Much more than 79p...

I'm going to use it to tell the time - I've just saved myself £3,189.21 on a watch! :wink:

let me make a contribution here!

"does it have band 20?"

"this or the redmi 4?"

:smile::laughing::stuck_out_tongue::smiley::confused::man:

It's not 4G, and the battery life will be very poor in hotspot mode, but sure, knock yourself out.

79p for an android, makes you wonder how much there made for.

good deal, 3 months of play music and £5.25 tcb or £9 quidco. better than free.

I'm after a cheap mp3 player for running & one or 2 apps. how would this suffice?

Scroll down the page untill you see OR JUST TOP UP. I'll get sim without pack.

I own one of them don't worth nothing even 79 p. Is very slow you can't open applications, making the calls when he wants but not when you. Crap, don't waste your money. Better get old fasion Nokia. Batery it will last 2 weeks.

i purchased the Pixi 4 (5) as a spare have to agree with amarone82 Alcatel phones are not brilliant, very slow for the spec. but just my personal view.

Looks good but not sure it's a flagship killer.

Cheap for a mifi/hotspot device.......but not much else.

Bought two just for the music subs :smile:

Can I use this on another network like 3?

The same applies to quidco

Anyone know the tariff info on the just top up sim please?

Price Plan Guide http://ee.co.uk/content/dam/ee-help/Help-PDFs/Business-PDFs/Price%20plans%20and%20call%20charges%20for%20customers%20joining%20on%20or%20after%20Nov%202016%20v4.0.pdf

let me make a contribution here!

"does it have band 20?"

"this or the redmi 4?"

:smile::laughing::stuck_out_tongue::smiley::confused::man:

Thanks, heat added.

Heat!

Does this have an actual GPS chip or just A-GPS?
Edit: yes: http://www.gsmarena.com/alcatel_pixi_3_(3_5)-6932.php
£10 for a satnav is a steal!

Choose a £1 Talk & Text plan and you can use the remaining £9 credit in the Play Store via mobile billing... or transfer £5 to PSN and spend £4 on Play.

Actually, you only start a plan when you make a call / text so you can use the whole £10 on Play.
Transferring to PSN requires a text so you won't get the whole £10 on there.

Can it be unlocked other than by EE that takes 10 days.

Cheap device for 2FA.

Check this out https://uk.webuy.com/product.php?sku=SALCONETC3EVEA#.WOIM8W8rKUk
... must be a mistake :confused:

​Does the £10 credit expire 30 days after 1st use? i.e. will I have just 30 days to spend on Google Play apps or run the risk of losing it if I don't use it all?

Wow.. Must have to be a mistake.
Unlock for 99p and sell for £35 https://uk.webuy.com/product.php?sku=SALCONETC3UNLA

Your credit won't expire for ages - only your allowances under your chosen plan.
If you don't start a plan (i.e. dont make a chargable transaction like a text, call or data use), your credit won't be touched.

To be sure not to touch your credit, you should probably start up the phone without the SIM inserted to disable moble data before it's available.

Don't buy any of the packs but scroll down the page untill you see OR JUST TOP UP and click it. If you don't use your PAYG sim to make a chargeable call/text/data in 6 months the sim will deactivate and you will lose your number and any credit.

Good spot - Simplifies things :smiley:

Even if that was a mistake, there is another product for £21 cash, still good profit to be made.
https://uk.webuy.com/product.php?sku=SALCOT4009XUNLA

You mean Free unlock from EE :smiley:

Free unlock from EE could take days. Just purchase an unlock code from eBay for 99p and unlock in few mins.

I want an Android phone to use over wi-fi, not really interested in using it as a mobile. Can I use the £10 credit for a different Orange PAYG number and just not activate the SIM on this?

cant get transaction to go through keeps asking me for card details tried 3 different cards?? something about £2 being charged and refunded goes round in circles ??

Just tried to order one - "Sorry, we’ve performed our checks and are unable to continue with your order. But don't panic..."
Anyone else had this? Any ideas as to why? Has it gone OOS?

It's PAYG.

Looks like gone - mods can you please expire? Thanks.

are these unlocked

Request to unlock the phone (it's free).

http://ee.co.uk/help/getting-started/joining-ee/unlocking-your-device

Ah no it's not OOS.... tried twice to pay with my Amex card and got the 'Sorry we have performed checks...' error. Though just tried again with a Mastercard and the order appears to have gone through!

Thanks, exact same issue for me, just worked with a Visa card. They don't like Amex! Fingers crossed arrives OK.

Last time this deal came up I got about £55 back from Quidco that shouldn't have gone through. One of the better deals on here

Still seems to be working here.. ordered now. :-)

Yes it looks like they just don't like Amex cards!

Maybe, I've used phones like this in the past for the exact same reason like you're thinking and it was frustrating. Very slow, lagging and crashing.

4gb memory? Will the phone actually work?

Are you saying that they are already unlocked or are you asking the question question?

Is it possible to cancel an order online? Tried calling the sales number with no luck.

If returned unopened should the topup credit be refunded?

Same

​whats wrong with your current phone?

Heat thanks op!

I just ordered one fine and got a confirmation email.

cheers. ordered. best way to do with the £10? how to use tge balance before they activate it for the bundle?

just ordered, thanks

great deal and ordered, anyone know if this will work in the USA (quadband)?

Sounds like some small 'businesses' may have got in on the act.

Anyone bought from EE before what is delivery like?

If you get it delivered to store is it any faster than home delivery or do you just get a text about same time as home delivery telling you it's being delivered to store?

Got the Alcatel Pixi 4 "refurb" (all mint condition) for £10 delivered without top-up at O2, they go in and out of stock every now and again: Alcatel Pixi4 4 Like New

Just ordered successfully 2 mins ago. Not sure why not working for others. Heat added.

just be careful buying from o2, if you havent an active o2 sim for over a year they wont provide an unlock code. granted these can be unlocked cheap as chips but i bought another off o2 , some cheap alactel as the missus wanted a phone as similar to the old one she has , but found it impossible to get an unlock code. Thankfullt i only paid a couple of quid for the phone :smiley:

edit: heat added

Alcatel unlock codes 99p off ebay, faster than waiting for mobile operator to provide the code.

