Cheapest Smartphone

[ronaldo0]

Get him a Lenovo pad . Was only a few thousand as far as I remember on lazada and pretty decent . Or you will get cheap phone on lazada but be careful as some of the better names are sim locked to ais etc and you can’t unlock them . I got a cheap Motorola and didn’t notice was locked to true sim. Tried to get it locked in several of usual places and not one could do it , said the company had new way to lock it and if I wanted it unlocked it would cost few thousand to get it done. 

[rbkk]

Oppo A53 for 1824baht upfront  payment  and 499p/month contract (sim-locked AIS) at Telewiz. Regular price around 5499 baht. I got this 2 days ago for my 10 years old son. 4GB Ram/64GB ROM and a 90 hz refresh rate with stereo speakers. 5000mAh battery with fast charge (1-100% took 2 hours 10 minutes, 53% in 60 minutes) Very happy, but now the teenage daughter wants her Vivo 7+ upgraded! (FYI = Work permit was at first asked for but after a phone call they relented and accepted my Yellow Book which shows my Thai ID number.) It's even cheaper at the AIS online store. https://store.ais.co.th/th/mobile-phone/oppo/oppo-a53-cdm-sim-lock-4-64gb.html  Siamphone customers rank it at #7, above the iPhone 12 Max!

[Eindhoven]

On 12/8/2020 at 5:57 AM, rbkk said:

Oppo A53 for 1824baht upfront  payment  and 499p/month contract (sim-locked AIS) at Telewiz. Regular price around 5499 baht. I got this 2 days ago for my 10 years old son. 4GB Ram/64GB ROM and a 90 hz refresh rate with stereo speakers. 5000mAh battery with fast charge (1-100% took 2 hours 10 minutes, 53% in 60 minutes) Very happy, but now the teenage daughter wants her Vivo 7+ upgraded! (FYI = Work permit was at first asked for but after a phone call they relented and accepted my Yellow Book which shows my Thai ID number.) It's even cheaper at the AIS online store. https://store.ais.co.th/th/mobile-phone/oppo/oppo-a53-cdm-sim-lock-4-64gb.html  Siamphone customers rank it at #7, above the iPhone 12 Max!

 

A bit confused as to what you have done here.

 

Is it 1824 baht upfront payment and then nothing more to pay for the phone and then 499 baht per month for the SIM package of 10 GB per month or 1824 baht downpayment and then 300 baht per month for 12 months plus 499 baht for the SIM pack?

 

Either way, both are poor value. Cheapest possible being 7812 baht(1824 + 5988); otherwise a whopping 11,412 baht (5424 + 5988) over 12 months. That is.....very poor value, especially for a SIM-locked phone.

Too late to cancel now?

 

 

Better to buy the phone outright for around 5000 baht or less not locked to any network, then to pair it with an annual unlimited data SIM with unlimited calls to all networks included for 2000 baht or less.

 

Then for 7000 baht max you have a phone that you can use with any network with unlimited data and calls, as opposed to a measly 10 GB and a limited amount of calls per month.

 

[rbkk]

Scroll down to Oppo A53. I got the Fixed Speed 555 deal shown in red. https://www.hotdeal.ais.co.th/en/index.html? But there is now a free option at Dtac Online along with the Vivo Y20 and the Realme C17. https://dtaconline.dtac.co.th/smartphones-tablets.html, My son and I are happy with his present for scoring GPA 3.96 in his exams. Walking past the store yesterday they have sold out of that model.

[rbkk]

13 hours ago, Eindhoven said:

 

A bit confused as to what you have done here.

 

Is it 1824 baht upfront payment and then nothing more to pay for the phone and then 499 baht per month for the SIM package of 10 GB per month or 1824 baht downpayment and then 300 baht per month for 12 months plus 499 baht for the SIM pack?

 

Either way, both are poor value. Cheapest possible being 7812 baht(1824 + 5988); otherwise a whopping 11,412 baht (5424 + 5988) over 12 months. That is.....very poor value, especially for a SIM-locked phone.

Too late to cancel now?

