Posted from an I-phone

[Freaker]

The iPhone is really not that much any more - my roommate ordered his yesterday for $300 (the older 4GB model.) Apparently they've figured out how to unlock it for other providers now as well (everything except youtube works.)

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I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.

[munchingfoo]

My current phone cost 360 pounds, and I got that free with my contract? What makes this one different?

Quoting Ben Reilly from 19:34, 25th Sep 2007

Quoting munchingfoo from 17:13, 25th Sep 2007
... so i think I have enough negotiating power to get an iPhone free.

Not a chance.

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Tired Freudian references aside - your mother played my mighty skin flute like a surf crowned sea nymph trying to rouse Poseidon from his watery slumber!

[Malcolm]

This is the iPhone you're talking about. There's no way Apple are going to pass up on an opportunity to get money out of you where possible, so I find it highly unlikely you'll get it for free with your contract.

Also it's O2, they are the most expensive network in the country I've found. I doubt they'll give something as exclusive as the iPhone away for nothing, they'll expect you to pay the £270 or whatever it is.

[Steveo]

Vodafone are far more expensive in my experience. I terminated my contract early to get away from Vodafone this year.

Yes, you won't get a free iPhone I wouldn't have thought. The iPhone isn't being sold at that price as handset only, which I imagine is where you got the price for your Nokia. This is a few hundred along with the 18 month contract.

I'd say you could get money off it though.

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Get off my internet.

[househunter]

Don't forget in the US that it is the price of the phone (around $600, but I think the price has gone down?) AND a 2 year contract. I feel this will be the same here.

[David Bean]

Yes. Basically, their pricing strategy sucks; I'd hate to work in an O2 shop now, and have to try to persuade anybody that anyn kind of phone whatsoever is worth that much.

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[Freaker]

The phone itself I don't think is subsidised when you buy it with a contract here in the US - it just happens to not work or be activated without the appropiate AT&T contract. My roommate got an iphone for $300, no contract, from the apple store.

Prices may go up if they ever unlock them to be used with any contract, though.

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I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.

[TheUnixKid]

It's very easy to unlock an iPhone. I'm running mine on Orange and got the unlocking program for free. You can use a program for ZiPhone or LibertyX. It takes 5 minutes and doesn't break anything.

The only feature you don't get is visual voicemail 'cos that's O2 Specific.

[Fawksie]

Why did you dig this out?

[Lid]

Quoting TheUnixKid from 21:50, 10th Apr 2008
The only feature you don't get is visual voicemail 'cos that's O2 Specific.

Dredge or no dredge, I just couldn't let this slip out of the top 10 without having my £0.02.

The thing I love most about my iPhone is the simply ridiculous amount of data I use, for free. In the first month I used a gigabyte of data, something that'd have cost me £4000 under my old O2 contract. I'm now just shy of 3GB, 5 months down the line.

Unless you're not going to rape the data (and thus about 3/5 of the phone and most of the defining features (such as, as you say, Visual Voicemail - gimmicky, but actually useful)), I don't really see why not to just get an O2 iPhone contract. Not many others offer free unlimited data, or a bundle anything like what I use, and I don't think I use my iPhone as much as I could...

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[The Jaspar]

Quoting Lid from 00:37, 11th Apr 2008
The thing I love most about my iPhone is the simply ridiculous amount of data I use, for free. In the first month I used a gigabyte of data, something that'd have cost me £4000 under my old O2 contract. I'm now just shy of 3GB, 5 months down the line.
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Mathematical Anti Telharsic Harfatum Septomin

That's a lot of porn!



Or lolcats

[munchingfoo]

From my experience of Royce's hard drive, I doubt he needs to download any more porn for the rest of his life.

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“ When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading”

[niall]

Quoting Lid from 00:37, 11th Apr 2008

The thing I love most about my iPhone is the simply ridiculous amount of data I use, for free. In the first month I used a gigabyte of data, something that'd have cost me £4000 under my old O2 contract. I'm now just shy of 3GB, 5 months down the line.

(this isn't a dig at the iphone)

To be fair, its the contract that's allowed you to get the best out the phone. I got web 'n' walk from T-Mobile, and I reckon i'm shifting near £500 a month on wap, which only costs me £7.50. If i didn't have the "unlimited" wap, i wouldn't use it.

[TheUnixKid]

No I idea why I dug it out. More than likely boredom. I can't even remember where I found it.

I quite like all of this unlimited business now. My new contract has unlimited data and unlimited texts, which is good because I send about 2000 a month.