New IPhone to be cheaper by c £100.00

unrich

Sorry if this is a stupid Q. but I've been payg for ages now.

How much is an O2 contract, basic one? bit of web and bit of talk etc.

Are we talking £20 or £30 etc per month?

Thanks for any enlightenment.

Marty_J

Their cheapest contract tariff seems to be £15 a month (unlimited texts or O2 to O2 calls), but this is only available with certain handsets. The next cheapest is £20 a month (75 minutes & 250 texts).

However, some handsets seem to be only available with tariffs above a certain value.

Lee_Howden

On the 1st iphone there were only three tariffs that you could have with that handset. From memory the cheapest was £35 per month giving you 600 minutes and 500 texts plus some data usage (if memory serves me correctly).

I'm particularly interested as I'm due to upgrade my o2 contract phone now and really like the iphone. However, with the cost of buying the handset and the expensive tariff (my bills usually come in around the £25 mark), I couldn't justify having one.

If the new handset will have 3g on it, will it mean that you can send pictures messages with it to another phone, a facility which I was really surprised to find lacking on the 1st iphone?

sparky7

They've just released the details. The phone will be free on the £45 and £75 tariffs, and £99 on £30 and £35 tariffs. Tariffs are same as before, except the new £30 tariff only has 75 minutes and 125 texts.

Contract length is 18 Months.

It WILL be available on pay as you go, but no pricing has been released yet.

Existing iPhone customers can upgrade early (before their 18 months are up, they just have to agree to another 18 months.). Those on the £45 and £75 tariffs get a free upgrade.

Also, you now get access to BT Openzone wifi spots aswell as the Clouds.


Mark

sparky7

Lee_Howden wrote: »

will it mean that you can send pictures messages with it to another phone, a facility which I was really surprised to find lacking on the 1st iphone?

You can if you install a 3rd party app, its not natively suported... yet.

rev_henry

Looks like they've actually grasped the concept of how the UK mobile market works. You make a half decent phone in the first place, then you give it away free with a contract. Sorry for being so cynical, I was just so appalled at the first iPhone.

Lee_Howden

sparky7 wrote: »

You can if you install a 3rd party app, its not natively suported... yet.

Do you mean that you can do this on the 1st iphone, or will need to do it on the new one?

How much does it cost to have the software installed?

randomtask_2

MMS (i.e. picture messaging) isn't supported on the iPhone 3G so the app will be needed for either version.

sjc_2

Was also disappointed to see it is only a 2 megapixel Camera as well.

Maybe the iPhone 3 will catch up...............

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alexjohnson wrote: »

...which it unsdoubtedly will be by third parties as they ahve already done so on the jailbroken apps. It would be nice I suppose but you can send a photo from the iPhone using email as quickly as you can send an MMS and to as many people as you want. Email is free (that unlimited data again). MMS, on O2, are 25p, to each recipient. I am genuinely curious: why would you ever want to do somethign for 25p when you could do as near as dammit exactly the same thing with the same effort for free? To contact that one friend with a 2002 mobile that doesn't have email? (And sure there are lots of people with older phones but I suspect that these are the same people who say they just want their phone to be a phone and wouldn't know what MMS was if you hit them over the head with it.) What gives?

All of my friends have the latest phones. None of us email each other because unless you have a data plan on your phone it becomes quite costly to receive emails and attachments, whereas an MMS message doesn't cost anything to receive. MMS is simple, the recipient gets a message, the phone connects and downloads the picture. Even my mum can get them on the phone, so can my grandparents where with Email they'd be completely flummoxed!

I don't know about you, but my email account receives something in the region of 300-400 emails a day, I'd rather not try and deal with any of them on my phone