Cheapest iPhone discussion

Oscar_The_Grouch

dinosaur_l wrote: »

Hi, I am new to all these deals myself. Love your switch-to-Orange-before-back-to-Vodafone idea. But can u actually buy a SIM-Only plan with ORANGE, and that they'll supply MicroSIM instead of normal SIM? also, can you REALLY cancel after one day with ORANGE?

Thanks!

You need a standard Orange PAYG sim, not a microsim or special plan. You are only going to be with Orange for, at most, 3 days.

whiterabbit_2

Hi Guys,

Hope you don't mind me asking, but could anyone give me a little advice please?

I'm completely new to iPhones and can't decide whether to go for the new iPhone 4 on an 18 month contract with Vodafone, phone cost £119 and 600mins/Unltd txt/1GB for £40, or buy a second hand one and get a sim only deal.

My friend is selling his 16GB 3GS for £240 and I've seen that there's a 600 min/3000 test/1GB Web & Wifi with Vodafone for £20 but as I'm a bit of a novice I'm unsure whether the features of the new phone - and the fact that it will be far more straight forward - outweighs the extra cost. (confused!)

I'd be very grateful of any advice!

Many thanks

phnormal_2

Very worried about store stock allocation went into phones for u to reserve one £5 desposit to be told there was 15 infront of me and all stock had been allocated. If all stores are like this we have no hope less you have one reserved with apple or on o2!!!

Oscar_The_Grouch

whiterabbit wrote: »

Hi Guys,

Hope you don't mind me asking, but could anyone give me a little advice please?

I'm completely new to iPhones and can't decide whether to go for the new iPhone 4 on an 18 month contract with Vodafone, phone cost £119 and 600mins/Unltd txt/1GB for £40, or buy a second hand one and get a sim only deal.

My friend is selling his 16GB 3GS for £240 and I've seen that there's a 600 min/3000 test/1GB Web & Wifi with Vodafone for £20 but as I'm a bit of a novice I'm unsure whether the features of the new phone - and the fact that it will be far more straight forward - outweighs the extra cost. (confused!)

I'd be very grateful of any advice!

Many thanks

Hi Whiterabbit

£240 is a VERY good price for the 3GS - O2 would offer £232 just to recycle it. If it's scratch free, out of contract and works well, you may want to buy the phone just to sell it on eBay!!

I think that with the pressure on sales at the mo, you may want to go for the 3GS and a rolling 1-month contract for now and see how you get on with it. If you like the phone and the features it gives you, you can upgrade later on once everyone has adjusted their prices to compete with the 3 network!!

The 3GS will probably still sell for around £350 near Christmas, meaning that you will have made enough money to cover the initial cost of the iPhone 4 on a contract if that's the way you want to go.

nontechie

sam1970 wrote: »

i am thinking of the following once my vodafone contract ends in 2 weeks, so please advise me if i could do better:

buy a 16Gb iphone from apple for £500
then buy sim only from vodafone for £20/month for 12 months (getting £100 cashback from quidco) giving me 600 min and 1GB data
Total for 12 months after cashback is £640

!!!!!

I have checked with quidco who state that the £100 cashback does not include iphone sim only contracts. Your cost is thus £740 for 12 months

Quidco have also stated thst at present there are no iphone cashbacks at all.

Max_1066

nontechie - thanks for finding that out. Does it say that on the Quidco site otherwise Quidco are continuing to mislead potential customers. I'm still waiting for £105 from Quidco on a previous Vodafone contract. Don't mind taking the risk with Quidco for £5 - £10 but not £100.

cheepskate_2

hi all

Our son wants a ipod touch for birthday, but DH thinks a iphone would be better as he really need a phone for his new school(travels on train to school)
As he is 10, I am a bit unsure, but he says works out better than the ipod touch and seperate phone.
Any ideas, thoughts on what one and also what is the chesapest prices

Oscar_The_Grouch

Max_1066 wrote: »

nontechie - thanks for finding that out. Does it say that on the Quidco site otherwise Quidco are continuing to mislead potential customers. I'm still waiting for £105 from Quidco on a previous Vodafone contract. Don't mind taking the risk with Quidco for £5 - £10 but not £100.

You'll probably find that the issue is with Voda rather than Quidco. Have you chased them about it?

Max_1066

Hi Oscar - Quidco have been chased monthly and yes they are blaming Vodafone. There's a separate Quidco thread running about this but wanted to make people aware of a potential problem.

Issue may have gone away anyway as the potential £100 Vodafone cashback deal may not apply to iPhone SIM's :j

JamesHP

cheepskate wrote: »

hi all

Our son wants a ipod touch for birthday, but DH thinks a iphone would be better as he really need a phone for his new school(travels on train to school)
As he is 10, I am a bit unsure, but he says works out better than the ipod touch and seperate phone.
Any ideas, thoughts on what one and also what is the chesapest prices

An iPhone is a pretty expensive device to entrust a 10 year old with, the SIM free price is £419 even for a new 8gb 3GS. What I will say however is you can pick up a used 16gb 3gs quite cheaply at the moment, around the £300 mark for a very good condition one, which can run the newest software. It's entirely up to you, but it's a lot to lose.