Keep an eye out for that O2 "refurb" deal, best deal around... :wink:

this phone took into cex this morning locked to ee a grade £15 unlocked a grade £21.

I thought about one of these for ages, as an iPod replacement. I use Amazon music and Bluetooth headphones, so a cheap android phone would be fine, but really I need one that supports a 128gb ad card, and as with anything on android, you can never get a straight answer as to wether a handset supports a card of that size. I decided against it, people say these are just garbage. Still not sure wether to try though, I'd be more interested in that refurb pixi4[b][/b]

I wouldn't recommend purchasing this phone. It was slow and rang contacts at random. I threw mine away. It was cheap but sometimes cheap is not cheerful.

Just ordered, No Problem, email confirmation received, en route. Many thanks Team !!!:smiley:

Same here. Heat added.

Cex don't buy anymore online lol

Lol...HUKD effect... a couple of hours ago had checked and the price they were offering was 35 quid.. they have changed their website... guess must have noticed this deal around anticipating loads coming in this week :wink:

as no on has said it yet, with the current just eat 25% off code text thingy from EE customers, even better deal cheap phone to sell for small profit (change of cashback tho you wont get it if in both tcb and quidco terms) *blame what i did at christmas for that with cpw and this phone with £15 cashback each* and 25% off just eat code for each order

tho you can get £5.10 from imutual

and i dont get what you guys are taking about cex dont buy online anymore i just put a sale order in with no issue (make sure your logged in to you account before you try to sale, or you wont be able to add items to the check out beyond that, works fine)

tdtl version as i know most of you hate the added words (of poor english even if a lot of my ideas are way better than anyone elses and some sites even steal them)

- 10.79£ from EE
+£5.10 cashback from imutual (and they will pay nothing in they t&c and even if EE dont honor it they will pay)
+£15/£21 *if you bother with the free unlock* from cex online *or £35 if you locked in the price online for 10 days earlyer but ya ya people that dont check cex and lock in sales daily*
+25% off just eat code for texting eat to 141 and taking down the code before you post off to cex
+£10 credit *£6ish returned* to do whatever you like with, tho i think the best is still impulse pay tho not explaining how to use them now they made it harder for private customers to do so *impulse pay are the people that ware behide the getpoundsback sms credit selling*

total £15.31/21.31/35.31 profit and 25% code off just eat for each phone ordered, cash back is paid on each order (until quidco and tcb get smart with they terms after someone orders 30 phones a month in dec anyways)

Pretty bad phone, but if you can milk CEX (which I did last time) there are various things you can do with the credit like use it for Google's Play Store... https://red-robot.net/5-ways-to-cash-in-your-payg-sim-credit/

Keep in mind you'd have to choose the "just add credit" option for this - once you've bought a 'pack' you've lost it. And if you put the SIM in, keep data turned off.

I bet ... hahahahaha. :-)

great price!

OS out of support now? i dont think this has 6.0... 4.4.2 out of support and 5.0 near end of life

Has anyone who bought this received the 3.5 or the 4? Because O2 had this 3.5 advertised but when bought you would get the 4.0

You forgot the hate android not as good as an iPhone

I think about this kind of thing a lot. Is Fairphone the only option for an ethical mobile phone? I think it might be, I need to have another look sometime. Got a TV recently and went for Sony as they had a better ethical policy, and the plastics are not as bad as some companies like Samsung use. Sometimes you pay more for ethical stuff, am not so fussed to do so, but sometimes the price is not so bad for some things.

Yes and ​imagine if this was a gearbest, Aliexpress or banggood deal... oh the haters would hate, hate, hate... :smile:

It says something about every 30 days. What this mean?

its up to £35.31 profit for a £10.79 (more if you give any vaule to the unique 25% just eat code, i dont) outlay witch in anyones books should be a good profit margin for very little work

tho ya haters going to hate anyways,

Anyone confirm the OS on it ?

Buy the child abuse phone and make a donation to a good charity. Win-win

CEX "no longer buy this item."

Just ordered as a cheap backup. Thanks OP.

Will the sim that comes with this work in a 2G phone?

Yes it will, it's not the sim but the phone that determines 2G, 3G or 4G.

that's for things like so many call minutes text's and mb or gb of data you can have, if you scroll down to the bottom of the page you can just buy a min £10 top up and get one of the 30 day packs later

I think this is the one I got a few months ago for free if I topped up £20, terrible resolution phone and so slow but usable, never used the credit though but panic it may of taken it anyway.

Thanks the reason I ask: A 3 sim will only work in a 3G/4G phone. I want to put this sim in the wife’s twin sim phone, and the free slot is only 2G.

this phone in ee shops 79p but you have to buy £20 airtime credit.

Only need to use it once every 180 days for credit, etc to remain - just a single chargeable text will do: from the PDF T&Cs:

"6.3 You must make a Connection Action at least once every 180 days. If You do not, Your SIM Card will be disconnected from the Network and You will not be able to use the Services. You will lose Your mobile phone number and any Credit on Your Account at the time of such disconnection will be forfeited.

"Connection action’ an action that must be taken to maintain connection. Connection actions include by way of example only, topping up Your Account, using data and making a chargeable call or sending a chargeable text. A full listof connection actions is set out in Our booklet of Charges"

Got this message...

"Sorry, we’ve performed our checks and are unable to continue with your order. But don't panic...
We may be able to help you in one of our EE stores or order a free sim and get connected in no time."

Use Visa or Mastercard. Amex seems no to be accepted.

thanks for the tip!

Ordered one

Well, that's easy for you to say

thanks as well, tried three times with amex and no joy, MasterCard was was no problem , crap amex as normal, pointless having most of the time.

I tried purchasing with Amex - FAILED!

So re-tried with bog standard ubiquitous Visa...FAILED!

​Same phone?

just ordered. I presume you can transfer all the £10 to PSN wallet topup? or does it charge you like few pence for txt msg?

Can you load o2 priority moments app on this?

Thanks op ordered 2, cheaper than toys.

uses

* Mifi
* Bluetooth player
* 4gb storage so only as cheap as a card and 4gb is pretty big when you think you can have around 20-30 albums on there.

oh yes and a take everywhere and doesn't matter if it smashes phone :smiley:

If you do get fed up just wrap up as a gift and give to your senior in-laws as a state of the art smart phone from China.

