Want a 3G iPhone? Rumours now CONFIRMED prices dropping

joolia_x

I hope Orange don't get the contract, their service is really awful. There will be some very unhappy customers!

ashapala

I'm in my last month of an 18 month contract with the original iPhone.

My plan is to 'upgrade' to the £9.37 simplicty tariff with an unlimited data bolt on £7.34

Total per month = £16.71 (instead of £29.37 + i will get twice as many minutes and texts!)

I think thats a 43% saving? Couldn't have come at a better time.

Does anyone see anyway of making it even cheaper?

jwball

mdean wrote: »

No there is a third type - people who value there hard earned cash and cannot see the logic of paying 10x the cost of a normal phone to have an i phone

It makes no sense

My contract costs less than my N95 used to due to the fact that I get inclusive data with the iPhone. The iPhone has sold well for a reason, it's a good piece of kit.

[Deleted User]

jwball wrote: »

The iPhone has sold well for a reason, it's a well marketed good piece of kit.

Fixed that for ya!

shaggy

cleudo wrote: »

Also.. if you're lucky enough to qualify for the O2 discount (or know someone who can get you one), then you can cut a third off the rental - so that expensive £35 a month contract becomes a much more affordable £24.

you mean O2 employees can get O2 discounts?

fox_2

I've owned pretty much every smart phone going.. From Symbian, to all the varieties of windows mobile - Eten, HTC Touch, Various GPS phones.. I thought my Eten X800 was the best phone in the world. Windows mobile.. TomTom GPS, windows gaming, push email, wifi..

WRONG!

I got a 16gb iphone off ebay for £200.. within a week I'd got rid of my HTC and Eten. The iphone completely kicks their !!!. The iphone is the only mobile that you can reliably surf the web on, (no opera on winmobile is no way as good trust me!) and they have the screen resolution right. My Eten x800 had double the resolution of the iphone, but it not the right choice for the screen size. Apple have done it right.

And if rumours are correct then apple have now allowed developers to submit apps that use turn by turn naviagtion. TOMTOM for the uphone is only a few months away. Time for me to upgrade my 2G iphone to 3G (for GPS)

Oh.. and if you want to moneysave then buy second hand off ebay and jailbreak. Its the easiest thing in the world and you can run your iPhone on any network. They go from around £150 for a 8GB. If apple are releasing a new on.. the 3gs will drop in prioce and the 2g's will be dirt cheap!

If you stick with O2 - like i did, you can put it on their simplicity tariff.. I get 600 mins, 6000 text and unlimted data for £19 a month. Not sure what the current prices are but im happy with what i pay.

You also see people who bought the pay as you go iphone selling their simcards on ebay - the iphone Paygo sim has unlimited data for 12months included, so you can surf free for 1 year and never get a bill. I saw one go for £20 a couple of weeks back. Thats £1.60 a month for unlimited data! I think thats kicks the !!! of 30p a day? :money:

Im not an apple freak, and i never owned an ipod - but as it comes as part of the phone I'm happy to make use of those features. I just concider it as my free ipod that came with my phone.

Heres todays news about iphone 3.0 and tomtom
http://stuff.tv/news/iPhone-OS-30-Apple-spruces-up-App-Store/12036/

buglawton wrote: »

People seem to be mesmerised by the iPhone. Remember, this is a money saving forum! Even at a new reduced rate as mentioned above, you have to be a heavy user indeed to get value out of these sorts of tariffs. I decided to go hi-tech recently and finally bought a smartphone. Unlocked from Ebay, a Nokia s60 series WiFi phone will knock spots off an iPhone for open, free applications and built in Real Audio player (iPhone bans any Realaudio). My running costs on Virgin PAYG are under a tenner a month including as much 3g data as I practically need at 30p for any one day's use. Plus you will not have to send the phone away to be dismantled to have the battery replaced one day.

glenwood_2

cleudo wrote: »

Also.. if you're lucky enough to qualify for the O2 discount (or know someone who can get you one), then you can cut a third off the rental - so that expensive £35 a month contract becomes a much more affordable £24.

what is this discount? staff discount? I could certainly use a reduced price contract.

The iPhone rocks. Is it worth the extra cash? Thats up to you. As a phone I find it quite average, gthe touchscreen can be fiddly, the reception is not great. But as a web browser and pocket email/rss reader it cant be beat.

