The Apple Thread - Macs, iPods & iPhones!

[FlawlessCowboy]

So, buy the iPhone 4 sim free direct from Apple when it's released, and ask O2 for a micro SIM card on our current tariff?

Yep, thats your best bet.

 

[Tim7]

Thanking you .

 

[Tim7]

Right, just rang O2. The guy said that if you register on the O2 site that you're interested in the iPhone 4 and are thinking of buying it at launch, then they will be sending out a micro SIM to you. He said this micro SIM contains no information until you activate it, which you do by going to O2.co.uk/mynewsim and then you can register it to your account. Then it will have your current tariff on the new micro SIM.

 

[Tim7]

I send about 600 per month.

Scratch that, I sent 1007 last month!

And I used 220MB of data. So I guess that 500MB wouldn't be a problem. Hopefully I'll be able to stick with my current tariff and stay unlimited though.

 

[FlawlessCowboy]

500MB would probably be enough for most people currently.

But Skype allows you to make calls over 3G which would use alot of data. And Apple are in talks with carriers to allow FaceTime over 3G which I imagine would use a LOT of data too.

It just seems like we'll be using mobile Internet more and more in the future so being tied down to a limit of 500MB a month for 18 / 24 months where, if you go over you don't get any sort of warning, you just get charged extra, just seems a bit shit.

 

[FlawlessCowboy]

Looks like GiffGaff ain't as cool as they look:

Free Mobile Internet:
You lucky giffgaff pioneers can even enjoy free UK mobile Internet up to the end of June 2010.. After that date, mobile Internet will be charged at 50p a day (if you use less than 2.5MB/day you'll pay less than 50p and if you go over 30MB you'll be charged extra at 20p/MB).

http://giffgaff.com/index/pricing

 

[Tim7]

O2 pretty much confirming what the guy on the phone told me:

http://shop.o2.co.uk/new-iphone/micro-sims.html

 

[DagsJT]

Looks like GiffGaff ain't as cool as they look:



http://giffgaff.com/index/pricing

I'm not sure if that means that EVERYONE has free internet until the end of June, regardless of it's in your tariff but then after the offer, you have to pay.

 

[Coopz]

What program do you lot use to make high quality ringtones?

 

[matt1288]

http://audiko.net/

Tim posted this a few months ago.

 

[DagsJT]

Steve Jobs is trying to trademark the word "pad" now

http://www.9to5mac.com/steve-jobs-pad-trademark-app-3450386433

 

[Coopz]

http://audiko.net/

Tim posted this a few months ago.

Thanks

 

[FlawlessCowboy]

Vodafone price plans (and phone prices) here - www.engadget.com http://mobile.engadget.com/2010/06/14/vodafone-uk-details-iphone-4-plans-a-little-early-we-keep-the-s/?icid=engadget-iphone-url

Same price as the 3GS was for each plan

 

[pboreham]

Good prices IMO, but not for me at the moment with my £220 contract buy out.

 

[RuneEdge]

Good prices IMO, but not for me at the moment with my £220 contract buy out.

How many months you got left?

 

[Tim7]

11 months I'm guessing .

Should be able to reserve an iPhone 4 at some point today...

 

[pboreham]

Prices out for PAYG... £499 and £599. More than people were expecting, or better?

Still waiting for O2 contract prices...

 

[DagsJT]

As expected really, very highly priced for what it is.

 

[FlawlessCowboy]

I was expecting £450 for 16GB and £550 for 32GB so a bit more.

£419 for an 8GB 3GS is shit though!

 

[pboreham]

As expected really, very highly priced for what it is.

Yup, considering the price of an iPad.

 

[pboreham]

I was expecting £450 for 16GB and £550 for 32GB so a bit more.

£419 for an 8GB 3GS is shit though!

Sure is. I'm mulling over a 16gb White 3GS for £245.

 

[DagsJT]

£419 is the official price for a 8GB 3GS?

 

[pboreham]

£419 is the official price for a 8GB 3GS?

It is now, according to the Apple store.

Not much of an incentive to buy is it, when for £80 more you can get the '4' ?

 

[DagsJT]

And an extra 8GB. That's really poor pricing, not likely to shift their old stock.

 

[FlawlessCowboy]

Its not even old stock though, cause the 3GS never had a 8GB model. Its priced on purpose to make people spend the extra £80.

 

[pboreham]

Its not even old stock though, cause the 3GS never had a 8GB model. Its priced on purpose to make people spend the extra £80.

Ah yea, cos they dropped the 3G at the WWDC didnt they, saying the 8gb 3GS is the new 'entry' iPhone model.

Ouch though!

 

[BillyBoy]

Where the fook is the white iPhone for pre-order!?

 

[FlawlessCowboy]

Where the fook is the white iPhone for pre-order!?

Won't be released for another month or so apparently.

 

[BillyBoy]

Twats.

 

[Tim7]

The white one looks shite anyway. Trying to reserve a black 32GB at the Bluewater store, but it won't work on my netbook mobile broadband!!! Gonna ring them now.