The missus has just had a look and I've always steered her away from overpriced phones you know the ones. Her first question was is it as good as an iphone, she's never had an iPhone to compare it with. Just goes to show how advertising and friends can influence people's choices.

You're right. I should have worded it better. Nevermind.

Would rather a darker colour but seems a good price.

Undecided about this or the 2GB G5...

Great price
Would this be a lot better than samsung s5 which i have atm.
Is this the dual sim model

All Swift 2 Plus range reduced today- Gold £139.99 , Rose Pink also £139.99 and Midnight Blue is £149.99 until midnight tonight

Is it worth the swap from s5 to this?

Any idea what the camera is like .time to move on from my voda s6 . the camera has been the main letdown. Had considered the lenovo p2 from three .

would be good to hear from someone with one of these :smile:

I bought one of these for a friend and had a few days to play with it before I handed it over. Really impressed with the build quality and the fingerprint reader. The OS was practically stock and the CPU and 3GB Ram seemed to handle everything with ease. Some will want a phone with a better screen and camera but for the £, its hard to complain. If you want better, spend more £.

HOT.

Would have gone for this if I hadn't recently picked up the Lenovo P2.

Happy with my original Swift (and just had the screen replaced under 2 year warranty after a bit of discolouration!)

I purchased the wileyfox swift around a month ago for £110 and that's been great, so this with extra storage and memory is a no brainer

Anyone be able to advise what difference/improvements I would see over an LG G2 with this please? Thanks

What's the screen quality like, i know the g5 has more ppi but is the difference noticeable on this size screen, trying to decide between the two for the other half.

Does it run marshmallow or nougat ?

Thanks, made me like the phone even more

Loving my Lenovo P2 , but heat given cause this was on my shortlist a couple of weeks back .

My bro got this model which i didnt no, and i have the s5, ive been to see him today and wow side by side s5 and this i say the fox is better camera wise. Ive not messed with it to long but feels good etc. Im buying one :-)

Is there any vouchers or anything for amazon atm?

how about from LG G2? Going to see an improvement?

Hows that s5 2gb +16gb

Fox 3gb + 32gb and dual sim cam looks better

Only concern is it runs Cyanogen mod, is it worth the risk, only reading Cyanogen no longer going. Want this to replace almost dead Nexus 5

In english whats this mean? Im not to tech with phones

You'll continue to get updates as they have moved away from Cyanogen. The updates are being rolled out now.

I dont think this is a fair review to this phone on sale. As that the normal swift 2 not plus model

Not an exact comparison the plus has more ram and storage so the comparison on video, camera and processor speed stand as the specs are the same

The swift 2 plus has a 16mp camera not the 13mp camera in the swift 2

Sorry I wasn't aware of that, so the plus should on paper come out better than it does on the review.

Thats what im thinking

The missus has just had a look and I've always steered her away from overpriced phones you know the ones. Her first question was is it as good as an iphone, she's never had an iPhone to compare it with. Just goes to show how advertising and friends can influence people's choices.

Great looking phone. Have some heat. I would buy this but it doesn't have a dedicated SD slot. Just a hybrid sim slot. I am Having to go for an imported Moto G5 which does have dedicated slot as I need dual sim and more than 32Gb storage.

Nougat update news .............. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/10/wileyfox_disentangles_itself_from_cyanogen/
Mines updated Ok this evening!

There's talk of a windows phone version coming out soon

I have s5 and I'm buying this for wileyfox for my wife due to dual sim.

personally I love touch Wiz coz I love the features that Samsung offers with it. you are right 3gb means wf has 50% more memory which will help it's performance.

32gb however, is a choice as it uses the same slot for SD card. so if you want to use SD card then it becomes single sim (based on my understanding from my reading).

cam I'm not sure as there are many ppl giving bad review on its camera. I personally don't expect much for phone with this price

Where you get the g5 from?any good deals? My bro battery on swift he says is very good.but we will find out when mine comes today

So I got this for my sister at Christmas, (same price £150 midnight blue one, but with the case and screen warranty), very nice build quality, it definitely does feel very well made but the screen is a bit washed out imo (any "only" 720p), if you're coming from an AMOLED Samsung screen I think you'll be disappointed, and the camera is pretty crappy tbh especially in low light...

It's nice that it's USB-C though, supports quick charge (I think the battery life is OK, not great but not the worst) and the fingerprint scanner is fast, seems good, however, the performance was nice and snappy until the Nougat update yesterday... Since it's no longer Cyanogen... The phone keeps crashing, freezing up and then just reboots... I did tweet Wileyfox and they got back to me pretty quickly and asked me to DM them on Twitter - But my sister is away for a few days so I can't really troubleshoot it.

Anyone else had this freezing/crashing with the new update?

I also like the fact you're buying from a British company, seeing as not so many things are made over here anymore. So you're supporting British made. (If you care about that sort of thing)

Now I'm going to contradict my last sentence and tell you to buy something from overseas, If you have the extra cash, buy the Xiaomi mi5. Fleabay usually has them pretty cheaply since the mi6 is coming out. (But check which network supports 4g with it) I've seen them go for about £180. But don't expect a pretty much pure/stock android experience like you'd get on the Wileyfox.

I suggest just looking on YouTube for some comparisons.

tldr; Buy the Xiaomi mi5 if you have the extra money. But this is still a great phone for on a budget, assuming the update hasn't broken it.. (I'm sure it can be fixed)

It's a good price off of the original though, so heat added.

British company. The phones are made in China however.

I just got the £179 one from Amazon, less a fiver for topping up £100 on my Amazon account. Probably would've gone for the 2GB G5 at £140 but am in France at the mo and O2 won't sent abroad, my old S4 has gone downhill rapidly, so needed something quick! For the extra tenner on Amazon the extra 1GB and SIM slot was a no brainer!

Well yeah of course, we don't make the parts, I was wondering how long that would take... But it's still supporting a British company, that was my point.

If you want to be pedantic. "I also like the fact you're buying from a British company, seeing as not so many things are made over here anymore" is what you said. That implies the phones are made here. They are not!

This offer's on again now .............

........ http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/wileyfox-swift-2-plus-sim-free-smartphone-32gb-3gb-ram-with-screen-replacement-card-2661072

I don't see how that's being pedantic at all... But you certainly are.

I really meant, you're supporting a British company. I shouldn't have implied they were made here, I quite honestly didn't put that much thought in to one small sentence. Either way, it's supporting a company over here so what difference does it make?

I was being pedantic. But you made it sound like the phone was made/assembled in the UK.

You're right. I should have worded it better. Nevermind.

For those still wondering if Wileyfox will maintain updates

just had notification that Nougat 7.1.1 is availble for my Swift 2+ ....1.4GB download !!!

EliTom

i bought on for £50.54 midnight blue due to charging cable missing on Amazon Warehouse. absolute steal. it is not bad phone to have until my xiaomi Mi5S arrives

Do you have notification issues with your P2? I have to be actually using the phone in order to get a notification! It's driving me insane. It never alerts me if I have sold anything on eBay etc, as I run a business! :disappointed: