8GB/1GB is not enough

My gf has 1gb version and never complains about lag or poor performance. As always with smartphones it's really dependent on the kind of user you are, and for a lot of people 1gb is absolutely fine.

If the 16GB and 2GB RAM version was this price I'd be all over it.

ive just replaced my 2nd gen moto G with the lg g3 offer..

8gb runs out even with all apps moved to sd, and 1gb ram the phone is too laggy...

go for an upgrade

I know how much you all love these Vodafone deals :laughing:

That's a bargain

Hmm, this or smart ultra six?

8GB/1GB is not enough

HTC One M8s £225 http://shop.vodafone.co.uk/shop/pay-as-you-go/htc-one-m8s-payg/sku86552

ive just replaced my 2nd gen moto G with the lg g3 offer..

8gb runs out even with all apps moved to sd, and 1gb ram the phone is too laggy...

go for an upgrade

1GB RAM is not enough any more, and neither is 8GB of flash. Go for the larger version - unfortunately it was quite expensive when I checked.

1gb is fine!

8gb is fine.... Will have around 2gb spare after apps installed

You need the 2GB/16GB version £170 on amazon. Gorgeous piece of kit.

My gf has 1gb version and never complains about lag or poor performance. As always with smartphones it's really dependent on the kind of user you are, and for a lot of people 1gb is absolutely fine.

Real question is .... Is this locked to Vodafone ? Answer probably yes

Very much a user dependent thing. Some have way more apps than others that take up the space!

How does this compare to the Smart ultra 6 @ £115

Is it worth the extra £15?

http://shop.vodafone.co.uk/shop/pay-as-you-go/vodafone-smart-6-ultra-payg/sku86605-grey?bundles=show&cid=ppc-mec-auto/smvaajth

If the 16GB and 2GB RAM version was this price I'd be all over it.

:wink:

1gb ram aaaahahahaa

From Vodaphone site every local store says 'available Friday 30 October' - can they be trusted?

I'm on Tesco Mobile. Will these Vodaphone ones be similarly bloat free and easily unlockable? £139 in Tesco at the moment but I was waiting for the new Clubcard Boost; could go this way and save my points though.

I would strongly advise against ordering anything from Vodafone. Truly terrible company to deal with.

Finally sorted with online help, these phones are perfect for normal users , good battery, and at £99 a bargain, have unlocked every one i had for £1.50

4.5gb free on 8gb phone .... After installing my apps which includes Twitter. Amazon etc then you can expect around 2gb

This may be much less of course if you use loads of apps.... Facebook is a hog so I just access it through the browser

The memory can be expanded using a memory card, at 99 quid this phone is well worth it, I brought it for £150 from o2 a month ago and I'm extremely happy with it

Bloatware can't comment on but around £1.50 for an unlock code from ebay :smiley:

Not all apps can be moved to SD. In fact not many at all. I have the 2nd gen moto g and find it a pain when i cant move apps to SD. So if you're thinking that an SD card will solve the 8gb size limit of the phone, it wont, unless you dont have many apps.

Sweet! Thanks, ordered!!!

Hot!!!!

Just got the Umi Iron listed on here yesterday, delivered today, and I have to say for the extra £12 it's got twice the RAM and storage, and is hard to fault so far.

Good price :smiley: Heat added OP

It's a backwards move from Google to appease people.

First I've heard of that- where did you hear?

if the 2gb version comes down but this amount I would get it

Can't believe I have spent about 4 weeks waiting for a decent Moto G deal, finally bit using the 20% ebay voucher to get a refurb 2nd gen one for about this price and then this appears a week later :-(

Great phone for the money.

Defo lags(edit actually was on about older model)

I went for the £99 offer for the smart ultra 6 and it has 2gb ram, better processor, 16gb storage, full HD and bigger display... so compared with smart ultra 6 this offer is utter crap though only one downside with huawei and Vodafone that they will not upgrade to android marshmallow, at least I think they won't

​Couldn't agree more, all depends on the users needs. The wife has the 8gb and its fine for her, me too come to that. Great phone for the price.

