$69 Huawei Ascend Y300 Telstra Pre-Paid Mobile When Buy $30 Recharge @ Target

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  BlazinPast on 09/10/2013 - 04:01

  +1

  I got this for $79 a few months ago (managed to get $20 off at Dick Smith), so feel free to ask any questions. One thing for sure is that you won't find a better phone at this price range.

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    ruraro on 09/10/2013 - 04:10

    How would I get $20 off the normal $99 price at DSE?

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      BlazinPast on 09/10/2013 - 04:17

      It was a promotion back then, so it won't work now.

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        BH1 on 09/10/2013 - 05:01

        Dohhh!

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    Geewhizz on 09/10/2013 - 06:57

    What sim card does it take please BlazinPast?

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      CatmanAU on 09/10/2013 - 07:04

      http://www.gsmarena.com/huawei_ascend_y300-5386.php

      Mini

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        Geewhizz on 09/10/2013 - 19:23

        Thanks for that.

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    kwaker on 09/10/2013 - 09:26

    does this have voice to text?

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      BlazinPast on 09/10/2013 - 20:02

      Well, it does have speech recognition. I don't use the internet though, so I can't test the effectiveness for you.

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        kwaker on 13/10/2013 - 08:55

        +1

        thanks I got one it's great. the voice to text is th microphone button on your software when you SMS. it is great!

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    tigerking8888 on 09/10/2013 - 09:56

    Locked to Telstra? How to unlock？

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      iseenya on 09/10/2013 - 10:23

      Bagman unlocks the Huawei Y300 as well as the Y201: http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/91771

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  ryang on 09/10/2013 - 07:32

  +5

  Wait. So you have to buy a $30 recharge. Are they on sale right now? Otherwise it's still $99… You just get it with a recharge..

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    ddhytz on 09/10/2013 - 08:17

    For someone on Telstra prepaid it is a good deal.

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      ryang on 09/10/2013 - 10:13

      Sure, but mentioning that the recharges are sometimes on sale for $10/15 means jack to this bargain.

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        tramperleo on 09/10/2013 - 10:44

        'sometimes on sale for $10/15' Something on sale are sim starter pack. You cannot use them as a recharge. This deal come with a recharge voucher for recharging any Telstra prepaid mobile or broadband. This $30.00 voucher can sell well over 20.00 on ebay, gone in a minute.

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        ruraro on 10/10/2013 - 00:26

        +2

        it gives scope on the value of the recharge. If I can get the recharge for $10, as I did last week then a $10 recharge voucher makes this phone a $89 purchase rather than $69.

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  DavRo on 09/10/2013 - 09:06

  We have a Huawei g300 how do these compare.

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    tramperleo on 09/10/2013 - 10:47

    G300 is 1G single core, y300 is dual core.

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      DavRo on 09/10/2013 - 14:14

      -1

      Pity it is no good for Optus.

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  daver on 09/10/2013 - 10:11

  That does show little progress from my acer liquid mt .. cost~100 two year ago+w/ '14.4Mbps.

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    tramperleo on 09/10/2013 - 10:58

    Liquid MT is a great phone and sold by JB under value. I used it for 2 years, very satisfied in all aspects. But it's replaced by y300 2 month ago. The only reason: after side to side compare, y300 is apparently much faster than liquid metal. Tested stock trading chart, and online movie playing, Y300's performance is much better. But y300's display is really not good as MT. For the side to side compare, Acer MT is much more good contrast, bright and white. Y300 is a little bit yellow.

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  hooray on 09/10/2013 - 10:16

  +1

  I bought this one for $99 its a fantastic phone for the price. I have put an Aldi sim card in it (Telstra). Works everywhere that my other phone with a Telstra sim in works.

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  Ronnnie on 09/10/2013 - 10:30

  Telstra frontier was similar price to this but with 4g, better CPU, and 1gb of ram.
  http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/118052

  I suppose though you get the $30 phone credit plus this is on jb. Still amazing what you can get for such a low price now.

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    tramperleo on 09/10/2013 - 11:22

    +2

    I did compare frontier and y300 when I changed my mobile phone 2 month ago. In hardware, the frontier is apparently better than Y300 and tested really much faster than y300. The display also feels better.
    But I sold frontier and keep Y300 for reasons:
    1. Frontier is bulk, heavy and slippery, somewhat hard to handle by one hand.
    2. Don't know what's wrong of Frontier's screen. When you do swap to scroll the screen, even you are very careful, it will be very often that the screen is not rolling, but the link under you finger will be opened. It's very annoying! This almost never happen on y300.
    3. The back cover of Frontier is a nightmare. You really need your nail very strong to open it. The pain from my finger lasting 2 days after I tested all my different sim card in this mobile phone.
    4. The power button cap is built on back cover! Thought I broke it when I removed the back cover the 1st time after hard work.

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  daver on 09/10/2013 - 16:09

  Redeeming feature around Telstra rebadged/botched ZTE Frontier could be extreme lowest ping timing[? ] plus IP calls comm w/0.7 GB value-add-on, though they wouldn't crow about it for obvious commercial reason.
  - tho I do easily test stable 0.090, from 3Gwoolworth all hyperventilative(4g) marketing aside.

  see http://www.versus.com/en/zte-grand-x-lte-t82-vs-huawei-ascen… also, for the cyberstat compare. Just pity wasn't a smooth jellybean experience with such a comms ram + 540p/4.3.

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  No ONE on 09/10/2013 - 17:16

  On sale from tomorrow 10/10/2013.

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  kirt on 20/10/2013 - 20:09

  Scored this deal today…also includes a sim with $10 credit :)