Lowest deal on the phone so far in the latest catalogue.
Officeworks is selling at $987ish. Therefore you can get price match and beat it by 5%
=$920.
Virgin Mobile outright is still cheaper if you are going for the Officeworks price match.
Isn't it cheaper outright unlocked at Virgin? $936. OW has beat it in the past too.
https://www.virginmobile.com.au/Shop/Samsung-Galaxy-S6-32GB-…
edit: haha we all posted within 17 seconds of each other.
Are they a factory version or a carrier version phone (firmware I mean, not locked/unlocked)
Seriously $900 for a phone?
My thoughts exactly. Picked up a Note 4 for $615 during the recent sales and even that was too much to pay for a phone.
it's been like this for a while. $1000 on the release day and slowly goes down to $700 over 6 months +. If you don't need one urgently, wait for a few months until the price drops to the level you are happy with.
As much as I refuse to spend over $400 on a phone (I think $400 is still too steep, but I sort of accept it as a price of being in a smartphone era), the price increase is justifiable (as in it's not a level of "OMG is this company going insane extorting us like this") if you look at the currency rate change from last year to this year.
If I calculate the RRP at release date for USA or Korea using same currency rate, price of Galaxy S6 went up by like $50 or didn't go up from S5. S5 was cheaper than most of the Galaxy S series. So it's slightly unfair to claim that Samsung is the culprit for this ridiculous price.
In USD
Verizon S5 $599.99
Verison S6 $599.99
http://www.androidcentral.com/verizon-galaxy-s5-price-19999-…
http://www.verizonwireless.com/smartphones/samsung-galaxy-s6…
Currency exchange rate from 2014 to 2015 on the release date.
1 USD = 1.0642 AUD
1 USD = 1.3024 AUD
And if we look at the 64gb as an example, $989 (on special) works out to $41.21/month over a 2yr contract. So given that a 'good' plan for this model is around $81/month from major telcos, thats about $40/month for 5gb data, unlimited calls etc (Virgin).
Just sums don't really add up for those looking to buy it outright and put on a sim only plan/prepaid.
I frankly don't like being tied to a plan, so I don't think it's unreasonable for people to compare outright prices. The outright prices do give indications on the baseline of the price as well, the telecommunication companies subsidises the phone so it's not like the outright price has any meanings to it.
$900 for device mostly used by housewives and hipsters to use basic apps like Facebook and IInstagram Idiots and their showing off.
What the limit you will pay for a phone? I wont pay over $500.
I struggled to resist 20% off on ebay for a note 4.
Same limit as everything else, where the marginal dollar spent is worth more to me than the marginal benefit delivered.
E.g. I needed a new phone in December. First step decide what was on offer.
Lumia 535 $50, inc unlock code
Sub $100 Android, similar features to Lumia 535
Lumia 735 $146, after gift card
Equivalent Android to Lumia 735 $250.
I decided that a phone above the Lumia 735 specs wise delivered little marginal value for me, so stoped looking at options there.
I took that sliding scale to determine it was worth and extra $100 to get the nice screen and camera on the Lumia 735 over the 535. The faster speed was also a plus.
Decided that $100 extra to get a Android (basically access android apps over windows apps) wasn't worth it. So in this case I've decided that $150 is the most I'd spend.
Well, I think I now prefer Android over WP so I am going to talk about Android in mind. App selections are way better in Android, though in terms of OS quality, I think WP is better.
I personally value my experience from it a lot. I know that if I feel like I want to change the phone for something better (be it due to updates or lags), I'd probably give in at one point. So I try to look at the reviews and look at hardware spec. I try to find a phone that is relatively well specced. Also, since I know that I hate hassles with DOAs and such, I try not to get the phone from abroad or 2nd hand phones.
I think as a result, phones from 2 generations ago (that ranges around $400) are sitting on the sweet spot for me. FHD + Snapdragon 800 is still very good, especially since 801 was just overclocked version of 800 (talking about last generation which also had 805 as well). While 805 is better than 800 in many regards, QHD resolution did cause a hit on performance increase. Obviously, Galaxy S6 has better SoC than any of the phones I've mentioned, but I cannot justify paying that much for a phone.
So that's why $400 region is a sweet spot for me. I know that it's outperformed by this gen's flagships and last gen's flagships, but I frankly see the performance difference to be small enough to not warrant that extra cash. I know that I would have no problem with FHD screen on 5 inch phone as well, I don't really need QHD. I don't really look into camera that much so meh on that end as well.
I have seen federal budgets decision made with much less considerations
I made it sound awfully confusing, but in short, I go with flagships from past when the technology improvement seems stagnant enough; in other words, relatively well performing ones that will stay in that region of above average performance in the market for awhile.
Going for flagships usually limit my choices, and since I go for something old, I tend to find relatively decent deals on them.
I'm just messing with you. Sickllama's thought process is even more complicated than yours.
And most likely cheaper accessories as well.
I also wouldnt buy any phone with 16GB or less over $300
Fair call! I've been an 'upgrade every 2 years' kinda person, from Galaxy S1 - S3 - S5. Had the S5 nearly a year, and honestly I don't see me wanting to upgrade in a years time. The improvement curve just doesn't seem to be there with the tech at this stage. For $30 I can refresh the phone with a new battery and back cover (if I really wanna change the colour), and see it through for hopefully another year (beyond the 2 years I'd normally keep it).
First time I've sorta felt like I didn't want to upgrade too soon. It helps that the phone is still in good condition, but there's no software faults or anything!
@Spackbace: I think Snapdragon 800 is still fairly awesome in terms of its performance (which is saying something since it's from 2013, I think).
801 was, as far as I see, a simple overclocking of the Snapdragon 800 without any changes.
805 did improve a bit, but QHD screen resolution standard did offset the improvement a bit.
810 was a disaster, 808 is not much better than, if not on par, than 805 as far as I see, since it only has 2 cores as "BIG" core and 4 little cores.
The only significant improvement from last gen's SoC to this year's was by Samsung. They use 14nm finFET and support much faster storage format, UFS 2.0. That being said, I think it doesn't warrant the $1000 price tag (which I think is caused by the weakening of AUD). I personally wouldn't understand anyone getting a current gen flagship since I think Snapdragon 800 + FHD would perform similar to the current gen flagships at cheaper price. Galaxy s6, I think I would at least understand buying the phone over older gen phones, though I'd probably think that extra $400 could've been used for something else.
I actually cannot wait till Apple's latest SoC, since I think with Qualcomm failing this badly, I think only players in the market that can produce a decent SoC are Apple and Samsung.
http://www.mobileciti.com.au/samsung-galaxy-s6-32gb-black-vf
$948 free postage
http://www.mobileciti.com.au/samsung-galaxy-s6-64gb-white-vf
even better deal $989 for 64gb version.