Apple Iphone and o2 WTF !

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I am on the verge of a very abusive phone call to o2 LOL ! ive been with o2 for 6 years now, they have billed me for things i havnt even had, tyhey have been very pathetic, then after very long on waiting for the iphone i see the tarrifs and contracts they have are the worst i have ever seen !! WTF is goin on, does anyone no anything else about how crap they are !

the cheapest deal is 35 pound a month on 18month contract !!!!!! WTF !!! god dam i neally screamed like woman...

35 pound over 18 months = totally pay of 630

AND the tarrif is 200minutes and 200txts a month......if no one knows that basically one of the worst you can get.

The phone is only worth 270 ! ! ! to buy ! ! !

this is a complete joke !!! (as far a i know),

you get a very good k800i or something and the phone is free.....on only 10 pound a month contract, 12months.... with better txts and minutes, and the k800i is either dearer or the same price as it !

i know theres gonna eb a bit of a uproar when *** time gets nearer and people are looking to get one on contract...

just felt like a moan on here lol, see what you all think.

Cheers
 
I do believe the tariff comes with unlimited data usage to make the best use of the iphone's feature? that alone would be worth £5-£8 a month on other networks, although it isnt 3G speed.

It's not O2's fault for charging £270 for the phone, its all part of Apple's plans afaik to sell the phone unsubsidised without execption.
 
the phone is a absoulte great price!, but the tarrifs are double what it should be, thats what im saying, and the unlimited usage for iphone features is 3pound per month.
 
AmateurJimmy said:
the phone is a absoulte great price!, but the tarrifs are double what it should be, thats what im saying, and the unlimited usage for iphone features is 3pound per month.
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Great price? what makes you say that?

Look at the competitors such as Nokia with the N95 it has more technology in the handset and yet you can get it free of charge on a £35+ price plan.

It's a rip off to be honest, theres no way it should cost that much on a 18 month contract.
 
Its expensive to keep it exlusive,

If every man and his dog had one then they would be worthless tbh.

I'm glad they are expensive so not everyone starts playing with them.

sid
 
slap an "i" next to your bog standard Fridge, apple could flog it for 8k to some poor sod.


deliberate bad design with another unremovable battery that will no doubt fail just outside the 12 months warranty and cost a small fortune to replace. I am an original purchaser of 2 ipods that both had failed batteries just outside warranty. one was a gift too which annoyed me even more.

no MMS

No 3rd party addons so you can say bye bye to a decent loving community to build up and make funky addons.

SMS is real hard to send.

and no MSN like feature for IM chatting i believe.

Maybe iphone 2 will be a lil better but imo some one will make an iphone clone that is even better. nice idea but the execution was poor.
 
Non-removable battery.

No swappable storage card.

No GPS.

No MMS.

No 3G (which is hopefully on the way out as the faster HSPDA gets more coverage), only the slower EDGE.

No copy-paste feature

No way to access the file system

$0.99 for a song PLUS ANOTHER $0.99 to turn it into a ringtone. You can't rip ringtones off your own CDs.

Non-subsidised phone still locked into expensive 18 month tariffs.

Need I go on?
 
Yeh it's pretty dumb, I wouldn't mind paying for the phone up front, but the rates are just mad! Not only do you not get a free phone, you pay more than the tariffs where you DO get a free phone! Such a shame, it looks like an awesome phone, I was going to get one but now I think I'll skip on it, might get an iPod Touch and get a free phone on my contract. Maybe it'll click with them before launch that this isn't the US, and people expect more from their contracts!
 
Hamzter said:
Yeh it's pretty dumb, I wouldn't mind paying for the phone up front, but the rates are just mad! Not only do you not get a free phone, you pay more than the tariffs where you DO get a free phone! Such a shame, it looks like an awesome phone, I was going to get one but now I think I'll skip on it, might get an iPod Touch and get a free phone on my contract. Maybe it'll click with them before launch that this isn't the US, and people expect more from their contracts!
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thats exactly my point, i ment the phone to buy is a ok price, just the tarrifs are pathetic :(
 
If the same phone with the same features was made and marketed by say, LG, at the same price I doubt they;d sell hardly any.

Give me an N95 with 6gb card any day. :)
 
The new 8GB N95 is available from, I hear, 8th November 2007, on a sim free basis for around £450. Sounds like a much better prospect to me.
 
It isn't unlimited usage. The o2 at the press conference said there would be a fair usage policy attached. False advertising yet again :(
 
sid said:
Its expensive to keep it exlusive,

If every man and his dog had one then they would be worthless tbh.

I'm glad they are expensive so not everyone starts playing with them.

sid
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I wonder why Apple bothers spending vast sums of money on R&D when all people want is something fashionable and exclusive.:rolleyes:

The reason the price is so high is two fold:

i) Apple get a very nice cut of the monthly subscription, possibly up to 40%. If Apple didn't take a cut, the tariffs would come in at £21, £27 and £33 per month. That would be very competitive. Unfortunately, you're paying the Apple tax each month making the deals pretty poor value for money.

ii) Apple's business model of selling phones in store and then activating them via iTunes stops Apple from selling the iPhone cheap. If they followed a UK model and sold the phone for £50, people would either export them back to the US for use on AT&T or would hack them to be unlocked. For this reason, we will never see an iPhone for free on a contract.
 
Noto said:
Maybe iphone 2 will be a lil better but imo some one will make an iphone clone that is even better. nice idea but the execution was poor.
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There has already been a clone made (which is apparently better than the iPhone) in China. They're selling it much cheaper as well I think.

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Meizu MiniOne.
 
People are going to be paying Apple/O2 xxx pounds for the iPhone. They will buy it in their thousands.

Look at it from a business point of view:

1) Apple sell the iPhone at £150 + £25 contract on 12 months. Total cost of £450.

2) Apple do what they are doing at a minimum total cost of £900+.

People who want the iPhone WILL pay for scenario 2 so what is the point in Apple de-valuing their product just to keep a few people happy when they know that they can get an extra hundred quid for it plus a huge contract.

It's the same with any product on the market. Take an Nvidia 8800 Ultra, it doesn't really cost that much more to make than an 8800GTX/GTS but because people are willing to pay top dollar, Nvidia can charge their partners that kind of money too and hence the price is passed on to the consumer.

As with all products, the iPhone will eventually become old, loads of people will have one and O2 will start discounting. If you want one of the first then you pay for it. Simple as that!
 
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