Cheapest iPhone discussion

Cactus_Jack

mrochester wrote: »

Full price, i.e., PAYG price. You'd need an insurance policy to be able to get a replacement for cheap.

Ouch! I really want an iPhone but they're throwing so many deal breakers out at me.

fiish

Mobile_man wrote: »

Simple, Encantador, your breaching the terms of the sale, these Jail Broken Phones are Illegal in the UK, you breach the warranty, and Apple have the right to reserve the phone as grey / blacklisted goods...

I dont make the rules, by the way:beer:

You are right that Apple will not honour the warranty for a jailbroken iPhone. However jailbreaking is not illegal - the phone belongs to you and you may dispose of it as you wish.

Besides, if you require warranty service the jailbreak process is quite trivially reversible.

mrochester

Cactus_Jack wrote: »

Ouch! I really want an iPhone but they're throwing so many deal breakers out at me.

What other phone do O2 allow you to buy a replacement for at a discounted price?

Mobile_man_3

fiish wrote: »

You are right that Apple will not honour the warranty for a jailbroken iPhone. However jailbreaking is not illegal - the phone belongs to you and you may dispose of it as you wish.

Besides, if you require warranty service the jailbreak process is quite trivially reversible.

Jack

sorry but your posting is incorrect...

Apple has filed comments with the Worldwide Copyright Office stating that the act of jailbreaking your iPhone is a copyright infringement and a DMCA violation, and therefore illegal. Apple are claiming that jailbreak apps still require modified versions of Apple's software, and Apple apparently believes that those versions are infringing on their copyrights.

Millionaire

On O2 contract its free i.e included in price to surf the net., On PAYG its free for the first 12months then £10 per month after that as a add on.

On simplicity Sim its around £7.99 add on to the cheapest sim at £9.79. The £19 sim, its included in price.

Millionaire

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.......

You would not need to send it back to Apple for application crashes, they will post revisions online which can be downloaded to solve any teething problems.

Mobile_man_3

maybe but you still have to faolk out £400 plus for the phone.. oh and ;ets not forget a minimum £10 a month top up to get that Free Browsing

Cloudane

Mobile_man wrote: »

these Jail Broken Phones are Illegal in the UK

Really? Where's the law that says that?

I know the USA has the DMCA, but that's the USA, and even then it's a questionable law if your intention is not to circumvent copyright.

I sense that you dislike the iPhone, this is fair enough, but why all the energy spent FUD-spreading in this thread?

shaggy

richleeds wrote: »

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

very surprising. i thought O2 didnt offer any discounts on the Iphone, even Retentions will have a laugh at you when you ask for the Iphone and/or tarriff to be discounted.

vo-vo

richleeds wrote: »

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

Hi,

Did you call the upgrade department? Or the disconnection department to get the deal? So, its basically a free Iphone 3GS with the £45 tariff for 24 months, but you get £15 off the monthly rental?

Thanks.