Nice find op

Thanks. Nice find. Any simlock or vodafone blootware?

This or Moto G 2nd gen 4G for £59?

My son has the 1Gb/8Gb version and despite him filling it with (cr)apps it is lightning fast. I opted for the 2Gb/16Gb sim free version from Amazon which is a fantastic performer indeed. I would say its a steal at £99 as long as Vodafone haven't filled it with bloat. The 1Gb/8Gb Tesco mobile version had no bloat other than the useful Moto apps. I can confirm the water resistant feature works well too!

id go for lg g2 over this any day. 32gb lg g2 new from china, £107 if you dont mind not having the uk 4g frequencies, or if you would prefer to have 4g working here in uk go for the d802 32gb version for £130

I would add the only thing I slightly miss is NFC but it wasn't a deal breaker for me and performance wise both are easily on a par with the family Z3 tablet in day to day use.

​agree was thinking of the xiaomi mi4c from China, but for the extra £10 the oneplus looks like a better bet,if you can get an invite

I was tempted by this, got a seller? All the ones I've found are selling New but Open Box and I'm concerned they are either rebadging other models or worse counterfeits

Buy 4 of these, sell 3 for the going price and you have got a free moto g!

Just got moto x play for 170. This would have been tempting last week, although the 8gb storage is a problem. Good price though, heat added.

Good to see value for money, instead of the Apple & Samsung rip offs. Heat added

Agree...come on, spill the beans and share...?!!

Are you sure your not talking about a Smart prime 6 ? because the Smart ultra 6 is pure class compared with a Moto g. My wife's got a 4g Moto g and it's not a patch on my SU6.

Unlock it or actually buy it online ?

This or smart prime 6 for £65 from Amazon, if it can be unlocked for £3 from ebay??

Correct, its a bloody pain having to move them back to the sd card after they have updated

Post that, that's hot

Tried but can't buy it:

Sorry, there's been a problem

Your order has not been placed because of a temporary error. Please submit your order again. Thank you.

I have this phone, and use link2sd along with 32gb SD card. All apps reside on the card, and get auto moved to card as and when they update. Easy.

Id also like to know

Not iPhone. Heat.

Tempted to get one to use over my Nexus 6 which is a bit too big for my liking!

Is this better than a galaxy s3?

android... bleah!

i like my face. its funny

no not your smiley face.. your actual face darling.

anyone actually been able to buy this with confirmation email

Just purchased a Wileyfox Swift.

Why am I posting here? Because I thought I'd chime in and say that you'll be getting double the RAM, dual SIM, a slightly more premium-feeling device, and Cyanogen.

The first two points I mentioned were the tipping points - can't live without those. As others have said, 1GB of RAM for a midrange phone released in 2015 is absurd. No matter what you say, whether you can live with it or not, it's not futureproof.

Not just sure but positive, the Smart ultra 6 is defo made by ZTE and is a much better phone.

​Do Tesco price match?

8GB is plenty of space, and 1GB is enough RAM.

It's 2015, Android is smart and knows how to manage RAM usage.

xiaomi redmi note 2 beats all phones in this price range.

If you're in the market for a £99 phone you need to reign in your expectations a little. Anyone saying "spend £20 extra on this" or "£30 extra on this" isn't comparing apples with apples.

I bought a used 3rd gen off eBay for £99 a few weeks ago to replace my 1st gen G 4G. This is way better in every way. My needs are to ring people, get push email from an exchange account and a bit of browsing. This does it. My 1st gen did it but had slowed in a year so this feels like a revolution!

And I know it will be updated with all the latest software during the year. So I won't need to buy another Chinese handset in 4 months to keep up.

I want to spend no more than £99 a year on a phone. Not £169 or £129 or £115. £99. Job done.

I hope this doesnt get abandoned like the New Moto E has, which isn't listed as receiving the Android 6 update.

Ultra 6 or this moto g. Also does the ultra 6 have any reliability problems?

Is this phone unlockable using a code?

