Vodafone Smart - Android - €40 (+ €22.50 cashback till June 27th)

maudgonner

Black phone is still in stock, ordered one at 8:30pm.

Thanks OP!

TerrorFirmer

got mine today.

for 28.50, it's one of the best bargain alerts i've ever seen. wifi, bluetooth, good responsive touchscreen, excellent apps, i bought it basically as a media player - and at that price, I'd barely get a bargain basement chinese mp4 player, let alone something of this quality. very impressed.

bazwaldo

How long does it take before the purchase shows up on my fatcheese account?

Ghost Train

Jackeen63 wrote: »

Ordered one of these through the fatcheese link. Didnt get anything added to my fatcheese cashback. ie Total Pending Cashback: €0.00

might take a few hours to show up

Have the VF845 for last few months and worked well for me, earpiece cracking a bit recently though, screen does get scratched and resistive screen need a bit of pressure

Ordered one of these, hope it's as nice

Ghost Train

bazwaldo wrote: »

How long does it take before the purchase shows up on my fatcheese account?

think my balance was changed within 24hours

nava

Gulliver wrote: »

I took new connection as being a new number, not porting.

Strange I order on Sunday and nearly 100% sure that option was for Switch your number over looks like the switch over is gone, I did a port from a 3 Sim and now I have €22.50 in my Fatcheese account, maybe contact them to clarify.

Captain Morgan wrote: »

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I had to pay €10, not sure if there's a free option available, I follow instructions as per the post below.

witnessmenow wrote: »

I got this unlocked today.

It costs €10, and is pretty easy.

Download this application

Buy 10 credits (my password got put in my spam folder on gmail BTW)

Plug the battery out of the phone.

Plug it back in (sometimes it turns on automatically, if it does just plug it out and in agian)

Power it up by holding the power button and the volume down button, keep them held down for like 20-30 seconds. The Egg timer should stay on screen

Plug it into your PC.

Follow the instructions here

Good Luck!

ecomac

bazwaldo wrote: »

How long does it take before the purchase shows up on my fatcheese account?

Sometimes it showes up instantly, sometimes it won't at all. It didn't show up for me since last friday and I have some other tickets opened since December last year. Their customer service is not bad. It doesn't exist at all. If your purchase wouldn't open within one day, you may forget about getting your cash back. I was unlucky this time, so I paid full price for this purchase

Bens

Does rooting mean that these can be network unlocked too?

Ghost Train

Ordered yesterday and went for ported number, showing up as €22.50 on fatcheese

Ghost Train

Bens wrote: »

Does rooting mean that these can be network unlocked too?

No, unlocking would be seperate I think, would need to do this http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=72846072&postcount=66

biebiebie

Got the phone today. Put the Voda sim card in and looks like it's not recognised. Also I don't see any phone number. I ported from Tesco, so I guess that's my new number, but when does it get activated?

Anhow nonetheless, this is one of the best bargains I've ever seen. Fantastic little phone. Altough resoluton of the screen is a little low res, its very accurate. Sound is fantastic. Even Angry Birds looks impressive considering the CPU.

Recommend this phone to anyone, bargain of the year so far imho.

Ps, typed on my new Smart :-)

rocky

If I switch the number to Vodafone, will I lose my existing credit with Meteor?

tippgirl123

Do you only get cashback if you use fat cheese? is there any cash back with being a vodafone number already and just upgrading

Mimikyu

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beardo81

If you have an old sim or one of those free ones all the networks give away just use that, all they want is a different network number to change over.

mjquinno

ordered a white one this morning.
22/june

Ticktactoe

How does this work exactly?
I went into fatcheese.ie, registered, when to the vodafone website through the fatcheese website and went through purchasing the phone however it is charging me full price.

Does the cash back come back through the fatcheese website?

nava

Ticktactoe wrote: »

How does this work exactly?
I went into fatcheese.ie, registered, when to the vodafone website through the fatcheese website and went through purchasing the phone however it is charging me full price.

Does the cash back come back through the fatcheese website?

Yes, the cashback if done on the fatcheese website, for the vodafone cashback is about August when you get it.


EDIT: In most cases you should see on the fatcheese website the transaction as pending, if not there within a couple of days contact fatcheese.

