Cheapest iPhone discussion

Encantador

richleeds wrote: »

I managed to wangle a £15 a month line rental discount. So im paying £29 a month for 1200 mins and 500 texts.

How did you get such a big discount?

richleeds

It was the discount that ive had for the last 18 months on my N95 8Gb carried over to the iphone

crazygaijin

novazombie wrote: »

obvious question please, Can you talk on skype over iphone?

Yes but only 3G, not the old 2g.

novazombie

Thanks for that.

Can you put one of those 2 simcard duel things in an iphone?

Also can you put a 2g sim card in a 3g iphone?

I want to use my old 2g 02 sim card for calls and a payg 3 sim card that is designed to work on any network with free unlimeted skype calls.

shaggy

richleeds wrote: »

Thanks for your reply, yes you are right all my family are on o2 so free o2 to o2 is good and would be needed on a 600 min contract but today I went for the 1200 min deal at £45 and the 16gb iphone, however I managed to wangle a £15 a month line rental discount. So im paying £29 a month for 1200 mins and 500 texts.

how did you wrangle £15 a month discount?? Are you on a staff tarriff?

Cloudane

Mobile_man wrote: »

Oh dear, the iPhone3gs is not as reliable as Apple would like us to believe. Within 40 hours of the recently launched iPhone 3GS there are a reported 68 bugs. These bugs range from minor display issues to application crashes.

Remember if your iphone goes faulty it has to be returned to apple, so you could be looking at 4 weeks ( 28 days ), without your beloved Iphone.......

OH yeah ony carries a 12 month warranty as well

I think a lot of the bugs (for example the backlight sometimes being a bit too dim until it is put back to sleep and woken up again) are to do with the 3.0 software rather than the phone itself, so it applies to all models.

.0 releases are always a risk this way. Give it a couple of weeks and there will be a 3.0.1 to smooth things out

Statutory rights can go beyond 12 months if there's a proven manufacturing defect, I believe. Other than that, the warranty can be extended to 3 years with a fairly cheap Applecare off eBay (if bought within the first year) but personally I wouldn't normally bother as I upgrade after 12-18 months anyway.

rsachoc

crazygaijin wrote: »

Yes but only 3G, not the old 2g.

I use Skype on my iPhone 2G all the time (it has to be over wifi though, don't think EDGE is fast enough)

Zanity_Man

Unless O2 drastically change their pricing structure for upgrades, this, to me, seems as cheap a way as any - with the advantage of not being in a long contract (30 days).

Sign up to a simplicity £19 a month tariff, with free mobile internet bolt on, and not only do you save a tenner over the 18 months, you can bail out with 30 days notice. Only thing is, the phone is £440 (so, if o2 suddenly give away free phones this wont work...)

anyway, here are the costs as I see them:

3GS on 18 month tariff:
600min 500txt
£185 (3Gs 16GB)
£34.26 tariff (£616)
total £801

3GS on 18 month simplicity (18 months for comparison, you can bail after 30 days)
600min 600txt
£440 (3Gs 16GB)
£19.58 tariff (£352)
total £792

richleeds

shaggy wrote: »

how did you wrangle £15 a month discount?? Are you on a staff tarriff?

No, it was just a discount carried over from my previous non iphone tariff

rubberbullet

I've just looked into Zanity Man's calculations and they all stack up (except for a 4% Apple store Quidco - can't sniff at £16 or so quid!).

What's the downside? You're paying the same amount with no attachment to a contract, and if you buy online, you get a great deal more texts than under the iPhone contracts?

I don't see why this loophole hasn't been closed!