Be careful buying this thinking cex will buy this 'they have now stopped accepting the phone'

says you (or they one staff member to you)

and so what if they dont anyways ebay pays more, (or the fools on ebay anyways)

reply to below

as a payg the £10 is a once off payment

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maybe just maybe its hot for the 3 times profit, and the 25% off just eat, or maybe not everyone wants a more than basic phone for emg use


used and tracked for this, tho they do every day for the daily cashback clicks they offer too (about all i use them for but 10 mins a day for £2.50 a week aint bad (130 a year, about the same time wise as people put in to banking for interest so ya), ofc 3 months delay but doing it every day will start to over lap daily) *for the bored of it daily cashback over a year would be the same as 4.3% on 3000 give or take a few pence. and not like 10 mins a day is hard to fine* **as i know people waste hours/days/weeks a year looking for banks with intrest rates / rewardv that only return from £36 now hilfeax have lower to £3 pcm, before the not worth doing daily click comments

Does this take £10 every month or just the once

Standard text message cost applies so max topup will be £5.

Confirm ​No GPS, only AGPS.

Next time any/a few of those HUKD AMEX £5 free money credit Deals come up on here (I've observed at least 2, or possibly 3+ on here this year so far already?), then please feel free to pass me your free £5 money bursary instead then please?.

All such obviously clearly received ..... looool. :-)

Had this phone before, the most laggy phone ever to the point i bought the EE rook and swapped the sim

Jeez! How can this possibly be hot? The phone is a piece of useless junk. It won't last more than 12 months. Ee has the worst tariffs.

Sorry to sound a snob, but is anyone really this poor? It's landfill.

Does this come by royal mail signed for?

Can tell you wrote that using one.

​no I am not using it, bought 2 years ago for £4 used like a spare one for 2 weeks and then gave up.

Junk it may be but there are uses (assuming even in-store Cex won't take it) such as having it as a dedicated car performance logger combined with the Torque app. Cheaper small computer than a Raspberry Pi and you get a touchscreen, battery etc thrown in as well :wink:

yes point taken there is that side of it, i have two amex cards, one with barclaycard no amex offers included but no fee to pay per year for the card, i get 1% cash back on all purchases, 2nd amex i have is proper amex from amex, i get nectar points only, i have to pay £25 per year for the card, it includes the £5 off etc offers, so basically i have to do lets say use 5x £5 off offers on purchases that i probably might not have made just to get my cost of the £25 per year amex card, not too good if you ask me.

think the glitch might be browser based. tried a succession of cards on chrome, to no avail, tried once on firefox and straight through.

I have one of these.

I realise you all will not believe me but I wouldn't pay 79p for it. Gosh, it's awful. I mean it's really awful. I wouldn't wish it on my enemies. It's like someone took a t-mobile MDA from the 90s and tried to make it run android. It's worse than the google G1 was, I'm sure. Are you getting my drift here? You'll hate all seventy nine pence of it.

I bought a pixi 4 (6 inch) recently though and that's great - but then, at £100, you get what you pay for don't you!
The pixi brand is a bit of an oddity - some of them are brilliant and others...yeah.
The pixi 4 can play any game I throw at it - even anomaly defenders and monument valley etc. The pixi 3.5 can't even open your sms messages in a timely manner.

I'm so so so super seriously.

​your totally missing the point....

just because you buy this phone doesn't mean your poor. you may have an iPhone 7 or galaxy s8 but want to use this as a mifi for your car for instance or as a backup phone for example if your iPhone breaks.......

it's a tenner if you want to use the credit and flush the phone down the toilet or maybe snobs may want to wipe their ar** with it then go ahead

I know a guy who owns a £250k Ferrari and a second hand Fiat 500 does that make him poor and btw which car does he use more? you figure that one out

I'm going to use it to tell the time - I've just saved myself £3,189.21 on a watch! :wink:

Do any of your own issues with this phone stop me using it as a hotspot?
People have varying needs and wants.
Thanks OP, ordered.

It's not 4G, and the battery life will be very poor in hotspot mode, but sure, knock yourself out.

What do you mean by "just A-GPS"?

A-GPS is better than plain old normal GPS. It actually allows the device to get a faster GPS fix by using the known location of nearby cell towers. Seems some people mistakenly think it isn't 'real' GPS, whereas it's actually an enhancement to GPS:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_GPS

My edit failed, I get that your knowledge was useful and I am now prepared for the frustration of setting it up as a WiFi hotspot for a blind nanogenarnian to provide Alexa with internet access. 4G is a bit like 4K IMO, lots of people have no need for it. :smiley:

The EE ordering website is the worst I've used!

try using the o2 one gave up trying to order a phone from their one a few months back

I just want it for eControl - RM plugin bridge for Alexa home automation. :smiley:

anyone know how many phone numbers you can use to topup on psn?

^this
no really you haven't 'lived' :smirk:

own the Pixi 5" find it is 'responsive' enough

the problem is with the crap screen,battery and camera
have had a brief play with the 4"(oh matron) as well much the same
would expect the specs to be worse on this

anybody used imutual for the £5.10 cashback and it has tracked please.

Anyone got their delivery confirmation yet? I received email confirmation of order but nothing since

A 3G MiFi with terrible battery life? Why not just use the 'hotspot' on your proper phone?

And if you had an iPhone 7, or Galaxy S8 (I use a HTC 10 personally, for anyone that may want to know) how on Earth would this satisfy you as a backup device? Surely you would get something for £100 or so, that was at least useable, because this certainly won't be.

I stand by my original verdict - it's landfill.

​lol put a virgin 20gb sim in around £15pm, a usb car charger and set up as a hotspot, 2 craddles in the back for your kids ipads, they have youtube on the go your phone is free to keep your data, job done. 3g is fine for this I've done it using an old mifi.

next use your ipad as a sat nav with google maps and again your good to go, everyone is happy oh yeah forgot Bluetooth it to your speakers if your audio can take and use the google play music for 3 months too.

finally use it as a raspberry pi or hell just as a normal throw away phone, how people can complain at this is just silly. 0.79p technically for a phone am i missing something or don't these things boot up or explode or something?!?!?....

ordered 1,000 thanks

cold...my iphone7 is better.......

I jest...but thats the type of comments i see on these cheaper brand mobile deals usually. The user always forgets that they have paid about 8 times the price.

