[iPhone 3G] Price on Pay As You Go ?

[trapper]

So the 8GB will be ~£100 on a 2 year contract (maybe plus 17.5% VAT)

But O2 states they will have it available for pay as you go customers too, but at what price!?

[romenator]

I will be happy to pay upto £300 for it as long as i can use any other o2 contract sim, and full 3g internet access for the data package.

[kultschar]

Well firstly this is great news however there is no way in hell its going to be subsidized like the contract iphones however I would be happy to pay the Version 1 prices for it anyhow - if unlockable!

[paultart]

Steve Jobs stated the 8Gb iPhone 3G would be available for no more than $199 (£100) in every country it is available. Based on that they can not possibly charge you any more.

[kultschar]

Steve Jobs stated the 8Gb iPhone 3G would be available for no more than $199 (£100) in every country it is available. Based on that they can not possibly charge you any more.

How much do you want to bet he is wrong and that is oly for contract iphones!!

I will bet £20 the pay as you go iphone will not be £100

[trapper]

Steve Jobs stated the 8Gb iPhone 3G would be available for no more than $199 (£100) in every country it is available. Based on that they can not possibly charge you any more.
You misunderstand.

In every participating country you will be able to get your hands on a new iPhone for no more than US$199 - on the basic 18/24 month contract.

If you want it non-contract then of course it will cost more.

[paultart]

I'm Scottish - I only bet on dead certainties!

I too think there will be a premium to pay for Pay as you Go iPhones. Althogh with Apple you can never be too sure. SJ did say no more than $199!

[BImmelicous]

here are the 02 UK tarifs:

http://www.macnews.de/media/pools/1/news_0806/iphoneos.jpg

[romenator]

Steve Jobs stated the 8Gb iPhone 3G would be available for no more than $199 (£100) in every country it is available. Based on that they can not possibly charge you any more.
If that is true, then why would anyone sign up for an 18month contract. Some websites are saying that it will cost £269 for the pay as you iphone 3g.

[kultschar]

Cmon lets be realistic - Phone Companies nor Apple cant sell these iphones for £100 on a no contract system - firstly they would make no money on the iphone and no money from calls as its likely you will be on another network, O2 only did this cheap similar thing on V1 iphones to get rid of unwanted stock!!

Apple have learnt from their mistakes - this is def going to be contract only for cheap iphone and a premium price for Pay As You Go so that they make profit on selling the device on Pay As You Go since it wont be subsidized by contracts.

If they sold Pay As U Go for £100/$200 then they would be selling them for cheaper then they can make the damn things. With the iphone subsidized by the phone companies at such cheap price with approx 70 countries in the running Apple are cleverly eliminating a high percentage of hacked iphones as there will be little need to hack your iphone in the supported countries if your happy with the "exclusive" providers.

I suppose the good news is that a Pay As You Go system will prob not change much for us hacked iphone users as we will prob pay the same price as we do now for a pay as you go phone - lets hope its easy to hack huh boys?

[romenator]

Cmon lets be realistic - Phone Companies nor Apple cant sell these iphones for £100 on a no contract system - firstly they would make no money on the iphone and no money from calls as its likely you will be on another network, O2 only did this cheap similar thing on V1 iphones to get rid of unwanted stock!!

Apple have learnt from their mistakes - this is def going to be contract only for cheap iphone and a premium price for Pay As You Go so that they make profit on selling the device on Pay As You Go since it wont be subsidized by contracts.

If they sold Pay As U Go for £100/$200 then they would be selling them for cheaper then they can make the damn things. With the iphone subsidized by the phone companies at such cheap price with approx 70 countries in the running Apple are cleverly eliminating a high percentage of hacked iphones as there will be little need to hack your iphone in the supported countries if your happy with the "exclusive" providers.

I suppose the good news is that a Pay As You Go system will prob not change much for us hacked iphone users as we will prob pay the same price as we do now for a pay as you go phone - lets hope its easy to hack huh boys?
Yep, i hope they won't sell it at really expensive price. I think when nokia came out with n95, they sold that for £500 sim-free.

I read the tariff detail in the business customer section. According to that, if you want a pay-as-you go business tariff, you still have to pay £26 line rental (11.10 for data, and £15 for iphone functionality), but the iphone will cost you £85?

I don't think it will be like that for normal customers. I think O2 will make us pay extra for iphone functionality, so i think we might still end up paying some kind of line rental, but without the 18month contract. hmmmm