New iPhone Tarrifs

To be fair the phone is a very reasonable price - its just not free like most mobiles. If you consider the Touch is £200 and the iphone is the same but with a phone in it, its quite good really. I still remember paying about £229 for my Gen2 iPod.

So if you look at it as buying a very good device for £269, then you're paying the contract for the actual minutes, which at £35 a month for 600 minutes and 500 texts is now pretty decent.
 
No real surprises. iPhone users were getting hit with the double whammy of a very expensive phone AND a poor value-for-money contract. Now it's only the high price of the phone that will put people off.

Personally, I'm sticking with my Nokia N95 8GB + 16GB iPod touch for the same price (£269 up front, £35 a month) though. :)
 
GuruJockStrap said:
It's better but pity O2's data charges and bundles are still horrific. Bit criminal with a handset like the iphone.
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Data is unlimited on the iPhone tariff (yes, real unlimited) and always has been, hardly horrific. :D

Also on a slightly different note, look at the thread further down regarding O2's tariffs for 'normal' contracts as they are changing too in Feb.

EDIT: whoops, the normal o2 tariff thread I saw wasn't on this forum, it was here:
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=733370
 
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Tunney said:
Personally, I'm sticking with my Nokia N95 8GB + 16GB iPod touch for the same price (£269 up front, £35 a month) though. :)
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Thats what I had - Well, N95 and iPod, but I do like the convergence of both, plus I sold my N95 on ebay for £210 so it only cost me £60 for the iPhone.

Generally I'm very very pleased with the iPhone. I actually use the net and email on it now, whereas on the N95 (and every other mobile I've owned) it was a painful experience. One or two niggles were sorted in the Jan firmware update (multiple SMS etc) and there are loads of iPhone sites/applications springing up on the web now. Probably the only thing I miss from the N95 is the video camera and the ringtones, as the iphone ones are crap.
 
I also came from an N95 Sagalout, although mine is still gathering dust on a shelf as it has been since November. I originally only intended to swap to an iPhone for a week or so to test with but after actually using it for a few days there was no way I wanted to go back to a legacy handset. Must sell the N95 while they are still worth something.

I would barely ever bother with the internet with the N95, it was just sooooo fiddly. With the iPhone I am browsing at least a few times a day, on the train, in bed - even on the loo!
 
I need more texts. I go over 500 every month :(

It's lame that on a £45 contract I'll still be limited to 500 texts. I may as well downgrade to £35 now as 600 minutes for me is about right.

You'd think they'd so something like £45 - 750txts, £75 - 1000txts.
 
I am currently on an old BT Genie tariff with O2, which means I don't have GPRS or anything like that.

If I called them and asked to transfer to one of those sim only tariffs, and got a new sim card.

Then I bought an iPhone handset only. Could I jailbreak it and use my O2 sim in it? What would be the disadvanatges with doing this?

Thanks
 
PeterNem said:
I need more texts. I go over 500 every month :(

It's lame that on a £45 contract I'll still be limited to 500 texts. I may as well downgrade to £35 now as 600 minutes for me is about right.

You'd think they'd so something like £45 - 750txts, £75 - 1000txts.
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Isn't there some kind of bolt on you can get that you could put that saved tenner towards?

EDIT: yeah you can get 200 extra messages for 9 quid or 400 for 16:
http://www.o2.co.uk/mobilestariffs/tariffs/paymonthly/messagingboltons

How many are you sending?
 
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iPhone Tariff - £35 600mins/500texts

Simplicity Tariff - £25 600mins/1000texts

If you dont use the web more than 200mb/month then you can get O2 Simplicity for £25/month then bolt on the internet for £7.50, making it £2.50 less than iphone tariff and double the texts!
 
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