So guys if I wanted to use this for priority moments on o2 would this app work on this phone kids love the free treats there's one at moment for cadburys creme eggs would this device get me anther egg lol

Its a great long lasting mp3 player.
It lets more apps installed than I expected.
It has two app store installed because the google one doesnt let some location aware apps be installed but the alcatel one does. I think it was due to missing gps chip.

Can this be used as a teather device?

For example can I turn this on put a data sim into it. Enable tethering so I can connect a laptop or tablet to it to brows the internet?

Thanks.

Use it as a...doorbell(duct tape will do the trick), a security camera, a mini big ben announcing the time every fifteen minutes, talk your ebooks or favourite quote to you as you brush teeth "I'm a champion today Tada!", to watch your pot simmering (duct tape to the kitchen ventilator looking down), punishment device for your child who yells iphone at you with big hams (dainty fingers only), practice flashing device (buy a pile, if you brick it, use next one, while use bricked one as brick), don't worry as its a plastic screen so nothing to shatter, 2factor authenticator device (as mentioned previously), AmpMe app on each mobile in every corner of house playing music syncronously, triplicate backup recording device just in case (which saved the day literarily) and as previously mentioned.......tethering device!!!

Is it just me that can't find the top up only part? I only see 30 day packs

Scroll down the page until you see OR JUST TOP UP and click it,

drug dealers be orgasming

It's you, it's there ...

Scroll down to the very near bottom, and there you will see 'See All Our Packs'.

Then voila, it's all there ..... :-)

I'm complaining about it because it's sold as a phone and it's awful as a phone. Anyone getting one of these is not going to have a good android experience really are they.

If you want to re-purpose it and you have the time to mess about doing that, good for you - I mean that genuinely, I'm into that. But I'd personally rather be starting with a pi zero for £4, or a good old phone if you must, or an arduino clone or even a bare AVR chip than this for most of those things. The latter two take a lot less power too. If you're investing time in an electronics project, best to start with the right hardware. Personal experience but I find that's not usually android (and quite often arduino)
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I don't see the point in using it for tethering instead of a proper 4g dongle either, if you're paying for 4g you would be better getting 4g surely, but each to their own. I have a proper vodafone dongle thing and it works well, I've found phones when tethering also work well but battery life is short and they get hot. The huawei mifi things are really good. Worth noting that in many cases it won't be able to charge fast enough to maintain a wifi hotspot, not in our car anyway.

All of the above are not the original intended purpose though and they don't sell this as "hey it's rubbish but you can tether with it instead or use it like a raspberry pi" - they're selling it as an android smartphone; which is why I said for 79p it's awful - as a phone, it is. If you're otherwise convinced then hey - why don't you get one and see. Try and take a few pics and post them on social media, see how that works out for you. Write a couple one line emails if you have a few hours spare. I have one, as I originally said, so I have earned the right to say "It's awful" and recommend people don't buy it. £20 more can actually get you a usable phone - albeit not a very good one, but usable as a phone.

I tried to use it as a second phone for a while but ended up with the pixi 4 as mentioned as I was a) sick of carrying a dead weight and b) wanted something I could read books/play games without killing my battery and c) couldn't seem to keep the battery charged long enough to make it useful as 2nd phone.

Not so silly then after all? :wink: Some friendly advice for you though - don't berate others' opinions. They're entitled to have them. You too are entitled yours. Make it independently, no need to pick on mine to justify yours. You'll find you get a lot less "friction" on the internet that way. It might also occur to you that I probably paid more than 79p for it so I am judging it fairly rather than "it's cheap what do you expect".
You do your thing, I do my thing, nobody calls each other silly, everybody is happy. :smiley:

Oh and finally in answer to some confusion over GPS - I can confirm it has no GPS. Not A-GPS or GPS or anything. Google maps won't work other than in "I have no idea where I am" mode.

I tested it out for you actually before I replied, tethering is available and easy to get to, drag the top bar down, click settings, click "more" under the wifi section, click the tethering option, I think long press to edit. Sounds trickier than it is. I don't have a sim in it so can't comment on how well tethering works mind you.

I wouldn't be without 4g but that's because they seem to have allowed 3g to degrade since they implemented 4g around here, I noticed this happened with 3g over 2g too. I guess they don't maintain the old equipment.
3g used to be a lot faster.

Would this be OK for use with a Bluetooth ODBII adaptor and Torque?

Can't use the Bluetooth adaptor with iOS but it works fine when tested with the gf's smart ultra 6, so just want something cheap to keep in the garage

HOT, Ordered one, Brilliant price for a spare phone

Can I transfer credit from this new sim to another one????

I haven't tested this exact phone with it, but have a pretty old Vodafone handset (Smart 4 Mini) that looks about identical to the Pixi 3, and it works on that, so I'd be surprised if it doesn't work on this.

Ordered one to use as an mp3 player and a remote for Chromecast. Can i transfer the full £10 to PSN does anyone know? Cheers!

Personally I couldn't get this dropdown to work when I clicked on it (it's one of those that's supposed to reveal a hidden section when you click on the heading), not sure if they've tried to disable it to steer you towards getting a pack - but as a web developer, a bit of trickery with Chrome's "inspect element" teased the hidden element out of its shell :wink:

Anyone had theirs delivered yet?

The minimum top-up appears to be £20, unless I'm missing something?

tried yesterday went to pay then page went to some advert.. never went through, tried today now wants £20 minimum topup...

yes tells me £20 now also grr..

Exactly the same reason here :smiley:

Does anyone know how long they take to deliver the phone?

If I accidentally did the auto renew every 30 days deal, does anyone know how to avoid getting charged again after 30 days or not?

i have two questions, does this support WhatsApp and can i put a virgin media SIM into it?

If you call them up, they will send out the phone next day. When I ordered I (intentionally) put the wrong mobile number as I didn't want to get spammed with texts... but then realise they use your mobile number so the courier (DPD) can send you texts to arrange a delivery slot.

So I called up EE last night to get them to change the number to the right one.... the chap asked if I would like him to put the order through there and then... so I say yes, and apparently it's ready to collect now at my local DPD parcel shop. It seems when you place the order online, somebody still has to go through and actually 'place' the order with the warehouse!

