Price Watch: Buy the Mobile Phone You Want at the Price You Want

6th October 2008

Got your eye on a Blackberry Bold or Samsung Soul but find it just a bit too pricey at the moment? No worries. With Price Watch, a revolutionary new tool on mobile phone price comparison website, Omio.com, you can be alerted by email the moment the mobile phone you want — on the network you want — falls into your price range or becomes available on your preferred tariff.

Price Watch, the first tool of its kind in the UK, also enables people to track the price changes over the past six months of over 300 handsets available on the major mobile phone networks. The price history of up to four phones can be compared on a single graph, which helps consumers understand price trends and get the best possible deal.

“For a lot of us, money is tight at the moment so we need to cut costs and make savings wherever we can,” says Matt Wheeler of Omio.com. “Price Watch lets people do exactly this as it tells them when the phone they want is available at a price they can afford. By showing the price history of handsets, it also gives people a good idea of the likely future direction of a handset’s price — once prices start falling, for example, they generally continue on a downward trend so being able to see a handset’s price trajectory is invaluable. Waiting just a few weeks after a handset price has peaked could save you a significant sum of money up-front or per-month, which is crucial when there’s not a lot of it going around.”

The newly created functionality adds to Omio.com’s existing slider interface and innovative comparison tools, already enabling visitors to search quickly and easily through over 100,000 mobile phone deals to find the best offers.

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