subject: Sim Free Mobile Phones Versus Contract Phones Both Have Their Unique Set Of Features [print this page] These days there is a raging debate in the UK mobile phone market place as to which is the better option SIM free mobile phones or the contract phones. Well, suffice it to say that both carry their distinct advantages and the not so good features.
SIM free mobile phones bring to the buyers only the new mobile phone handset and nothing else. Not even the network SIM connction is given under this arrangement. In msot cases, the SIM free mobile phones carry price tags that are believed to be closer to the actual value of the new smartphone device in question. While the contract phones make the buyers sign in to one year, 18 months and 24 months contract plans that require the buyer to pay montly a relatively low usm and continue paying til the time the conrtract period in not over. And both the SIM free phones and the contract phones bring their own set of benefits and conditons that are unique to them.
To begin with let us consider how much the buyer has to pay for say a new Samsugn Galaxy S smartphone device. Well, you have to pay around 450 as the SIM free price for this flagship phone device from the South Korean mobile phone handset. The payment is done upfront and is one time. Once you have paid the quoted price of the new handset the phone device is all yours for good.
On the other hand, a typical contract phone deals will get the new Samsung Galaxy S device for say a 24 months, 40 per month contract plan. Now, the total money that you will be required to pay under this carrier deal will work out to much more than what you have paid for the same device SIM free. But the advantage with the contract phone arrrnagements lies in the fact that you are required to pay only below 50 per month and that too for the maximum period of 24 months.
The sther feature of the SIM free deals that is not possible with the contract phones is the fact that you can change the network service provider any time at all. Now this is certainly not possible in the case of the contract phones wherein you will be tied to the network service provider till the time the contract period is not over.
We, therefore, see that both the SIM free phones and the contract phones have their respective positives and certain restrictinos as well.
