iphone down to £169

khimbar · 20 Apr 2008 at 20:45

3G? Meh, who needs it.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/09/o2_speed_limits/

Sarduk · 20 Apr 2008 at 20:48

khimbar; http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/15/o2_denies_caps/

Sarduk · 20 Apr 2008 at 20:49

MrLOL said:
theres probably a certain ammount of truth in that

but do you really think apple woud allow o2 to knock £100 off the retail price ? apple are well known for their tight control over retailers. Its one of the reasons why they will only deal with 1 provider per country. Apple will have sanctionned the cuts, and no doubt cut the wholesale price as well

because you can bet CPW wont be taking £100 hit per phone.

O2 can do whatever they want with the iPhone pricing; it is up to them whether they want to make a loss on it or not.

ThatJoe · 20 Apr 2008 at 20:52

C'mon, does anyone know if the PayG o2 sim with a £7.50 web add on features EDGE or GPRS? Theres been rumours saying they can get EDGE enabled but no-one has confirmed it

Nymins · 20 Apr 2008 at 21:39

ThatJoe said:
C'mon, does anyone know if the PayG o2 sim with a £7.50 web add on features EDGE or GPRS? Theres been rumours saying they can get EDGE enabled but no-one has confirmed it

People have got it to work with EDGE, but it doesn't give the full EDGE speed. Just a minor improvement over GPRS.

andrew.bell · 20 Apr 2008 at 21:40

I bought one too the other day. They quite good.

ThatJoe · 20 Apr 2008 at 21:41

Nymins said:
People have got it to work with EDGE, but it doesn't give the full EDGE speed. Just a minor improvement over GPRS.

Do you know if the o2 simplicity plan uses EDGE/GPRS?

Nymins · 20 Apr 2008 at 21:43

ThatJoe said:
Do you know if the o2 simplicity plan uses EDGE/GPRS?

Any of the plans have the ability to use EDGE. The simplicity plan should be able to use it at full speed EDGE, rather than the cut down EDGE for Pay&Go users.

ThatJoe · 20 Apr 2008 at 21:45

Nymins said:
Any of the plans have the ability to use EDGE. The simplicity plan should be able to use it at full speed EDGE, rather than the cut down EDGE for Pay&Go users.

when you say 'cut down' for PAYG how long would you say a 1 minute video would take to load using youtube?

Nymins · 20 Apr 2008 at 21:47

ThatJoe said:
when you say 'cut down' for PAYG how long would you say a 1 minute video would take to load using youtube?

Well there are videos on Youtube of people loading the "New York Times" website on EDGE and it takes about 1 minute or so to load it fully.

So at a huge guess, I would say about 2-3minutes to fully load a 1min Youtube video. Massive guess.

ThatJoe · 20 Apr 2008 at 21:51

Nymins said:
Well there are videos on Youtube of people loading the "New York Times" website on EDGE and it takes about 1 minute or so to load it fully.

So at a huge guess, I would say about 2-3minutes to fully load a 1min Youtube video. Massive guess.

So you'd recommend getting the o2 simplicity package?

Nymins · 20 Apr 2008 at 21:55

ThatJoe said:
So you'd recommend getting the o2 simplicity package?

If it comes with unlimited data then yes. If you want a good idea of GPRS speeds, then think of a webpage loading on dial-up. EDGE is slightly faster.

ThatJoe · 20 Apr 2008 at 21:56

does anyone know what the minimum age for o2 pay monthly contracts are?

Sarduk · 20 Apr 2008 at 22:01

18, as with all contracts

ThatJoe · 20 Apr 2008 at 22:04

weird, somewhere on the CPW on the T&C you needed to be 16 to buy the handset, haha

ThatJoe · 20 Apr 2008 at 22:07

JimpsEd said:
18, as with all contracts

do you think it'll be different with the simplicity plan seeing as it isn't a full contract?

Nymins · 20 Apr 2008 at 22:08

ThatJoe said:
weird, somewhere on the CPW on the T&C you needed to be 16 to buy the handset, haha

I you need to be 18 to buy it. You can't use credit/debit cards that are available to people under 18 like the Visa Electron or Solo, and of course you cant pay with cash.

Slinky1989 · 20 Apr 2008 at 22:09

Ahhh so the reason you can't pay with cash is so they don't sell to under 18's?

Nymins · 20 Apr 2008 at 22:14

"slinky" said:
Ahhh so the reason you can't pay with cash is so they don't sell to under 18's?

Yep

They need to perform credit checks when people are meant to sign up to the contract.

ThatJoe · 20 Apr 2008 at 22:15

what payment methods do o2 accept? can't seem to find it on there site /fail