>>19997

Surely you are the man on the inside in this case?

Or were you the one who made the thread about pegging and feeldoes?

CeX has a strange and clunky website. I seem to get different results depending on which way I enter the search process and the filter options aren't too helpful either.

>>20002

Har har.

Surely purple is a colour of manliness and royalty?

I'd get a phone cover I suppose...although deep down I'd revel in my secret purpleness

One thing I think is overlooked with the phones is the "bigger is better" trap. How big are your pockets? Do you have enough room to spare in your trousers to slip an extra five incher or more in there? Likewise for coat pockets, etc. The "phablet" size could be very awkward for daily use as a phone.

>>20003

Vague searches are useless on that site. It has the auto complete thing google does when you're searching in the main search bar though, which helps, but it doesn't seem fit for purpose.

Many complaints and suggestions from staff, many of whom have experience in web design, have yet to be heeded.

If the Sony Xperia SP is 220 then Cex could even bump up the model to a Xperia Z for only a tiny bit more...but it is in what Britfa.gs considers the GAYEST COLOUR IN ALL OF CHRISTENDOM. Ideal for arranging meatings with all of the poz lads. It might be getting a bit bulky or battery hungry with a bigger screen though?

>>20007

Even the auto suggest seems to be hit and miss. I can't seem to get the same results as others in searches or sometimes even the same results twice. Oh, please, CeX, you have a large number of technically minded employees - listen to them.

>>20006

I'm a tiny little nine stone nerd, but I have no bother fitting a 6" phablet in my trouser pocket unless I'm in skinny jeans. The bigger issue IMO is the size of your thumbs - above about 4.5", most people struggle to reach enough of the screen when using the device one-handed. Some phablet makers have compensated by shifting the keyboard over to one side, but it's not ideal.

>>20008
>it is in what Britfa.gs considers the GAYEST COLOUR IN ALL OF CHRISTENDOM.
I was only joking about that for a comedy ban, my old HTC Wildfire cover had purple butterflies and shit on it (though I did eventually dremel them off).

You lads are great, but you don't make this easy. I did quickly clear the order and I'm looking at CeX and others and back to procrastination.

>>20009

6" is okay for you then? I thought maybe a standard man's wallet size is about the limit of comfort for most jeans or trousers without it either being uncomfortable or making people think you have a robot leg with a metal plate on your thigh. Is it okay to sit or crouch, etc. with it in there?

>>20010

Back in the closet, ay lad?

I'll just leave this here and say nothing.

>>20013

At last. Purple's true identity is revealed to the internet. Faked his own death so he could escape leading a country so he could instead spend time working in his shed on this board.

>>20014

I could lead the entire fucking universe and still have time to run this board. Awaits ban.

>>19997

My missus read this at work and has just got in and given me a gale force talking to for telling people this.

Bitch

Right. Before I make another mistake, I've decided to go with CeX. I can go for the flaming homosexual Xperia Z which is about the same price as I was willing to pay for the SP before anyway and seems very impressive or I can go for the CeX SP for forty five quid less. Thoughts?

>>20016

You took one for the lads like a true hero. Now go give her a good pozzing to show her who is boss. Also, tell her the website is really, really shit. Come on CeX, don't show yourselves up.

I'm still blaming the resident SPlad if this all goes horribly wrong.

>>20017

The Xperia Z is a really good phone.

If you can afford it, it's a no brainer. It has waterproof and dustproof seals round all the charging ports, etc. meaning that if it is properly secured it can be used underwater for upto 30 mins. Why anyone would risk that though...

>>20020

Obviously so I can post here while I am drowning myself in the bath.

>>20020
An acquaintance of mine owned a T. I was looking at getting one, and then the Z came out with buffed specs. Spotted a discounted contract at £26/mo, sprung for it, and haven't looked back since. The only trouble is that for months I've had people joking about dunking it in a pint.

I am going to call my phone Purpz from now on in honour of our very own host and the colour of my outrageously gay phone.

My not-really-a-smart-phone-at-all-but-it-runs-angry-birds-maybe-you-can-fool-your-slow-friends Nokia Asha 300 broke last week, so on boxing day I ended up buying a Moto G as a late Christmas present to myself. It cost £99 on Tesco Mobile, and £2 to get it unlocked, and honestly I couldn't be happier or more surprised with it. I've used a mate's iPhone 5C and it's astounding that that handset costs more than 4x what I paid for mine. On the other hand, I've also used an Xperia J which is in the same price range as the Moto G and is an absolute nugget of shite in comparison. Nothing about the Moto G feels cheap at all. I'm almost genuinely concerned that maybe they used slave labour to drive the price down that low.

