Good guys eBay store has 20% off.
This great budget phone comes down to $239.20 after discount. Gold colour only, but you can always cover it up with a case.
Similar price to the Oppo A73 but comes with NFC and pure Android, albeit without facial unlock.
Edit: seems no NFC. Must have read an inaccurate listing
Moto website says no NFC. Of course this is the US version - but I doubt the Australian version would have NFC if the US one doesn't. We don't usually get extra goodies, we usually get less goodies.
Will be staying with my Moto g5+ then for now - its getting a bit long in the tooth, but what other phones have quad band 3g, 700mhz 4g, true dual sim + micro sd and NFC? The g5+ supports all the bands for every major carrier in australia - i can switch sims every month and get 4g coverage no worries. I just wish it was faster and the camera wasn't ass.
Long in the tooth? I'm using the 5+, since Jan this year, and I haven't seen any problems due to speed. I find it still very zippy, and the camera is pretty awesome for the price. I haven't seen a phone that is quicker to go from locked to taking shots yet.
Biggest problem (and its a big one) I've had is with reception dropouts. If I have the bluetooth on, or I'm using wifi, I find the damn thing keeps disconnecting. Other that that its been perfect. Then again though I don't use it for games or VR, so CPU power isn't super huge for me.
@outlander: I find it drops signal in elevators (to be expected), but then it takes a minute or so or sometimes i have to restart it to get signal again - there is signal to be had but the phone won't always react to it. It also heats up massively when charging or running pokemon go with other apps running in background causing the screen to temporarily have yellow lines it it - this goes away when it cools down. The 16gb internal is annoying - you run out real fast if camera, spotify or netflix decide to use internal (even though ive told them to use the 128gb micro sd i have in the phone). Camera is average (fine for the price i paid for the phone but nothing special and terrible low light) - not good enough to use as your only camera on trips put it that way. Battery life isn't great after a year with the phone - won't get a full day if you're using it often, but on standby you can get over a day.
TLDR - for the price ($219 delivered) the g5+ has served me well but it has a lot of niggles.
@Wilburre: Yeah, I do share your woes with signal drop outs. I have to restart more than I'd like too. One time I even had to delete the APNs to get it to work.
And the switching back to internal memory IS really annoying. I think its caused by ejecting the micro sd when your transfering data. But what else can you do, when the usb interface is so slow. Personally I'm looking into direct wifi transfer apps, but so far I haven't found anything all that decent.
I dunno, I feel with every device you get nowdays your rolling the dice. You upgrade to get rid of wifi issues, you get a phone with perfect wifi and a muddy sounding speaker. You upgrade again because you can't stand the speaker, and you get a perfect speaker but the camera takes 5 seconds to focus. It seems there's always an issue. You're more likely to get them the cheaper the phones are, but even the expensive ones aren't immune. So given that, I think the Moto G5+ is a good balance, and I probably won't upgrade again past it until I have a need for extra speed.
Actually I was thinking of trying to return it on warranty for the wifi drop out issues, but I can't get it to reliably happen. Seems to be pretty random. Makes using spotify a pain
@outlander: Mines out of warranty now as its only 1 year :'( but yeah it is quite a good phone for the price. I think if you buy a flag ship it would want to pretty good - guy at work has a note 9 and it seems pretty perfect - but its also a ~$1300 dollar phone that will be obsolete in a year or 2..
Cheers for those links; bit of a bummer - seems it's only for European models then.
It’s ok phone, bought it and returned due to screen flickering issue and average battery.
You can get the Moto G6 for a few $ more by getting officeworks to price match https://www.eglobalcentralau.com/motorola-moto-g6-xt1925-3gb… my father got one last week
Even cheaper for by Officeworks price match to TobyDealsAU see my post. eGlobal is $15 extra for shipping, TobyDealsAU price includes shipping.
Hey do you know if the sim tray supports 2 sims AND micro sd at the same time? Or does it use the second sim slot as sim or micro sd? Cheers mate.
Yeh I saw that but my preference would be for the play? What does the G6 have that the Play does not, apart from OS?
Edit: referred to the whirlpool link above, seems the hardware on the G6 is slightly better. Ah well.
Has a fair bit, more ram, more rom, dual sensor rear camera, nfc etc. Literally only a few bucks more if you manage to pricematch grey stock at officeworks (dicey) or just buy grey stock. the g6+ i think is only faster cpu.
Hmm the Officeworks listing for this phone says it doesn't have NFC. Can anyone confirm if the Aus version actually died has it?
Thanks