subject: SIM free mobile phones- Finding more and more Customers [print this page] SIM free mobile phones- Finding more and more Customers
While it is true that the contract phones are the mainstay in the overall sales of mobile phone handsets in the UK, increasingly users are discovering that SIM free mobile phone have their own unique little charm. Besides, offering good value for money, Sim free phones are also of late coming with incentives such as free gifts in the form of laptops, notebooks, 32 inch television sets, digital cameras, playstations, nintendo wiis, and so on. What is more you pay one time upfront for these handsets. Most valued customers are relieved to find that they have to pay only once upfront and the mobile phone handset is all theirs. They can pick and choose the colour model as well. The contract plans generally sell only one particular colour variant of a particular mobile phone device under a specific plan. Also, sums like 25 to 45 may seem as very paltry in the beginning few months. But say under a 24 month long contract deal, the same figure is bound to start pinching your pocket the moment one or the other financial crunch strikes.
The other major advantage that the SIM free mobile phones extend is the freedom to break free from a particular network service provider and shift to a new one any time at all. The handset is, in any case yours totally from the moment you have made the entire payment for the device to the dealer. This facility is simply not there in the contract plans where you are bound to the same network carrier for the entire plan period. Even price wise, if you calculate the say the payment of 25 per month for a period of 24 months it comes to 600 when totalled. Now, this is more than the SIM free cost of most mobile phone handsets including Blackberries. The Apple iPhone 4.0 32 GB comes for 499. Though, admittedly the sums are spread over small monthly instalments. This way also, the SIM free phones come across as more reasonably priced offers.