Yes and yes.... though you will need to get the phone unlocked to use a Virgin Media SIM in it.... this can be requested online from EE for free when you get your hands on the phone.

24 hours post ordering (twice, both cashbacks tracked) they still haven't taken payment or even reserved it. Have others seen payment taken immediately?

I order yesterday I received a email, they cancel my order...:confused:

got off the phone with customer services who put me through to Web ordering department (or something like that)... apparently they have been taking in orders yesterday and today through the website, but they do not have phone in stock... I received a confirmation email of successful order yesterday but have been informed today that it only means that the order has been accepted but not fulfilled with available stock. Someone from the ordering team has to allocate it to stock... nothing mentioned to this effect in the email received..... and today there isn't any stock available... So they are cancelling the order as the phone is out of stock... what a waste of ordering process at EE...

My order cancelled too. Funny that it's still being offered on the site for 79p, but I see with minimum £20 top-up

I did 2 seperate orders for my kids .
1st order was cancelled spoke to them on phone they didnt know why then said it was my bank card .
2nd order confirmed and dispatched using same payment card.
Was meant be delivered today but ive rearranged delivery for tomorrow.
Seems like they only wanna accept certain orders

Received a call from EE today to discuss my request for info on taking out a contract with them :confused:
Apparently I requested this via online chat news to me :smirk:

Order placed @ 7:45am yesterday cancelled :disappointed:

​what difference on how long the battery lasts if it's permantly plugged in. also are you telling me that if my s7 edge breaks I wouldn't be able to use this as a backup just to make a call or text. So backup phones must be £100+ are you on another planet? you can but half decent window Nokia phones for around £40.

this is a bargain solely because you get £10 of credit and the phone costs 79p.

as previously said even if it is slow you put up with it as you only use it as a mifi, Bluetooth media player and back up phone surely it's good enough for that.

​im not calling anyone silly buddy, at the end of the day the guy saying poor people buy these is out of order. yes there are unfortunate people out there who cannot afford the latest technology that doesn't mean people have the right to take the pi**.

You sound very clever well done, I can see you almost have a fetish for the phone and yes I can see it badly let you down 79p is a bargain end of. no need for 4g for tethering again end of. don't tell me how to reply to something on the net thanks and as you said each to their own and my opinion is my opinion.

I have bought two actually and will root and may look for a custom Rom and if they're that bad just take back or better still find someone like you and your stuck up chum and give it to them for free :wink:

Got my Pixi 3 today.... to be honest it's nowhere near as bad as I thought it might be! To be honest compared to other cheap phones I've used, I quite like it, the interface is nice and uncluttered.

Anyway I followed the instructions at http://ee.co.uk/help/getting-started/joining-ee/unlocking-your-device to put n a request for EE to unlock the phone, which is done for free as far as I can tell.... however when I went through the very long winded form and filled in all the steps, when I get to the end I get a confirmation of the unlock request, but also the following which seems to suggest £8.99 will be deducted from my credit....
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Thank you for your request to unlock your phone.

You'll get an email in the next three hours to confirm we've received your request. If the email doesn't arrive in your in-box, please check your junk folder.
A few things to remember:

it takes up to 10 days to unlock a phone
it costs £8.99, including VAT
if you pay monthly, this will be added to your next bill
if you pay as you go, please make sure you have enough credit for the next 10 days to cover the unlock cost
Why not print out this page or email it to yourself for future reference?
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Does that seem right... maybe it's just old wording!

Having now got my hands on the phone, I can confirm it does NOT have a GPS chip :-( So pretty useless as a Sat-Nav unfortunately. It can work out a rough location based on the mobile network, but can't actually be used to Navigate with an app such as Navmii etc :-(

Maybe the massive amount of orders got EE to rethink the £10 topup... They would rather sell you a £20 topup instead!

I've just had the cancellation email saying the device I have chosen is no longer available with EE. Strange that it's still on there with a £20 topup now.....hmmm!!

On the EE web page under tech specs it says:

Connectivity

GPS receiver Yes
Bluetooth Yes
NFC + Quick Tap No
Cash on Tap No

Surely they are not allowed to do that!

just rang ee on the 08009566000 number my order has been accepted but they have done this today over the phone spun my a tail about the credit card not working.said it will be delivered tomorrow for £10.79.

Cancellation email received. Not too surprising, really - they were hardly going to enjoy the idea of customers making a profit! Was surprised it worked last time.

Ordered first thing Monday when the deal was 200 odd hot, got my cancellation mail this morning. I am a little sad :disappointed:


EDIT: The phone is still on sale for 79p though, but £20 min top up instead.

Ordered on Monday, noticed no payment taken or pending.
Today I received a cancellation email saying product no longer available.....

Same here.

I ordered 2 on monday for the grandkids Phoned up this morning have to say thet were very helpful. Took about 40 mins to process them and had to use 2 different cards as their system will only allow one card for the same phone and same ammount even although the online system accepted the same card .I then received 3 emails 1 to say phone was on its way then 2 minutes later another to say the other order for the 2nd had been cancelled then another one saying the 2nd one was on its way .I phoned up again and was told that system rejects more than one phone being ordered for same model and same price but was assured that "depending on stock " both phones would be on their way waiting to hear form branch where i arranged to pick them up from

There was a note with mine to say the £10 top-up would be applied within a few days.... still no credit on mine when I checked last night.

Ive called them and they have put credit on.

I've been trying to cancel this for 2 days now - What number are you guys calling for sales support if you're not already an EE customer? Their regular sales number demands an EE mobile number from me, all I have is the order reference..

0800 079 0531 works too.

I received the "problem with you credit card" email and called them on 0800 0790531.

The lady who took my call was very helpful. She said the message was generated because they are out of stock. However, she logged onto the order system, found some more stock and advised me that it will be delivered to me tomorrow.

Just rang them on the above number. A very nice lady put the order through for me; apparently several hundred have come into stock. Maybe worth giving them a call :smile:

After ordering mine on the 3rd April, I too got the email today saying the device I have chosen is no longer available with EE. I checked on their site and it's still on there with a £20 top up. I rang them up and said how come you are still advertising it (be it at a different min top up) if it is no longer available with EE. I was told its out of stock but they were hoping to get more in. I asked that rather than cancel my order and refund me, that they re instate my order for the price i paid and i'll have it when its back in stock. No problem and they said id get email updates on progress. So.... If anyone still wants it at the offer price; its worth giving them a call.

