The whispers are true, or so it seems. According to
Stuff,
O2 is getting set to one-up T-Mobile's
price cutting affair in Germany by hacking a full £100 from the 8GB iPhone in the UK (bringing it down to £169). Better still, the discount will apply regardless of which contract selection you make, whereas T-Mobile forced users to sign the dotted line on a pricey Complete XL plan. Unfortunately, the lower sticker only applies to the 8GB version -- the 16GB model will remain £329 -- but anyone who sprung for one of the former iterations within the last month will receive an "Ultimate Price Promise" £100 refund voucher. Before you dash out to cash in, it should be noted that the deal is set to expire come June -- and we certainly don't have to remind you what
that could mean.
Update: O2 made it official.
[Via
Mobile Today, thanks to everyone who sent this in]
posted Apr 15th 2008 10:30AM
I still wont get one...
3G is 'round the corner
Not to start a big bitchfest, but would it be possible to have the prices in the article? Like, price before cut and price after the cut? That would be convenient...
£279 before and I think you can do the math for the rest!
Cheers. Sounds alrite, but does this price cut include unlocked phones? (That is, if O2 does it unlocked?). Heres an idea - get an unlocked iphone, get o2's lowest tarriff (£15), bolt on the unlimited data package for £10, and your paying £25, £10 less than the lowest tarriff you can get with o2 iphone contract. I guess it only makes sense if I can get the phone for cheap :( Does it work out cheaper?
Oh! cheers O2
as a former customer I may have parted with £169 for one.
But not £269.99
to late, happy at T-Mobile UK now :)
And....................Cue 3G/GPS version of the iPhone anyday now.
sounds like they are trying to move stock in preparation of the 3G iphone. it's about time!!!!
So when any other company slash prices it means they cant sell the things and they are desperate?
Apple slash prices = OMG 3G IPHONES ARE COMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"So when any other company slash prices it means they cant sell the things and they are desperate?"
@fred
Nice straw man. No one said anything about any other company being desperate.
Apple has done this little maneuver many times in the past. It seems pretty clear that they are moving to dump existing stock to make way for new stuff. Most electronics manufactures do the same thing. Motorola did it with the Razr, and if memory serves Sony did it with the Playstation.
Your beloved Microsoft will do the same thing with the Xbox and the Zune when they have the replacements ready...
Could this also mean a 32gig iPhone? Why would apple make a an 8gig 3G and 16gig 3G. Why not use the switch to 3G to do a storage upgrade as well, this way you diminish the wrath of people who have been waiting for a 3G, and as soon as they purchase a 3G 16gig iphone, watch as "Bealzejobs" unveils a 32gig 3G iphone made from solid Goooold.
No 32 GB iPhone until we see a 64 GB iPod Touch. Apple has stated themselves that the iPhone will always max out at half the memory that the Touch is capable of. If and when rumors of the 64 GB Touch start making the rounds, we will know the 32 GB iPhone is right around the corner. Though it is likely both will be announced at the same time without much, if any warning.
I think that 32GB is a real possibility, but it depends on if the 32GB chips are ready. There is only room in the iPhone for 1 chip, and there is room in the Touch for 2. If they come out with a 32GB 3G iPhone at the same price point as the current 16GB I may have to upgrade.
This is a good indication that there moving stock to make room for some new models.
I think a sub $300 model is near. Their eating allot of the mobile market up and with a lower price point they will kill.
I just can't see the 8GB model staying at that $399 level forever. Not with the ever falling price of memory.
I had a 4GB model I bought at $299, but dumped it in anticipation of a refreshed model coming in June with more capacity. I misses my iPhone!
I wonder how they got the iTunes icon to hang on the right side like that. The icons usually fall to the left.
You have to remember, they drive their cars on the opposite side too.
I think the accelerometer can figure out which side of the road you drive your car and hence, which side of the screen the icons hang to.
They drive on the left hand side of the road and their iPhone icons fall to the right, crazy country
that's an old photo ALL iPhones had the store icon on the right until they updated the firmware to allow adding of new icons.
That is how the icons looked prior to the firmware update that allowed you to change the home screen icons. It's just an old picture.
When it's one icon, they show it to the right, but with two or more, it's to the left
Apparently you can also get cash back on O2 contracts if you use quidco and complete the transaction on line. This cash back amounts to £100 and effectively reduces the cost to £69!
Do you mean that you paid 269 and they gave you a 100 voucher or you paid only 169?
Did you have to sign a contract or can you just buy the phone? Because next week I'm going to London and there is still no iPhone in my country... :-(
Sorry, wrong position of my reply...
Just got off the phone to O2, its defo coming down £100 and anyone who bought in the last 2 weeks gets a refund.
Do you mean that you paid 269 and they gave you a 100 voucher or you paid only 169?
Did you have to sign a contract or can you just buy the phone? Because next week I'm going to London and there is still no iPhone in my country... :-(
ZOMG....This news is right up there with the $5 foot-long hero at Subways. Of course, the hero sandwich tastes better than the iPhone, but I haven't been able to make any phone calls on a hero, either.
