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#438
Originally Posted by switch-hitter View Post
The new Ashas are not going to be £30, they are going to be around £65 before taxes, that makes them at least £80 in the UK.

My daughter just bought a new Galaxy Europa for £40 from 3 and she paid them another £15 to get an unlock code.

I think you'll actually find budget smartphones are a significant percentage of sales in the west, according to Kantar Worldpanel most growth in European sales of WPx devices is down to the NOKIA 610 not the higher end devices.

When I Iook around my friends, family and work colleagues the ones that aren't really interested in smartphones have devices such as the Galaxy Europa, Galaxy Ace, Desire C, etc...
Well, you said budget phones, the Ashas aren't Nokias low end.

The Galaxy i5500 is, as far as the local pricewatch can tell me, a £80 phone, not a £40 phone. So, 3 has a low fee to break a contract - that's really not relevant to the actual price of the phone. That's compared to i.e. the Nokia 100, that goes for about £18 locally. Without having to sign a contract and breaking it.

But I see that there are cheaper android handsets than I thought.
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Last edited by volt; 2012-10-03 at 06:27.