​exactly my thinking. 5.5" just too big otherwise would go for the Smart Ultra 6

I still have 1.75GB of free space on my Moto G 1st gen 8GB - I must be doing something wrong.

bit off topic here, but Vodafone are offering the smart ultra 6 on payg for £115 on their website. Do you need to add a £10 top-up to that price , and is that price in store as well ?.

Just bought this phone for my youngest son (my oldest son has it already and loves it).

I want to use a post office mobile sim, so can anyone please post a direct link to somewhere I can go to to reliably unlock this phone, preferably they've used before to unlock this particular model. Thanks in advance.

Lols, you keeps telling yourself that till you've seen one in the flesh. The WileyFox is UK company, with sure a Chinese built to order phone, but it's actually really good & decent quality.

Decent phone, bought recently from Tesco for £90. Easily unlockable via £1.50 code from ebay sellers

is this locked to vodaphone or can i use any sim? (i have the 3g sim)

heat as its a moto g :smiley:

great price!

absolutely disgraceful company to deal with , just spent an hour with a lost order on the phone to india, england and god knows where else. don't bother

Avoid at all costs! 6 weeks later and I'm still waiting for a phone from Vodafone. All conversations with their customer "service" are constant lies. Good luck to you if you do manage to purchase something from them and then have it delivered........

While I am skeptical over the fact that it is made in China, I doubt I'd label that low quality - everything comes out of China, even your iPhones and your Motorolas. This particular model is an Android One phone rebadge, hence it'll definitely be reliable in terms of build quality.

I smell a whiff of anti-China-ism coming from you...

Ah, forgot to mention - I've just ordered the Wileyfox on Prime, so if it doesn't live up to my expectations (I use a Nexus 5/Nexus 7 as daily drivers and have a Moto E 1st gen/Moto G 2nd gen as dev phones) I'll return it and get this deal then. :smile:

Surely the smart ultra 6 at £115 is a much better deal?

I have the 4g version which I believe has 8gb storage and 1gb ram, with the most recent android update its infuriatingly slow. It was fine before, now it crashes and freezes doing mundane tasks.
It doesn't have enough room for installing a decent number of applications.
my next phone will be one with 16GB internal memory at the minimum and at least 2GB of ram.

Oh and before anyone asks, yes after the update I cleared the cache from the BIOS and did a full format of the phone and started from a fresh slate.

I will be rooting soon and installing the older version of android

The WIleyfox Swift is a Chinese phone? OMG like iPhones and Samsungs etc etc? I'm shocked especially after all the reviews stating what a good phone it is. What don't you actually like about it now you've bought one? :smile:

Best move they ever did, companies need to listen to consumers

I agree 8gb is not enough even for light use, some might get away with it if they use the phone just for calling/texting, but anything more, you'll run into trouble soon.

1gb of ram is enough for (almost) stock android is perfectly adequate for most people. The 8gb storage is more of a concern but will suffice for many.

Hot!

Can the Ultra 6 be unlocked easily and cheapily ?
thanks

This actually looks good. Nice screen, improved camera and battery, splashproof, and expandable memory? Not bad at all.

have this as a work phone it's terrible

Yes - plenty of unlock codes on eBay.

Customers are stupid though, they don't realise the reason it was implemented in the first place. In my view it's a backwards move.

Yes, got a code off of ebay for a couple of pounds.

Yeah, like those iphone and apple people.....

Has anybody had confirmation yet? I just had a text saying they are "checking the details of my order and will be in touch shortly with an update". No update as of yet.

does anyone know/think this is a limited time offer or not?

oops - yep, I worded that wrong......

walked in and they wanted £10 top up , proved i had already purchased online and did't need to, so i paid £99 for Moto G 3rd gen

p.s. ebay seller returned code in under two hours

Unlock code

I've got this phone, had it for 2 months now. 8GB isn't enough but you can buy a cheap 32GB card and install most of your apps to it so it keeps the phone memory free. I've got 1GB free on the phone, you do have to keep deleting photos and videos once they've uploaded to Google Photos, but it's a cracking phone and I paid £150.

