iphone 3gs upgrade options

Destination · 20 Oct 2012 at 12:36

My wife is hoping for a new iphone for Christmas or thereabouts
She currently has an iphone 3gs, and the iphone 5 seems a reasonable upgrade given the change in screen and specs, costly though.

She is currently on an o2 simplicity deal, which charges 16.50 a month, for calls texts and 500mb data, and ak and ireland bolton which gives texts to ROI afaik.

What are her options to stay with o2, but upgrade to the iphone 5, preferably keeping her current number?

gord · 20 Oct 2012 at 14:33

You should be able to keep the number whatever happens. Staying with O2 is your preference, but I would say you are limiting yourselves by doing so for fairly superficial reasons. Have a look around at the ip5 contracts out there. Three's are probably the most appealing.

If you want to keep a cheap monthly then you're going to have to buy the phone outright and pick up a SIM deal. I'm doing this with Three, it's worth considering if you want a cheaper package overall and don't want to tie into 24 month contracts.

Destination · 20 Oct 2012 at 17:15

I'll have to have a look, i assume with O2, she doesn't actually have any upgrade path with them, as it is a simplicity account, or pay and go, or wahtever they call them, so maybe moving might be a better option.

Destination · 24 Oct 2012 at 22:10

Apples website seems to suggest that the new iphone will lock to the network of the sim first used within it?
Does this mean you cannot switch if you buy a simfree phone, then chnage your mind?

As for transferring messagea and contacts and allmthat jazz, can you do that at home on itunes, or will the guys in a store do that for you when you buy a new one?

Jono · 25 Oct 2012 at 10:57

Hikari Kisugi said:
Apples website seems to suggest that the new iphone will lock to the network of the sim first used within it?
Does this mean you cannot switch if you buy a simfree phone, then chnage your mind?

As for transferring messagea and contacts and allmthat jazz, can you do that at home on itunes, or will the guys in a store do that for you when you buy a new one?

Really?

That sucks if so (first paragraph)

Doug · 25 Oct 2012 at 11:39

No.

Unlocked phones are just that: unlocked.

Destination · 25 Oct 2012 at 21:17

Doug said:
No.

Unlocked phones are just that: unlocked.

website said:
Please note: iPhone will lock itself to the network of the first SIM card that is used in the phone. Subsequently attempting to use it on any other network, for example by replacing the SIM card, may mean it becomes permanently unusable. SIM free iPhones can only be used with a UK-network SIM card, and will not accept foreign SIM cards.

Is this wrong then?

Doug · 25 Oct 2012 at 23:34

Don't know where you're reading that. (That's how contract handsets work, so that they can supply all networks from the same pool of handsets.)

Unlocked handsets are and always will be unlocked.

http://store.apple.com/uk/browse/home/shop_iphone/family/iphone5