i phone..price? unlocking?

ladydriva

hiyas,im not very technical but lookin at gettin an i phone for me b/f for his bday.. hes still got a few months left on vodafone contract so was wondering can i just buy the i phone without signin up to a contract, get it unlocked, then put his vodaphone sim card in? what about things like guarantees etc with this?

also what price can i get the phone for ? ive heard things thats theres £100 off sometime soon..

many thanks in advance

BubbleFrogette

Hello,

I don't know all the details, but I'm pretty sure that O2 have an exclusive contract with Apple for the iphone, which means that it will be locked to that network. I was having a conversation about this with the technical chap in the Apple shop when I took my Mac in to be looked at. Eventually of course, the iphone will be available on other networks, but at the moment you can only get it on O2.

Although, why not change to O2 anyway? I'm sure they will port the existing number across. I'm not sure about the deals though - I'd just keep my eyes peeled until his current contract ends and see what comes up.

Hope this helps

ladydriva

hiyas thanks for the quick reply,,, after postin on here i found a thread on the quick grabbit board...sorry cant add link

this tells me allinfo about gettin an i phone without paying for contract,

thanks

BubbleFrogette

Ah good! well done...hope you find what you want!

Cerenia

Unlocking is easy as well. I just downloaded itunes, installed, it, plugged in the iphone, then ran Zipphone, and that was it.

shockingmoment

Just bought an 8GB iPhone for £169 (Carphonewarehouse or O2 shop), downloaded and ran ziphone (http://www.ziphone.org), updated to Apple V1.1.4 s/w from iTunes, popped in my Orange SIM (better contract than O2) and away it went.

Really easy. You get the choice of contract that suits you, not O2.

sjc_2

Don;t forget to go through QuidCo who are offering another £100 off via O2 Shop so can save £200 on the price.

Sid_Harper

You'll only get that QuidCo £100 after you've activated a contract. Has been discussed repeatedly over the last week if you search for iPhone £169 on the forums you'll find plenty to read about!!!

agsnu

Don't forget that unlocking your iPhone may invalidate the warranty

TechTerry

agsnu wrote: »

Don't forget that unlocking your iPhone may invalidate the warranty

It WILL void your warranty.

Paul_Varjak

shockingmoment wrote: »

Just bought an 8GB iPhone for £169 (Carphonewarehouse or O2 shop), downloaded and ran ziphone (http://www.ziphone.org), updated to Apple V1.1.4 s/w from iTunes, popped in my Orange SIM (better contract than O2) and away it went.

Really easy. You get the choice of contract that suits you, not O2.

Surely, you have just bought an O2 contract as well, when you paid £169 for the phone?