This is a China phone! It's a rebadged zte blade s6 plus.

But I get your real meaning.

This

Purchased this online today. Chose to collect it from a North London Vodafone store as the chances of me being home when it get delivered were slim.

Vodafone took my payment - There was no "use existing sim" option so I went with the additional £10 credit option. Received a number of emails confirming the purchase and finally the following email.

Thank you for choosing Vodafone. Your order WEB-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx has been reserved for you at our XXXXXX store. Please check the below information before arriving in store and note that you will need to collect your order within 14 days. Please allow at least 20 minutes to collect your order in store.

Just to be on the safe side I left it over 6 hours before venturing out. I didn't want to seem too eager.

Turned up at the store, with all the ID and an email print out. All the staff were busy but I was acknowledged and offered a seat. Good service so far. I was eventually served and the phone was collected from wherever they keep them.

Things were clearly going too well.

First they couldn't process it in the system as 'Mr' was apparently missing from my order. I had already paid online remember and filled out all the required fields to do so. 20 mins on a call to support late. "Okay that's sorted"....."Oh wait...." "We cant give you this phone, your order isn't showing as here yet"

I was like "here is the email, it said wait 20 minutes....Doesn't it come from the stock you have in store?"

"Yeah the system says it's not here...it might be here tomorrow."

I was like "you have one in your hand, I'll take that one"

"no this is the stock for the store, the system wont let you have this phone"

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I'm 'like whatever' it's only a £100 phone - "Okay, no worries, I'll have a refund"

"I can't give you a refund, you purchased it online"

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For a moment I thought it was a wind up. But sadly, no it wasn't. I left store in disgust, £110 lighter with no phone, and a little sickened with humanity. I shed a small tear as I paid the £1.20 for my car parking.

Bravo Vodafone, you have really nailed your "Click & Collect" system.

Someone to find the "keep existing sim" button!

This or a Chinese import?

Excellent high spec phone and doddle to unlock

What's the ram ?

Bought mine last September for £99. Still think that considering it's slightly over £100 (once unlocked), there's nothing that comes remotely close for shear bang for the buck.

£1.50 to unlock

Sounds a great phone , with a good battery for the money . Am keeping hold of my iPhone 6 Plus till it dies , just finished my contract and will get rolling sim only . But once it's dead am getting phones like this or the zenfone 5 deal that I got me mum on here the other day .

I'm probably being thick, but I don't see the "keep existing sim" option. I did when I bought the Mrs a Moto G...Has something changed?

I've had it for about 6 months and while it is a terrific phone for the price, for me I find the camera a little bit lacking, I know you get what you pay for in this regard and to be fair Vodafone fixed it under warranty when I'd dropped it and the screen had become unresponsive no questions asked. I am very clumsy with phones and have dropped it numerous times, most recently down about four flights of concrete stairs at Goodison Park during some over exhuberant celebrations and it is a tough **** I'll give it that.

I travel a lot with work and I like to snap away without taking a camera, the pictures are nearly always blurry and the HDR is crap, I class myself as a half decent photographer and with a better app like A Better Camera you can get nice snaps but it requires a lot of fiddling so I think I'm going to shell out for a more expensive phone with better camera. Any advice by the way would be much appreciated.