Not a bad price for this phone. Available in all 3 colours. Seafoam out of stock for home delivery.
https://www.argos.ie/static/Product/partNumber/1171141/Trail/searchtext%3EPIXEL+6.htm
The iphone 8 (4.7" screen) was one of those that Apple slowed down deliberately so it could "handle" the latter updates. (or "encourage" an upgrade). Nice update.
The android phone I bought at the same time as the iphone 8 was released had twice the ram, 2.5 times the battery life and.....a radio. At a quarter (maybe less) of the price.
The iPhones are lovely. They are premium devices and you're buying into the eco system. I get all that. But the bang for buck is brutal. You're definitely not getting what you pay for.
Yes we are still using that phone. I only upgraded to a pixel to get a better and more consistent photos in all conditions.
The local Argos in Nutgrove shopping centre has good prices on sodastream refills etc., but like the one in the Square, it seems half dead. I hope it isn't closing as it is a source of good prices on a fair few things. Anyhow a well chosen inexpensive Android phone has 95% of what most need at a fraction of the price of the top phones. My Dad did that after his S7 died. The S10 or whatever is mad, mad money.
You get what you pay for is a marketing dream and absolute nonsense in the case of a lot of tech products.
Disagree with your experience of cheaper phones and btw I am not say 250 euro is cheap either.
Pixel 6 420 in argos now lads , still can't decide if it's worth it over the 6a for 350
£299 from a pet care website. Legit?
https://haglomino.com/product/google-pixel-6-pro-5g-cloudy-white-128gb/?variant=6593&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=Google%20Shopping
Is the pixel 6a a good phone guys? I like the smaller size, any drawbacks to this one i should think about?
Coming from an s10....worth the change? Bear in mind I won't get anything for mine as it has a lovely big dent in the front of the screen!
Black Friday offer get €150 off when you switch your number to Vodafone
Google Pixel 6a
€459.99 €309.99
Was £300 in Currys Uk yesterday with a code. https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/google-pixel-6-128-gb-kinda-coral-black-5g-mobile-phone-ps299-with-code-delivered-at-currys-4033915
But the bastards kept the Irish price a lot higher
Any cheap/free way to get this without porting your actual number? Any providers issuing free/cheap sim cards?
https://www.eir.ie/mobile/simonly/
Cool thanks, and I assume the phone is still unlocked getting it through Vodafone if you know?
Out of stock everywhere??
I see one in stock in Drogheda, have it reserved there.
Ah I found an Eir sim I got last year for similar purposes I think but never used. Tried it and sim card not provisioned. Anyone know how to activate it before buying a new one?
Just got a pixel 6 pro like new from Amazon warehouse for 503 odd euro. Had initially ordered a very good for about 470 but decided to splash out when I seen a packaging damaged like new.
I ended up going with the 6a through Amazon and 3% cashback through Revolut. Only thing it is saying they'll let me know when a delivery date is available. It had said In Stock when ordering, hope it won't take too long.
exact same here - said in stock but no delivery date given after ordering - if I can find a 6 available for argos' price Ill cancel.
That's is where you are mistaken. They have evolved beyond phones as the primary function. They are highly sophisticated handheld computers that can happen to make phone calls. The cheap ones eventually struggle with anything beyond basic use.
How did you avoid paying the import fee? Bumped the price by 80 euro on me.
When i switched to gbp, it listed it as 247.57 for the phone and 56.94 import fee so it should come to about 361 euro. That import fee is part of the listed price on Amazon. If price jumps, delivery date is a good bit out or just no update from Amazon by Monday, I might cancel and order direct from google as it will work out the same price. I just thought Amazon would be a quicker delivery since I have Prime.
Of course I know and appreciate that......
The difference in usability/longevity of a 700 euro smartphone and a 200 euro smartphone is absolutely negligible for 95 percent of the population.
The marketeers have ye brainwashed into thinking differently....
Generally the cheaper ones, get dropped from support far earlier than the more expensive ones. You have to buy smarter to avoid that.
What would you recommend so.. Can you give a link to a (new not second hand) phone for 200 that would be as good or usable as other more major ones listed above?
Would have seriously considered a cheap one for kids if I hadnt of got stung in the past buying cheap no-brand androids before.
Tell me what you plan on using the phone for?
Also define 'as good'?
Maybe I'm part of the 5% but one thing I don't cheap out on is tech. I don't change every year either. My Onepluse One lasted over 4 years, Oneplus Nord 2 years as I didn't really like it and now I have a Pixel 7
My PC is high-end and Laptop is quick also, I never once bought cheap budget CPUs in the past 20 years. Life is short and waiting for pages to load or apps to load is not something I'm interested in for the sake of spending that little bit extra for something you use every single day for an hour at least.
Also, i'd make an argument that people that buy budget phones replace their phones much more frequently as they are always complaining about them being full or too slow.
One example of a phone with specs that would run almost anything thrown at it for less than 250 euro.
Another here - https://www.gomibo.ie/samsung-galaxy-a13/128gb-black
You'd have no performance issues there (again for 95 percent of the population)
(Not sure of the site - not used it before, but the phone is available on other sites in or around the same money)
I've the Redmi Note 9 that I bought this time 2 years ago for approximately €150 Euro. 4 GB RAM, 128GB Storage, as good a camera/screen as you would ever be able to notice the difference on and still going strong after heavy daily use over the past two years. Still gettin updates - and eventually sure, andriod updates may stop - what does that really mean - a few years later you'll possibly have compatibility issues with third party apps running on it? How far down the line is that from 2020 - 4/5/6/7 years?
I appreciate you could pick apart some aspects of the three phones mentioned above but I've no complaints.
I work in tech myself. Wouldn't be taken in by any of the marketing but see plenty who are on a daily basis (when it comes to this type of thing and other areas)
Not suggesting you don't know what you are talking about - but if you have the money to spend on tech - great - but I don't think theres any reason to suggest that the difference between a 200 euro phone and a 1000 phone (or even 450 euro phone) is really discernable for the 95 percent of the end users.
Younger people are getting sucked in completely by this "you need a better phone" BS - god help them down the line.
Pointless putting 108mp sensor on a phone then omitting OIS. It's also massive brick. Personally I don't love MIUI. But good bang for buck. Just upgraded from a better version of this phone to a pixel for these reasons. For many they might prefer the Redmi. Horses for courses.
Bug fixes. Security updates. OS updates. Just retired our oldest Redmi's because some apps wouldn't run on the older OS they have. Pity because they've been great.
I'm a fan of Google One concept on the budget Nokia's.
Ah yeah sure it's useless.
Absolutely minor stuff you have issues with tbh.
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