If you love Windows Phone 8 smartphones then Phones 4 U may be the place you should be visiting right now. If you are willing to sign-up to a new 2-year contract then you may wish to pre-order the flagship Samsung Ativ S on the Vodafone UK network.

The Samsung Ativ S Windows Phone 8 (WP8) smartphone is a fantastic handset and if you are willing to go on contract then see if these plans are up your street, the phone can be yours for free on contract at £33 per month offering unlimited texts, 600 minutes and 500MB of monthly data, for £34 per month you can get 2GB of data and unlimited minutes and unlimited texts but you will have to pay £29.99 for the Ativ S.

Phones 4 U clearly shows the message “Order today for delivery on 21/12” and that payment will be taken before despatch of your handset, please make sure you are aware of these above. This means if they ship on December 21st the odds of you getting it in your hands before Christmas day is non-existent.

We thought we would have a little peek over at Clove UK and they have the Samsung Ativ S up for pre-order without contract (Unlocked) for £442.80, but these have a message stating “First stock delayed until week commencing December 10th”, that is 11 days before Phones 4U, we will have to contact Samsung about this to find out more.

So if you are looking forward to having a smartphone by Samsung with features such as a 4.8″ super AMOLED display, 1.5GHz dual-core processor and 16GB internal storage we suggest you heading over to Phones 4 U or Clove UK, at least we have given you the choice of contract or unlocked.