Looking for New Phone; When S7 Edge Getting Cheaper?

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  spackbace on 17/06/2016 - 18:56

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  Any guesses on how much it could drop soon?

  My crystal ball says tomorrow it will drop to half price…

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  Savas on 17/06/2016 - 18:58

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  Sounds like you should get a Windows phone

  

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    spackbace on 17/06/2016 - 19:06

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    I always wanted a blue background… and foreground :P (BSOD)

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  the-mal on 17/06/2016 - 19:27

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  Any guesses on how much it could drop soon?

  It's a super popular flagship phone from one of the largest phone manufacturers. It will be reduced when it's either superceded by the S8 or the sales slump (and that doesn't look like happening).

  If you want the newest tech you have to pay for it. If you want a cheaper phone get the last gen (S6 Edge).

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  fossilfuel on 17/06/2016 - 19:32

  I have a Sony Xperia Z. These things don't die. The camera is excellent and the phone doesn't lag, unless you have a million apps on the phone or your internal storage is full. In my case, I switched out an old 16gb microsd and chucked in a new 64gb one. Transferred everything internally into the SD card and it works like it's brand new.

  Only issues are occasional overheating and problems with the lollipop software which keeps cell standby on a drains battery like wildfire. This is easily fixed by reinstalling the OS or turning wifi off. Otherwise, I absolutely love the Xperia series. It's a hella lot better than my old LG phone which was prone to bricking/crashing and a pain in the arse all up.

  If you need a phone now, I'd look into the Z series, particularly the Z3+. However, all the phones in the Z series are plagued with the horrid overheating issue. Or you can wait until the Xperia X comes out.

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    supnigs super skids on 17/06/2016 - 21:35

    The z1 or z3 compact are awesome phones. Only problem I have is the power flaps are loose

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  epicttiimm on 17/06/2016 - 22:18

  The OnePlus 3 is screaming fast with a crazy 6GB ram, Snapdragon 820 and a clean stock interface. If you can get your hands on it is a really good phone, and it's got rave reviews so far. Cheaper than a S7 and equal or better specs (except for 1080p screen)

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    watwatwat on 17/06/2016 - 22:51

    Oneplus is a company I will be avoiding. Past of horrible product availability, bad manufacturing quality and bad warranty support.

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    [Deactivated] on 18/06/2016 - 00:50

    Actually was watching how poor the one plus 3 uses its 6gb RAM and wow was it pathetic.

    The worst part I have to say is that it was reloading all the apps/pages all over when compared to an s7 edge and took twice as long to do the same test function.

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  CyberMurning on 17/06/2016 - 23:53

  Question: When S7 Edge Getting Cheaper?
  Answer : when s8 edge is released

  Too obvious.

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  [Deactivated] on 18/06/2016 - 00:52

  Wait until the note 7 comes out, should be in a few months time and maybe the price should drop then

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  datafellows on 18/06/2016 - 16:00

  JB HIFI just dropped the S5 prices to $399… For 2.5 years old phone. I guess if you can't find a good phone plan from Telstra/Optus, just buy it from eBay when you get 20% off.

  For example a good tactic is to let the missus use any old phone and put her on $40 10GB month plan on Optus and then get your phone with the smallest data on Optus and combine with the data with missus.

  You'd be paying $71/month for local stock 32GB S7 Edge for the coming 24 months… Depending on what plan are you now and how much you pay now… It may or not make sense :)

  For me it made sense with my 6P, I just pay $48/m and have enough data. At the time the phone was quite expensive and this way turned out OK.