Cheapest iPhone discussion

W1zz

:mad: Just had phone call from HSBC saying they believe my credit card has been defrauded.

Said the transaction for my iphone this morning was declined and my card is no longer valid.

Ran through previous transactions, all were valid.

That's the second time HSBC have called me up in the past year saying that 'my card numbers on a list' - 'Destroy your card and we'll send out a new one'.

Of all days - Now stuck on hold to mobiles.co.uk trying to make sure the order is cancelled their end before re-ordering. Need to start a fresh otherwise it'll mess up the Quidco.

aires

Okay so if I follow the logic of this - does that also mean.....

If I downgrade from £34.26p/m to £29.38p/m and I only have 8mnths left on my contract, that instead of having to pay out £274.08 (£34.26 x 8) to buy out my contract, that I'd only need to pay out £235.04 (£29.38 x 8) to buy out my contract instead?

Because that'd seems like fuzzy logic on the part of O2 to me.

sporedude

Some companies calculate the early termination fee at what your origional contract was, Dont know about O2, But I know T-mobile do.

disney_cjd

Can i be thick please.

If I was to purchase the 3Gs on PAYG how much is it and what is the monthly costs of a PAYG tarrif with free web access please?

Thanks

Millionaire

aires wrote: »

Okay so if I follow the logic of this - does that also mean.....

If I downgrade from £34.26p/m to £29.38p/m and I only have 8mnths left on my contract, that instead of having to pay out £274.08 (£34.26 x 8) to buy out my contract, that I'd only need to pay out £235.04 (£29.38 x 8) to buy out my contract instead?

Because that'd seems like fuzzy logic on the part of O2 to me.

Yes the tariff can be reduced after 9 months, however at £30 you only get 75mins and 125 Texts a month where as at £5 more, you get 600mins and 500 text a month.

Millionaire

sporedude wrote: »

Some companies calculate the early termination fee at what your origional contract was, Dont know about O2, But I know T-mobile do.

Yep, Orange do as well, you would have to leave the contract running till the end to make it work out cheaper as buy out will be on the original contract tariff.

aires

O2 have advised me there's no termination fee other than paying for the remaining months. What I want to know is if I can downgrade and then buy out the contract at the new downgraded rates?

mjs12345

Yes you can do this so it would be £30 x by remaining months left to run

shaggy

why are people with in-contract Iphone 3Gs even thinking of breaking out of their contract to 'upgrade' to the new one? The new iphone does not add that much extra hardware functionality on top of what the OS 3.0 ipgrade will give anyway? Ask yourself, do you really NEED the compass? do you really NEED Tom Tom ? (it will probably be overpriced anyway, and rumours are you will have to buy Tom Tom's own cradle to get the software to work). The additional HSPDA data speeds on the new 3GS are not supported by O2 (yet) and tethering tarriffs are well overpriced. On top of that, I think the voice activation thingy is largely a gimmick which most people will not use anyway. Do you really see yourself on the tube/train/bus in the morning saying out loud 'play songs by Kylie' ??

IMHO if you have a 3G Iphone, just stick to it, upgrade it to OS 3.0, downgrade to simplicity monthly contract with data (£20) when your 18 months are up and upgrade to the next gen Iphone this time next year.

aires

shaggy wrote: »

why are people with in-contract Iphone 3Gs even thinking of breaking out of their contract to 'upgrade' to the new one? The new iphone does not add that much extra hardware functionality on top of what the OS 3.0 ipgrade will give anyway? Ask yourself, do you really NEED the compass? do you really NEED Tom Tom ? (it will probably be overpriced anyway, and rumours are you will have to buy Tom Tom's own cradle to get the software to work). The additional HSPDA data speeds on the new 3GS are not supported by O2 (yet) and tethering tarriffs are well overpriced. On top of that, I think the voice activation thingy is largely a gimmick which most people will not use anyway. Do you really see yourself on the tube/train/bus in the morning saying out loud 'play songs by Kylie' ??

IMHO if you have a 3G Iphone, just stick to it, upgrade it to OS 3.0, downgrade to simplicity monthly contract with data (£20) when your 18 months are up and upgrade to the next gen Iphone this time next year.

Why not think about it? That's all I'm doing - thinking about it. It's a better spec phone with regards to memory and processor.