Just been into two London CPW stores the instore price of Pixel XL is £449 today (Monday 25 Sept 2017).
CPW shop assistant told me it's the same price £449 in all CPW shops all over the UK?
How/ where/ when, did you get the pixel XL for £419? Thanks...

in store price is £449 now

XZ Premium looks aweful I find personally. I agree the Pixel XL looks just as bad lol.

Bootloop was a while back now. May as well say phones setting on fire is Samsung's thing. The G6 is superior to the Pixel in basically every way.

I'm going on personal experience with the phone. For me it wasn't good. Lens flare in particular very annoying and low light not fantastic.

Well I owned it for one. Lens flare was horrendous and getting blurry pictures when I shouldn't have was an issue. Low light was terrible.

Ahh. Hahaha. Little bit of true. However I prefer it over Pixel Launcher or Google Launcher. Maybe because I've got used to it. Touch wizz on S8 looks OK better than S7 had. But its Android so we can use and customize whatever we want right?

I'm talking about the UI not the phone. Not a fan of the Sony phone shape either if I'm honest although I can see that others might like them. The UI though? The icons are hideous, like a Tesco blue stripe redesign. The ironic thing is the standard ones are nice so they changed them for nothing.

Have you seen XZ Premium yet? It looks more premium than any other phone on the market in my opinion. S8 for example looks like a toy. Pixel XL...no comments one of the ugliest but I like its functionality.

I was interested in the Nokia 6 for that but the reviews put me off. Hopefully their first gen androids are a practice run and we can look forward to some Moto beating phones.

Lots of people want a decent camera, probably a significant amount more than need serious CPU grunt for gaming etc. Most parents for example.

And almost any android phone has fairly similar functionality, within reason, though some UIs are clunkier and uglier then others, Sony being one of the ugliest and cheapest looking.

£450 in store

I haven’t an in depth knowledge of their retail process but my understanding - based on other retailers and the amount of BS I’ve been fed in the past by their staff - is that Carphone Warehouse stores don’t just say ‘I want 5000 units because I think they will sell’; they are allocated stock from head office based on various algorithms. None of the staff instore would know the details given to you in my opinion, so at best it was banter, designed to placate you - I don’t think your comment was particularly constructive either - or at least it didn’t really add much to the whys and wherefores of this deal, unless you were implying that people shouldn’t buy this because CPW didn’t sell many.

Ive got XZP and is great. And who buying phone for camera? Design, screen and functionality is what I need. Pixel was over £700 when I bought XZP via O2 refresh deal for £430. I dont like rear fingerprint reader in Pixel also 32GB still holding me. 128GB price is horrible.

Ok.

Why wouldn't they, they work for CPW. I'd say they know more than you. I makes sense to me @£700+ devices Sat in boxes doing nothing.
Nice to see you placing great constructive posts again.

Thanks

More versatile how? It’s slower and less reliable, and many MANY apps won’t let you cache to an SD card.

As far as I’m concerned the only advantage is being able to put an old card in a new phone but that means loads of detritus and old folders carrying over from the old phone, as well as increased risk of errors and incompatibilities - e.g. app errors. Just as an example I’ve just swapped an SD card from a KeyONE to an LG G6 and try as I might I simply cannot get Pocketcasts to store podcasts on the SD card, even though it’s working fine. I recently had to wipe the card because another phone I was using said it was corrupted, even though it worked fine in the previous handset - and still did when I swapped it out.

SD cards are cheap, that’s their advantage. The ‘versatility’ of swapping into other phones comes at a cost, and I believe that’s part of the reason Google doesn’t like implementing them (though most assume it’s purely greed, which I don’t prescribe to).

It's far more versatile.

My 2 cents on this.

I can live with 32GB but it isn’t ideal.

I had this phone for a little while and it’s really nicely built and feels like a really weighty, solid and premium device to me. I will caveat the previous remark with the fact that I am not in the least bit obsessed with bezels as some are, as I think bezels improve productivity and allow you to grapple and fumble your phone without catching things on the screen. This is just my personal opinion based on ownership of devices like the S7 Edge, S8 and S8 Plus. The LG G6 has screen/bezel ratio about right in my opinion but the Pixel didn’t disgust me in this regard, and it wouldn’t be a basis for determining a device to be mid-range.

The Pixel is incredibly fast and smooth. I’m not sure what secret sauce Google uses but they obviously have some supremely talented coders because no Android device comes close - not even the S8 or the Oneplus 5. Just having stock Android alone isn’t the only reason - I believe Google is doing more low-level optimisations with this, and my more long-term ownership of other Google devices leads me to the conclusion that they retain their speed and stability in ways that Samsung and other devices simply don’t.

