Tuesday 28 June 2011

Contract Phones - The Eternal Favourite

You may say anything to the contrary, but somehow the lure of getting a new smartphone for free under an easy priced contract phone plans is always irresistible. The development that all network service providers will have to introduce a few 12 months contract is going to benefit buyers, at least in the initial few years, all across the UK mobile phone market place.

We are saying here, at least in the few initial months, as with the reduction in the number of contract months the prices of the individual contract plans is bound to increase only. The network carrier T-Mobile has already gone ahead and released some six monthly plans for some of the smartphones that it is selling here.

Apart from the new handset like say the Apple iPhone 4.0, or the Samsung Galaxy SII or the HTC Sensation for that matter, all will be offered for free, the fact that you stand to avail of so many incentives along with it also matter a lot to buyes. The additional attractions include – free calling minutes, free texts, free data internet data download, free network connection or waiver of some bit of line rentals, money back guarantees, and to top it all, the offer of a free gift or two along with the new mobile phone being bought.

It can be safely stated here that more than any other mobile phone deal, it is the contract phone deal that has managed to render all phones across models and makes priced, by and large, similarly. Thus, you have a situation wherein, the Apple iPhone 4.0, the Samsung Nexus S, the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10, HTC Incredible S, the LG Optimus 2X, the Motorola Milestone 2 all are, more or less, uniformly priced.

While updated statistics on the share of Contract Phones in the overall total mobile phone sales that is happening here is not known, it is reliably learnt from the mobile phone retailers and the network service carriers that it is the contract phones that form a substantial part of their total sales. Despite changing requirements, and market situations, etc, the popularity of the contract phones does not seem to be fading away. On the contract, with the release of newer and newer next generation smartphones it actually seems to be increasing only.

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