HaHa near obsolete!! We not all Facebook WhatsApp addicts you know.

No it's the 8gb/2TB special edition for £50 :smirk:

Samsungs need water to put out the fire

Let's chase it :smiley:
Thanks OP..

hahahahaha you have done it again, that hole is getting deeper, and everyone is looking down on you now, hahaha I must have touched a nerve, don't you like getting caught out , don't you like when people call you out and you end up making an idiot of yourself, you also made an idiot of yourself by posting a list of banned merchants, but are the big supermarkets on the banned list, hahaha so you still cant prove what you said, why don't you just leave now because you are showing yourself up, I love people that just cant handle the truth and try their hardest to convince themselves that there right, hahahahahaha

​So here is your proof of big companies self promoting on Hotukdeals.
..
By the same token it could be assumed that other companies i.e. Tesco would see the value of reducing popular items in a few select stores to increase their online exposure and ultimately their footfall. Do they pretend to be members then post deals, or do they hope that members of the public who may be members of hotukdeals will post them. Either way, a nice bit of free advertising. This is the last attempt I will make at trying to explain to you this very basic concept. I really do hope that it sinks in this time. I honestly believe that I have made it idiot proof. Time will tell.

​ http://www.hotukdeals.com/ask/a-list-banned-sellers-1808735

Wow, another idiotic and childish comment. This really is playground stuff. I did suspect that you were a minor, now it is fairly obvious that you are. In which case I can understand your inability to grasp what is a very simple and straightforward concept. Learn how to write and people will take you seriously.
Again, my stance is based on years of working in Marketing. You still have failed to tell everyone what you do that gives you such an informed opinion. So what is it then?

Why don't you ask the moderators on this site how often they block accounts and delete deals as they believe them to for self promotion purposes.
Keep it up Simples. You'll get there in the end.

lol you really are making a laughing stock of yourself, what you said was " reasonable to assume big Supermarket chains would do this for a little free advertising" did you forget that, so prove that they do this on hukd, only to stop people laughing at you, if you can prove this I will hold my hands up, if you cant, stop digging the hole that your in even bigger,:smirk:

​Dear IQ of 47. I can see you really tried hard that time. Alas, it was wasted on me as I really found it difficult to understand what you had written. I think your spelling and grammar check is broken.
You spout nonsense about events in history being on par with basic consumer marketing strategies. Apples and Oranges my friend. If you really don't get why the big four spend millions on advertising naff washing powder deals and cheap plonk offers on the TV and radio then this is wasted on you. It's really not a difficult concept to grasp. Get people through the door.

I didn't say Tesco were posting deals directly. What I said was it's a nice touch getting some free advertising on this site, and others, by reducing some popular items in a few stores. Hardly anyone ever gets any of these Tesco deals on electrical items, but what does happen is that they get a lot of heat and a lot of views. Hence the free advertising. Now I've been really careful to spell it out in simple words so you can understand. I really can't see any way that it can be very hard to believe. Your comments about Dianna, JFK etc: they are hard to believe and in a totally different league. They are moronic and childish.

Please tell me, I'm dying to know, what are your qualifications within the industry? What job is it that you do that gives you such an unprecedented knowledge of consumer advertising strategies?

I notice that you signed your last post as 'simples'

That's your nick name right?

It all makes perfect sense now..... :confused:

you are the one that got upset, otherwise you would not have responded in the way you did, you have done it again, making a fool of yourself, please stop because your just making everyone laugh at you, as for Tesco posting deals on here so people can go into their stores and buy other things instead of the thing they posted, where is your proof, if you cant prove it, then you are the biggest fool on hukd forum, and I have proved my point, simples :stuck_out_tongue:

I use my Moto G first gen for Here maps... excellent device!

​lol I take it the 47 comment grated a nerve. If it wasn't true then no reason to get upset. Right?!? Just pointing out fella that you really should have a balanced argument before trying to poo poo opinions which you don't share. I have worked in Marketing for many years so can see how any form of advertising can be beneficial to a brand/company. What are you basing your opinion on? As of yet you still haven't explained why you disagree, other than nonsense about Dianna and twin towers.

If you are going to insult someone then, unless you are nine years old, you would probably look a little better if you try really hard and think of your own insults instead of just repeating back what was said to you. You could always ask someone else to help you if you find it a little too difficult.

