TBH should be now in range of £75 ish...

I can take it big boy.

The modern day Orange San Fran strikes again :laughing:

The only thing better value than this is a Chinese import, but then no real warranty.

TBH should be now in range of £75 ish...

cheers op, already have one but needed one for my daughter, cheers

I dnt know about anybody else but we bought 2 of these phones and they are rubbish with too many problems and the soft keys no work half of the screen dnt work

I got one of these in silver last week to use whilst my z3 compact gets repaired. Works fine and apart from the screen size I haven't noticed any difference between the two. Performance is all good and call quality is good. Tempted to pick up a black one and donate the silver to my gf

This or a Tesco Direct Moto G?

I can take it big boy.

Then fill your boots.

Got one couple of weeks ago and my son has had one for 6 months . great phone for the money .
Good pictures and screen sharp.. have no complaints at all. Thanks

I would expect an Ultra 7 to be announced soon, which should see the price of the Ultra 6 drop by a bit more. I wouldn't expect the Ultra 7 to be an upgrade though.

Both the Smart Prime 7 and Smart First 7 were released this week, although both are actually worse than the 6 series. The Prime has downgraded from an SD410 to SD212. The First has been downgraded to a speedtrum processor and lower res screen (HVGA vs WVGA on 6). I can't believe they have used a HVGA screen in 2016. It doesn't bode well for the Smart Ultra 7.

How do you do student discount.

I had one of these, great phone, awesome screen, decent battery life but poor camera, even with 3rd party camera apps. if you use the camera on your phone regularly you will want something different. Have some heat

You can't have it all in phone when your only paying £99 however I think the camera isn't that bad....

Looks tempting - order now or see if the rumours of the new moto g coming out on Tuesday are true and see if there's a subsequent drop in the price of the current g? Decisions, decisions.

really tempted about this my budget is £100 but it just be my luck something else pops up
thats maybe better at same price

heat added

right folks just a wee question what would you rate a better camera this or the Huawei P8 Lite
as seen i can get the p8 lite for 74£ on upgrade at cpw but says pre order online so may need to see if available instore

Got one of these today. It's a brilliant phone made even more impressive by the price tag. Pure Android which is great to see and not too common on modern phones.

possible to root this phone ?

​send them back, or check you're updated to android 5.1.1. mine has worked flawlessly. unless I'm using it wrongly....

This is better than the Chinese ones which aren't great quality

​nope but it has been imported already and your contract is with a UK company under UK and EU consumer law.

Got this phone for 6 months - lovely screen - however the camera is starting to lag, battery life is average and the camera is simply atrocious. The price is decent if you do not mind the limitations

i've owned both. I still have the p8 lite.
as a huawei fan I have to be honest and say i'm actually disappointed with the p8 lite. it OK but nothing more - and I really loved my past 3 huawei's. I find it lags quite a bit.
the smart ultra 6 I found OK. It lacks the LED notification which I disliked since all my previous phones have had it. I just found its just too big for practical daily use.
I'd say the biggest factor is size.

if you have enough cash buy both play around and chances are you'll make at least your money back for whichever you decide to sell

yeah size factor is also a thing with me just got them wee hands
wish i could buy both.

so my hunt goes on for a good camera phone at a £100 budget
think i best saving a bit more

Yes almost a pure vanilla experience. So no gimmick apps etc to slow it down. There are few Vodafone apps but they are not memory hungry etc.

I want to know the answer too. I searched on XDA forums and it seems to be a mixed response.

That's a silly generalization, especially when this is manufactured by ZTE, this is basically a ZTE Blade S6 with a 1080p screen instead of a 720p.

If the camera on this isnt great it still must be better than a Moto G one?

Such a good phone but it doesn't support Gujarati language (which I need to contact family back home on whatsapp)

Do you mean keyboard that can type Gujarati?

How is this easily unlocked, as mentioned in the post? Vodafone charge £19.99 to unlock any device 'o'

Search for it on the e-website. It's very easy to unlock, can be within an hour.

​The phone doesn't read Gujarati (it does Hindi), all I get are vertically up rectangles. :disappointed:

​ahaha it works with urdu

​it works in urdu ahahah

It's better than the 5MP camera on the Moto G 1st Gen, but that isn't difficult.

It's not as good as the 8MP camera on the 2nd Gen and it's nowhere near as good as the 13MP camera on the 3rd gen.

Don't buy the SU6 for the camera. It's not good.

I'd get a xiaomi redmi note 3 over this any day

Why?

This is probably the worst phone I ever bought,

Nothing but problems.

3 Replacements.

Save your money and get a Samsung!

OK fan boy.

How does this compare to a iPhone 6s Plus? Is there anything the iPhone does that I can't do on here. Can't decide between the two

Phone is MASSIVE!

Bigger than my G3 and will put many people off but great price.

Been using mine for over two months now no issues to date battery life is better than any smart phone ive had for a while I get a full day from it and still has around 20% and that's browsing calls texts etc throughout day

Doubt it, it says on the back of the phone made by ZTE.

Besides i can't believe this phone is still getting posted as a deal at £99 surely everybodies either got one or had one by now lol. They need to bring out the Ultra 7 :P

Take about £600 more money from your wallet.

iPhone has much better camera, it also has more sensors e/g/ gyroscope, barometer etc. ]

Tech comparison here

Note also the vodafone speaker is on the back of the phone which means that it will likely be muffled with a case.

Probably better to compare against the 6 plus rather than the 6s plus though.

Yes the SU6 can be rooted, have a look at SilverBandit's great thread here.

I have always rooted my phones, usually quite easily done. For SU6 need to use Kingo Root, KingRoot, and similar apps which require an internet connection (to servers in China?). All previous roots worked without phone-home apps so am a bit wary about these king* type utils.

