My girlfriend has been using this phone for around 6 months and likes it. Her only real complaints are regarding Vodafone's cfw and bloatware.

Ordering it from Vodafone was not a good experience though and not something that I would ever want to go through again.

good phone, not good for vr/cardboard, does not have a gyro built in. heat from me tho.

good phone, not good for vr/cardboard, does not have a gyro built in. heat from me tho.

I have this phone and love it. The only slight negative is the camera in low light, but everything else is ace. Great price. Heat added.

Is this easy to unlock?
Any sign of an upgrade to Marshmallow?

I also have this phone. Really easy to unlock. Great phone. As said before, the camera is not so good in low light, but apart from that, loads of pluses.

£1.65 to unlock, £3.99 for an app so i can customize app order/folders. Aside from that great value for money

My girlfriend has been using this phone for around 6 months and likes it. Her only real complaints are regarding Vodafone's cfw and bloatware.

Ordering it from Vodafone was not a good experience though and not something that I would ever want to go through again.

Been using mine for a week now cant fault it battery life is very good I get a full day on it I unlocked mine via a code on ebay £1.65 bought a decent case and screen protecter £4 off ebay took all the Vodafone bloatware off and update to latest android o.s happy dayz

Great phone.
Absolutely amazing value for money. Anyone thinking about purchasing a new(ish) top of the range iphone/galaxy etc... Try this first.

I've had one a good few months now - some pluses and minuses

Unlocking - cheap and easy from eBay!

Bloatware - there were 5 Vodafone apps on mine, 4 uninstalled and 1 disabled so the only trace of Vodafone on it now is the logo on the back!

Size - I'll be honest, it's too big for me. It doesn't fit pockets, it doesn't fit in 1 hand easily - my next phone will be smaller but YMMV - try before you buy...

Speed - It's fine - better than my old S3 and her indoor's S4 for sure

Screen - also fine - it's not "saturated to the point of silly" Samsung colors of course - but it's fine

Camera - OK - poor in low-light perhaps but it's a camera!

Battery Life - really good - I get 3 days of light use, 2 days of regular use - WAY more than any phone I've had before!

One design issue - the power and volume buttons are on the same side/next-to each other and are easily caught in pockets etc - I bought a cheap gel case to stop that

I'm happy, overall, a TONNE of phone for £99 really...

I would not recommend ordering from Vodafone. What a painful experience it was for me trying to chase up my order

this phone in store plus £10 for the top up.

This is a very good phone for the money, BUT the process of ordering and then trying to deal with the halfwits at vodafone is awful.

Also the same price on Amazon, ordered my 3rd one yesterday because these phones are so good as a present.

Thought this phone may have come down lower than £99 by now. I paid that 6 months ago, still a good price though and well worth it. When you compare what this phone is like to others costing 4 times as much.

Hot from me.

But whatever you do refrain from ordering online from Vodafone.
We ordered ours from there, order was dispatched, but when out for delivery Vodafone requested the delivery company to return my order to Vodafone.

I had to chase Vodafone for my refund which took about 3 weeks.

Really bad experience!

Yep I got it just before x-mas (for a higher price granted) and was able to unlock it to Three for about 3/4 quid from E-bay no problem

If it does not have a gyro sensor doesn't this mean that quite a few games will not work, and it cannot decide if your photos are portrait or landscape? Doesn't that annoy users?

I would guess you just have to recovery flash it with the standard zte firmware. I did offer to look into it for my far better half but she didn't fancy having to set up the whole phone all over again.

great phone but major issue that once you receive a call on Bluetooth then once disconnected from BT then it no longer rings on calls until reboot. Vodafone completely ignoring everybody complaining about it. shocking customer service b

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Don't know why its marked as expired?

Bought this for the wife last year, very good phone. I like the 6 more than my own G3. heat added.

Looking for a Nexus 5 replacement with decent battery life, any thoughts?

Nexus 5x too pricey and battery life reportedly not that great.

How does this Ultra 6 stack up against the Prime 6 with the 5in screen?

Ah right OK. Thanks. There isn't a lot online as I guess the phone has a limited user base. Will keep an eye out. Cheers

The VR thing really doesn't interest me on a phone, but the Photo Sphere I do really miss on my Smart Ultra 6. Used it all the time on my Nexus, makes for some great flat print photos. Other than that, this phone for the price is outstanding!

Must also add, I tripped on someone's bags on the bus about 3 weeks ago, I was stood at the back. The phone flew from my hands, bounced off two chairs and bumped and bounced it's way a further 6 feet away from me down the bus. I had a S-case on it and only a thin plastic screen protector, Not a single mark or fault with the phone. Now, if this has been an iPhone........

how does it compare to my note 3??

Theoretically any ROM for the ZTE Blade S6 Lux should work.