If anyone on this board has, like me, been reluctant to jump into the smartphone arena because the high end devices are too pricey for what you need, the low end devices are too shit for what you need, and the mid range devices are the worst of both worlds, I can heartily recommend this phone. I've never heartily recommended anything before.

>>20321
It's made by Google, so I imagine it's a stepping stone to world domination getting people involved in the brand by getting them cheap so to speak and then ramping up their market share that way.

Funny you should post that, my little brother got that phone for christmas (My recommendation, the rents money) and did the exact same as you, for the same price. I've had a bit of a play around with it and it's a solid phone. The thing that got me about some of the competitors in that price band was the screen quality, some of them looked like they were half a decade old.

The Moto G is probably a loss leader or zero profit machine at most as the quality to price blows everything else at the same price range out of the water. They'll make the money from later market share gained and the Google Play store. It'll be similar idea to the consoles.

>>20323

Yes and no. Google use their own devices to drive the market forward, partly by creating the standard to beat and partly by creating economies of scale for component manufacturers. We saw this quite clearly with the Nexus 7 - within a year, the Android tablet market was flooded with Nexus 7 clones, many of them using the same SoC and LCD module. Prices tumbled as manufacturers had no choice but to compete with the Nexus 7, and manufacturers moved away from expensive 10" tablets and towards cheap seven-inchers. Google create the sort of device they'd like to see, sell it as cheaply as possible and hope that manufacturers take the hint and rip off the design.

I think that the Moto G is intended as a tactical assault on the relatively weak midrange handsets from the likes of Samsung and LG. They offer really cheap handsets (~£70) with three or four year old specs, really high end devices with £400+ price tags and not much in between. I think Google are trying to force Samsung and LG to compete in this market to drive down the price of a 'good enough' handset, just as the Nexus 7 shifted the price point of a typical tablet from ~£400 to less than half that.

I am another happy Moto G owner, though I paid £135 to get it sim-free shortly after it was launched.

The official flip-covers seem pretty difficult/expensive to get hold of though. They were out of stock everywhere until recently and even now the cheapest price I could find was just under £18.

>>20323
Motorola have stated that the Moto G makes a profit, and independent analysts have agreed, although the percentage of profit from each handset is estimated at around 5%. That's much less than Samsung or Apple make, but this is Google, so they can look at a that figure from atop their huge pile of ad money and shrug it off as the cost of fucking around with the market.

I just jizzed £299 on a nexus 5.
Seemed to provide best price to performance ratio in the top end handset bracket, off contract, obviously.
Previously had the older Samsung galaxy nexus which I really loved, was immeasurable better than the iphone I had before it. Hoping the nexus 5 will meet my expectations when it arrives.

Anyone got one?

>>20328
ITS SO BIG, MORGAN.

Thanks to this thread I decided to get a Moto G from tesco, sadly every time I have looked at their website it has been sold out.
If you got the 8GB version are you finding that enough storage? Not sure if I should get the 8GB or 16GB version.

>>20392

It depends on how you use your phone. The main storage hogs are 3D games, music and video. I stream everything over 3G and don't play many games, so I'm fine with the 8GB version.

>>20392
I had the same worry, mostly because I had wanted the phone to replace my iPod classic and save me from carting that around as well as a phone. Happily, I discovered Google Play Music, to which you can upload all of your music and stream it anywhere for no cost. Also you can set photos and videos to automatically back up to THE CLOUD, and get 50Gb of storage on Google Drive free for 2 years with the handset.

So if your phone's generally going to be online and you don't mind the possibility of waking up with PROPERTY OF GOOGLE INC. branded on your arse, you only really have to worry about space for apps and games.

Also the Tesco website said it was sold out of every store within a 25km radius of me yet the first one I walked into had plenty in stock, so you may give it a go anyway.

>>20392
Techradar put the moto g as their fifth best phone of the year, and the only one in its price band.

If you're going to fill it with music, get the bigger one, however if this isn't a concern get the smaller. My SP is eight gb I think and it's plenty for what I use it for, plus some big choonz.

