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Vodafone will flog the Iphone in January
BLIGHTY TELCO Vodafone has announced that it will start flogging the fruity Iphone in accordance with the will of Steve Jobs.
Vodafone says it will start selling the Iphone in the UK on 14 January 2010.
It is the latest of several of the UK's major phone networks to offer the Iphone to customers, however there is little new about the outfit's offering to make it interesting.
The cheapest tariff available is £30 a month for 24 months, plus additional handset charges ranging from £59 for the Iphone 3G 8GB to £239 for the Iphone 3GS 32GB.
Contracts will be subject to a 1GB monthly data limit on mobile internet use. Orange has a "fair use" limit of 750MB per month.
Still Vodafone and O2 will both offer unlimited WiFi use which is pretty good of them. Orange's data limit includes connections to the Internet via British Telecom's Open-Zone WiFi.
Both O2's and Orange's lowest tariffs, £34.26 and £29.36, respectively, are on a 24-month contract and come with a free Iphone.
Vodafone comes close with a £35 a month contract over a two year period, also including a free Iphone 3G 8GB handset.
Tesco Mobile's tariffs start at £20 a month for 12 months - with a £222 charge for the same model of handset. However, Tesco says that the shorter contract will enable customers to upgrade more quickly.
Vodafone's top-of-the-range contract, which basically will let you run your Iphone the way that Steve Jobs intended with unlimited most things and 3,000 call minutes, will set you back £80 a month.
Of course you will have to sign up for 18 months and sell your children for medical experiments, but what the hell at least you will have an Iphone and be one more step up the evolutionary ladder, at least in terms of smugness. µ
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Vodafone's cheapest iPhone tariff is actually £30/month, not £35.
The cheeky bastards have arranged their tariffs on the website in order of increasing price as you go down, but have put the cheapest tariff at the very bottom which you're more likely not to notice...
So is it pure coincidence that Voda has dropped the HD2 despite them flying off the shelves and selling all stock?
And why did O2 stop getting the new HTC kit whilst selling the iPhone? Coincidence again?
"You can sell our phones as long as you dont sell anything else thats any good". Im sorry, it stinks... and not of bananas.
Would using google maps as satnav use more than that?
To me the Vodafone packages are more appealing than the Orange and O2/Tesco attempts, as they feature unlimited texts at a price that doesn't make the eyes water.
They'll contact me when my contract nearly finishes, I have the Nokia 5800 really good phone excellent music player too. But my tarrif is a custom one when they did that feature create your own.
It costs me £30/mnth to them thou they lose £75 a month ha ha ha if I wanted a iPhone I can guarantee they'll say its not available on my tariff only a new one I bet ya.
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/12/iphone-blowing-up-worldwide-big-in-japan-after-all.ars
Nick, enjoy the crow you'll have to eat.