So it seems obvious to order from Amazon unless I'm missing something, is there any reason to order direct from Voda as per this deal?

you can buy it from amazon and no need to top up the £10 min with Vodafone.

​even if you have a Vodafone sim you have to top up £ 10 minimum.

... then some yob would have grabbed it and run off the bus ...

Will this phone work with Talkmobile sim.

Not on-line you don't
Click choose phone
Scroll down to the bottom of the bundle page
Hit F5 a few times, where you'll see 'keep existing sim' option
Click on that (need to be quick lol)

Worth keeping an eye on Amazon. I ordered 2 over the past 3 weeks at £99 from them, yesterday it was £115 on their site but from prepaymania, this morning ordered another on at 09:30 for £99 from Amazon, now back to £115.... And no I am not selling them, they are all for the family replacing broken Galaxy s3 and Moto G

Tried it for a couple of months, hated it.

On the whole it's fine as a phone, but its myriad niggles and annoyances are simply not worth the hassle IMO. Would gladly pay a bit more (or less - even my 1st gen Moto G had a better software experience than this phone!) for a better overall user experience.

+Kungpo yes, they were showing 11 in-stock earlier at £99

Thinking that myself.

Black one isn't.

I love that this phone jumps between £99 and £115 every other week ! I think there should be a permanent thread on hukd for this similar to the booze thread

Yeah it's only the black that keeps dropping to 99

Thanks to everyone for the heat!

When I bought the phone for £100 2 months ago they asked me if I had a Vodafone Sim, I said no and I didn't:t need one, the guy said fine and just charged me the £100, I must have been lucky I suppose :smiley:

Its brilliant, Vodafone have accidental commissioned the perfect budget phone.

Would this not be a better buy?


eBay item number:172118775117

Mod edit: direct link to china based seller removed


Same phone, I believe but dual sim and cheaper.

amazon at £20 next day delivery free

For anyone who is having problems hitting the "keep current sim" option in time, one option might be this: on the "choose bundle" page, right-click and choose "view page source". Then on the page of html code that opens up, search for the word "keep" - you will notice a big long clickable hyperlink below a heading that says Keep your existing Vodafone SIM. That link is the code for the button that is hiding from you! Click it and you should be taken to a page that shows you have it in your basket and the Choose your Big Value Bundle selection says "You've chosen to keep your existing Vodafone SIM".

took me 10 minutes to find how to keep existing sim option

source http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/vodafone-smart-ultra-6-under-100-again-99-vodafone-2413402?page=6#comments comment #106 from philomene

I found that in Google Chrome if I just refreshed the screen 5 or 6 times the 'keep existing sim' option then appeared without having to click it in time, it just stayed on the screen.

Ordered Sunday night and phone arriving today between 10-11am, so far so good on the vodafone customer service front.

Just to add to that for anyone worried about ordering from Vodafone: received phone just now on a one hour delivery slot from DPD. I know a lot of people on here say Voda have terrible service, but personally have never not received a phone when they said it would be delivered, and Sunday night order to delivery today can't be argued with, especially since yesterday was a bank holiday.

Went in store today and the price has now risen to £140.

Edit: You can still buy online for £99. I've just done so.

Amazon £99 an hour ago;

Does anyone know which software version has the bluetooth bug? I bought this phone a couple of weeks ago from Vodafone and when I checked for updates, it said there were none, so I assumed the latest firmware was on it. Just checked again now and there is a software update available.

The phone has been awesome so far, but my annoyance is that reception seems to be a lot poorer than my first gen Moto G that I upgraded from. Does the new software do anything to help this?

Just tried buying one of these in store and they're £130 there - they have been ordered by HQ not to price match their own website as of this morning.

Website now showing phone for £130.

Amazon now up to £115.

Bought one for the missus from Vodafone shop yesterday morning. Shop asst was adamant that it had gone up from £99 to £129 overnight as it was a Bank Holiday only deal and finished at midnight on Bank Holiday Monday. I informed him that it was still available on the website for £99 and he said that he could not honour that instore. He suggested that I order it from the website there and then on my mobile, choosing in-store pickup, to get the cheaper price. I told him that was a **** and asked for the manager. The manager finally relented and sold it to me for £99 ... but I had to buy a £10 top-up! **** waste of a tenner seeing my wife is on an O2 monthly sim only contract. Anyhow, a £1.69 unlock code and an hour later and she could stick in her O2 card.

I had a good play with it yesterday and this morning and decided that I liked it so much that I would get one for myself to replace my elderly Samsung S4 mini. After another palaver with Vodafone customer services, I decided that I wouldn't be dealing with them again. I ordered an anthracite model from Amazon this afternoon for £99 ... and didn't even have to buy a rip-off top up voucher! It's an excellent phone for the money.