>>20406

Pound for pound, the Moto G is undoubtedly the best handset going - you're getting flagship performance for a budget price. The limited amount of storage is the only major downside, but Google are trying to get you into the cloud mindset and store everything online.

The Xperia Z is the dogs bollocks for the price you can get them at now. Moto G is super too if that's your budget. Set your budget and then look at the phones that fit, that's the best way of doing it or you will overrun your budget or simply taunt yourself with what you cannot afford.

Love the new movable reply boxes, BTW, Purpz.

If anyone has been waiting, the 8gb Moto G is back in stock at Tesco.

>>20409

I'm about to purchase a Moto G, but my main concern is durability. Do these phones live a long time? I've had a HTC break on me within a year (admittedly I was quite sloppy with it, but you know).

>>22367
>a HTC
Lad.

>>22367
They haven't been available for a year, but mine seems quite durable.

Seeing as many people (including myself) have sung the praises of the Moto G on this site for the past couple of years, I thought I'd perform a bit of thread necromancy to let any lads looking for a phone know that buying britfa.gs' favourite handset would be a pretty silly move now, because you can get its much more attractive sister, the flagship Moto X, for the same price or cheaper new on ebay. It runs the same almost stock android as the Moto G, but has a faster processor, 2GB RAM, 16GB of storage, a better camera, a cool notification system that only lights up a few pixels, voice gimmicks etc. etc.

Also it's not a fucking huge slab that you can't use in one hand or fit in a human pocket like every phone seems to be by law nowadays.

I picked one up myself a few months ago for around £170, and it's real damn good.

>>23971
>Also it's not a fucking huge slab that you can't use in one hand
That sounds awful. You'll go blind squinting at for-desktop web pages.

Seriously though, my Note 3 received its OTA Lollipop update this week. They finally moved the emergency dialler button on the lock screen somewhere I'm not going to press it every third time I unlock my device. Hallelujah! Unfortunately I can't configure the pedometer and it's stuck on, but the increase in UI fluidity more than makes up for that minor annoyance.

>>23972
The Moto X has a 4.7 inch screen, which is big enough to render everything just fine without being so fuck-off-huge that it impairs its function.

And almost all sites have mobile versions/are designed with mobile viewing in mind.

And I already have five percent vision without glasses or contacts, you big insensitive arse.

>>23973
>And I already have five percent vision without glasses or contacts, you big insensitive arse.
Prosecution rests, your honour.

Seeing as the thread is already undead, I thought I'd chuck in my couple of cents. Pic related (HTC One M8) is by far and away the best phone I've ever used. Everything's snappy (even with 5.0s extra bells and whistles), I've had zero issues running apps and the screen is big enough to prop it up on the side and watch video clips. Might be a tad large for some people's tastes but unless you have tiny lady hands or wear skin-tight jeans with no pocket space then it's fine. Oh and it has by far and away the best integrated speakers on a phone I've ever heard, makes my mate's Note 4 sound like a bag of screws rattling at the bottom of a well.

Just so I don't seem like an HTC employee, I will point out that the HTC Mini is the biggest waste of money I've ever seen without an Apple logo on it - hey I heard you like your phone so I got a phone for your phone so you can etc etc. No.

>>23976

I have a One M7 and I'm seconding this, the flagship HTC models are just shit hot. The only thing they're missing is the ability to expand the memory, but I'd still pick a One over a Galaxy for overall fit and finish. I find myself getting more and more frustrated every time I use iOS now. They've fucked the user experience entirely.

>>23976
>HTC One M8
Nice phone M8.

Sorry.

If anyone is looking for a mid-priced phone, there's a new value champion, the Vodafone Smart Ultra 6. For £125, you get a 1080p display, 4G, eight cores, 2gb of RAM, Android L, a decent sized battery and a MicroSD slot. Unlocking is available on eBay for less than a fiver, and you don't have to buy a topup with the phone. It's a ridiculous bargain, even compared to those off-brand Chinese phones from DX.

http://shop.vodafone.co.uk/shop/pay-as-you-go/vodafone-smart-6-ultra-payg/sku86605-grey
http://www.trustedreviews.com/vodafone-smart-ultra-6-review


Apologies for the bump.

>>24345
>Apologies for the bump.
Not at all. It's nice when people bump old threads with new information, instead of just replying to a months old post to call someone a cunt.

>>24346

See you in a few months mate... :-*

(A good day to you Sir!)