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02 Pay & Go iPhone
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O2 contract iPhones will be
£99 for 8GB
£159 for 16GB
Free upgrade to 8GB if your on £45 tariff or above. Also new tariff of £30 with 75 mins and 125 texts - all tariffs have unlimited data.
If your already on an iPhone and want to upgrade then you register on O2 site and then when its ready you pay online and it will be delivered to your for the 11th - I checked this in a local O2 shop.
PAYG prices? it won't be that cheap - I think it will be about £159 for 8GB but could be more or slightly less...
£99 for 8GB
£159 for 16GB
Free upgrade to 8GB if your on £45 tariff or above. Also new tariff of £30 with 75 mins and 125 texts - all tariffs have unlimited data.
If your already on an iPhone and want to upgrade then you register on O2 site and then when its ready you pay online and it will be delivered to your for the 11th - I checked this in a local O2 shop.
PAYG prices? it won't be that cheap - I think it will be about £159 for 8GB but could be more or slightly less...
If O2 Ireland's site is any indication, the phones may
reserved from 1st July:
http://www.o2online.ie/wps/wcm/conn.../O2+to+Launch+iPhone+3G+in+Ireland+on+July+11
"iPhone 3G will be available exclusively from O2 Retail,
O2.ie and Carphone Warehouse stores. It will be available
to pre-order from July 1st."
Yep. O2 may even do a deal to make the bolt-on for the iPhone even cheaper, as data access is essensial to most features on the iPhone.
That would be great! No doubt. I've got a friend in UK, who will send it to me. Even though it's announced in Denmark (same date as the UK
) but you probably have to sign up for a contract.
I have a feeling that o2 are working on some new Iphone 3G tarrifs for pay as you go. It might be similar to what '3' offers where you spend like £30 a month and get an amount of mins and texts and probably data to be used within 31 days.
The question is, will you be able to just pop in any other o2 pay as you go or Simplicity sim or are we gonna go through all this business of unlocking again.
The question is, will you be able to just pop in any other o2 pay as you go or Simplicity sim or are we gonna go through all this business of unlocking again.
i'll probably end up buying a pay as you go one and then just using my current orange 'dolphin' sim card in it! not sure what i'm going to do with the unlocked iphone i've got now, and i won't be buying the iphone when its released, will wait untill august or something.
o2 have done their homework. Whether you go Pay As You Go on a SIMplicity style package or take out the contract you will roughly pay an equivalent amount of money over the course of the 18 months.
8GB Contract:
£35 x 18 + £99 iPhone = £729
8GB PAYG
£15 + £7.50 bolt on x 18 + £269 iPhone = £674
The question is whether you want the bulkier up front cost and flexibility it affords you, or the cheaper entry point that the contract provides.
Also those buying on PAYG most likely won't be getting free OS updates and will have to pay like Touch owners. Or whether you will get Cloud and BT Openzone access.
8GB Contract:
£35 x 18 + £99 iPhone = £729
8GB PAYG
£15 + £7.50 bolt on x 18 + £269 iPhone = £674
The question is whether you want the bulkier up front cost and flexibility it affords you, or the cheaper entry point that the contract provides.
Also those buying on PAYG most likely won't be getting free OS updates and will have to pay like Touch owners. Or whether you will get Cloud and BT Openzone access.
still slightly cheaper, also I always top up £10 a month, no more.
Plus, with unlimited data and near wi-fi data speeds with 3G I can tell Apple where to shove the Cloud and BT openzone access!
As for the OS updates, a bit of jailbreaking never hert anyone