Just wondering, do you read the Beano, or Dandy? :laughing:

please stop making a fool of yourself, it is YOU that has a " childish conspiracy theory " and you have just proved to everyone that you have an IQ well below 47 with your theory, maybe you should go back to school or study a bit harder rather than staying on this forum all day everyday, remember there was more than one shooter

IQ of 47. You have already bored us with your childish reference to conspiracy theory before on this thread without any balanced discussion on why you believe this not to be the case.
By the way, the letter e is between the w and the r on the keyboard. Maybe you should get yourself a new keyboard from Tesco.

yip, I agree with you, but you also forgot to mention, the royal family had Diana killed, we didn't land on the moon, no planes hit the twin towers and elvis is still alive

Weird that it's a guaranteed crash on mine and I've read many people with G3s have the exact same crash (all with the 1GB version). And for that reason it's still a bit of a dodgy purchase for Pokemon Go if some G3s run the game and some don't. Plus no AR mode.

Hotukdeals are actually quite strict with retailers self promoting. Plenty of accounts have been locked and posts removed. So yes, it does happen: quite a lot as it happens. Perfectly reasonable to assume big Supermarket chains would do this for a little free advertising. How much does it cost them to put out a TV/radio commercial about some special offer designed to get you in to the store in the hope you also buy other stuff? How much does it cost them to reduce a couple of electrical items in a couple of stores and get plenty of free advertising on the UK's biggest deals website? Hardly tin hat brigade is it. Makes perfect sense to most intelligent people I'm sure.

Works perfectly on his G3, older son has the moto G 2 and it works great on that too, both are level 16 now, really Pokemasters :sunglasses:

You have no idea, and you are totally wrong.
But you have proved that there is a difference between being psychic or thick. :wink:

Hey, it's what you do with it that counts!
And you aren't doing much with yours by the sounds of things... :stuck_out_tongue:

Regardless of if you use Greenify to close it manually or automatically, it will only wake up again a few seconds later when another app calls it.
I found this out through much trial an error. It turns out certain system apps with Facebook integration were re-opening it automatically, even when the phone was locked.
The experimental Greenify feature "wake-up tracker" can stop other apps from waking it up, but this is not fully supported on non-rooted phones.

Sold out in Lowestoft town center.

There's stock in Slough

I use Metal Pro instead, which is a tarted up web wrapper. It also includes a Twitter wrapper, and uses very little in the way of resources.

You've lost.me their I think my humour maybe to shallow.

yip, and the c.i.a killed kennedy, and we didn't land on the moon

Ended up buying a wrap just to see if phone was in stock (I did phone but the excellent lady.said she couldn't find product code)
as I say made up for the three or so who got this AMAZING deal but 3 out of 6902
Maybe Tesco do this as if everyone buys something while seeing if item is in store they must make millions £2.25 wrap X 6902 = £15,529.50 ain't bad selling a few phones at cost. good business sense to me.

none near me. I don't think I'll bother with these tesco deals again.

Same as the Samsung Galaxy S5 mate

6,902 stores three confirmed sales (made up for you) 669+ heat and rising!
ps
Non in Mold or Broughton.

Here's the waterproof innards of the Moto G3. From http://www.pcnexus.net/2015/12/motorola-moto-g3rd-gen-2015-xt1550-review-hands-on.html

Moto G (3rd Gen) has got IPX7 certification, so the phone is waterproof against accidental drops in water and liquid spills and exposure to rain water. You should know this that Moto G has no way from where water can get in its circuit boards except the SIM and sd card slots, to cover these 3 slots Moto G has given watertight rubber seals in the back cover. If you use any other cover instead of the original Motorola back cover then your phone will be damaged due to water.

Another important thing to note that besides having the original back cover properly installed, water can get under the back cover. This is normal, you will see that water is everywhere except the SIM slots and the sd card slot, which will appear dry because the rubber seals have done their job well and prevented the water from getting in. See the image below.

i have a 3rd 16gb and never had a crash or freeze i can't blame on the app i was using, phone always recovers and never needs rebooting. loads games and apps fast, only gets slow when switching pages if i have more than 5 tabs open in chrome and it integrated a samsung 32gb sd card into it's system memory no problem. call quality a lot better/signal stronger than g1 as well, which was my main reason for buying. camera is surprisingly decent too, can (and frequently do) take a pic of documents in poor light and can read every word.