I foretold it sometime ago that there would be price cuts on the iPhone in order to dump the useless inventory. Somehow I thought it would come much later in the year during crunch time to make it past the 10 million iPhone sales mark.
Better buy 10 iPhones and sell them in Russia to make some healthy profit.
That's still to much if you take in to account how your going to get rape with the callings plans they have. no wonder they're giving the N95 for free & the LG prada just to name a few
3G iPhone CONFIRMED!
YESS!
If the 8GB iPhone is now 179 quid, does that mean it's... cheaper than the in the US?
179 quid is about 360 dollars.
Yup!
I'm tempted to take one home (Canada) when I go home for the summer. £169, that's ~$340. If I can get my VAT refunded, that's another 17.5% off.
FAIL
Urgh. Damn comment system. My comment was a reply to ThePremierAssassin's incredibly irrelevant and nonsense-filled post.
Alex = EPIC FAIL
And theres nothing wrong with me being happy that the existence of th3G iPhone is that much closer to being proved!
Stop hating and get a life...
ThePremierAssasin
Are you an Aussie, it's always aussies that use the word epic to much and make it lose its meaning
I was at maccas the other day and my friend was like "epic burger" and i was like FFS its McDonalds
People who constantly say FAIL need to get a life. You would sound like a complete idiot shouting FAIL in the street!
For non-UK readers, remember that the UK price also includes 17.5% VAT, so the equivalent common prices are:
8GB = (UK£169.00 - UK£25.17 VAT) = UK£143.83
= €178,69
= AU$306.38
= CA$288.18
= US$282.67
16GB = (UK£329.00 - UK£49.00) = UK£280.00
= €347,86
= AU$596.45
= CA$561.01
= US$550.28
Converting the price to other currencies doesn't mean that much, because it doesn't take into account the net average income of a UK versus a US consumer, or other economic factors.
Wow guess who has a calculator?
Now we all sleep, knowing that information.
noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo i just bought one from apple a week ago :( and as i didnt activate they wont give me this £100 voucher
you've got 14 days "cooling-off" I think under your statutory rights, so just take it back and say you changed your mind. Then buy a new one. :)
Does that price promise thing count if you bought it from apple?
So what's the going price for an unlocked item without the contract on eBay? Did that just drop by £100 as well? Forget using it as a cellphone, that's really quite a nice little, good value PDA now.
Why would they do that? 169 is cheaper then an 8 gb iPod Touch!?
I work for O2 and we got news of this this morning with a load of POS to put up tomorrow, and yes it does look like its coinciding with a new release....
Since you work in O2, perhaps you can be the one to finally clarify whether or not do we have to sign the contract in the store at the time of purchase.
This is essential to lots of people!!
I have a strong feeling a lot of you are going to be disappointed with no 3G in the next iphone. They may include some other stuff like GPS, but i have a strong feeling that 3G will be missing....
But then again, i don't have anything to back this up with...just a gut feeling.
So, not wholly related to O2's news, but I'm wondering about VoIP/UMA on an iPhone. Have T-Mobile's @Home Service here in the U.S. on a Blackberry Curve and since I work from home, I love having basically unlimited minutes for those long con calls. That said, for a 3G iPhone with GPS, 32gb and a better camera and I'd cough up serious cash - but I'd love to still be able to use it for those con calls and not burn a ton of minutes.
Anyone doing this right now or know it'll be do-able with the next gen iPhone?
Cheers!
I bought my iPhone from an o2 store a month ago today, will I still get the £100 rebate tomorrow?
Time to scream....
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
And why the same price for the 16GB? Clearing old stock to make space for the 3G version? Smells like it. :D
@ ThePremierAssassin
EPIC? Really? No, no it isn't. That word has lost all meaning. Thank you.
@Leggat — Unforunately not, it is only the last 2 weeks. I guess they had to draw the line somewhere. Bad luck.
@The New Guy — AT&T have confirmed a 3G iPhone is coming this year, plus there are loads of other unofficial sources backing this up. Somehow I think that hunch might be a bit out ;-)
Do i get £100 back.
i want £100 back.
America got $100 back. Why can't we get £100 back.
i need some new headphones and a DVI - HDMI cable. form apple. grrrr
hey here is something to go with these new iPhones. FOOX artist skinz for the iPhone. limited edition signed numbered by artist and pretty cool all round.
http://kungfoox.typepad.com/kungfoox/2008/04/fooxiphoneskinz.html
:)
Foox
Hum, this is tempting, i want to get an iPod Touch, but this makes it cheaper, if its possible to hack pass activation now.. is it? Does the pwnage tool do that?
I really should of kept up with the iPhone news. :(
Quidco have £100 cashback on this too, which makes it £69 ($120).
Sorry, i have a question:
I'm italian.
But when buy a iphone in 02'shop i must sign a contract or i have the possibility to go to home and unlock the phone?
Hi everyone?
I bought my 8GB Iphone on 03/04/08 from o2 store. So will i get refund for price cutted or something? If anyone who work in o2 please tell me??
Zola