Comments on: iPhone News

By: Jesta

Jesta — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:31:36 +0000

Yeah, remember the bolt on is free for the first 12 months.

By: Diablos

Diablos — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:26:52 +0000

Right so it’s unlimited as long as you pay the bolt on and sort it out etc etc.

That’s good.

By: Jesta

Jesta — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:59:58 +0000

OK…

I got this from the Bolt on T&C page

The O2 Web & Wi-Fi Bolt On allows you unlimited use of O2 UK’s Edge, GPRS, 3G and HSDPA networks, The Cloud’s UK Wireless LAN network and the BT Openzone UK Wireless LAN network, for personal internet use and email.

Benefits of your O2 Web & Wi-Fi Bolt On apply to use in the UK only.

This info is for the 12 Months of included Web & Wi-Fi for new iPhone Pay & Go customers….

Must be using the dedicated iPhone SIM provided at the time of purchase

Active within 24 hours of the customer first topping up their iPhone. Prior to activation, data usage may incur additional charges.

OK, I feel better :)

By: Jesta

Jesta — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:05:25 +0000

Rang O2 cause that’s a dodgy one…

The £3 per MB is within the EU, but mainland UK is free.

I will check that at the store when I purchase ’cause that would lower my desire for an iPhone by the full 100% :)

By: Diablos

Diablos — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:58:57 +0000

Glad that we are not getting too screwed then :) Still a lot of money but £150 for a sat nav so…
Did see this on PAYG contract though

“Downloading data costs £3 a MB in the EU and £6 a MB everywhere else.”

Consider apps are between 1-10 MB that is potentially very expensive. Yeah sure you can download them on your PC and port them to iPhone but what about emails? Someone puts some crappy FW with a 100MB attachment and you are suddenly paying loads out without even realising it or are emails exempt?

By: Jesta

Jesta — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:13:48 +0000

My source in the Americas tells me that the dollar prices mentioned in the main post from the WWDC keynote are for contract phones. This means they’re pretty much the same price. I went on applestore.com to check it out. The $300 is for a two year contract, then an additional $30 a month for data (which is NOT optional). Works out around £26 a month which is in-line with UK prices, not so bad.

By: Jesta

Jesta — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:35:19 +0000

I’ve added the English prices to the main post

By: Diablos

Diablos — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:47:55 +0000

Thanks for costing updates, now i am not as excited, fucking England tax

By: Jesta

Jesta — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:53:46 +0000

So I went into the O2 store today for info.

They know nothing of price or stock levels. All they know is that they are not allowed to take pre-orders and the store opens at 9.02am (No idea why the extra 2 minutes is tacked on!)

Surprisingly, they knew nothing about the price even though it’s on their own website.

I’ll be there at 8.30, I’m not THAT involved with this phone that I need to be there at the crack of dawn (whoever Dawn is :) )