Very happy with new deal-Samsung Galaxy S2
 

For some time now I've been fed up with Windows 6.5 on my HTC HD2 and have been wanting to change my phone but it's been a long wait for my £30 contract to expire at the end of January 2012.

So I was very suprised to get a call from Virgin mobile offering me a downgrade on my tarriff and a new phone.

So tomorrow I will be having a Samsung Galaxy S2 delivered on what the advisor said is an offer for today only for £22.95,300 mins,Unlimited texts and 1gb data. I'm quite chuffed with this offer as it is £40.99 on the Virgin Media website.

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I want a call

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If you fancy a play you can install various versions of Gingerbread Android on the HTC HD2 very easily . It can also run Windows phone 7. So once you are happy with the SGII it might be worth having a play :-) The HTC HD2 is one of the best most versatile smartphones ever released :)

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My contract is up on Feb 14th 2012 and I have been told I cant upgrade yet.

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I got the same deal last week and am loving the phone

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Whats the internal memory of this phone Ben.

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Was your phone at the end of its contract and if so how long before it was up did they offer you it.

Im torn between the SII and the iphone. SII is winning at the minute as the mrs and other family members are on virgin, free calls from the house phone too and the fact that the SII can play .mkv and .avi files. Records in 1080p too and the camera is 8MP, to match it I would have to get the iphone 4S and we all know its alot more expensive.

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I was out of contract. I got it by just walking into one of the shops. It's an offer available to any customer with XL landline phone package (who hasn't already taken the £8 mobile discount already). If you are on M or L phone you get £5 off so can get it for £25.99

Had planned to keep my Desire and downgrade to a SIM only tariff until after the Android 4.0 launch event but got impatient ;)

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As a bit of a "thickie" where mobiles are concerned, how do you get all the stuff (pictures, music, videos etc) transferred to your new phone?:dunce: oh, and the email settings!

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just got the deal as well as,along with 100meg broadband.movies and sports.xmas as come early thankyou vm. !!!!!!!!

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Sorry, only just saw this post. It's 16GB with the ability to add another 32GB via an micro-SD card

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I have also got the same £22.99 deal and think it is great value for money. The phone is awesome! I previously had the Nokia N900 which I did like a lot but this thing is brilliant!

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All you need to know should be in the user manual that did not come with the phone

http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/co...615_Screen.pdf

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does anyone know if wifi is free with this tariff

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Virgin don't do any inclusive WiFi on any tariff

You get 1GB worth of internet with the £22.99 deal thought (and can upgrade to 5GB for an extra £5 a month if you want)

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WiFi is always free, If you connect your phone to your home network via wifi then any data transfered does not count against your 1gb, If you connect to a open hot spot eg McDonalds then thats free wifi.

The only way wifi would cost is if you're using a hotel hotspot for example where you pay for access eg-£2 for 4 hours.

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Or any of the so-called open wifis, such as The Cloud, etc.

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Ben,does this mean i could get a Galaxy S II for £22.99 a month even if i don't have a mobile with vm? but i am on VIP 100

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Should be able to, yes.

If you did you'd also get the 3 month Spotify offer Virgin are now doing for Mobile customers

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Thanks fot that.Got the 12 month offer :) when VM was doing it.

Is Spotify unlimited streaming on VM mobile for the 24 month contract?

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Called up to complain about getting charged for data, got a phone call back offering early upgrade. Got a galaxyns2 also. Idea was to sell it and use my 3GS or get an iphone4 but starting to get attached to it. All the apps I use are there, it's faster, thinner and has a better screen.

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hope they have this deal or better in jan as theyve put it up to 31.99, sorry but out of my budget specially with 2 contracts at 22.50 already on 18 months.

I feel they put it up to include spotify which im.not intrested in at all, lets seem come 27th jan 2012

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It's actually £27.99 with the same Media customer reduction

You can still get it on the £22.99 deal but there is a handset cost of £99.99

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Thats an ouch as 2 x 99 quid when.u can get ut cheaper else where but ill haggle on renewal day, hope it wont come to that.

What htc phone is coming to replace the htc cha cha and htc desire as i was told there not foing them soon as i asked about the htc sensation but not on.new stock.list i can get that for 25 same allowance etc on vodafone plus 2 x quidco cashbacks.

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Nothing on the 'Coming Soon' list for any new HTCs as of yet. Probably won't find out now till the New Year

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I have had my Samsung Galaxy for the past 6 weeks or so and love it BUT I am unable to receive or send MMS and Picture Messages.