Had a phone call tonight from EE theyve got a few hundred back in stock and mine will be delivered tomorrow. Yeh.

Check out getting an unlock code on ebay, prob cost you a few pence to £2.

Courier just delivered the phone. For a 10.79 this will do as a spare handset. Glad to be help for anyone who has managed to get it too. :smiley:

Weel done!
Quick question... Is it definitely locked? Sometimes the cheaper phones are left unlocked by Networks

Yes, it is locked. Tryed with 3 sim and was not accepted. I am not in rush so I'll request free unlock from EE http://ee.co.uk/help/getting-started/joining-ee/unlocking-your-device

Thanks. Keep us posted how easy it was using this method. Someone mentioned there may be a charge of £8.99 for the unlock even though its supposedly FREE now!

And same happened to me with the cancellation email and then have just rung them and they've reinstated the order for delivery tomorrow. Thanks to other posters for keeping us updated as to this process. Will look forward to reading about the unlock saga and free/charged as people try this. I intend to put the £1 seven day 'pack' to activate it and then request the unlock immediately. Can anyone advise whether I can then use the remaining £9 credit on another Orange PAYG phone number? How do I do this?

That's a shame :disappointed:
You can still use it as a smart TV / Chromecast remote, mp3 player, dashcam, baby / security monitor, IP Phone, sleep monitor, desk clock, etc...
I've merged the credit from 2 of these together and transferred £15 out to PSN so I'm £6.58 out of pocket for 2 multi-function devices (which I'm going to use as wifi security cameras).

I think you might find that is for contract phones only

just missed the delivery man
so no gps plan b here was a bike computer
might just reject the delivery they have to give me a full refund right ?

I purchased on the 3rd, asked to be delivered to the local store but still not there..

Yes you should also be able to send it back for a full refund even if you accepted delivery as long as you didn't activate and use the sim card.

how long to get the £10 top up it says on a paper with the phone 2 days to get added anybody got it sooner. rang 0800 number £10 credit added today.

ordered on the 4th at 9am, today the 6th at 5 pm got a text saying to call to complete the order.

supposedly it was flagged as needing manual processing or something. easy enough though, and being sent out for delivery tomorrow.

Same here, the invoice says £19.99 for the Pixi 4 phone! They have not taken money out of my account yet, so I can't confirm what they charged me, but the confirmation email was £10.79...

I'm on the phone with them now, they transferred me to a department dealing with Returns.
I can't believe they can get away with charging £29.99 for a different phone you didn't order...
Imagine buying S7 and being charged for Galaxy S8 lol

I have been asked to call up and do the purchase with them manually.

Honestly I cannot believe the action that is on this phone on this post it is a piece of crap and I bought one it has a few limited uses but for 79p you can't argue if you go out on Friday night it's the kind of phone that if you lose it you're not worried and the amount of people talking about the uses of it honestly I would not use this for anything other than being a spare back up phone after all you can use the £10 credit on PlayStation network

Ordered on Monday with Quidco confirmed but nothing happened after that.

Call the sales 0800 079 0531.

Thanks

Same here :disappointed: EE list it as having GPS. So an easy return if needs be.
May just give it to my boy to use with wifi for messaging family etc.

Besides the original reply stating from gsmarena that suggested it had a GPS chip,
two others (including myself) subsequently confirmed that is not valid and those who replied were already owners of it.

Suggest when you read something and want to make a decision on it, it might be best to sit on it until further confirmation before making a financial decision on it. At least 2 or 3 to confirm or detract.

FYI Poundland sometimes do a purple zippered foam 3.5 inch camera case which fits well.
However, have not seen that case recently.

I bought early in the thread. I have only got round to messing with the phone.
Thanks for the financial advice. It was a major purchase of course..............

had to call them up to finally place the order with £10top up. gonna root it and install android marshmallow on it keep it as back up

EE site says it has GPS and assisted GPS.

The phone says it has no gps.

Off to cex it goes!

​I hope to do same too. Didnt want to learn using an expensive one but this looks good.
You mentioned Marshmallow?
I have only seen the Alcatel Pixi3 entry on xda developers. Is that where you are referencing?

Not bad for emergency backup phone, many cheap feature phones go for £25 (+£10 top up) so this is worth keeping in the backpack or car, just in case.

The Pixi 4 is much more usable smartphone though.

XDA developers was also my first pick to check custom roms and rooting guide, but after Google search I have found http://www.alcatelroot.com/ Once I have a bit more time I'll play with the new software. For now I'm still using stock software and although sluggish it's doable.

Cex stopped to buy it. https://uk.webuy.com/product.php?sku=SALCONETC3EVEA

My £10 still hasn't appeared on my sim, is there some way I have to activate it?

It can take 2 days.

I had placed a sell order before ordering the phone. They say they honor it for 10 days.

Oddly, they've charged only £5.79 with £5 top up for my order.

When trying to unlock on the EE unlock site, it says Captcha site error and wont proceed!
:neutral_face:

ORDER NOW CANCELLED - we have no phones - money to be refunded
also now receiving nuisance phone calls to finalise that EE contract I wanted...........

Have you tryed different browser.

got my phone today. Is the phone EE sim locked?

yes unlock code on ebay for 99p fonecare the company he is good.

Still no credit on my sim.
Are you gets checking by sending AL to 150?

Looks like you need to call them up to process the top up manually, should have received the top up credit by now.

That's great I need to phone them to process my order, now I need to phone them to give me my top up.

had the sim in mine for the last 3 days, with no service at all.

checked my bank account, and only 0.79 has been paid to "ee & tmobile" so it looks like ive only paid for the phone, not the credit.

the invoice that came with the phone only listed the phone @ 79p as well as a free payg sim. no mention of the £10 credit.

edit- just to add, truth be told i wouldnt want to use this phone for anything other than a spare, even at 79p. its awful to use, and if it was my only phone id get something else.

same here phoned them up and was told they couldnt top me up as mobile numbers were not on there system ,told me to go into the store and get new sims ??????

How do you do that?

What a mess.

I ordered on the 3rd April, Still, hasn't come :disappointed:

If you got order ref number call EE @ 0800 079 0531.

