Iphone deal

ORLY · 2 Dec 2010 at 20:08

Whats currently the best deal out there for an Iphone? Looking for a 32gig Iphone 4. Contract runs out this month and not sure where to start. cheers

Robbo · 2 Dec 2010 at 20:48

Any of these places, the deals dont really vary much due to the demand for the phone -

https://www.t-mobile.co.uk/shop/iphone/buy-now/

http://shop.vodafone.co.uk/iphone/pay-monthly.html

http://shop.o2.co.uk/promo/iphoneindex/Pay_Monthly/4/Black

http://shop.orange.co.uk/iphone/

http://www.three.co.uk/Phones/iPhone

Myshra · 3 Dec 2010 at 09:08

Robboftw said:
Any of these places, the deals dont really vary much due to apple making us their bitches and telling us how to sell them

fixed

quidco/tcb usually gives £100 for an iphone contract for what it's worth.

"andy" · 3 Dec 2010 at 09:11

the best deal might be to drop your contract to sim only and buy a handset off ebay

4T5 · 3 Dec 2010 at 09:14

"andy" said:
the best deal might be to drop your contract to sim only and buy a handset off ebay

After 2-3 weeks of reading & looking around this is what I decided as the contracts are to long & to expensive.
Sim only deals are sweet at the mo with loads of extras given for topping up.
I got a Desire though not an iphone but still 25 quid a month for 2 years is outrageous, Cash deals for the win. :cool:

Yas786 · 3 Dec 2010 at 11:37

"andy" said:
the best deal might be to drop your contract to sim only and buy a handset off ebay

Which was what i was going to say...best is to buy one sim free ie unlocked then just put a PAYG or a sim only card in it.

Its what i have done with my iphone4 32gb....bought the phone sim free and am using my tmobile £10 a month contract on it.

ORLY · 4 Dec 2010 at 23:04

"andy" said:
the best deal might be to drop your contract to sim only and buy a handset off ebay

Its a nightmare, I thought it would be easy to get a nice iphone deal but getting stitched up left, right and centre with some of the !deals out there. I am with Three and they're like offering me a standard £30/£35 deal for a Ip4 over 24 months. +up front fee. utter joke.

I may just go with Tescos and use their 12month £20 tariff to get myself on the ladder. And spread the up front/monthly spend on a couple interest free credit cards for 24months... effectively like.. £27.88 pm over 24months... its still a rip off tho!

Bar hum bug!

Spawn said:
Which was what i was going to say...best is to buy one sim free ie unlocked then just put a PAYG or a sim only card in it.

Its what i have done with my iphone4 32gb....bought the phone sim free and am using my tmobile £10 a month contract on it.

How much did you buy it for and how long ago?

TS7 · 4 Dec 2010 at 23:47

You can get some good money back via Quidco for Vodafone contracts so have a look at that.

The Tesco one is also good, just because I don't like to be tied into long contract lengths.

b0rn2sk8 · 5 Dec 2010 at 10:48

Tesco and Three are cheapest for a straight contract.

Buying sim free and having a sim only deal works out at roughly the same price anyway.

Its always been that much on any iphone and it wont change any time soon.

EDIT: Seems three prices have gone up. I only paid £99 for the 32GB on a £30/month. (500 mins, 5K texts, 1GB internet)

reflux · 5 Dec 2010 at 11:20

"andy" said:
the best deal might be to drop your contract to sim only and buy a handset off ebay

Yeah, I did this. Back in August when you couldn't get one from anywhere, even the networks, I paid £540 from eBay. Quite a lot of money, but managed to sell my Nexus One for over £300, so didn't work out too bad.