Originally Posted by tdenson:
“I notice that the cost of an unlocked french phone has now been announced (Euro 635). Interesting that it is cheaper than an unlocked, no contract, N95 (Euro 829), given all the gainsayers in this forum carping on about how expensive the iPhone is.”
Still more expensive than an N95 etc. on a contract, though.
£269 with a minimum £35/month contract for the iPhone, whereas you can get an N95 for free with a cheaper contract (plus more inclusive SMS & minutes.)
OK, the iPhone tariff has "unlimited" data, but you can always add on e.g. Web 'n' Walk with T-Mobile, or the O2 Web bolt-on.
Not "unlimited", but not too bad. My 1GB allowance with WnW is more than enough.
£450ish for an unlocked iPhone still seems steep to me. Seeing as it could be (simplistically) considered as an iPod Touch + "2.75G" phone, is the phone side of things really worth an extra £250 on top of the price of a touch?
I guess it's inflated because, if unlocked, Apple are *only* getting the money from the sale of the handset itself, rather than also gettign a nice slice of the monthly tariff too.