Will do thanks

Though I was the only one with problems ordered 2 and got charged £50 from EE told them to return to EE also battery on the one my brother ordered is not working properly and keeps turning off just got it today as well :/

I also got the same problem. So I called the above number and the staff added £10 to my account. When I texted AL to 150 it says "sorry we were unable to process your request, this service is only available to EE customers" I was like what? ain't I using your service already!? when I call 150 to manually check my balance it says I've got the £10 there. I think they messed up some settings.

do you have problems getting your balance info when texting AL to 150? Mine doesn't work but when I rang 150 manually the automated system told me I have credits there. I can't top up PSN with any amount as well.

i just dial 150 and get the balance can't be bothered with the text.

I wasn't waiting for credit I was waiting for the actual phone lol. Nightmare. Call the number, The lady took about 20 minutes then said she's putting my order through. I told her the money was taken out of my account on the 5th and she kept tell me that's impossible, Almost as if I didn't make an order or it was never sent. Anyway, she tried to put the order through and it declined. She then told me to call back when I could make payment as if I didn't have £10.79 in my bank cheeky. So I double checked my bank and I was right, payment was taken on the 5th. So I called back and spoke to a much more helpful lady who went through everything. They don't know what happened whether it was sent or not. but they had my money. She went to talk to the manager and called me back 15 mins later and sorted it all and sent another next day delivery, so hopefully, I should get it in the morning.

Still waiting for the phone. If EE dont give the phone or refund the money, please report them to Trading Standards.

Spoke to a very nice lady who had to do my order again. Been quite a long wait. Guess the first time round phonecall had to be done again. Was told to expect delivery tomorrow.
Could I have raised a fuss? Yes. But keeping calm, staying unruffled
and me and the sweet EE lady had a great chat.
Oh, I forgot to ask her for her phone number. Oops.

What about your time? Time does not come free to make a call during office hours

I got the phones but thet sent me 2 blocked sim cards !!!!! and ive been on the phone for an hour trying to prove who i was !!!! Now been told to visit the store for 2 replacement sims been there already today ,they wouldnt give me replacement sims to replace blocked sims !!! i doint blame them ,gut i splke to on the phone this eve has sent store an email so back again tomorrow noty holding my breath ,have to say the online people very helpful but waht a fiasco ,the 2 blocked sims wer in a completely different name and cant be reactivated

So much hassle for a cheap phone.

I'm actually messaging on the phone right now preloaded with SwiftKey allowing me to be able to load a priority moment from o2 this phone is far better than what a lot of people have whined about people this phone is 79p please get a reality check the battery and charger are wort more on there own

I agree, Its quite a nice small phone. I plan to use it as a device to stream music to my Bluetooth speaker. Its well worth the money!

I have registered online and applied for the free Unlock code. Once I have that, it can be used as a cheap holiday phone too! Anyone know how long the Unlock code will take?

Up to 10 days according to EE website. (I wait for the code too, hope to get it by Friday)

Did it mention any cost when you went through the EE link for the Free unlock code? For me, it suggested no cost until I got right to the confirmation screen at the end when it suggested there was a cost of £9.99 I think it was... but by that time it was too late!

Anyway, requested the unlock code last Wednesday, still waiting.....

But yes I agree, for 79p it's quite a nice little phone.

On their website it says:

Pay as you go

If you’re on pay as you go, you can unlock your phone as soon as you get it, as long as it’s locked to EE, Orange or T-Mobile. Your pay as you go account must be registered with your details for us to unlock a pay as you go device.

You must also ensure the device has not been reported as lost or stolen.

There are no charges for unlocking for pay as you go devices bought from EE and our indirect partners. We’ll need to check other devices to confirm where and when they were bought. Pay monthly devices used on pay as you go will be subject to pay monthly rules and checks.


Pay monthly

If you’re on pay monthly, you need to have had the device you require to be unlocked for at least six months before you can have it unlocked. After that six months, if you’re within contract, the cost to unlock your device is £8.99. This charge will be applied to your account once the unlock code has been provided and will show on your next bill.

Now that's what I call giving people information they need nice one I was wondering how much an unlocking code for this was going to be i thought I would have to pay £8.99 and you have cleared it up for me so thank you also I have a Sim card with O2 that i use for priority moments so I have just got a £4 Easter egg free from Thornton thanks to this lovely little device it's paying for itself already

Presumably you have the Unlock code to run the O2 SIM in it?

Well that's the thing if you don't need the unlock code because if you put the Sim into a standard phone that you can use on O2 you get sent to verification code to activate the priority moment so all you have to do is put the activation code into the app when you request it and your done

Well played...
:smirk:

Never received my phone, nor any communication from them after I received the 'successful order' email from them 10 days ago. I phoned them Friday, to be told phone is out of stock, despite it showing as in stock on their website. I then spoke to their online chat, who said the phone is in stock. I sent a copy of this chat to their customer services email address, to receive a reply today, saying order cancelled as it is out of stock. So I rang up pretending to be a new customer wanting to buy the phone, and was told it was in stock (hope you're keeping up)!! So I told them they were a bunch of crooks after he told me I would need to order again, this time with a £20 top up. At that point he put my original order through again with the £10 top up. Just had text from DPD, getting delivered tomorrow. And just to confuse matters further, they have just taken £10.39 from my account, not £10.79. Next step will probably be a week nagging them to apply my £10 top up. What fun - I love this site - and I don't really need the phone (but thought I'd give it to my dad as he hasn't got a mobile).

True say!.

But you can no longer 'activate' an O2 SIM anymore WITHOUT first applying that minimum £10 Credit to it right? (some year's prior, that was NOT a mandatory pre-requisite ... ) :-(

Oh happy day's, oh happy days ... (Sister Act Movie song reference).

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm. :-(

All the best with all that?. :-)

I have ordered some more o2 Sims so as soon as I have checked I will let you know I have a lot of O2 Sim cards and unless this is a new term and conditions then you should be okay to do it but I will find out

about 3 months ago i activated a free 02 SIM without adding any credit to get the priority moments activation.

try, bet you'll be fine.

I need to use my £10 credit on something, any ideas? Can someone please point me to directions on how to transfer (or use) it on Google Play store. Thanks for any help, just don't want to waste the credit.

How about £9 (£5 and £4) Text donation to Charity ? With GiftAid charity will get £11.25. Sadly cant use £10 as the cost of text is taken first!