Any experience with King root? I read that they install bloatware apps etc during the rooting process.

Am I correct this does not have an official Marshmallow update and is not likely to have one?

Marshmallow has significant benefits in how the memory card can be used, particularly the ability to run apps from the memory card. Therefore, if you don't regularly update your phone it might be worth waiting until there is a great sub-£100 phone with Marshmallow...

Which Samsung has same specs for £99? Of course a Sammy or Apple is way better but in a different price class.

A BMW is better than a Skoda, but a Skoda is better valve for money :smiley:

Bloatware with king* utils has been reported, that's why step 5 in SilverBandit's post is essential to replace kingroot with known SuperSU. There are scrips to completely remove king* files after rooting but I haven't tried them.

Thanks. I have few months till warranty expires, so will try then.

Yeah, they made a cock up. EE did a similar phone costing £200 made by ZTE released at same time. The only thing that could really be improved on the SU6 is the camera, and a nicer finish, but if they did that they wouldn't sell any high end handsets (apart from to the mugs)

You can install apps to run from SD on this, but it causes the phone to lag really badly, especially if background services are running. Best off keeping it for video.

Don't see the need to root this phone, very little bloatware which can be uninstalled or disabled.

Has the nowtv quirk been sorted?

Brilliant phone - Got one when last offer was on which was around £130 area

Got mine from Argos on Friday for this price. So far, so good. Would recommend as a budget phone.

Superb phone. Went from an iPhone 6 to this and cannot believe the value for money.

Fast enough, great screen, brilliant battery life. Fantastic call quality, unlocked for £2 on eBay.

Poor camera in low light however, and the rear facing one is very narrow angle.
Also no gyroscope, so no 360° videos.

Great phone, bought mine last Saturday dinner time and by teatime it was unlocked(ebay) rooted and Custom Rom installed with help from Modaco, antutu reports over 44000 so quick enough.
So far no problems and very resposive.

​ok thanks.

Argos sells TV in UK with 12 months or in other words 1 year warranty.

do you know what EU consumer law says about warranty on items such as TV...

so they are still selling it or in other words doing what they like...

On this phone now and absolutely love it, much better than my old Moto G 4G and I have 16GB so I can actually install apps. Highly recommended!

I paid a bit more 2 weeks ago can I get the difference back?

​I agree with importance of having Marshmallow on your phone if you don't have a lot of onboard memory but can add a memory card.

Marshmallow has transformed how I can run apps and keep them updated without continuously having to move apps from onboard memory to the card manually each time they were updated. I have an 8GB Moto E which was destined for the bin before Marshmallow.

It even runs faster now!

good price for a pretty decent spec'ed phone. lets see if my prime student membership gets it to me tomorrow!

Good phone just very very very big

If you bought via Amazon it might be worth contacting them via Live Chat. Perhaps threaten a return, they might then offer the difference back.

I have this phone since it came out last year. Great little phone.Battery isnt as good these days but then its a year old.

iTunes
IOs apps
Other Apple things
Takes better pics
Other than that, no....

Any chance off giving me the exact link to the rooting method ?

​A bold claim indeed! :smirk:

​I take it the spell correction and the grammar checker doesn't work ether :wink:

For Jono300
http://www.modaco.com/forums/forum/796-vodafone-smart-ultra-6/

Okay thanks will try work it all out re. rooting method !

Have a look at SilverBandit's method linked in post #54 above, works on latest SU6's.

The MobileGo rooting method in Modaco's SU6 FAQ seems to not work for the latest SU6's (and no agreement yet on how to differentiate between latest and the earlier production runs which rooted easily). King* methods work on all SU6's albeit with the Chinese phone-home concerns.

Touch ID/fingerprint scanner is one that immediately comes to mind.

I disagree. The Vodafone smart ultra 6 is ****. Every one I had was **** poor

I paid £99 for mine, but I bought the missus an Samsung S6 for like £250 from an o2 refresh deal earlier on.

The S6 is much better value for money

Now up to £115. It'll surely come down again though!

Yes, almost immediately! :laughing:

I'd rather buy the smart ultra and spend the rest on 1440 caramel eggs from poundland.

Which custom ROM did you install?

very happy with my phone, for £105 I got the phone/64gb sdcard and a decent case which is a bargain IMHO as the phone is pretty good. had issues tethering from it after all the Vodafone system updates came down, but undertook a system reset on it and it fixed my tethering issue

Black back at £99.

up and down like a barmaids...

£115 now

If/when you unlocked the phone, which carrier & pay-as-you-go tariffs are you using?
I'm currently on the old Orange/EE canary tariff, and was just going to unlock and use that SIM. But current SIM is micro vs the nano required for this phone and EE would want £10.20 to transfer SIM cards :smirk: So was looking around, and read that ASDA Mobile uses EE network, so I shouldn't see a change in service quality. Not sure if it's available instore, but on their site you can order a SIM from them for free. Arrives "within 5 working days" and it's a multi-SIM card where you "pop out the correct SIM size".

At the very least I will be able to use the sim to test the ebay unlock code, but I think I'll get my PAC code from EE and swap to them as this is how my current tariff compares to them;

Cheers buddy, will look into it

Trying to sell my white version of this it's in mint condition and comes with box and accessories, so far I've been offr630 cash upfront and they will pay it off weekly... Jeez I'm not a shop... Some people.
Best offer I've had is half the asking price I advertised it for.
Ridiculous.
This is gumtree

Down again, unexpire please

Still have my white one....vest offer I've had is 40 :o it's been used for a week haha it still have the protection on the back. Trying to sell stuff on guntree is a joke