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UK iphone 3G users on O2 / What's next?

theviewer2009 said:
Now, i think your talking rubbish if you weren't sure if apple would release another iphone after that.
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no, i said O2, not me. but even then, i wouldn't know. the 3gs was never a guarantee. people can make educated guesses (like "there will be a new ipod touch in 2 months, based on the fact there was a new one that time last year") but they remain just that, guesses, until we get solid evidence in the form of an announcement. just look at the iphone nano. hmmm, where's that?

either way my point remains. whether you have time to read the contract or not is your problem. not O2's or anyone else's. you cannot say you feel screwed just because O2 didn't bend the rules on the upgrade procedure for you with their special little verbal promise, working off an assumption due to how things were working at that time. as others have said, ultimately you still signed an 18 month contract, not 12. the 2g to 3g upgrade process was completely different and that is covered in countless threads on here if you want to know why.
 
A supplier we use has a business account with many iPhones and he's getting me a 32GB for....A bottle of whiskey!!!

Good exchange I say. I'll stay with that until a new one is announced and then see what the upgrade options are like as I will be outside of my 3g contract by then :D
 
I managed to resist upgrading to the 3GS for all of a month before I gave in.

I jailbroke my 3G and tried out Cycorder but the quality and usability just wasn't there. Jailbreaking my device also slowed it down and seemed to effect battery life as well. So last week I sold my 3G iPhone for £300 and paid £440 for a PAYG 16gig white iPhone 3GS. It is WELL worth it guys, no regrets at all.

In January when my contract is up I will be going on the cheapest possible sim for me (unlimited data and a good amount of texts are a must) and play the waiting game for the new iPhone to be released next summer. I'm really hoping that a different network get the phone and I don't have to give my money to O2.
 
jayenh said:
no, i said O2, not me. but even then, i wouldn't know. the 3gs was never a guarantee. people can make educated guesses (like "there will be a new ipod touch in 2 months, based on the fact there was a new one that time last year") but they remain just that, guesses, until we get solid evidence in the form of an announcement. just look at the iphone nano. hmmm, where's that?

either way my point remains. whether you have time to read the contract or not is your problem. not O2's or anyone else's. you cannot say you feel screwed just because O2 didn't bend the rules on the upgrade procedure for you with their special little verbal promise, working off an assumption due to how things were working at that time. as others have said, ultimately you still signed an 18 month contract, not 12. the 2g to 3g upgrade process was completely different and that is covered in countless threads on here if you want to know why.
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Quite honestly your hostility is unnecessary, a verbal agreement is legally binding.

That aside, a lot of iPhone users would be happy to pay up the remainder of the money owed in terms of what was subsidized, and then carry on a new contract. That is called customer service. Offering this appeases those customers and instills brand loyalty, it also means O2 lose out on nothing in terms if cost since the consumer would have paid up the remainder on the handset cost and it also means that O2 guarantee they keep the custom. As it stands a few have now left O2 over this debacle and whilst they have gained new customers over the 3GS, I am going out on a limb to suggest that the reason the 3GS isn't as heavily subsidized this time round is because the exclusivity deal is coming to an end; and O2 want to make as much profit whilst they can from the marketing and infrastructure investments they made in order to procure the iPhone on their network. No one was asking for a free lunch, but meeting half way wouldn't have hurt, there is more to running a business than the immediate figures.
 
Has anyone had any luck getting the O2 Open/Family and Friends discount with the iPhone 3G S? I know that it was possible, and then O2 temporarily suspended the offer... is it still on hold, or is it available again?
 
I"m ditching O2 when the contract is up, I'll get a turbo sim chip and go to a 30 day vodafone contract. I supposedly live in a high 3G area capable of video calling, I barely get GPRS most of the times.
After that I"ll see what happens. Hopefully the iPhone will be available on vodafone by the time mine breaks down, if not I may get an android phone for a bit. The magic is supposedly good and free on vodafone. I may buy a PAYG iphone and unlock it. A sim only contract on vodafone is half the price of an iphone contract.
But yeah, o2 have got a bad signal for me, and that's all that really matters at the end of the day.
 
I got my 3G at launch so have another 5 months to go. Unless O2 ring up at contract end with some exceedingly good deal (which won't happen) I'll get a cheap simplicity sim to pop in. And unless the next gen iPhone is ridiculously good I'll probably stay on simplicity until my 3G dies.
 
I sold my 3G and bought the 3GS on PAYG which I use with my o2 iPhone contract sim card. In January I'll go onto a Simplicity tariff and next summer I may upgrade to the new iPhone if it is worthwhile. Chances are I'll buy it on PAYG again and sell the 3GS as I'd rather avoid 18 month contracts from now on.
 
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