Is there somewhere I can check to see who had the best coverage and contract offers all in one for an upgrade to the 5s.
My issue when we had three different phones with Three was that although we got full bars incoming calls went to VM and if you tried to call out you just got an error tone.Not all in one place, but Three's website has a good coverage map, which from my experience is pretty accurate http://www.three.co.uk/Support/Coverage
The 32GB 5c is £184 more expensive than the 5 on Three One Plan. God knows what the 5s will be. Not impressed.
Even with http://giffgaff.com/ or did you only compare it with O2 tariffs?Worked out £163.10 cheaper to buy on 2 year contract than buying outright and going for a similarly "spec'd" month rolling tariff.
Well I'd rather get the handset as soon as it's released and I'm eager to give my phone to my dad, too to get him into this decade.Cant you wait a month? If not, it's going to cost you for a month.
Buy the phone from apple and sell what you got, get a sim only deal from three and port your number over.
Just doing a comparison of the SIM-only deals for iPhones at the moment..
-> For a 3G (nano)SIM-only deal, with 1GB data:
[I'm going to ignore 4G for the moment...]
12 months' contract
O2 - £21
Vodafone - £21
Orange - £21
Three - £9.90
Tesco - £10
30 days
O2 - £31
Vodafone - £23
Orange - £23
Three - £12.90
Tesco - £15
For me, my best reception locally is with O2 (and non-existent with Three), so actually it is the Tesco Mobile £10 contract that looks enticing.
1 year cost, including a 32GB iPhone 5S from Apple is £749
2 year cost, including a 32GB iPhone 5S from Apple is £869
I'll be watching closely to see if any carrier phone-bundled contracts come anywhere close to that.
Plus it's a 12 month, not 24 month, contract.. so have flexibility next year.
Even with http://giffgaff.com/ or did you only compare it with O2 tariffs?
Just doing a comparison of the SIM-only deals for iPhones at the moment..
-> For a 3G (nano)SIM-only deal, with 1GB data:
[I'm going to ignore 4G for the moment...]
12 months' contract
O2 - £21
Vodafone - £21
Orange - £21
Three - £9.90
Tesco - £10
30 days
O2 - £31
Vodafone - £23
Orange - £23
Three - £12.90
Tesco - £15
For me, my best reception locally is with O2 (and non-existent with Three), so actually it is the Tesco Mobile £10 contract that looks enticing.
1 year cost, including a 32GB iPhone 5S from Apple is £749
2 year cost, including a 32GB iPhone 5S from Apple is £869
I'll be watching closely to see if any carrier phone-bundled contracts come anywhere close to that.
Plus it's a 12 month, not 24 month, contract.. so have flexibility next year.
Could anyone possibly make an educated guess on when the 5s might sell out based on previous years? I was planning on going to the apple store in Cambridge on the 1st October to buy my 5s, and I was wondering what anyone thinks the chance might be of them having stock? Is it long enough after the launch date for them to have maybe got a second batch? If not I guess I'll just have to try and order online on the 20th...
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Bored on my lunch break I've just had a look at how Three's 5C 24 month One Plan contracts with the £49 upfront cost compare to 2 12 month £15 a month sim only One Plan contracts and buying the phone from Apple outright.
16gb would end up being £204 more for the 24 month phone and sim deal with the 32gb coming in at £244 more than the sim only contract and buy the phone from apple
This doesn't account for three charging you just over £15 to unlock the phone (if you wanted better resale on it) at the end oftge two years and whether the sim only deal would go up in that time (which based on the gap between the sim only and full contract that there now is, I guess it will)
We are limited to O2 due to poor to no reception inside our house. Last year we tried all carriers but in the end, ended up going back to O2 as they were the only carrier we could get inside reception.
And we need 600 plus minutes so with O2 we get unlimited minutes, texts and 1GB of data for £17 per month.