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The U.K. iPhone 4 Thread

Thanks to whoever posted the link to the iPhone Simplicity prices...that 12-month £15 one is perfect for me, i'm currently using bugger allowance all of my £35/month contract!

Tempted to buy out of contract completely, recycle my 3GS, buy a PAYG iPhone 4, and start Simplicity.
 
Buzzsaw said:
Thanks to whoever posted the link to the iPhone Simplicity prices...that 12-month £15 one is perfect for me, i'm currently using bugger allowance all of my £35/month contract!

Tempted to buy out of contract completely, recycle my 3GS, buy a PAYG iPhone 4, and start Simplicity.
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I'd deffinitely suggest doing this, a huge bonus of the simplicity contract is that it's one month rolling. I don't want to be tied down to an 18/24 month contract so it's a huge selling point for me.
 

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jimmy83 said:
What are people suggesting for insurance?
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Erm o2's insurance.

That's what I have anyway. They say on there site they have no problem with people in contract buying a PAYGO handset and then using the contract sim and having O2 switch the insurance over.

Exactly what I will be doing now I think.
 
Buzzsaw said:
Thanks to whoever posted the link to the iPhone Simplicity prices...that 12-month £15 one is perfect for me, i'm currently using bugger allowance all of my £35/month contract!

Tempted to buy out of contract completely, recycle my 3GS, buy a PAYG iPhone 4, and start Simplicity.
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Won't you have to pay a massive price though when you want to upgrade every june? Like now you'll have to pay £550 for the iP4 but £15/pm to make up for it... but because you're not taking out a contract every june, it'll be another £550 every year to upgrade?

Correct me if i'm wrong please! I'm trying to figure out what I will do!
 
NStocks said:
Apparantley I pay £100 per month for the next 6 months?:confused:
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eh???

no, you pay £100 now and get an iPhone 4.
then you sign up for a new contract with the new phone...

you are paying £20 per month for the 5 full months that you have left on your contract....thats it
 
vincebio said:
eh???

no, you pay £100 now and get an iPhone 4.
then you sign up for a new contract with the new phone...

you are paying £20 per month for the 5 full months that you have left on your contract....thats it
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Huh?

I pay £30 a month now and I have until Dec.23rd 2010. Do I pay the remaining £30/month and an addiitonal £100 and renew the contract ? What will my tarrif be should I take out a new 18mnth contract ? £30 still?

Well I don't want a contract anyways... It's going bo be cheaper* to go on simplicity as I only use the internet and calls.

*depending on the cost of iPhone 4 PAYG
 
vincebio said:
eh???

no, you pay £100 now and get an iPhone 4.
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I don't read it like that at all. The £100 (or whatever your particular early offer price is), merely "buys" you the ability to take out an iPhone 4 contract as a new customer.

Your £100 does not get you an iPhone 4.

You still have to purchase an iPhone 4 on top of the £100 you pay.
 
vincebio said:
eh???

no, you pay £100 now and get an iPhone 4.
then you sign up for a new contract with the new phone...

you are paying £20 per month for the 5 full months that you have left on your contract....thats it
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But that means I'm paying £10 less a month than I normally would...

I pay £30/month currently. But I think I get it now. You pay £20 a month for each month of the contract thats left ( i.e 2 months = £40). Then you pay £100 AND sign up for 18/24 months and pay £30 a month to get the iPhone 4.
 
I've been doing some thinking. O2 are allowing us currently contracted customers the opportunity to upgrade by paying £20 per remaining month of the contact. We are then eligible to get the (16GB) iPhone 4 for £89 (guesstimate).

Another way of looking at that, is that you're essentially paying for your contract twice. £20 per month for the remaining months of your current contract and then probably around £35 per month for your new contract. The benefit of doing this is the saving you make on the new phone (£89 on contract opposed to £440 on P&G). That's a saving of £351.

Here's the (somewhat) interesting bit... If you have 18 months or more remaining on your existing contract, then taking O2's early upgrade offer is a false economy, because you'll end up paying more than that £351 to cancel your existing contract.

So, in summary, if you have less than 18 months remaining on your existing contract, take O2's early upgrade offer. If you have more than 18 months remaining, take the Pay & Go option.

Prices are speculative and based on the 16GB models.
 
So I think best plan for me is to buy a payg phone, sell my 3gs and use the sim in my payg phone until contract is up in a year...

Then I can upgrade to iphone 5 next year :)
 
NStocks said:
But that means I'm paying £10 less a month than I normally would...

I pay £30/month currently. But I think I get it now. You pay £20 a month for each month of the contract thats left ( i.e 2 months = £40). Then you pay £100 AND sign up for 18/24 months and pay £30 a month to get the iPhone 4.
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The £100 one-off payment essentially ends your current contract. You can then walk into an O2 shop and buy an iPhone 4 on whatever contract you choose, paying the initial upfront cost.

You can then sell your existing iPhone to make back some of the cost.
 
For early upgrade, my understanding is that you have to pay:

- the early upgrade fee, this will depends on how many month are left until your contract finishes....

AND

- The price on the iphone 4 !!

check this out:
from O2:

A few rules before you can take advantage of the offer. You have to:
Have paid your Early Upgrade Offer charge;
Sign up for a new 18 or 24 month minimum term Pay Monthly or 24 month Business airtime contract with O2 with an iPhone at the normal price for that phone and on our iPhone tariffs; and
Agree that you won't have a change of mind period and won't be able to go back to your old tariff.
 
Jr1985 said:
So I think best plan for me is to buy a payg phone, sell my 3gs and use the sim in my payg phone until contract is up in a year...

Then I can upgrade to iphone 5 next year :)
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I'm thinking of that too. Is there a o2 page with the iPhone 4 PAYG price?
 
Argh all these "strategies" for getting a better deal are confusing me.

I don't understand why people are buying PAYG and then getting simplicity... surely the PAYG will cost £550 ish... and paying £15 instead of £35 for 18 months only saves half that amount....
 
someone was talking about insurance stuff?

I just wonder can i buy a O2 insurance for psyg iphone? or it is only for contract customers? because I lost my previous handset without any insurance, which means nothing I can claim.
 
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