MSE News: Orange dashes hopes of iPhone price war

dylan1273

just phoned orange and they are now taking orders !! mine is due to be delivered on the 10th of november!!!

CG19a

The business price doesn't include VAT, which makes the £30 tariff £34.50 at 15% vat, which means it is actually worse than the £34.26 standard tariff because the business tariff only gives you 200 texts.

Snakeeyes21

24 months, unlimited calls and texts, unlimited wifi an internet for £122.34?
are they serious? do people really pay that kind of money for a phone contract?
That about the same as i spend on food for myself for a month
Plus the fair use on the internet and wifi is only 750mb a month, I get double that from 3 for a fiver, it isnt really much considering the iphone pulls all kinds of info from the interweb.

Like ive always said, iphone users = mugs

Brumjo

Hmm since when has a 750Mb limit been "Unlimited" as Snakeeyes points out the iPhone gets all sorts of info, and with folks using spotify and similar apps, I can see that soon getting used up.

makavelianz

Snakeeyes21 wrote: »

Like ive always said, iphone users = mugs

Iphone is a premium device and when things go wrong you get brilliant service second to NONE, so expect to pay top dollars. My iphone 3g is well worth every penny i spent on it.

Snakeeyes21

makavelianz wrote: »

Iphone is a premium device and when things go wrong you get brilliant service second to NONE, so expect to pay top dollars. My iphone 3g is well worth every penny i spent on it.

Its not a premium device, its clever marketing, you pay a premium for all the advertising, its a bog standard phone, what other phone freezes up and crashes when you use it? none of mine ever have you can get premium bog roll but at the end of the day its still bog roll

Ask yourself what kind of company launches their first phone missing alot of basic features that even the cheapest £30 phones had at the time :rotfl:and people went out and paid their 'premium' for their 'premium' phone :rotfl:

You talk like when you have a problem the MD of Apple turns up in a horse drawn carriage and collects the phone on a pillow laced with gold then sticks it on its own private jet to send to the US to be fixed, when in reality its just stuffed in a bag and chucked in the postal system just like what every other phone manufacturer does

Premium product :rotfl:

makavelianz

Snakeeyes21 wrote: »

what other phone freezes up and crashes when you use it?

Ask yourself what kind of company launches their first phone missing alot of basic features that even the cheapest £30 phones had.

when in reality its just stuffed in a bag and chucked in the postal system just like what every other phone manufacturer does

I think you have the iphone confused with a windows mobile phone :rotfl:, mine never hangs although it needs a reboot every 3-4 days because it is a smartphone.

Yes i know apple sometime take their time implenting the basic features but you can do whole lot more with the device in the meantime, and when the do put it in they make it the best.

One thing you cant knock is their support every survey done supports my claim, if something happens to your device pop down a apple store and they will replace it on the spot if they cant fix it their and then, i dont see that with no one else, even if you use their postal replacement they sorted mine within a week from my first fone call to getting a replacement sent to me :T premium im sure you will agree :rotfl:

Oh yea forgot to mention the second iphone i had to replace via the postal service was 3 months out of warranty good ol apple sorted a good will gesture.. i remeber once with HTC last december i had an issue with the phone and they told me you need to sort it out with orange its not our problem.. exact words. thats the first and last HTC product i bought (touch hd). what i have learned and as the good ol saying goes, If you pay peanuts get monkeys :rotfl:.

legoman

makavelianz wrote: »

One thing you cant knock is their support every survey done supports my claim, if something happens to your device pop down a apple store and they will replace it on the spot if they cant fix it their and then, i dont see that with no one else, even if you use their postal replacement they sorted mine within a week from my first fone call to getting a replacement sent to me :T premium im sure you will agree :rotfl:

this seems very reassuring to me. after posting about my troubles with o2 phones on here i like the sound of that. i've just left o2 8 months early through problems on their part and they agreed to terminate my contract.

good news is now i can chose a new provider. sounds like i did it just in time! is the iphone worth all the hype or is the samsungi8910hd better? 24 months seems ageas with the same phone!!!

makavelianz

legoman wrote: »

this seems very reassuring to me. after posting about my troubles with o2 phones on here i like the sound of that. i've just left o2 8 months early through problems on their part and they agreed to terminate my contract.

good news is now i can chose a new provider. sounds like i did it just in time! is the iphone worth all the hype or is the samsungi8910hd better? 24 months seems ageas with the same phone!!!

Yes 24 months does seem long for a contract but seems to be the latest trend from providers, i dont have a contract i am on pay as you go and cant comment on samsung hd, although from first glance it looks a bit bulky to me like the HTC touch hd i use to have, iphone size wise and in the hand is just right, but sometime i wish it could have a bigger screen to cover more of the front area.

Dave_DO

I've been sitting on my Orange upgrade waiting for this news..question is what to do?

I was always going to go for the 3gs on a £29 pm...but if I go through Orange retentions, they aint gonna be able to match the £55 cash back from quidco.

So i either go for a 24 month £29 contract...or leave Orange and go through Quidco/Mobiles.co.uk and join O2.

I also expect O2 to match the new minutes on the £29 pm contract. Plus I think Orange labelling the Internet "unlimited" is not on - O2 wins there.

All in all, I've seen nothing that makes me think I've got to rush and phone Orange...think it's time to wait and see what O2 does and what the cash back deals are.