Next model of voda is comming in june

Got mine yesterday from Amazon - love it! Much nicer than the Lenovo K3 Note it's replaced.

Got mine from Amazon too. So far very impressed for the money. Big upgrade from my Moto G 4G first generation.

Same here Steve! Received mine from Amazon to replace my Moto G!

Can someone recommend a ebay seller to unlock this?

Is there a way to display battery percentage in notification bar permanently? Also on the app tray way to make the white background transparent?

Can anyone help play store constantly crashes and I've only just got the phone
Get the error "unfortunately Google Play store has stopped" every 20 seconds or so.

Mine received a software update a couple of days ago that was *supposed* to fix bluetooth issues, don't think I've had an incoming call recently to confirm it did tho!

Hmm mine definitely doesn't do that, can only suggest a full hard reset and go from there.

I can't find this sub £100 anywhere now. Pity.

Got an su6 and honestly it's been nothing but problems. The latest is that the messaging app which I've set to messages not hangouts or messanger but messages (not the Vodafone one) I don't get the unread messages badge count on the icon. I do for missed calls fb email but not for messages. When I then go into messages it shows them all as already read and doesn't highlight which ones are new.

Can anyone help.
Texting is my main way of communication and it's really annoying me.

Can anyone help I got unlock code from eBay but it starts with # but the phone won't let me input # before the numbers so won't unlock.....any help appreciated.

my code was just numbers.Have you tried without the # symbol?

Yes it doesn't work

I would get back to the seller and confirm the number you sent and the one you received are correct.

Don't keep trying otherwise it will hard lock to Vodafone!

Thanks he gave me a refund..not sure weather to order from another eBay seller

Do you have a link for were you got your code?

Thanks I will order one X

Anymore issue try this one, fellow hukd'er recommend to me and I got it within 30 mins

Thankyou

I purchased my unlock code from this seller, received it in about 45 minutes, worked first time. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/252106469826?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

Spaceman117 that were I got mine from..did your have the # before the number? Although it didn't work without the # either.

got mine from here:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/321373501254?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

No # before the code, was just numbers and unlocked in minutes

​Hi deenorton123, sorry, I can't remember, I have tried to go to my messages in ebay, but it won't allow me to open them at the moment, if I can open them later I will let you know.

Thanks for the help got the phone unlocked...by looking at both sellers code emails the first one I bought hadn't given me a code atall just order number which I was trying to use...but at least he refunded straight away. Thanks again all.

Good stff let me know how u get on using it. Ive had a few issues

Thanks..will do X

Great to hear you have it unlocked, I hope you enjoy it as much as I am enjoying mine. Any problems, don't hesitate to contact me :smiley:

It's great..and Thankyou X

What issues have you had out of interest, not fully started using mine yet

Anyone noticed the body of the phone twisting? After it's been in my jeans pocket for a bit the whole phone is twisted out of shape! Bends back but I'm questioning the life :smiley:

Otherwise love the phone!

I don't get unread badge notification for text messages and when I open the messages app it shows my threads if texts but doesn't highlight which are new/unread.
Royal pain in the assignment when textj6 is my main means of communication and such a basic thing too. Never experienced that issue before and I've had lots of different smart phones at various points

Also not really an issue as such but everyone goes on about how great the phone is I think it's pretty basic I mean it only has one color of led notification. All phones I've owned in the past year or 2 have had a different color for at least calls/txts then whatsapp/fb and battery charging. This is just a blue notification for all types. Pretty simple and basic. Honestly I can't understand why everyone raves about this phone.

​did you remove the Vodafone logo start up?

Just wondering if this is normal for the su6 know everyone raves about it but mines seems be heating faster than other phones I've used.
I don't have many apps installed and not using it for gaming.
It's just web browsing and internet but it's up at 40 degree c. I have du battery app and 360 security which should both stop apps running in background etc.
However when I use chrome I can't see a way to see how many tabs I have open so that may be a contributing factor.

Battery monitoring apps, antivirus apps and task killers are a false economy. It's best just to let Android deal with the power management and task killing. And as long as you don't install any third party APKs, there is simply no need for an antivirus app.

Your battery usage graph should look something like this:




The 'Awake' bars should be similar to the 'Screen ON' bars, as above. If the awake bar is solid/is a lot longer than the screen on bars then there's something running in the background draining your battery, and you need to get rid of it.

Well I could uninstall those 2 but either way I can feel the phone getting hot in my hands.... :/

You can solve this by going into Chrome, tap the three vertical dots in the top right, go to Settings, and turn off the Merge tabs and apps setting. This way keeps your open tabs away from the multitasking menu.

Thanks so much that's been a pet hate of mine not being able to see my open tabs now fixed :smile:

£130 now

I know, I hope the price comes down again as a friend of mine wants one.