This phone was being sold for $399 on boxing day : https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/284144
Today, its $12 cheaper.
Samsung Galaxy S5 16GB $387 @ The Good Guys
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I dont know about before Christmas but I had TGG do a price match and bought it for 387 yesterday.
I was looking for two weeks. Waited until after xmas thinking it had to go down as the S8 approaches.
You're right, they are wrong (according to Price Hipster)
If you have the HN Amex $100 back on $300, you'll get it for $287, which IMHO is still too much for a phone released April 2014.
But not much is waterproof and competes with it, given price. Theres some half decnet phones in the 4-500 range, but not waterproof. Motorola Nexus 6 would have, but I cant find any anywhere now.
I managed to find a Nexus 6 for ~$350 at a JB Hi-Fi in the last EOFY sale, so there may be a few there - they also had an LG G4 but were still wanting ~ $580 for that, I'm hoping that the Virgin stores of JB's may dump those soon and I can take my chance on the dreaded boot-loop for a brilliant night-time camera…
MobileCiti had Nexus 6 back then too, but I waited too long. Ill hit up JB, but not liking my chances.
@Tuba:
I did find a nexus 10 last year but one at, of all places, a Hardly Normals. They wanted $250, which I was more than happy to pay - it's still head'n'shoulders above what's out there at the $300 point ATM. Then again, they also wanted $400 [reduced price :-/] for a Samsung nexus phone they had dragged out as well.
Maybe because I'm an olde farte or maybe because I've got no friends, or on social media, but I leave my phone behind when I shower, swim, water ski or dive. And I use it sitting down on the dunny.
Im probably old too by some standards, but my wife has dropped every phone in the dunny at least once. Her last, an S3 was fished from the toilet at one point and has spent the night out the front, on the grass, and it rained for the first time in months. Still runs, but glass is since cracked (fell to concrete from 4wd), and its just a tad old now. Works though.
I however like to wrestle sharks and jellyfish while I OzBargain.
@strangeloops66: Back pocket, pants down, phone slips out. I assume… maybe she doesnt like the phone.
@Tuba:
Absolutely.
Many teenage daughters have "accidentally" washed last season's phones.
Happens all the timeI grabbed an Xperia and then the Nexus 6 as it gets put down on tables where drinks can be spilt, taken out when it is raining slightly, and taken inside to places with air-conditioning set at 19 C when the temperature outside is 35 C and the humidity > 90%…
The ' Apple/Samsung refused warranty as the humidity indicators had been tripped' threads are quite tragic..
S5 user here, the phone is only mildly water resistant and not water proof. If you submerge the phone accidentally you're pretty much gambling on 50/50 chance the water hasn't seeped through the flap on the bottom (which easily lets water in once you have removed the flap several times to charge the device)
I would be jumping on the Xiaomi sale on 27/12 personally and adding DHL shipping
Much better deal to be honestOf course you do get local warranty with the s5 but alas I would not pay this much for a 2 year old phone.
With mobile phones, local warranty is big, in my opinion. I have only one phone (Chinese) and luckily it started dying just on Christmas. This was the cheapest somewhat respectable phone available to be used right away.
Yes and no, It all depends on the situation
I have never had an issue (touch wood) with decent resellers of Xiamomi Redmi phones etcLocal warranty is ideal but even then it can be a pain to try and get stuff repaired
You need to research chinese brands and work out the good from the garbage, then you need to work out the fake from the real
I have saved a fortune when I cracked the s4 I had, 150 for a new screen or 212 for a Redmi Note3 Delivered via DHL, I went with the Redmi Note 3 and to this day its running perfectly.
The risk is yes, I do need to send it back for repair if it did break down but I like to average costs out, no point spending 800 a year on a phone if I can get 1 year out of a Redmi Note 3 then hand it down the family.
Whose doing the Xiaomi sale?
should be one on here for 27/12 :)
S5 also has band 28, most of the Xiaomis don't, so if you are heavy user of data, and indoors, the band 28 does make a difference.
Minimal actually, other bands provide more than enough speed, even rural makes little difference, partner has a phone without band 28, gets coverage everywhere sometimes even better than my gs7e with band28
I find band 28 is only really good in underground carparks but even then I find its congested in the city
I get 100mbit plus on the Redmi Note3 no problems, its no 4gx phone but for $211 it suits me fine
Office works have been $387 for a while also.
http://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/samsung-gal…
while - a period of time ranging between 31 seconds to 14 years.
this phone still getting the kernel message that bricks the phone ? never again samsung.
How exactly does this happen ? What causes that kernel message ?
There are some who claimed an OTA updated failed & they got an error message on boot up. It possible, but also quite likely they tried to manually update & it buggered up.
yeah, it's amazing what some people do when tinkering with ROMS, etc. The OTA checks battery reserve to make sure it has enough to write to flash or roll-back, and it also uses extra memory so it can roll-back. The boot section can't be altered unless you root the phone ….. if you bricked an unrooted phone, Samsung would fix under warranty ….. if it's a rooted phone, warranty is void, with any brand.
Never seen this yet
Maybe he bought a fake one from China.
Wow… Still people buying this piece of sh!t for like 400 bucks? Not even worth 200.
could be worse Nickos… it could be an Overpriced, Copy Paste yearly, nothing new, fragile iPhone !
Well the 5s is the same price????
Harvey Norman and Officeworks have been $387 since before Christmas. At that time, TGG was $499.