Vodafone’s £300 iPhone rival is now on sale.

In the market for a high-end phone that doesn’t cost the earth? Well, we’ve got some good news for you.

The Vodafone Smart Platinum 7 is now on sale, giving you the opportunity to bag a respectable iPhone 6S rival, but for less. Announced just last week, the Smart Platinum 7 is the first proper flagship to come out of Vodafone HQ.

The handset is available for £295 on Pay-As-You-Go, or from £28 per month (with a £20 upfront fee) on a Vodafone Red 1GB Bundle, which includes unlimited texts, unlimited minutes, 1GB of UK data, and 500MB of inclusive roaming.

Better still, if you pick up the Smart Platinum 7, you’ll also get a free Vodafone-branded virtual reality headset – the Vodafone Smart VR. It’s a little bit like Samsung’s Gear VR, insofar as you dock your phone in the headset to function as a display. Read more…