I just wish Apple would sell the iPhone on a sim-free basis where the user is not tied to a contract and can choose the network. (I'm discounting the sim-free models available in Europe at a ridiculous £650-£900).
Those prices are ridiculous because that's what the phone actually costs (not to build, lord no!). If you really want out of the contract, you have to get out of the handset subsidy too.
KarlW - I believe you are quite wrong, a 32GB iphone costs £550 on PAYG (even more off contract completely), a 32GB iPod touch costs £229, there is not more than about £20 of extra equipment in the iPhone compared to the iPod Touch (at wholesale costs) so they are clearly screwing their customers with the iPhone
The Triumph proved to be one of the better looking and performing pre-paid handsets we'd had the pleasure of holding in our sweaty mitts, but we had one major hangup: the name.
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I just wish Apple would sell the iPhone on a sim-free basis where the user is not tied to a contract and can choose the network. (I'm discounting the sim-free models available in Europe at a ridiculous £650-£900).
Those prices are ridiculous because that's what the phone actually costs (not to build, lord no!). If you really want out of the contract, you have to get out of the handset subsidy too.
KarlW - I believe you are quite wrong, a 32GB iphone costs £550 on PAYG (even more off contract completely), a 32GB iPod touch costs £229, there is not more than about £20 of extra equipment in the iPhone compared to the iPod Touch (at wholesale costs) so they are clearly screwing their customers with the iPhone