O2 Offers Free iPhone 3G with Certain Plans

I got my iPhone on day one so feel I've had my £269 out of it, an upgrade to 3G, GPS and 16Gb for £159 seems a bargain to me (£35 tariff). Friend who got iPhone in February isn't impressed, but then again the new features aren't killer for her.

I think it's reasonable. Upgrade terms for existing O2 users seem harsh, there will be a lot of people unable to upgrade until the end of their current contract.

In the UK market that is already over saturated with subscribers O2 have made a very good business decision - I think there will be a lot of customers switching considering the new price point.

P.S £30 tariff? Why bother you get nothing for your money.

They also offer the iPhone on Pay & Go (i.e. pre-pay as you go) but they don't mention a price.

I've been a big skeptic of the iPhone and never really liked the endless threads in here about it, but it's becoming too compelling now....

The new O2 prices seem reasonable enough to me, particularly bearing in mind they include unlimited wifi on BT and The Cloud. As someone else here said, you get nothing much for the new £30 contract, but the £35 version gives a reasonable 600 minutes and 500 texts. But on both these you have to pay £99/£159 for the phone. However, unless you are definitely going to use the 1200 minutes of the £45 contract, costing £180 extra over the 18 months, it's cheaper to buy the phone and stick with the £35 contract.

I was also interested to see that the data roaming charge in Europe at £3 per MB is not excessive at the moment, and there are 20MB and 50MB bundles for roaming, which is something I haven't seen from other providers.

Firstly, thank the lord for an actual UK based thread!

Secondly as i mention in another one, i cant upgrade my phone till october, some im basically prying the 02 PAYG price isnt going to be to mental, then its old sim card in and im sorted!:):)

Any ideas/guesses on the price....start your bids!

I wonder how long it is until someone complains about this. As someone who's in the US I'm totally jealous! My rate plan is going to run me $90+tax and I still have to pay the full price for my iPhone. My only hope is that they'll allow the corporate discounts again (+$10 for 3G - $10 for corporate discount).

I am glad to see that Apple's foreign customers aren't getting screwed by their carriers like we are here in states this time around (yeah, I know for the 1.0 all the non-US people got the short end of the stick but this more than makes up for it I think)

i know is a bit off-topics..but since this is kind of UK-related thread...
just out of interest...
is there anyone who has the contract attempt to ask o2 to unlock their 1st gen iPhone ?

Just like other locked phone on the market....usually if u ask your operator to unlock after 3 months with a reason(of coz u can make up one...such as u need to use it in other country's carriers...etc...)....they would usually do it for u..

Notice that the questions above is only applied for those of you who has an O2 contract with 1gen iPhone....many thx^^..

The PAYG card from O2 is very interesting. I will be unusual because PAYG cards don't usually include data (unless I'm well out of touch). I have previously tried to buy PAYG SIMs in Germany and other countries (from Vodafone, T-Mobile, etc but NOT for iPhone) and have been unsuccessful. All I could get were voice/SMS cards. I look forward to finding out the rates for both data and voice.

The fact that PAYG is now allowed raises another interesting question. If I have a UK-registered iPhone, can I take it to an Apple retailer in another European country and buy a PAYG card? I cannot believe it is possible, but then PAYG is a sort of ad hoc arrangement anyway.

I'll be one to complain here. It's certainly not fair that they don't do this kind of thing here in the states. But I guess that's what you get for living here.:mad:

I think the O2 deal is pretty good - and is better than the US and even the recent European tarrifs.

I'll certainly be switching and my other half will upgrade her current O2 deal to the iPhone.

But July 11th.....that so long to wait :D

I'll be one to complain here. It's certainly not fair that they don't do this kind of thing here in the states. But I guess that's what you get for living here.:mad:

It's not normally as good as this. The normal 'tech$ exchange rate is 1:1 !!

As for PAYG phones, I presume they'll offer some sort of Data 'bolt-on' - maybe £10 a month ?