Just BOUGHT a pair of Skypephones!

Dec 17, 2007 at 8:05 PM
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It's been such a long time since I actually bought a handset - you know, with money, in a shop... Today I bought two!

It's no secret that I do a bit of research and comparison shopping before I purchase anything. If I can save a couple of quid* just by going to a different shop just down the street I will. With that in mind, I'd heard that Carphone Warehouse (the well know UK chain that's neither a warehouse nor seller of carphones) were selling a pair of Skypephones on PAYG for £85. Thanks 3mobilebuzz for bringing Chris Green's post about this to my attention.

I knew 3's own shops had them as a pair priced a whole fiver more so I figured I'd try CPW (that's short for Carphone Warehouse don't you know?!) first. I had to wait ages to talk to anyone as they only had two staff and many customers (one fairly angry FWIW). I eventually got to speak to one of their surly staff only to be told that they weren't in stock. That's a real bugbear of mine and something that's annoyed me a couple of times this holiday season. IMHO shops that have queues at the till and no members of staff on the shop floor should at the very least have signs saying that they haven't got Wiis, DSes or Skypephone's in stock. Would save a lot of time and effort!

Good job the 3Store was only around the corner. They had them in stock and only had one customer, me! That's probably not such a good thing for them but it certainly was for me. Friendly staff (they always are, what do they put in the water?) and free wrapping paper and lollies - almost worth an extra £5!

The guy who served me had no idea that CPW were now selling Skypephones and couldn't get over the fact that they were cheaper there. Of course my angle was getting them to price match, but then I'm always cheeky like that in shops and it does occasionally work... just not in this case!

Back to the phones themselves... hopefully they'll be appreciated by their recipients at Xmas and hopefully they don't read this blog!

* Slang for £s for those who are neither British nor anglophiles!

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I wonder if you can get recommend a friend fee for 3PAYG, as I have explained the new 3Skypephones to several people now and they have all bought these for the kids for Christmas.

At the very least you should be able to keep the demo pair! ;o) Sam and Matt at 3mobilebuzz, what'd ya reckon?

Glad to see you've invested your own money to join the Skypephone army. These really are the most fantastic phones going at the moment, even before you take into account how cheap the PAYG price is.

Enjoy it, use it until you can't use it any more and make sure the person you give the other one to enjoys this outstanding phone.

Neither of these two phones are for me, they're going to be given as a pair to a young couple I know for Xmas. I've got two demo Skypephones though and use my one daily.

I couldn't live with one as my only phone though as I love a whole bunch of Nokia apps so much (Maps, Sports Tracker, Internet Radio) and 3rd party apps like Slingplayer and TomTom.

Roll on the next incarnation of Skypephone!