£269 for the initial thing.
18 month contract at minimum £35 per month:
A nice round figure of £899 to own the iPhone for 18 months. How many people, even among us mac users, can justify that?? Maybe if your employer was paying the bills, but which company would pick an iPhone over a blackberry type thing?
Mobile phone pricing is one of the most ridiculous things these days. A 5kB text message costs nearly the same as a 500kB voice conversation.
I'll be sticking with my £40 nokia and my £10 p/m O2 sim. 300 free texts per month - more than the £35 iphone contract...
I believe the bulk of the contract cost is going to the unlimited data. Which isn't good if you'd rather talk and text, but I've got a nice deal on another network (crappy Voda) where me and my girlfriend can ring each other for free.
Yea. Way I see it; low end call+text tarrif with unlimited data. Worth it IMO.