ASDA’s back to school phones for £24

Published by Ewan on Sunday 27th August 2006, 09:03 | Related | Filed Under

Eagle eyed Dan was taking a gander around his local ASDA when he spotted this sign hanging from the rafters.

It reads: School Shop - ‘top marks! low prices’ - Nokia 1600 mobile phone, £24.

You know the market is totally saturated when ASDA are marketing phones as back to school items (see the asda-phone.co.uk site). Honestly, they’ll soon be sticking them in Christmas Crackers and giving them away at Petrol Stations.

Still, onwards and upwards. £24 is a good price for a mobile. I have to watch myself when I’m anywhere near a pay as you go store as I buy them like sweeties.

Once, I walked into Argos and bought 4x Sony Ericsson Something300’s. I can’t remember the exact model name. W300? T300? Anyway, I bought one on each major network so I could properly test picture messaging from the consumer perspective.

So it’s in my bones. Some people collect milk bottle tops. Other people like stamps. I like buying new mobiles*. Saying this I’ve been remarkably good. This year I have bought 5 handsets in 8 months. Pretty good going.

*I obviously don’t generally mention this on first dates.

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