as i've mentioned above, no stereo speakers is noticeable when watching videos, no gyros stop it using AR apps and no NFC is a small niggle but it's clean version of android 6 and being waterproof are great things to have. don't think i'll be getting a g4 after having this as you can get so much better specs for the same price nowadays but if you grab one for £50 you have yourself a bargain. note - it WILL be the 8gb/1gb ram version, tesco didn't carry the 16gb (i had to get mine from motorolas own store)

i've still got my 1st gen and it still flies. actually surprised sometimes at how quick it is.

have a 2nd gen also, is noticeably slower and does lag at times. my mate's got 3rd gen and appears is same as 2nd gen, if not even worse. doesnt freeze/crash tbf, but is pretty slow by comparison.

Wife has had the 3rd gen for 6 months. Never crashed or freezed once. Just because you had a bad experience, doesn't mean all of them do. Reviews are great.

Just picked up the last one in another tesco's

:confused:

none left in south road or riverside, don't know about the kingsway

Thats cheap for £50 and much better than iphone7!. Hot

I have this phone, it's pretty good and absolutely brilliant if it's £50

It does struggle with current satnav apps, they will often crash when I get a phone call. Good for a first smartphone or someone who is not interested in apps outside of email/phone/messaging. I also use facebook lite (it still has messenger integrated) rather than full facebook.

I saw this yesterday op but the Manager said the last one
had gone

Excellent, thanks OP.

Managed to pick up the last one at Tesco Metro, Victoria Centre, Nottingham. Shelf edge still had £99 label but scanned at £50.

Moto G 1st Edition - Fantastic Phone
Moto G 3rd Edition - Worst phone, kept crashing had to restart at all times kept freezing.
I wouldn't buy another 3rd edition even if it was a tenner

Some other options are-

Facebook Lite - it's the free official Facebook app designed for use in countries where more basic smartphones are most common - retains messaging and notifications, but only old-fashioned "likes" and not on the Google Play store in this country so you need to be a bit creative in locating it.
Tinfoil for Facebook - an app that's a wrapper around the mobile site with some extras, including quick links and a toggle between mobile site and full site - can't do messages on this though.

I use both of the above as a work-around, as the official Facebook app is a bloody resource hog on ANY device.

Julie
xxx

I think as long as you don't want tons of games and apps on your Moto G3 (1GB/8GB) you'll be okay. My mum has this phone and loves it. The Gestures idea (never tried a Moto G till I got mum this one) is brilliant too - trying to work out how to enable it on my Samsung phone with apps such as Gravity Gesture.

The first Android phone I ever remember being discussed on HUKD way back was the HTC Hero! http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_hero-2861.php

Everything is obsolete at some point :smirk:

Heswall Wirral have Moto G 4th gen at £149
they no longer stock the 3rd gen so it looks like certain stores are clearing stock for the new 4gen model
- Store specific deal

I guess folks need:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/221394204854?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

and

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/221394204854?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

can vouch for unlock as I used them for Moto E - all good.

The 1GB version? Pokemon Go crashed every time for me on my G3 as soon as I clicked a pokemon to catch. Also no gyro = no AR mode.

The phone does tell you that it's only waterproof while the back is in place.

Very well indeed, my son has one and its all he plays :confused:

​you can use it in non root mode. Only thing is you have to use the shortcut to hibernate all apps in contrast to rooted where it's done automatically. I use it in non root for my OP3 and used it as rooted in Moto G

Can this play Pokemon Go?

Bought the last one in Caister for £50 this morning.
Thanks OP

anybody found this deal in another store?

Delete the app, use the mobile website instead - works fine for me! Yeah, you don't get notification........I don't need to know that a certain person liked my photo of my tea, or the weather, or whatever I post!

So apart from the OP who fair play made it clear that it might be store specific has anyone found one anywhere else?

Exactly right. Use the browser. Even better with Firefox because you can install addons for privacy, FB messenger etc

I used to use tinfoil for facebook. Its basically a web wrapper

How can a phone with a removable back be waterproof ?

Do people even use the Facebook app?
Wow.