I bought my 1st gen iphone from O2, took it home and without activating it I unlocked it and stuck my O2 simplicity sim in. Voila, brand new iPhone, no 18 month contract.

I'm looking forward to the next model...

firstluv

wrack wrote: »

Allthough i recieve the newsletter from this very helpful and imformative BB i had to join to give my experience of the iPhone on viewing this topic,to put it simply i am now on my 4th 1st Gen,yeah my 4th! to cut that part short you could say i knew how to save money before hearing of this bb;),ie:i bought all my iPhone's for the cost of between £100 to £150 2nd hand and sold them off at a higher price tag(the one i own just now was bought from the profits i made) with that part explained i now have to sugguest a few things to some who obviously unaware of huge advantages off having the iPhone,obviously only if the iPhone appeals to you.



Im tottally mesmerised by the iPhone mine does not cost a fortune,and i could be a heavy user if i wished because of the tarrif i have and still have a very low cost due to the phone being 2nd hand and also because i have a contract sim with o2 tarrif simplicity(under £15 per month) and can be cancelled at anytime if i wish to do so,you do not have to send the iPhone away to have a battery replaced if you have a little technical knowledge,an opening kit is widley available and instructions on opening the iPhone is all over the net and youtube.



Tottally agree,the sound from an iphone with a good headset is awesome,and not to forget the thousands off third party applications that is available if you jailbreak the iPhone(for those not aware of jailbreaking the iPhone)jailbreak is not illegal,the phone belongs to me and me alone,putting pirate software & games on the iPhone is illegal as is with any phone,how many people out there in the world have contract rights from music companies/artists to convert their work into a ringtone?



Mine can! in fact all four could right from the first day off owning one,i can also send mms,draft,forward txt messages,record video,control my pc,tune a guitar,have full bluetooth capabilities,transmit live video through either wifi or edge that can be viewed on the web from any place in the world,there is a host of things the iPhone can do that no other mobile can and it's basicly still very early days.
The iPhone has already been used to control R/C car, iRobot's Packbot, Unmaned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), iPhone Lego NXT Robo, turned into a walking robot and dog treat dispenser even an aquarium http://www.iphonehacks.com/2009/02/control-fish-tank-using-your-iphone.html

I do not work for Apple nor do i have any part in sources for third party applications for the iPhone and will not give info on where it can be sourced,it's all out there and not difficult to find.(Google helps)
I can admit that i am Mesmirised with the iPhone's technical side and it's abilities and look forward to the future generations to come,i can honestly say i wouldn't have any other phone.

Jim

I like the iphone...waiting for the pAYG price to drop down a bit cant justify spending £342 on it!!!have looked on ebay not sure if they are genuine though

buglawton

As well as an Nokia s60 series WiFi phone, I also have a 2nd gen iPod Touch (behaves just like an IPhone but is tethered to your WiFi - no tarrif). Am well aware of the great Safari browser and I like using BBC iPlayer and Wunderradio on it the Touch. However I don't need a great web browser when out and about every day and definitely not a £30+ tariff every month.

Much more useful on a mobile are things like GPS mapping (free via Yahoo GO), Fring to make and take Skype calls on any WiFi connection, the Real Audio player to play 'ra' files as they are. I could imagine an iPhone being handy on a long weekend away and especially when abroad. For the former I can already use Joikuspot on the Nokia to provide a WiFi connection to the Touch, for the latter, no decent tariffs exist for use of an iPhone abroad unless you are a business.

Once the iPhone shrinks a bit and there are decent international data roaming tarrifs, plus more openess from Apple, it might be time to think again. I think we are comparing seductiveness factor with real world use here, and for me, Nokia wins.

curriej99

wrack wrote: »

Im tottally mesmerised by the iPhone mine does not cost a fortune,and i could be a heavy user if i wished because of the tarrif i have and still have a very low cost due to the phone being 2nd hand and also because i have a contract sim with o2 tarrif simplicity(under £15 per month) and can be cancelled at anytime if i wish to do so,you do not have to send the iPhone away to have a battery replaced if you have a little technical knowledge,an opening kit is widley available and instructions on opening the iPhone is all over the net and youtube.


I am on a low cost tariff with o2 and thought maybe i could buy a 2nd hand iphone and use it on this tariff. However, when i rang customer services they told me i would have to change this to at least a £35/month tariff to use the iphone. This seems to contradict what Wrack (above) suggests ie that you CAN use it on a low tariff. Can anyone shed light on this? Ta.