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OK, I'm quite liking the iphone and am thinking of getting one.
Now don't laugh but I've NEVER had a contract and currently use PAYG and the phones I use are other peoples hand me downs with is a Nokia 5100.
So the question is do I say with my PAYG £10 every month (if I'm licky, more like every 6 weeks) or go all out and get a iphone.
If the iphone does anyone know of any good deal around.
Cheers
(if I'm licky, more like every 6 weeks)
you're a Kiwi aren't you? 😀
If you can afford a lump sum of about £500 then get one SIM free and put your PAYG SIM in it, otherwise you are lookin at between £30 - £40 over month over 18 or 24 months !
There are second hand ones around that O2 will unlock if you want to use an alternative PAYG sim in, or just put an O2 one in. The PAYG price is comparable to other sim-free smartphones, just look at the adverts in the phone mags. When I got my contract N95, a sim-free version was around £550 on average. Lots of people like to make a noise about how expensive the iPhone is, but other phones are equally pricy. Face it, it's called an iPhone to get people to stock it in phone shops, and encourage customers to buy a whizzy phone. If Apple had tried to market it as a PDA, or pocket computer, only business people or geeks would have bought it. It's a computer, pure and simple, but designed to be as simple as possible for non-technical people to use it without fear.
[edit] there are no real deals around, 'cos every network is desperate to get it, so there's no real competition regarding pricing. Tesco is possibly the cheapest, but do some real comparisons. I think Orange are actually more expensive than O2, on contract, and their 'unlimited internet' isn't as unlimited as O2's for example. I listen to BBC 6Music on mine for at least three hours every day for example, with no problems cost-wise. Americans have much more expensive and restrictive contracts than we do, with 24 months being the norm.[/edit]