Kenny Powers

If I want to buy another one do I need to set up a new fatcheese account?

nava

Kenny Powers wrote: »

If I want to buy another one do I need to set up a new fatcheese account?

According to the Post Here you can order with the same account and get cashback for both.

tantipie

witnessmenow can you help me here


Download this application
i cant find which one,,i tried dc unlocker then it takes me to another page with another list of sites,,i'm useless at this lol

nava

tantipie wrote: »

witnessmenow can you help me here


Download this application
i cant find which one,,i tried dc unlocker then it takes me to another page with another list of sites,,i'm useless at this lol

To download DC-Unlocker you can use the direct link to it Click Here

chalkitdown

Phone arrived this morning, unlocked it, now to flash it. This is my first Android so I will need a little help. I saw the post with checksums and so on but don't know what to do with them. Can someone point me in the right direction please?

ciaran_

just to clarify this offer, i'm currently with vodafone and am looking to upgrade,but all the phones on offer from vodafone are cheaper when switching from other networks rather than upgrading. so can i walk into o2 or meteor and get a free sim off them,then switch to vodafone using my free sim therefore getting the cheaper price and also availing of the fatcheese link and when i recieve my phone just pop my existing vodafone sim straight in??

sounds complicated but hopefully someone will know what i mean!

Daniel S

ciaran_ wrote: »

just to clarify this offer, i'm currently with vodafone and am looking to upgrade,but all the phones on offer from vodafone are cheaper when switching from other networks rather than upgrading. so can i walk into o2 or meteor and get a free sim off them,then switch to vodafone using my free sim therefore getting the cheaper price and also availing of the fatcheese link and when i recieve my phone just pop my existing vodafone sim straight in??

sounds complicated but hopefully someone will know what i mean!

Yea, that's fine.

chalkitdown

ciaran_ wrote: »

just to clarify this offer, i'm currently with vodafone and am looking to upgrade,but all the phones on offer from vodafone are cheaper when switching from other networks rather than upgrading. so can i walk into o2 or meteor and get a free sim off them,then switch to vodafone using my free sim therefore getting the cheaper price and also availing of the fatcheese link and when i recieve my phone just pop my existing vodafone sim straight in??

sounds complicated but hopefully someone will know what i mean!

You need to get your hands on a sim from another network and port the number using the vodaphone online form.
You will need to put that sim in a phone to receive the text from Vodaphone which will port the number over.
You can then use your existing sim when the phone arrives.

Little A

biebiebie wrote: »

Got the phone today. Put the Voda sim card in and looks like it's not recognised. Also I don't see any phone number. I ported from Tesco, so I guess that's my new number, but when does it get activated?

Anhow nonetheless, this is one of the best bargains I've ever seen. Fantastic little phone. Altough resoluton of the screen is a little low res, its very accurate. Sound is fantastic. Even Angry Birds looks impressive considering the CPU.

Recommend this phone to anyone, bargain of the year so far imho.

Ps, typed on my new Smart :-)

Did you get your Vodafone sim to work ?? Chalkitdown & mbt_kng seem to say it shouldn't be a problem, so I'd be interested to see how you get on.

I managed to order mine this morning & I intend to use my existing sim as I've had the number forever (it's also a really nice, easy number so I'm not parting with it !!)

chalkitdown

Little A wrote: »

Did you get your Vodafone sim to work ?? Chalkitdown & mbt_kng seem to say it shouldn't be a problem, so I'd be interested to see how you get on.

I managed to order mine this morning & I intend to use my existing sim as I've had the number forever (it's also a really nice, easy number so I'm not parting with it !!)

I'm not actually using the Vodaphone sim. When I checked the number from which I was porting (tesco) it was still working, so the new sim hadn't activated yet.

breathn

ciaran_ wrote: »

so can i walk into o2 or meteor and get a free sim off them,then switch to vodafone using my free sim

I went into a 3 and Meteor store in town the other day, meteor only would give me a free sim with €10 topup and 3 had a similar amount.

Does that happen in all stores?

Ghost Train

breathn wrote: »

I went into a 3 and Meteor store in town the other day, meteor only would give me a free sim with €10 topup and 3 had a similar amount.

Does that happen in all stores?

Tesco sims, are 5€ I think (with 5€ credit on them). you can get 3 and O2 sims free online but would take a few days