Having reported this as a problem on the 31 October I am still waiting for the techies to get back to me. I have mailed them twice as a reminder and all I get it an auto generate e-mail saying that they may take up to 5 days to get back to me.

When I reported via the 789 help line the lady I spoke to was extremely helpful but even with all the suggestions she couldn't resolve it so asked me to stay on the line and wait for one of the techies to speak to me. 45 minutes later I gave up.

Very disappointed with this support. Up until now Virgin has been very good but since I had to pay to update my phone to the Galaxy, because my contract had another year to run, I am not happy that this phone cannot do what my old phone was able to do.

I am not sure if this is a problem with the phone or the mobile networrk. I do get texts telling me to go to the Virgin Mobile message site but that too is now down so still cannot access the picture or MMS messages.

An additional problem is that I have a specific notification sound set up for my texts and that doesn't work either. Now I think that is related to the phone.

WOW - within seconds of my posting the above I got a call from Virgin who immediately put me in contact with a techie and all is now sorted. In case anyone else has the same problem - check to see that your Package Data (Menu, Applications, Setting, Wireless and Network, Mobile Networks .

Thank you Virgin techies I am now a happy bunny

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I dont like my Galaxy S2 its 3 months old anyone want to buy it? :) i brought an iphone 4s, i guess ill put the S2 on ebay or take it to my local phone shop!

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Ice cream sandwiches all round folks!!!

http://www.electricpig.co.uk/2011/12...rch-confirmed/

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Excellent news as l have just bought my SG2.

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when will virgin allow it though????

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Do virgin need to allow it as the S2 is not locked to the virgin network .

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Virgin will have to test it before rolling it out.

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If another network released it before virgin could you not use the other networks sim and upgrade through them.

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I think it's related to an imie number etc, I've been told you can use Odin but looks too dangerous, I'm used to lime rain etc from apple which was much easier

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Thanks for info, so even though phone is not locked to the virgin network if i say gave it to my son who is with O2 to he would have to upgrade to ICS through virgin.

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He wouldn't have to upgrade through Virgin, it would be done either via KIES or a update via the option on the phone itself

However it wouldn't happen until Virgin approved the update for the phones they have sold

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Do virgin allow updates?

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Of course they do.

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Why am I still on 2.3.4? What's other virgin s2 owners on?

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2.3.4

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Zzzzzzzzzz c'mon virgin!

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Mine upgraded to 2.3.4 a couple of weeks ago, just after Samsung released 2.3.6. Which would need testing through VM before releasing. That may not happen though as VM may go straight to testing ICS as that's due out in Q1 2012.

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I see the Samsung Galaxy S2 is no longer available on Virgin. A mate at work is gutted as his contract is coming to an end and he was going to get it.

Galaxy W and Ace are on there though.

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Back january

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Is why I hate carrier approved updates complete with unnecessary bloatware and go for a pure Google/Android experience every time.

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It's only unavailable as its out of stock. Back in January.

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What is the best deal I'm likely to get on a Galaxy s2 at the moment please. Not currently a Virgin mobile customer, but we do have Virgin Media accounts both for home AND for the business.

I've had a look at the published tariffs, Do Virgin mobile negotiate deals, or are the tariffs fixed?

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Customer deals can be seen via this page http://shop.virginmedia.com/existing...hly-offer.html

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I got offered a £20.99 tariff for £17.99 without even asking for a deal, so it looks like they have some ability to entice you.

Cheers

Grim

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Ive got two issues with this phone echo and rebooting anyone else gave them.

Echo is where youre on a call and u can hear own voice second phone randomly reboots when wifi or maybe sdcard in use.

Samsung claimed issued fixed in 2.4.5 and 2.4.6 but virgin havent released either if these updates on researching more neither these updates address the random rebooting and now samsung claim 4.0 address both issues out march.

But i have no faith in virgin will release these updates and wont be stuck with a second replacement phone after reporting this to customer services on 5th day as u have 14 days to return so ive done my bit im waiting for update a call back im now on 9th day if it goes passed 14 tough ive reported my issue on 5th day of owning it.

If no joy its going back ill either ask for loan phone till they sort these issues out that samsung are fobbing me off with fixed in update after update sorry not buying it.

Ive sent msg to vm twitter team to vm facebook to contact at ceo team.....when wed comes ive thrown in towel and change phone to htc sensation or move provider that has the current update on the s2 see if its fixed on that.

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Samsung have announced that Ice Cream Sandwich will arrive on March 15........My birthday!!!

http://crave.cnet.co.uk/mobiles/sams...arch-50007230/