Renton 20429 Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 IPhone Too expensive! Might go for that google phone like for that price! £35 a month and you get an iPhone What you get with it though? A 24 month contract and the most basic of the Iphones. Get plenty of texts and free minutes though. http://shop.o2.co.uk/update/paymonth.html I looked into it in March. 24 months is an obscenely long contract. Not the most basic. It's the new generation, but not the uber one. It's still worth it imo. I've never understood why people tweak out about 18 or 24 month contracts when, given evidence from this site alone, people don't seem to habitually change their tarriff every year anyway. It's the most basic one the offer as a new phone. The problem I have with the 18 and 24 month contracts is that it puts all the power with the company. After 12 months I was always able to negotiate a better tarriff and/or a better phone. Sometimes knocking upto a fiver a month off. Now that adds up over the extra 6 or 12 months if you take the longer contracts. Plus i've never had a phone that wasn't getting tatty or having some faults by the time it got to the 12 month point. But since 02 are hammering the 18 and 24 month contracts, not to mention holding people to ransom with the Iphone I've gone for Simplicity until things calm back down and bought my own phone. The iphone looks like a good bit of kit but not worth the £800 + you'd pay over 24 months. Plus due to it only having 8 gigs it wouldn't replace my ipod. Which is full at 30 gigs. I'm hacked off with contracts but really want to keep my number. Is there any way of tranferring it to a pay as you go deal? I'm not sure you can take you number with you to PAYG but the rolling one month contracts might be worth a punt. That's what I did with 02, I went from their 12 month one to the Simplicity tarriff. Basically you can give them a months notice at any time. But because they're not subsiding a phone you can get it much cheaper. T-Mobile and 02 do them. http://shop.o2.co.uk/sim-only-simplicity http://www.t-mobile.co.uk/shop/mobile-phon...rd/pay-monthly/ Cheers for the heads up Hog. Still got 9 months of an O2 contract to run and then will assess my options, heard the Virgin are cheap too if you already sunscribe to their TV/telecom and don't require a new hand set. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mighty Hog 488 Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 (edited) IPhone Too expensive! Might go for that google phone like for that price! £35 a month and you get an iPhone What you get with it though? A 24 month contract and the most basic of the Iphones. Get plenty of texts and free minutes though. http://shop.o2.co.uk/update/paymonth.html I looked into it in March. 24 months is an obscenely long contract. Not the most basic. It's the new generation, but not the uber one. It's still worth it imo. I've never understood why people tweak out about 18 or 24 month contracts when, given evidence from this site alone, people don't seem to habitually change their tarriff every year anyway. It's the most basic one the offer as a new phone. The problem I have with the 18 and 24 month contracts is that it puts all the power with the company. After 12 months I was always able to negotiate a better tarriff and/or a better phone. Sometimes knocking upto a fiver a month off. Now that adds up over the extra 6 or 12 months if you take the longer contracts. Plus i've never had a phone that wasn't getting tatty or having some faults by the time it got to the 12 month point. But since 02 are hammering the 18 and 24 month contracts, not to mention holding people to ransom with the Iphone I've gone for Simplicity until things calm back down and bought my own phone. The iphone looks like a good bit of kit but not worth the £800 + you'd pay over 24 months. Plus due to it only having 8 gigs it wouldn't replace my ipod. Which is full at 30 gigs. I'm hacked off with contracts but really want to keep my number. Is there any way of tranferring it to a pay as you go deal? I'm not sure you can take you number with you to PAYG but the rolling one month contracts might be worth a punt. That's what I did with 02, I went from their 12 month one to the Simplicity tarriff. Basically you can give them a months notice at any time. But because they're not subsiding a phone you can get it much cheaper. T-Mobile and 02 do them. http://shop.o2.co.uk/sim-only-simplicity http://www.t-mobile.co.uk/shop/mobile-phon...rd/pay-monthly/ Cheers for the heads up Hog. Still got 9 months of an O2 contract to run and then will assess my options, heard the Virgin are cheap too if you already sunscribe to their TV/telecom and don't require a new hand set. Just had a look at their sim only deals if you're already with them for TV and they look very competitive. No idea what their coverage is like, but if you're on a rolling contract you'd only have to put up with it for 30 days. http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html/bundl...obileoffer.html