Android M is coming to the Moto G in January, the big feature being phone and memory card memory is counted as one and not separate, so you won;t have any memory issues to fret about.

So that's how its going to work then??
Maybe just put a faster memory card in?

​but moto g is slow, I am using smart ultra 6 right now and I can't to it from lg g4 and I test many phones as I'm a phone geek

​who doesn't enjoy spelling corrections.....

Right now you sound exactly like a corporate worker.
Plenty of people struggle to get their precious photos out of phones that eent dead or broken screen from non-sdcardslotphones. Card are getting faster and people should have a choice, they want flexibility v one extra half second speed.

Nope I sound like someone who knows what they're talking about. Analyze the internal NAND storage flash on modern smartphones >

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9662/iphone-6s-and-iphone-6s-plus-preliminary-results

Then check out the speed for Micro SD NAND. You'll find a huge discrepancy. Unless Micro SD NAND can match internal storage, you'll always get a non uniform experience. Which is why the two leading smartphones Galaxy S6 and iPhone 6S which both have the fastest NAND on their platform, do not have removable storage. Yes the storage is too small on the iPhone 6S with 16GB. 32GB should be the minimum now, but that's the reason it's a backwards move from Google. They're trying to get a uniform experience from the phone and allowing much slower expanadable storage messes things up. As for me being a corporate worker, well that's your assumption based on what you don't like me opinionating.

Just a warning though, I bought 3 of these for various family members and gave had a nightmare trying to unlock them. Used about 20 different sellers on eBay and eventually was left with one which is completely unable to be unlocked.

I already have most of my apps installed to my memory card on the Moto G and they're just as fast to open and use.

Mint price for a decent phone

You're assuming you know what you are talking about, sorry, you cannot use as an argument the very decision we are questioning, iphone NEVER had a slot, and Samsung had one till the very last model.

LG flagships still have one, Google itself as you say allow it back, users want it, the rest, it is just your opinion, contradicting common sense to be honest. Just the other day someone was asking me desperatly for a solution to get his baby pictures back from his broken phone... Phones need a removable card slot, end of.

Having or not having an SD card slot is no solution for not backing up. As for the link if you read it, yes the Apple iPhone wins some benchmarks and the Galaxy S6 wins others, the link clearly illustrates how far internal NAND storage has come and have it will continue to evolve beyond anything the sd card format can achieve and it's definitely part of the debate as Apple have never needed an sd card slot, if they had one, then it would be a crippled experience as they have some if not the fastest NAND on any phone. As NVe, UFS and other NAND storage solutions come onboard, the situation is only going to worsen. Removable storage needs to match internal storage. Google were only implementating a strategy for the future, now the future is here, they've gone back on it to appease people who don't understand. Users in the majority are unlikely to be tech savvy, they just want it to work, manufacturers are to blame. Apple have had 16GB storage in their phones since 2009, things have moved on. Yes new technologies cost money, but they have to balance the experience of their phones. There is no place at all for removable storage in flagship phones, as the mass adopted technology does not exist to facilitate it without some limitation on the user experience of the phone. The storage limitation is imposed by the manufacturer.

There's a reason that was one of the top comments in this thread. The point is quite clearly beyond your comprehension.

I ordered one of these for my kids , unlocked it with an code from ebay £1.78, no problems

Need a new MP3 player after my ipod touch has failed. Is this a decent Android solution? I’ve got a micro SD card around somewhere.

Sure, it was 151779047150, £1.77 my mistake

Yes, it would be fine, you can also upload your music to Google play music for free and play it/store it from there. That way you can just download what you want to currently want to listen to.

Damn now OOS

are these branded Vodafone on the android eg when it boots up? thanks

Back to £130 now :-(

Was a good price at £99.

Sorry for the late reply. I picked it up on ebay actually, thought I was getting a bargain but it turned out to be a mistake. The phone itself is great when it works but this one was faulty and the seller is refusing a return, so now I have to wait until the 11th before I can even open an ebay case.