I have the Moto E 2nd gen £29.99 plus £10 topup fantastic mini computer http://fortheloveoftech.com/2015/09/14/moto-g-3rd-gen-vs-moto-e-2nd-gen-comparison/ thanks
I expect this to be worth the tenner more and my Moto E is no way a tenth as good as my iPhone 6

I have a 1GB/8GB 1st Gen 4G LTE, and have been using this for probably some 18months plus. Its very capable, and usuable, and I do have Facebook, Whats App etc on it. No noticeable lag, and its probably quicker than my iPhone 5S. Sometimes I think you RAM snobs are over-compensating for the lack of having a RAM-able device between your legs :smile:

I'll be surprised if there's many available anywhere, I did the wild goose chase all around last time for this, the local tesco checked around for one in stock but couldn't find one. Don't know why they bother to even put the item cards on display if they don't have any

Thank you, appreciate it, saves me a trip! :smiley:

i still have moto g first gen. can comfortably run whatsapp, facebook and other apps at the same time. so i imagine this would be fine.

good deal

There were no Moto Gs in stock this morning at Tesco Metro Whitefriars, Canterbury. Plenty of cards, which they said they would pull...

Gone

There were no Moto Gs in stock this morning at Tesco Metro Whitefriars, Canterbury.

The card you take to the till did not specify whether 8Gb or 16Gb

Is the moto g , dual sim ?

it's merely a good phone after the great g1 and g2. lack of stereo speakers is noticeable when watching a vid & lack of gyro (mainly) and NFC is a pain, plus the splitting of the 8gb rom/1gb ram and 16/2 models makes no sense - marshmallow seems to merge SD card and onboard but i've had bad experiences with android on 8gb or less before. not used the chinese/vodaphone rebadge alternatives but this phone gets beaten by them in spec so i bought mine for £150 (16gb/2gb) last year for 2 reasons no similarly priced phones have : waterproofing and stock android with fast 6.0 update.

if you can grab one for £50 you are getting the aforementioned features for a great price but i'm sure plenty of other sub-£100 phones crush this spec-wise and probably have marshmallow by now.

I gave my G3 (1gb/8gb) to my mum and it's fine for her. She has exactly one app installed (whatsapp).

My Redmi Note 3 runs like a billion times faster though, especially loading and switching apps, web browsing etc. Of course it cost £112 though.

I'm surprised this went hot.

#massivesarcasm

​Folio for Facebook app is said to be good alternative. Not tried myself

Samsungs need water to put out the fire

i saw this in hammersmith tesco today

Greenify will only keep Facebook closed if you root the phone (voiding the warranty) and use one of the advanced features, which stops other apps from re-opening it.

Not all Facebook and WhatsApp users are addicts you know.
Unfortunately though, even if you have them installed and rarely use them, they're still constantly running in the background consuming RAM and CPU.
Sure you can force them to close using an app like Greenify, but they'll automatically start themselves again.
I uninstalled Facebook from my Moto G2 as it has become increasingly bloated and resource intensive. Each time it ran a sync in the background it caused Google Music and Maps Navigation to stutter and crash.
But if the applications you have running use more than 1GB RAM the phone will slow to a crawl and apps will start to crash, and apps are now being designed with more powerful hardware in mind.

take it that it will be the 1GB/8GB version?

Is that the one with 1GB of RAM? It was underpowered at launch, and is certainly near obsolete now. Facebook and whatsup in the background and Chrome in the foreground nearly use up all the available memory.

PS: Yes, otherwise it is a nice phone, but the low RAM cripples it.

I have one. unfortunately I've found out it's not waterproof. tiny amount of water has messed it up. touch screen seems to have a ghost in it, buttons being pressed all by itself. I've enjoyed the phone and totally gutted it's not working properly. highly recommended little handset.

this phone actually works fine with one gig ram.android closes applications as it fills up.android marshmallow is designed to run on less ram.its basically a cheap Nexus for 50 quid camera is great battery is excellent screen good and it's waterproof.also it runs really well with a snapdragon 410 andantech say it runs better than the moto g4 the newer model

I use Facebook WhatsApp and chrome, just as your describing. Works fine for me.

Ah, lovely Canterbury

Checked the price of these on Sunday because I was looking for one for my daughter tried three different stores no stock and £99.00 each,checked again on the way home this evening still showing at £99.00 in two of them but one has it now down to £50.00 as per post but no stock suspect the price has not been changed because they are not getting any more in .So good luck to those who can get one.

Let's chase it :smiley:
Thanks OP..

Normal price in my local stores typical.

No worries, thanks anyway! :smiley:

In only in Folkestone so might nip up there, any idea how many they had left OP? Cheers