Further Details Here

I would ring customer services and I would just be straight out and tell them I want to donate the credit to charity and could they apply a credit that is enough to cover the cost of one text message i'm sure if you explain the situation it can be done

Had to ring them again as despite receiving the handset last Friday no sign of the £10 credit. Very helpful chap tells me it is in the post. I'll believe it when it arrives. I intend activating it with the £1 pack, asking for the unlock code, and then applying the remaining £9 to a different Orange PAYG number still on the old 'Animal' plan. If this isn't possible I'll try the charity route suggested above.

It worked!!!!!!! I explained to customer service that I wanted to donate the whole £10 to charity and the advisor credited my Sim card with an additional £1 which allowed me to make that £10 donation

Well done

What I would advise is to ring EE customer service and ask them to remove the bundle from your SIM card before putting the SIM card in the phone because once the SIM card is in the phone if you activate the bundle and then you have to go back to customer service to have it removed therefore it easier to remove the Bundle before you put the sim card in the phone

I thought that was the case, but when I applied for it, I got the message:


Any idea what they mean? Are they going to reduce my top-up credit by £8.99?

Their message is contradictory.... I think the £8.99 may be an old standard message. I hope so anyway as I have only 50p left!

I hope so too... as they didn't mention anything beforehand, and I would have unlocked it in a different way if the charge that price. We'll see... thanks!

Well it's now 9 days since I requested the 'Free' (hopefully) unlock from EE. Today I get a text to say I'll get an e-mail with unlock instructions in 10 days! So certainly not a quick process!

I just paid my £0.99 on ebay had the code in 5 minutes !

just phoned them /nothing happend in the last12days/ and will receive it next week. also said it was out of stock I said it is still in stock.

thanks for the heads-up :wink:

Thanx for that heads up also!, hehehe.

I too had a load of old stock O2 SIM's (and now lost/expired) which had gathered up dust (on account of my still assumed above ... )

I'll order me a few fresh freebie O2 SIM's again, and hit them square on also!, lol. :-)

Today I have received an email from EE with unlocking code for the phone. Just tested with Three simcard and the phone now accepts it. Maybe a little bit longer than a code from eBay but well worth it. I have checked my EE account and no money was deducted from my PAYG balance.

How long did it take... start, to text and then the email?

Requested the unlock code 6th of April, 3 or so days ago I got confirmation text from EE and today (16th) an email with the code. So like they say, it takes about 10 days.

Thanks :smiley:

Thanks for confirming that as well... I got a conflicting message when I applied so I had my doubts... Let's wait then. Ta

I also got my unlock code from EE via e-mail today... took 11 days in my case. But the code works, and I don't appear to have been charged so can't complain really!

I got another text to say that they have to get the code from the manufacturer and not to worry as it may take longer than 10 days.

Why not just buy a code off ebay? It takes literally 5 minutes to get the code and only 99p.

I may well end up doing just that!

Well it's up to you but depending upon whether or not you really need the phone unlocked straight away, I would probably wait it out ,
this is what doesn't make sense,people whinged,moaned, and complained,
that this device cost 79p and it was a waste of money,
and yet people are quite happy to say go on pay 99p for an unlocking code!!!!!
so it's alright to spend a 99pnfor a code that's free but spend 79p for a phone!!!!! is an absolute catastrophe,the codes FREE
So to be honest,if you need the phone unlocked straight away I would spend your 99p but frankly if you don't need it in a rush I would wait

Sorry... thats what I meant... wait it out.... only pay as last resort

You've been great on this thread some users really complained about the value of the device in truth I would have bought more if I had known that it was as good as it is as I use the phones for priority moments for the kids,either way good luck

Thanks JohnB667, I cant understand the moaners! Its a cheap phone that can be used as a spare phone, MP3 player, Bluetooth Streamer, Alarm Clock, Timer, Stopwatch, Micro USB cable, USB charger etc etc.... The list could go on and on!

And having the the FREE unlock code is the icing on the cake as that makes it the ideal holiday backup phone.

I think HotUKDealers expect way too much for their money!

I managed to donate £8 to charity (Could have been £10 had I known before) So for a little under £3, I cannot possibly complain.

Just recieved my Free Unlock code from EE. Thanks!!!!
:smile:

You see lol take care of the pennies and the pounds take care of themselves hahaha nice one glad you didn't take the advice of the other individual

Please can you post the charity details and text number/code you donated to? :smiley:

Web site for details or give by texting "SOLR99 £" to 70070.

Eg Text "SOLR99 £10" to to 70070 if you wish to donate £10

You can donate £1, £2, £4, £5 by changing the figure at the end.

Is there anything else comparable to this deal out there at the moment?

Well I've had a good look round there's nothing even remotely close to this Nokia 105 Nokia 110 but you can't even use Internet on them 79p for this is starting to look like the fantastic deal I knew it was

Just received an Alcatel Pixi 4 4" instead...:smiley:))

Lucky you. :wink:

CEX is one of the most dishonest companies I've ever encountered. I sent them the phone, that had been taken out of the box to test, and they want to regrade it due to scuffs.

Does this happen for you as well guys?

I got the code from EE, I put a different SIM card and entered the code. I got a failure message when I did, but it did unlock the phone, as I can now use different cards and call from them.

However, when it's locked I can see the new network and just below it, it keeps on saying "Emergency calls only". Is this normal in this or some Android models? as I've never seen it before...

And is there a way to remove it, I don't like having that message constantly there

Mines works fine as I would expect. I did not get a failure message when I entered the Unlock code.

Thank you OP, and everyone who gave info on this deal. Got my two pixi via dpd today . Will have to wait 48hours for the £10 to be activated. If not, I will follow the advice , call 150 free from any EE sim and check the balances

Much thanks for a 79p phone

this deal still available in store but you have to pay £20.79 inc £20 airtime credit.

mine also says emergency calls only when locked. Seems normal

Thanks for letting me know, it looks strange but it seems working fine. I had really bad quality in a few calls, but from new numbers so I guess it was a one-off rather than the norm. I'll try to use it a little bit more in the coming days, just to double check...

same for me as well.

I have been browsing EE website and this phone is back in stock and again with only 10 quid minimum topup!

BAM!, thanx for that timely update ... :-)