Edited August 5, 2009 by The Mighty Hog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 10430 Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 Oh don't get me wrong, I know it's not the cheapest deal out there. If I was after a basic phone I'd probably not have got it, but I wanted the iPhone and that tarrif got me it "free". I would recommend this to people too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Besty 4 Posted August 5, 2009 Author Share Posted August 5, 2009 http://www.mobiles.co.uk/iphone-3g.html Got the 8GB 3G for £34.26 p/m on there without having to pay for the phone, 24M contract though so not sure. Don't think the text's would be enough either. http://www.mobiles.co.uk/sony-ericsson-w995.html That first offer looks decent on there. 600 mins, unlimited texts and £40 auto cashback for £20 a month, unsure if the phones any good though. http://www.mobiles.co.uk/htc-hero.html Got that as well which looks a decent phone but there's no point getting it without free internet included. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khay 10 Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 Managed to get 10 pound off my contract. So happy enough with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottish Mag 3 Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 O2 simplicty contract with 800 minutes and 1600 texts + 1 add on (I can get the Blackberry add on which normally costs £10) for £20 a month for 12 months. Quidco are giving you £100 back so basically £140 for 12 months for that or £35 a month for the Iphone 3GS and whatever it is for the handset (185 for 16gb on 18 months I think?). Whilst I would like an iphone I am struggling to justify to myself £815 (?) for an iphone when I could easily get the sim deal and keep my Blackberry Bold which I really do like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Besty 4 Posted August 5, 2009 Author Share Posted August 5, 2009 (edited) Would just stick with the Blackberry if I were you. By the way, if you ring up Phones 4 U, can you bargain with them like in the shop? Edited August 5, 2009 by Besty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 19320 Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 What price changes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 29492 Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 Renton, you can keep your number whether you're going for another contract or on PAYG. It's illegal for them not to allow this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Besty 4 Posted August 5, 2009 Author Share Posted August 5, 2009 N97, £35 p/m, 1200 mins, 3000 texts, unlimited internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jusoda Kid 1 Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 On Orange at the moment, 400 mins and unlimited texts for £25 a month I know they've put there price plan up but ive been with them for 5 years and have had nothing but impeccable service. I won't be changing ring them and you'll get a tenner month at least knocked off your bill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Kenneth Noisewater 0 Posted August 11, 2009 Share Posted August 11, 2009 On Orange at the moment, 400 mins and unlimited texts for £25 a month I know they've put there price plan up but ive been with them for 5 years and have had nothing but impeccable service. I won't be changing ring them and you'll get a tenner month at least knocked off your bill. Do you reckon? I'm on Dolphin15 (£15 a month for 100 min and unlimited txts) don't suppose they've got much room to manoeuvre on price there, although I'd like it if they chucked in a bit of free mobile internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marko 0 Posted August 11, 2009 Share Posted August 11, 2009 does anyone know how much it is for orange internet unlimited? is it like £5 extra a month or so? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Kenneth Noisewater 0 Posted August 11, 2009 Share Posted August 11, 2009 does anyone know how much it is for orange internet unlimited? is it like £5 extra a month or so? 500mb for £4.89 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jusoda Kid 1 Posted August 11, 2009 Share Posted August 11, 2009 (edited) On Orange at the moment, 400 mins and unlimited texts for £25 a month I know they've put there price plan up but ive been with them for 5 years and have had nothing but impeccable service. I won't be changing ring them and you'll get a tenner month at least knocked off your bill. Do you reckon? I'm on Dolphin15 (£15 a month for 100 min and unlimited txts) don't suppose they've got much room to manoeuvre on price there, although I'd like it if they chucked in a bit of free mobile internet. My mate got a fiver a month knocked off his £15 a month bill and extra minutes added Edited August 11, 2009 by Wacky Jnr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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