I was referring to the unplayable framerate.My bad, he said his Vita might be 'fucked'
TalkTalk offering the Galaxy Tab 7.0 or Nexus 7 free with selected Android phone contracts -
http://mobile.talktalk.co.uk/tablet-bundle
Nexus 4 (LG phone in Nexus range) -
£29 upfront, £35 a month on Three
http://www.store-3.co.uk/3-three-lg-google-nexus-4.html?ref=phonefinder
Nexus 7 -
Also offered free with subscriptions to The Times, Financial Times etc. and
Free via mobiles.co.uk - http://www.mobiles.co.uk/free-google-nexus-7.html
iPhone 5 -
£49.99 upfront, £46 a month with EE. Get it for £20 if you take a 4G plan. http://shop.ee.co.uk/apple-iphone-5-16gb-black-and-slate/pay-monthly/details/
iPad Mini -
Free with £50 deposit on a £31 contract - http://shop.orange.co.uk/mobile-broadband/tablet/
£49 upfront, £27 a month on Vodafone - http://www.vodafone.co.uk/shop/ipad-and-tablets/ipad-and-ipad-plans/index.htm?cid=rdr-1746-01
£49 upfront, £35.99 a month on EE - http://shop.ee.co.uk/ipad-mini-16gb-black-and-slate/pay-monthly/details/
iPad with Retina -
£99 upfront, £27 a month on Vodafone - http://www.vodafone.co.uk/shop/ipad...ipad-plans/index.htm?cid=rdr-1746-01#device_1
£149.99 upfront, £35.99 a month on EE - http://shop.ee.co.uk/ipad-with-retina-display-16gb-black/pay-monthly/details/
People might be buying WiFi only and SIM only more at full price for Christmas, I know one or two who've done so myself, but subsidised deals help the take-up of devices like this significantly all year round. The cost spreading flexibility available, in smartphones in particular, makes it very hard to make meaningfully direct comparisons re: popularity / interest vs products that do not have that luxury.
As for the devices, you listed "Galaxy S3, iPad, iPod and Nexus"
iPod won't be subsidised. Nexus 7 can be, but most sales will be upfront as with the majority of tablets. Same with iPad - I doubt a large proportion of sales are 3G for iPads, majority will be Wifi, so upfront cost, no subsidising. Nexus 4 and Galaxy S3 are the only ones in your list that would be heavily subsidised, and even for the Nexus 4 most people will probably order it from Google direct since the Sim free version is £110 cheaper than the same model at CPW.