MSE News: Orange deal sparks iPhone price-cut hopes

lardconcepts

Just need it to be under £250 sim-free now and I might have one, but I refuse to jump on the "I'll pay a £200 premium 'cos it says Apple" bandwagon

Mind you, Android phones are still too much too.

MORPH3US

lardconcepts wrote: »

Mind you, Android phones are still too much too.

T-Mobile Pulse will be £180 PAYG.

HTC Tattoo will be a similar price on Voda I would imagine.

chrisbf1

I bet Apple will make sure they do not sell them to cheap, i don't reckon we will see sub 250 PAYG for quite a while. Which is a shame!

sporedude

Well Orange users enjoy your iPhone crippled with Orange software , I'd stick with O2....

MoscowFlyer

Hopefully O2 will now panic and start to offer retention deals, they've been too cocky for too long and it may now come back and bite them ont he backside.

Stephen_Webber

sporedude wrote: »

Well Orange users enjoy your iPhone crippled with Orange software , I'd stick with O2....

I think it will be a cold day in Hell before Apple allow Orange to tinker with the look and feel of the iPhone. Apple's user interface is too important to them to be messed around with.

Streeet

sporedude wrote: »

Well Orange users enjoy your iPhone crippled with Orange software , I'd stick with O2....

Thankfully this is one firmware release they will have no control over!

sporedude

What if Apple have them sell it at the same price as O2?

gjchester

sporedude wrote: »

What if Apple have them sell it at the same price as O2?

I suspect the competition commision would want words if they are the same..

However it may be the phone is cheaper but the tarrif more (or vice versa) so over the term of the contract you'll be paying about the same. Apple have said they don't want cheap deals on iphones cutting into there iPod market, so I don't see any brilliant deals coming out. Rumour has it the iPhone is subsidised at that price by o2 so can't see ornage getting a better unit price and undercutting o2 much.

Orange have said they will brand it but it may be minimal, probably a re-skinning and a superficial.

Jon_01

sporedude wrote: »

What if Apple have them sell it at the same price as O2?

They will, but each network will be able to add what ever mins/text/internet they want. So they'll compete on that rather than the price of the iPhone