News - 3 joins T-Mobile in offering iPhone 4

[HEXUS]

For the first time, you?ll be able to get the latest Apple smartphone on all five UK networks.

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[Powderhound]

O2 is generously offering to let people buy themselves out of their existing iPhone contract to the tune of £20 for every month that's left on it.

Seriously, does the average iPhone user actually get a kick out of being completely screwed over at every opportunity?

[Brewster0101]

Seriously, does the average iPhone user actually get a kick out of being completely screwed over at every opportunity?

Couldn't agree more. There are alot of daft consumers who love to be ripped off by Apple.

[kingpotnoodle]

Seriously, does the average iPhone user actually get a kick out of being completely screwed over at every opportunity?

Hahaha my thoughts exactly...

[tickedon]

My existing iphone contract was up a couple of days ago with o2.... http://shop.o2.co.uk/new-iphone/tariffs.html - their new iPhone 4 tariffs are worse than the old ones! No more unlimited data, only 500mb.

Hoping Orange, T-Mobile, Vodafone or Three come up with something better....

[semo]

As we all know, these 'Unlimited' claims are a bad joke that just won't go away. Nowadays Unlimited == You need dig through the FUP for the actual restriction. There is no phone internet that is unlimited.

I could see why people went for iphones when they came out but i can't see the point these days. I will never have one because of all the unreasonable (possibly illegal) restrictions and you can't easily swap the battery.

[spoon_]

Couldn't agree more. There are alot of daft consumers who love to be ripped off by Apple.

According to last count sales of iPad - more than two millions and growing.

Add to that iPhones/iPods/Mac Books and whatever Apple sells.

It turns out you're calling everyone around you 'daft'

Apple provides products people want to buy, that's why they're so successful in whatever they do.

Its been said many times Apple stuff isn't for techy guys.

And no, I'm not a Apple fan, don't have any of their products so you gotta come up with other arguments in your response.


Sorry!

[Blitzen]

I was offered the new I-Phone via 3 yesterday as an upgrade.

Phone - £99
500 mins
500 texts
Unlimited Internet Usage (FUP)

£21 per month.

Didn't want it though....had the l;ast one and was pretty unimpressed.

Just took the Nokia X6 16gb - 12 months
Same add ons as above
£14 per month

[spoon_]

Did you actually have to pay for the phone itself?

[aidanjt]

According to last count sales of iPad - more than two millions and growing.

Add to that iPhones/iPods/Mac Books and whatever Apple sells.

It turns out you're calling everyone around you 'daft'

Apple provides products people want to buy, that's why they're so successful in whatever they do.

Its been said many times Apple stuff isn't for techy guys.

And no, I'm not a Apple fan, don't have any of their products so you gotta come up with other arguments in your response.

And about 70% of those sales would be repurchases to replace the exploded ones out of warranty, or because the non-replacable battery inevitably died, out of warranty.

Just because Apple market on ignorance, it doesn't mean that those people are any less stupid for buying into it.

[crossy]

I was offered the new I-Phone via 3 yesterday as an upgrade.
Phone - £99
500 mins
500 texts
Unlimited Internet Usage (FUP)
£21 per month.

That's seems like a bl**dy good deal, and certainly a shedload better than the one I was kindly offered when I went shopping @ Three two weeks ago for a migration deal (PAYG-to-contract). Although I'm guessing that the "unlimited internet" is actually their definition of that, so it's actually the same crappy 500MB/month as everyone else is doing.

Best the Three salesdroid could do for me was some brainless Samsung for £23/month with that "unlimited" internet.
(I actually went to try and get an HTC Desire or SE Xperia X10 - so no way that a white-and-green Samsung is equivalent)

Bob

[Unique]

I was offered the new I-Phone via 3 yesterday as an upgrade.

Phone - £99
500 mins
500 texts
Unlimited Internet Usage (FUP)

£21 per month.

Didn't want it though....had the l;ast one and was pretty unimpressed.

Just took the Nokia X6 16gb - 12 months
Same add ons as above
£14 per month

that deal sounds too good to be true. i'd jump at that. i'm paying £20 a month to 02 on simplicity to use with my 2g iphone, so getting the new phone for £100 and paying pretty much the same money but more minutes is fantastic, even if its a 2 year contract as i've had this phone for about 3 years now. i don't tend to upgrade that often. i mean what are they gonna add to next years iphone to make you wanna go that much crazier for it? i think the next time there would be a noticeable upgrade will be in a couple of years. as long as 3 don't mark the handsets like orange used to do (dunno if they still do) then that's fine. i've got decent 3g service with my 3 dongle. i don't make that many calls and o2 service isn't that great so 3 can't be much worse surely, not in a main city where i live, and london is the only place i generally travel to in the uk

[The Hand]

I'm more likely to get the the Samsung Galaxy S coming out on the 15th, better spec phone imho with future flash support with android 2.2... free phone with 900 mins, unlimited txt, 1GB data for £35 per month on Voda:
http://shop.vodafone.co.uk/shop/mobi...msung-galaxy-s
I imagine it may appear on other networks later on, so the potential competition might drive down the price in the long term.

[Rob_B]

And about 70% of those sales would be repurchases to replace the exploded ones out of warranty, or because the non-replacable battery inevitably died, out of warranty.

Just because Apple market on ignorance, it doesn't mean that those people are any less stupid for buying into it.

Source for your figures?.... Oh wait you don't have one? Thought so

I do wish fanboys/anti-fanboys would just stfu & stop moaning about these sorts of things while assuming they know best for the X million of other people in the world & simply making up figures to try to justify their 'arguement'
Someone above already said Apple isn't for techies & I kinda agree although many techies still crave relative simplicity in certain gadgets.

I'm glad all 5 netowrks are getting it, although I assume the tariffs will stil be within 5p of each other again. Might consider one depending on handset cost, WinPhone7 is looking a bit too far away for me now, I've been waiting ages for an upgrade & getting close to making a rash decision, will probably end up with a Desire.

[Brewster0101]

I'm more likely to get the the Samsung Galaxy S coming out on the 15th, better spec phone imho with future flash support with android 2.2... free phone with 900 mins, unlimited txt, 1GB data for £35 per month on Voda:
http://shop.vodafone.co.uk/shop/mobi...msung-galaxy-s
I imagine it may appear on other networks later on, so the potential competition might drive down the price in the long term.

Apple don't really lower their prices to compete. They stick to high prices and thats it.

I was looking at the galaxy s too as a comparative to the HTC desire and the Samsung has some little flaws because of its own software overlay. Check the review out at tech radar first.

[Rob_B]

I've always been wary of Samsung, my wife then go a lower end Samsung & the OS is just awful, thank god they've gone android, might need to check that one out.