.99 on an O2 Max plan, but now the lowest price for the handset on that tariff is about £50.
I've also heard through the rumour mill that stock of the XDA IIs is about to become a bit thin on the ground soon owing to supply/demand issues; HTC can't seem to make these devices fast enough to satisfy the carriers... just look at the debacle that is happening with Orange and the M2000.
Besides - do you want to spend all your time trawling for a slightly better deal, or do you want to actually be using and XDA IIs in the near future?

From T-mobile as an MDA III
£295 + £15 a month

If it's the MDA III, then the best price ATM seems to be via the following
http://www.onestopphoneshop.co.uk/ourdeals.php?PROV=121&OFF=1MDA3&TAR=RELAX22
Assuming 'Guest' doesn't want to spend much more than £30/month on his tariff, the best deal is for Relax 200 on a 12-month contract, being £32/month (with half-price line rental for the first 3 months)
Selecting this, the cost of the MDA III is only £59.99. If 'Guest' opted for an 18-month contract, the handset would be £24.99, and if they don't mind paying £51/month for 400 x-net minutes, they wouldn't have to pay a penny for the handset at all.
Naturally, all this is assuming that 'Guest' would be happy on T-Mobile as opposed to O2

A bit late... but I picked up my MDA III for £140 plus £13p/m (for 12 months) rising to £26 (for the last 6 of the contract) yesterday. Shame that there doesn't seem to be any way with T-Mobile of buying bundled GPRS on contract.
Considering that the O2 shop next door wanted £249 for the XDA IIs and £30p/m for 12 months, it seemed a pretty good deal frankly.
I should make the purchase cost back selling my Nokia 6600 on once it's unlocked, fingers crossed.

Fwiw, I got mine from Uplands a couple of months ago at £125 & £35/mth, but I do use a fair few minutes each month and this worked out the most cost effective.
Not wanting to sound like a ringer, I got great customer service (next day delivery after faxing some docs) and friendly, personal attention.
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Got mine from Uplands as well; I tried to place an order with The Link early in the new year (seeing as the handset was going for nowt on O2 Max) but they were out of stock. Uplands was the next best thing at £9.99 and I got the handest early the next day; no complaints there so I'll no doubt go back to them come August when I can port across my other Orange number...

I told O2 I was moving to Orange (on £25 a month O2 100 online contract) as Orange had offered me an MPV2000 for free and O2 said they would matchit!!! XDAIIs FOC - Result

I got mine from The Link - they knocked 200 quid off the price of the handset, so it ended up cost £40 for the handset, plus £30 a month on the o2 200 package.
I don't know why they knocked so much off - no-one else had stock, and now they can't get stock themselves.

I got mine from the Link just before Xmas. 150 pounds plus 30 pounds a month for 300 any minutes (double mins for first 3 months)

Got mine last sat 29th in the link on o2 max, it cost me nothing but the line rental is £75 per month.
(hope to have cheaper bills now as i was having £150 bills on xnet 400 through singlepoint!)

www.buymobilephones.net has it quite cheap

My M2000 was £0.00 with £0.00 line rental!
Gotta have some perks of working for the company! :wink:

Just got mine for £180 on £16/month line. Prices gone down to £99 on £25 line rental and above from 02 shop

I paid £180 with £20 line rental from 02 shop not too long ago...
By far the best deal I could find.

Bought one from O2 Shop. Since I've already monthly contract somewhere else, I opted for the Data only package. It was £9 a month, and the Handset costed £200-ish.

GPS Software Bundled?

Just been on the phone to 02 Customer Service, who have quoted me 99.99 GBP for the handset only. Apparently their is no option to have it bundled with any GPS software!
Has anybody else had a different answer in terms of bundled gps software with customer support?
TIA

At an o2 shop they told me that it would be the followin:-
02400 - free phone & £50 for gps bundle
02MAX - both free
If you are upgrading then over the phone cust service wont decrease the price/bundle price if you increase your tariff and only go from last six months spend
If you go in store they will decrease price if you agree to increase tariff for min six months.
Hope this helps - go instore

stevenmckeown1 said:
At an o2 shop they told me that it would be the followin:-
02400 - free phone & £50 for gps bundle
02MAX - both free
If you are upgrading then over the phone cust service wont decrease the price/bundle price if you increase your tariff and only go from last six months spend
If you go in store they will decrease price if you agree to increase tariff for min six months.
Hope this helps - go instore
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Thx. Never straight forward dealing with 02

Unlocked phones available NOW from Carphone warehouse pretending to be from t-mobile!

My "T-Mobile" phone from Carphone Warehouse actually came unlocked! I suspected as much when there was no T-Mobile labeling at all and the opening animation just said HTC. So, while I'm waiting for my number to transfer from o2 I decided to try and use my o2 SIM card. It works! and the network settings all changed automatically.
so... if you want one unlocked but don't mind starting up a contract and just want it moveable depending on what country you may be in at a given moment... buy from Carphone warehouse! (At least from their website)
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How much are they charging in store?

Carphone Warehouse phones are always unlocked. One of their trademarks if you will (that they sell unlocked sim-free phones)

Unfortunately they are quite a lot more expensive than going direct to t-mobile, I was looking at £20pm + £129 for 600 minutes, CPW seem to be £20 for 300 minutes + £189 also internet uses your booster, from tmobile you get internet then use your booster for free landline calls etc. looks better to go to tmobile then pay them £15 to unlock?

It's so they can buy in bulk and offer the same phone with numerous providers.

plus £129 for the handset?!
Are you upgrading?
T-Mobile gave me 600 minutes, unlimited text, web n walk max and a free handset for £15 a month on an 18 month contract. Works out cheaper than buying the phone and plus I'm getting a monthly bill.
You guys need to argue for better deals! haha

Best Sim-Free UK Deals

There was a rumour going around it would be £430 sim-free from Phones 4U on release, but I can confirm that it costs £530 and £500 if you but a pay-as-you-go sim with it.
I was holding out for the £430 deal so I'm screwed now - so who has the cheapest sim-free deals in the UK?

If you're willing to do some legwork-
O2 contract comes with
50 mins/250 texts/100mb data for £13.50pm + £179 upfront.
Take out this contract and remove the data bolt on making it £10.50pm. Through TCB you get £50.50 cashback. £10.50 x 24 months= £252 + £179= £431 (- £50.50 cashback) = £380.50 over 2 years.
The phone comes unlocked from o2. You can cancel the contract and technically you wouldn't have to pay VAT on the remaining £252 so it'd leave you around £200 to pay off to cancel the contract. (o2 might not agree to take off vat meaning you'd have to pay the full £252) Or you can use the sim as an extra for light use (pay £10.50 every month for 24 months)
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Might be worth waiting till easter weekend as o2 might remove the £179 upfront cost like they did last year with the Desire S.
If you know someone who works at o2 they can add a 30% discount per month so it'd be £7.35pm not £10.50pm. (£305 with cashback over 2 years)

About £490 delivered with Handtec.

Sim free
Carphone warehouse has it for £479.99 sim free and website is showing it as in stock. Mines being delivered to the store around 1pm today!

ahmadcentral said:
If you're willing to do some legwork-
O2 contract comes with
50 mins/250 texts/100mb data for £13.50pm + £179 upfront.
Take out this contract and remove the data bolt on making it £10.50pm. Through TCB you get £50.50 cashback. £10.50 x 24 months= £252 + £179= £431 (- £50.50 cashback) = £380.50 over 2 years.
The phone comes unlocked from o2. You can cancel the contract and technically you wouldn't have to pay VAT leaving you £345 to pay off to cancel the contract. Or you can use the sim as an extra for light use.
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Might be worth waiting till easter weekend as o2 might remove the £179 upfront cost like they did last year with the Desire S.
If you know someone who works at o2 they can add a 30% discount per month so it'd be £7.35pm not £10.50pm. (£305 with cashback over 2 years)
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Cheers, I can't figure out how to remove the bolt-on though?...
Also does anyone know anyone working for O2 who can get me a discount? ;p
*EDIT* Wait, if you cancel your contract early you have to pay £345? £345 + £179 (the cost of the phone) = £524?

crimsonnight said:
Cheers, I can't figure out how to remove the bolt-on though?...
Also does anyone know anyone working for O2 who can get me a discount? ;p
*EDIT* Wait, if you cancel your contract early you have to pay £345? £345 + £179 (the cost of the phone) = £524?
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Nope, how it works is. You sign up online through topcashback http://www.topcashback.co.uk/o2/
It will track and £50.50 and will be paid into an account of your choice within 6 weeks (do not cancel the contract before the £50.50 is payable)
You go for the £13.50 deal which includes a data bolt on for £3 for 100mb.
When you get the contract/phone you can remove it from the o2 website account page or call up customer services and get them to do it. That way you will be paying £10.50 a month for a sim card and the phone. The £179 is taken upfront straight away.
Now you have two options. Either to spread the cost of the phone out by just paying £10.50 every month. Or cancelling (after TCB has paid you the £50.50) by ringing up o2 customer services. I got my figures wrong for cancelling the contract early. it would actually be much less if o2 allow the 20% vat off thingy (because you haven't used the contract). However i've heard reports that o2 have stopped doing this now. so it might be better to just stick with the monthly cost. You could try cancelling early. But i'd only say go for it if the agree to let 20% off the £252 you'd pay over 2 years.
Hope that makes sense^
Also, the phone comes unlocked. + i've edited my post above to reflect the cancellation price.
+ Wait till easter weekend. last year o2 had an easter sale where they reduced the upfront costs from £179 down to £0 on select handsets. If the One X/even the One S is one of those handsets this year then i'd say go for it.

How much did you pay for your One X?

I'm pretty happy with the deal I got. Over here, the lowest sim free price was €610 and the lowest prepay price was €519 from Three.
So... I decided to shop around and managed to get the phone for €269 on a 12 month (€20 per month) contract. So that's a round total of €509 with 12 months worth of phone service.

579 euro in Germany on 4 days before launch date (april 2nd)
Sent from my HTC One X using Tapatalk

€519 from Three on prepay.

420 Euro + 30 Euro connection charge
1 year
100 minutes
unlimited SMS
1 GB data @ 14 Mbps

Pre-orderred it for 560 euros.

Got mine for 36000 INR
I know conversions don't work like this, but still:
36000 INR (India) == 704 US$ == 443 British Pounds == 537 Euros
And yeah, that's a sim free phone.

I got my phone from O2 UK I paid £179.99 on a 24 month £10.50 contract so it works out....
£179.99 + £252 (full contract) - £60 cashback (Via Top CashBack) - £50.40 VAT (for paying full contract early) = £321.59 for the phone.
I did the same when i bought my GS2 last year, i got that for less than £300.

minshell said:
i got my phone from 02 uk paid 179.99 on a 24 month £10.50 contract so it works out....
£179.99 + £252 (full contract) - £60 cashback (top cashback) - £50.40 VAT (for paying full contract early = £321.59 for the phone.
i did the same when i bought my GS2 last year, i got that for less than £300.
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This doesnt sound like a bad idea
Can you explain the £60 cashback? Also do you mind if i PM you a few questions.

MarylandCookie said:
This doesnt sound like a bad idea
Can you explain the £60 cashback? Also do you mind if i PM you a few questions.
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sign up to topcashback, look on their website its easy
pm any questions you want

I got it for 600€ and I receive it one week before the official release. And, I won a Beats Solo HD because I was in the first hundred to pre-order it (at The Phone House)
Sent from my HTC One X using XDA

940 EUR for 24 months of service (that's everything included, unlimited talk/text/mms and data speed capped at 10Gb) and they included the phone

Free phone on 18 month contract @ £35 per month £630 in total and I get ulimited data download and £180 a month allowance to spend on calls texts etc
Sent from my LEEDROID powered Desire HD

minshell said:
I got my phone from O2 UK I paid £179.99 on a 24 month £10.50 contract so it works out....
£179.99 + £252 (full contract) - £60 cashback (Via Top CashBack) - £50.40 VAT (for paying full contract early) = £321.59 for the phone.
I did the same when i bought my GS2 last year, i got that for less than £300.
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Not sure how you did it, but am pretty sure with O2 you pay for the VAT even when cancelling early.

4500 DKK. Approximately 500£ or 800$ or 600€
Thats the total for the phone and a 6 months contract with 2 hours of talk, 5 gb data and unlimited sms and mms each month
Sent from my HTC Incredible S using XDA

Got it for 500 pounds on amazon.co.uk

$785SGD = €475 = £390
Sim-free here in Singapore.

$668 AUD. Here in Australia on 2nd April.
Sent from my HTC One X using xda premium

£479.99 at carphone warehouse here in sunny uk!
sim free,

Got mine for $599 Australian about a week ago.

fredaroony said:
Got mine for $599 Australian about a week ago.
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Lol where from ?
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