The Nexus 4 is the Best, Cheapest Phone You Can Buy Right Now
If your contract is coming to an end soon, or you’re thinking of signing up for a new contract.. Just stop. DO NOT DO IT. You’ll be spending far too much money and be stuck in a long contract, and at the same time probably end up with less minutes, SMS and data than you should be getting. What should you do? The following…!!
The Steps
- Go purchase a Google Nexus 4 from the Play Store for £159 (8GB) or £199 (16GB).
- Purchase a SIM only deal for about £10 a month. The best around right now are from Three or Gifgaff.
- ???
- Profit! (or in this case, more money in your pocket :P)
I’ll use a bit of math to explain just why you should do this today (or tomorrow.. No do it today, right now!)
The Phone
The 8GB Nexus 4 costs a mere £159. This price is ridiculous. Truly ridiculous. This is a phone equivalent in specs and performance to an iPhone 5, or a HTC One, or a Samsung Galaxy S4. Some (quite a lot of smart people actually) might even say it’s better than these top end phones. They’ll set you back around £500 to buy outright. Yes, the same as buying three Nexus 4 phones.
The Contract Deal
But typically, on a contract you’ll be paying off the phone on a monthly contract, and not paying anything up front. This is where I start talking about SIM only deals. A SIM only deal lets you pay monthly, like you would a normal contract, and get a set allowance for the month. But you are not tied in, and can leave whenever you like. I got my SIM only deal from Giffgaff. Giffgaff are a sub-company of O2, and use the O2 network. So if you get good O2 signal, you’ll get good Giffgaff signal. Giffgaff offer you the following for only £10 a month:
- 500 minutes
- Unlimited texts
- 1GB internet
Or you can up to £12 a month for the following (basically allowing you to have truly unlimited data):
- 250 UK minutes
- Unlimited texts
- Unlimited internet
Summary
So lets summarise. Instead of paying £36 (typical 2 year contract) a month and be tied into a contract, for probably a tiny amount of data allowance, you could be paying the following:
£10 x 24 months = £240
£240+ £159 = £399 (or approximately £16.60 a month)
~£16.60 a month. And that monthly cost gets lower if you like to keep you phone for longer (e.g. £14.40 a month over 3 years). For a top end phone, you won’t get anywhere close to that kind of figure for the stuff you get. I promise. And that’s without mentioning not even being tied into a contract you can’t leave.
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I made this decision a few years ago, and I haven’t looked back since. I’ll never sign another phone contract again. Hopefully this help you guys, and save you a whole chunk of money in the mean time! If you have any questions, or clarifications please let me know. Either in the comments below, via email, twitter or Google+, and I’ll be more than happy to help out!