This device comes with lifetime unlimited Google Photos uploads at full quality. This is a really nice perk if you ask me, and isn’t suggested enough as an advantage to the Pixel often enough.

Oreo is already on this device, and is a really nice upgrade.


There is absolutely no bloatware rubbish and pointless apps on this device. There is no need to disable anything, uninstall anything or turn off any features. It is lightweight, fast and a pleasure to use.


As mentioned before, the Pixel 2 will launch soon. I don’t expect the price of this to drop much further, but you never know. Maybe it’s worth waiting just in case but it could be that supplies dry up before then as the XL at least has never been particularly easy to get in its 128GB form.

An SD card can’t replace internal storage either, but some people assume it does.

Because some dumbo in a store is really going to know that.

It's £100 less and won't run out of storage in a week.

It looks much better, has better speakers, a brighter screen, a much better finger print sensor and waterproof.

The internals are pretty much the same.

Everything bar the camera is inferior in spec

Essential Phone won't be available in the UK very soon...

Tough to pin down one model without spending some time with them but interested in:

S8+
Note 8
Essential Phone
Pixel / Pixel 2 XL
LG G7

Leaning towards Note 8 if honest but excited for iphone 8, just not the price tag!

Went to my local store, also quoted £449 for the XL. They tried to sell me a contract, but I think online deals are better. Still a very decent phone despite being a year old.

I am keeping an eye on Nokia though, £200 for the Nokia 6 which is pretty much stock.

Unfortunately this deal doesn't exist in the shops. I went into 3 outlets and they said the price was the same as the online price (£449). They indicated someone may have managed to get an open box, returned one for the discounted price.

So for all of those that got it a few days ago don't worry!

However, CPW has "plenty" in stock in their central warehouse and I suspect during this month the price will drop to £400 or £350 as they attempt to clear these in time for the new models in Oct.

I don't disagree with the costs but USB c is the current and future standard, probably for the next decade.

Are you sure it's 419 in store ? I just called the CW at Surrey quays and they said 449 ...
Please post if you find any CW selling @419 in London

I'll never buy another Google phone again. The only company I know of which fails to recall faulty products. Paid £280 last year for a phone only to have it get stuck in a boot loop due to a manufacturing error 14 months later (2 months after the warranty expired). Checked online and everybody else was saying the same thing

Every single review I've read says the Pixel XL camera is right up there with the best, some even say it is still the best camera on a phone. What experience do you have to say this isn't the case ?

Tempted but a usb-c port means spending an extra £20 on 5 new hopefully decent leads and frustration when I forget one of them, like the 5 mascaras but no toothbrush situation I often find myself in. Plus no micro SD slot, cue more money.

Literally such a good deal, Shane I brought one for £449 like 2 days ago haha

I still have my Nexus 4 that I ordered from the Google Play store via HUKD just over 4 years ago and it's still an amazing phone for the £160 I paid. I'd love to upgrade to the Google Pixel but the price is still quite high for what I would pay for a phone.

Well, if you can get a beautiful phone with a great camera for the same money as an ugly phone with a great camera which one you'll get?

Its great price considering they were too expensive when released

actually i managed to got it cheaper on ebay but still sold it as dont like overall experience that i was getting from Samsung phones i.e SD card option, mircacast support to connect with TV and connect with laptop via SideSync, real water proofing etc. I was disappointed with ear piece sound as well and speaker is worse than 6p but battery life is excellent

If you just want to get this for camera/stock experience then even camera of nexus 5X/6p is great. I have taken pics from nexus 5x and Pixel XL and there was no difference in quality when compared it side by side ..camera of last nexus devices are very underrated and only those who own boht can see that these camera are comparable in still photography

Just to add my personal experience with Carphone Warehouse and Google Pixel.

I was really excited to get my Pixel as it was a phone I'd been after for a long time, however when I finally got it the screen had a terrible pink hue to it. Aftercare was good, I was able to return it to store (purchased online) for an exchange of a "new" phone, however the next had a washed out screen where whites weren't white. I went back again where the store manager offered to let me open all the Pixel's he had in stock (5) to find one I was happy with - I didn't want to waste my time and actually led to me believe that a lot of the phones Carphone Warehouse sell as "new" are actually returns or refurbished. I ended up returning the phone and had to cancel the contract that came with it - the return was a whole other story, I had to print out the page from the website to prove I was allowed to return it to store.

You might get lucky and get a good phone, but I suspect a lot of these being flogged off cheap are seconds or returns/refurbs - just check out the reviews for the Pixel on the Carphone Warehouse website a lot of them appear to have QC issues - it's not a coincidence.

I'm still using my Nexus 5x (no bootloop issue yet) and the whole experience has put me off "risking" getting a new phone.

Like I say, just my experience and I'm sure many others have had nothing but success with Carphone.