 

 

Better to buy the phone outright for around 5000 baht or less not locked to any network, then to pair it with an annual unlimited data SIM with unlimited calls to all networks included for 2000 baht or less.

 

Then for 7000 baht max you have a phone that you can use with any network with unlimited data and calls, as opposed to a measly 10 GB and a limited amount of calls per month.

 

 

[Eindhoven]

10 hours ago, rbkk said:

 

 

Did you plan to write something here??

[Eindhoven]

10 hours ago, rbkk said:

Scroll down to Oppo A53. I got the Fixed Speed 555 deal shown in red. https://www.hotdeal.ais.co.th/en/index.html? But there is now a free option at Dtac Online along with the Vivo Y20 and the Realme C17. https://dtaconline.dtac.co.th/smartphones-tablets.html, My son and I are happy with his present for scoring GPA 3.96 in his exams. Walking past the store yesterday they have sold out of that model.

 

 

So 555 baht x 12 equalling 6,660 baht plus 1,289 baht. 7,949 baht in total?  If so, almost comparable with buying separately, but not quite.

The unlocked phone and unlimited free calls to all networks being the biggest differences.

 

https://www.lazada.co.th/products/ais-8-mbps-1-i1494420639-s3940894519.html

https://www.lazada.co.th/products/ais-1-4g-8mbps-i556522165-s1019344298.html

 

 

https://www.lazada.co.th/products/sim-dtac-10mbps-1-12-a-lot-tech-i882116731-s1775722245.html DTAC only 1320 baht, though only free DTAC calls

 

An alternative if anyone else is looking a similar deal.

Unlocked phones are  preferable to network locked phones. Of course if you cannot afford to buy the phone outright, the network's package isn't too bad. But if you can, then buy a not locked down phone in the first instance and the SIM pack separately.

 

 

 

[rbkk]

1 hour ago, Eindhoven said:

 

 

So 555 baht x 12 equalling 6,660 baht plus 1,289 baht. 7,949 baht in total?  If so, almost comparable with buying separately, but not quite.

The unlocked phone and unlimited free calls to all networks being the biggest differences.

 

https://www.lazada.co.th/products/ais-8-mbps-1-i1494420639-s3940894519.html

https://www.lazada.co.th/products/ais-1-4g-8mbps-i556522165-s1019344298.html

 

 

https://www.lazada.co.th/products/sim-dtac-10mbps-1-12-a-lot-tech-i882116731-s1775722245.html DTAC only 1320 baht, though only free DTAC calls

 

An alternative if anyone else is looking a similar deal.

Unlocked phones are  preferable to network locked phones. Of course if you cannot afford to buy the phone outright, the network's package isn't too bad. But if you can, then buy a not locked down phone in the first instance and the SIM pack separately.

 

 

 

The 500 advance payment is to be refunded over 10 months at 50 baht a month :)..........! What you seem to be missing is the "value" of seeing joy and excitement across your childs face as you leave a retail store with his first phone clasped in his hand........priceless, and for everlasting. I also did similar with my elder daughter and will do so again before her birthday at the end of the month.

[Eindhoven]

4 hours ago, rbkk said:

The 500 advance payment is to be refunded over 10 months at 50 baht a month :)..........! What you seem to be missing is the "value" of seeing joy and excitement across your childs face as you leave a retail store with his first phone clasped in his hand........priceless, and for everlasting. I also did similar with my elder daughter and will do so again before her birthday at the end of the month.

 

I'm not missing that at all. Nor am I criticising your choices. I have no idea as to whether you can afford to buy the phone outright; so I certainly would not make presumptions.

 

My posts are in reply to your posts apparently recommending the package. I simply illustrated alternative ways to get the phone that you recommended, along with a similar SIM pack.

It's clearly a compliment to your post.

 

Your son would have been equally happy; so no need to even enter that into the equation. ????

 

 

[Will27]

At 4500 Baht, this Xiaomi Poco M3 has pretty good reviews.

 

https://www.lazada.co.th/shop/xiaomi/?laz_trackid=2:mm_150551077_51902649_2010952691:clkgg20s21eps767hfr73q&mkttid=clkgg20s21eps767hfr73q

Edited December 19, 2020 by Will27