The iPhone thread

Thats my new contract started it last week. The iphone contracts have always been poorer than other smart phones. Ive just come off a contract giving me 800 minutes unlimited texts and loyalty net for £31 which gave me the Omnia 18 months ago.

Originally Posted by zing

Thats my new contract started it last week. The iphone contracts have always been poorer than other smart phones. Ive just come off a contract giving me 800 minutes unlimited texts and loyalty net for £31 which gave me the Omnia 18 months ago.

Yeah you got the new contract in time. These tariffs come into force on the 24th of June, the day of the new iPhone, but they apply across the entire network as far as I can tell.

http://blog.o2.co.uk/home/2010/06/of...bile-data.html

So from June, O2 will pioneer a simple but important change to our billing structure, in which we will begin to ask our heaviest data users to pay more for using large amounts of data. The vast majority of our users will be completely unaffected by the changes – 97% of our smartphone customers currently use less than 500MB of data every month.

So the iPhone doesn't have a special tariff anymore. It's in a smart phone bracket along with the rest. You will keep your contact until it expires though.

[Tezcatlipoca]

I think O2's new "smartphone tariffs" suck, & not just because of the loss of "Unlimited Data".

I always thought the previous "iPhone tariffs" were a bit tight compared to normal tariffs, but these new ones are worse.

For £35/month, on my 18 month contract which started in January 2009, I get:

Minutes: 600

Messages: 500 (with the ability to use 4 inclusive messages to send 1 MMS or 1 roaming SMS)

Data: Unlimited

International Traveller Service (ITS): Free


Under the new tariffs, £35 would get me:

Minutes: 300

Messages: Unlimited SMS (with MMS & roaming SMS charged separately)

Data: 500MB

ITS: Nope.


Meh. I'm more & more tempted now to buy PAYG & get a Simplicity SIM, or (depending on their tariffs) go with Orange or 3 instead.

[nffc]

on orange (with a 3gs)

£25:

• 75 minutes
• 125 texts
• Answer Phone
• Magic Numbers
• unlimited UK mobile internet browsing *
• unlimited Wi-Fi *

* Separate Fair Usage policies of 750MB / Month apply to both BT Openzone Wi-Fi and Mobile Internet Browsing. See terms for full details.
with this plan your iPhone is £189.00


£35:

• 600 minutes
• 500 texts
• Answer Phone
• Magic Numbers
• unlimited UK mobile internet browsing *
• unlimited Wi-Fi *

* Separate Fair Usage policies of 750MB / Month apply to both BT Openzone Wi-Fi and Mobile Internet Browsing. See terms for full details.
with this plan your iPhone is £189.00

[Tezcatlipoca]

The £35 plan is similar to my current O2 contract.

Orange are apparently following O2 though & ditching unlimited data... I just hope that they don't also slash everything else like O2 has.

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Doesn't look like anyone else is going to reveal tariffs until Tuesday I think, & I doubt we'll have the handset prices before then either.

Annoying. I want time to look at tariffs & prices *before* the pre-orders open.

[m419]

3 UK will carry the Iphone 4 which is due to be released on O2,Vodafone and Orange.

There is a registration form to be notified of its release on the 3 website. Just go to www.three.co.uk

The good question is, will the Iphone 4 be sold under the T-Mobile brand and will it ever reach Virgin Mobile?!

Originally Posted by m419

The good question is, will the Iphone 4 be sold under the T-Mobile brand?

Yes, according to tmobile.

[Jonnymeg]

Im gonna stick with my £20 600mins/1200text/unlimited data tariff.
I'll just buy the iPhone 4 outright.

Prices should be out today.

[Derek]

Vodafone prices have been leaked.

http://mobile.engadget.com/2010/06/1...we-keep-the-s/

Gig of mobile data as standard, prices seem pretty much as the 3GS was.

the £35 a month tarrif seems ok and its not a huge outlay on the phone seems competitive for what it is and it will be attractive against 500 meg plans

[nffc]

Im going to try and get a 16 GB 3GS whilst I still can. I don't really use my phone for anything but internet and I'm on PAYG which makes it quite expensive.

[Tezcatlipoca]

Originally Posted by Jonnymeg

Im gonna stick with my £20 600mins/1200text/unlimited data tariff.
I'll just buy the iPhone 4 outright.

If you want to keep your current contract, yet shift it to an iPhone 4, you'll need a microSIM.

Would O2 transfer you to a microSIM without you getting a new contract?

If not, then it may have to be a cutting job...

iPhone moan....

My first work iPhone was fine for about a year, then the battery started discharging quickly, and the iPhone kept rebooting itself.

Sent it back to O2 (as it was under the year), and got a replacement/refurb - the same problem occurred within a month.

On my second replacement/refurb (got it yesterday), and the battery is draining in 7 hours, with the only use being the power button being pressed (three times) to check the battery state.

If Apple aren't careful, I'll be keeping my temporary loan phone (HTC Desire running Android).

[Jonnymeg]

Originally Posted by Matt D

If you want to keep your current contract, yet shift it to an iPhone 4, you'll need a microSIM.

Would O2 transfer you to a microSIM without you getting a new contract?

If not, then it may have to be a cutting job...

Im not too worried, i think i will end up cutting mine just to be sure they don't try and say i have moved onto another deal by taking a replacement sim!

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Iphone 4 ORDERED!!!! roll on next week.