Only another £250 to go and I might bite :grin:

Is this the best Fuchsia OS compatible phone at the mo?

That was straight from the OnePlus website.


oneplus.net/uk/…-in

Long* in the tooth.

Sorry.

I didn't buy one but they are £419 in the Plymouth CPW

This or one plus?

Summer

Great if you like a vintage looking phone design.

Not my cup of tea just for that reason alone. Its gotta look good just as well as perform good.

This is a good deal in theory, but based on the comments here it looks like it's store specific.

Best camera on the market in terms of picture quality and very well working phone. Not my cup of tea, as it's expensive and I don't like the way it looks, but definitely a hot deal.

Still rocking a nexus 4. :muscle:

£449.99 in three of the stores I visited. Where can I find it for £419?

I've always thought of you as a real brother...

I guess this is the end!

shame its not online :disappointed:

Bought one last Friday for £449 in store... :cry:

Can I go back to the store and ask for price match? In just two days after all...

Not that cool, not a story, and I'm not your brother as far as I'm aware (except in the philosophical brotherhood of man sense) :grin:

£110* cheaper.

I think the s8 is currently 533

Cool story bro.

I've just bought the pixel not the x as I wanted 128gb not 32gb (and couldn't afford the xl 128) If you can live with 32gb it's a fantastic phone. Now on oreo which is beautifully fast. Camera is amazing, still the best on the market. £250 cheaper than a S8

£449 at my two local stores as well.

Can anyone else confirm they got it at £419? Thanks

Using one now. Best phone I've ever used. And I used to be an Apple fan.

Got Oreo today which surprisingly has some great additions.

Sony phones are rubbish, don't be fooled. Camera especially are really inconsistent, MP doesn't mean anything.

...or maybe you got it wrong?
dxomark.com/Mob…top

Well if the last 3 Moto phones I had (plus my wife's G5) are anything to go by, that's not anything to celebrate. Lenovo seem to be responsible for a noticeable drop in hardware quality and increase in bugginess on their watch. My G5 Plus is likely to be my last Moto phones (and I have had a G1, G2, X Play, G4 Plus and now the G5 Plus).

Shame other companies aren't realising stock is actually an advantage, not a drawback.

Just load the Google Now launcher to side-step Touchwiz....or don't buy Samsung and save yourself some money :smile:

Honor 9.

contact goo
need to contact google for replacement.

Lenovo will be doing stock android phones soon.

My battery after 8 months is almost dead. Its charging only slowly for 5 hours to get 100%. If you're recording video more then 15sec camera application is crushing. Also when you snap the picture you need a wait a bit of time to get the shoot.

Great deal. Wish this offer was available when I bought the S8. Heat added

The bezels are fine imo, the stereo speakers make up for it. I find the curved displays of Samsung pretty uncomfortable. The LG G6 is available for around 400 if you'd like but bootlooping issues are their forté...

I had the phone for a year and enjoyed my time with it. There's an SD slot and apps can be moved onto it. The camera was pretty good, if you've got a steady hand night shots look great.

For 320 I doubt you could do much better, especially since you get warranty/peace of mind.

Just running it at stock, they stopped updating the software ages ago and it does run a little slow sometimes but it's nothing I can't put up with for a few more months .

My only major problem is that the screen on time is appalling, which is to be expected with a 3 year old phone.

Not set in stone about getting the Pixel 2 but will decide once it's been released and weigh up my options then

Went to two stores in Southend. One said they couldn't get the Pixel Xl, the one in Currys said £449

£449 in my local store too...

Let us know how you get on!

If it's confirmed in other stores that's it's £419 I'm having one. Head added!

I bought a Nexus 6P the day it was released for about £449 from what I recall. It's now a 2 year old device and software-wise runs practically the same as the day I got it with the only thing that's become worse being the battery life.

The 6P was massively ahead of the game in terms of software. I'm pretty sure I was running Android 8 beta on it about 5 months or so ago, which is laughable considering how phones like the Note 8 or S8 are barely even on Android 7.1.

Every single Nexus phone I've had has been great (4,5,6P) and the only things that have let them down have been battery life and camera (until the 6P had a good one) and lasted multiple years whilst still never becoming sluggish or incapable.

Im highly tempted to buy this since I know full well the Pixel 2 will no doubt be an £800 odd phone, and I don't want an iPhone/Samsung. The original Pixel would still easily provide two great years of use for £449.

I thought the 32gb would be a bad choice that I'd regret on my 6P but two years later I still have 7gb free. With Google backing up photos and stuff, there's barely anything I even store on the phone. The days of me being interested in the novelty of apps and games is long gone and mostly everything I want is streamed through 3 mobiles unlimited 4G for £25pm so I'm finding less and less need to even have large storage capacity.

Thanks, I'll go down look-see , phone call to a store in Skipton said £449!!

In my local store it came up as £419

Just been told it's £449 in store?

Not sure why this is seen as a hot deal. Better off getting a OnePlus 5 for little more. Camera on this phone is overrated. Pretty basic really.

​I am really tempted, but I would need 64gb bare minimum.

Also not too keen on the massive bezels on this phone even though I'm worried having an edge to edge display with my 8 year old twins using my phone occasionally (as well as me taking it out in nights out with a few sherbets :grin: ).

The major manufacturers provide updates for two years on android.

After that, it seems as though custom ROMs are the way forward.

Wouldn't trust Chinese phones for updates though... Huawei might be decent.

That might be 3 years from release, but if I buy it now it's barely more than 2 years - for a £400 device that's pretty awful. Unfortunately other manufacturers seem to be even worse.

Look at this on eBay ebay.co.uk/itm…688

Neither.
This has hardware issues and the one plus, software.

64gb internal memory + expandable should be the norm for flagship android phones.

Charging £100 for 32gb more storage is reserved for apple :grin:

449 in my local store

Poor storage amount - no amount of 'cloud' can replace physical storage.

I wouldn't purchase it.

This or newer Oneplus 5 6gb, 64gb?

okay then show me phone with same specs brand new for £300. or a phone with better specs for <£420.
genuinely interested as i'm in the market for an upgrade/sidegrade to my oneplus 3 as i don't like their version of android it's messing up nest as well as some other apps

You running the GPE ROM on it? Arguable a great Nexus phone because you can use adaptive storage too!

Does anyone really care what your phone looks like nowadays, you generally put in a case anyway, I'd rather it perform and have a good camera than worry about it having that smoother edge

Makes no sense to spend that much on a 1 year old ugly phone.

I presume everyone that doesn't think this is good value for money don't care about security updates? My HTC one stopped getting security patches after less than 18 months (I won't be buying another HTC phone for that reason alone). This phone is guaranteed monthly patches until October 2019 - 3 years after release. Not as good as apple but better than any other android manufacturer. Updates for the oneplus phones are a bit of an unknown quantity which is why I think this is a better deal if you are not confident installing custom ROMs.

Going to wait to see what the Pixel 2 brings, but I'm also very tempted to go with the new LG V30, I listen to a lot of music so having the quad DAC on board will be a deal breaker for me, it even includes B&O earphones

I went into a CPW store before I bought my new phone & asked about the Pixel. He said they had over stocked on them thinking people would buy them, they apparently sent the majority of the stock back. Once the reductions came they are selling but stocks are low. Could be BS but sounds about right to me. Sub £350 I may bite.

Can't see why this is considered value for money.

New Pixel 2 out 5th October

techradar.com/new…l-2

Too bad the OP5 is the same price but completely destroys the crappy Pixel XL (Even the 3T is cheaper and better)

This or a OP 5?

I have a OP 3 at the moment, which is still more than good enough for what I do, but I was going to give that to the Mrs as her phone has just died.

Looks like a good deal. I've been loyal to iPhone and iOS for 10 years and may jump ship on 12/09/17 if iPhone is £1000

Main one on my radar is the Huawei Note 9 approx £375 amazon prime.

There is a youtube video on how to make android look like iOS in 10 steps, quite impressed if it works.

£1000 for a phone is getting silly, retina MacBook pro 128GB 2015 costco is £1025, great machine.

Personally still holding out until Pixel 2 is announced , all depends on the price as I thought this launched at a ridiculously high one, would really like pure android experience though.

Still using my HTC one m8 which I've had for nearly 3 years now , cost me about £500 at the time but considering how much I use it and how long it's lasted it's been worth it

Do i get this or the s8 pus for 619 at giffgaff. Im really not sure how far touchwiz has come and that was the main concern for me. The s8 wins in design, waterproofing, sd card, camera is similar but is it all worth it if the phone is gonna lag like all my previous samsung phones? Someone help me please.

Cash back on quidco £10 or topcashback

Ooo this is good deal. If I didn't have iPhone 7 plus, I would certainly be popping in tomorrow. No bloatware, fast update, should remain a fast phone for a few years I think.

Hope this stays for a week or two. Will see what Apple iPhone 8 announcement is and if nothing spectacular may go for this.

Bargain!
About the price they should have been.

There must be a new Google phone incoming with all these price drops

Getting cheaper as the Pixel 2 is just around the corner! Great phone but I went back to Samsung.

Pixel 2 coming soon, I hear. If I'm sticking to a budget, I'd go with a Moto. If not, I'd wait it out. £450 is too much money for year-old mobile tech, that will no longer be current in a month or two.

It's 449 online?

Hot

Getting there! :smile: