Sign value strikes again.
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Anyone swapped from a 6â7 phone to a 6â1 phone?
Or any pics of the two side by side?
Still pondering on iPhone, but not sure if iPhone 14, or go bigger with iPhone 14 Plus? 
Not surprised at all by the results.
When I was younger there were always jokes about being on giffgaff or Lyca Mobile.
Nowadays I donât even care as long as Iâm saving money.
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I actually get this. For some reason I wouldnât like to say Iâm on Lyca or Tesco mobile. And itâs purely internal prejudice about how it âappearsâ I canât afford a ârealâ network.
I never thought about it though.
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I did Pixel 7 pro to S22.
Will never go back the bigger phones are horrible to hold, horrible to use one handed. Bizarrely it was the fact WhatsApp has an android tablet app that sealed it as I could then do everything on my tablet at home and put the phone down so my phone became the portable outside of house only.
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Donât have any side to side pics, but I regret getting the 14 Pro Max. The iPhone 12 was so much easier to hold.
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Iâd be conscious it wouldnât be big enough, I quite like my 6 Pro, think itâs the same size as the 7 Pro.
Probs pay off for me to actually look at one in a shop and hold it.
It was that for me⌠just had a thing about Tesco mobile not being a ârealâ network.
Might have been due to working in a phone shop for a year 
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This could change things, ofcourse if it ever gets approved
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I wonder whatâll happen with branding, would be interesting to see if theyâll come up with a new brand like EE did when T-Mobile/Orange merged or if theyâll just phase out the Three brand
I did think that but then I remembered theyâre phasing out Virgin Mobile, a two brand strategy for them really only works because there wonât be any overlap. O2 will be mobile, and VM will just be broadband/TV/landline
I miss Orange.
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Me too. I get a reminder about it when I go to Spain and still see the branded Orange shops. And when my phone connects to Orange.
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I donât think itâs very well publicised. If you go to sign up for a new plan thereâs a little notice near the bottom of the page that says âVirgin Media and O2 have joined forces so, at some point soon, youâll be moving from a Virgin Mobile plan to an equivalent O2 planâ. No clue why theyâre still taking new VMob orders only to move people over later.
People might know this but you can stack the discounts between BT/EE if you are customer of both.
So I have a cheap sim only for my dad on EE that costs me ÂŁ5 a month.
I bought a new sim from BT which gave me 100gb of data for ÂŁ15 but you get a 10% discount as a BT customer. The Sims are all EE sims now. Then because I am an EE customer I get another 20% off the sim because itâs the second one.
The trick is if you select the BT sim - sign up for it like you are a new customer and then they will add it to your existing EE account.
100gb for ÂŁ15 isnât bad for EE.
Even better when itâs ÂŁ10 because of the stacked discounts!
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It is on a 24 month contract⌠plus the yearly increase is on the pre-discounted price
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Generally find itâs cheaper in the long term to buy the phone outright and pay for a cheaper sim. It is a big outlay but in the long run it works out cheaper and reading this i am not surprised why
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Yet o2 still only allow their ârefreshâ plans only on their website. So if you get a phone contract via a comparison site, youâll be over paying after the term is over.
Think o2 needs a mirror.
Should add, Iâve not read the article at all.