I know this is primarily about contract vs non, but my god it is expensive.. particularly the memory upgrades £170 for 64GB chips over 16GB.. almost 6 (six!) times what a 64GB SSD or SD-card would cost. And that is <i>at launch</i>. Could anyone else get away with this?
Very interesting to see the difference between a UK plan and an American one. For example it's pretty standard here to offer unlimited texts, whereas it appears to be very uncommon there?<p>Personally, I wish that I could have unlimited data and text messaging and then pay a certain cent amount per minute I talk. I very, very sparingly use my phone to call people. I probably use 30 minutes per month, at most.
Ouch - no thank you.<p>I pay £15/month (O2 PAYG) and take the £6/month 512Mb data bolt on, leaving £9 of call credit left. That gives me free O2<->O2 calls and texts as well which is great as I don't know anyone who is not on o2. I usually use £2-3 of my call credit calling land lines. My phone balance is currently £85 - nearly the value of the handset.<p>My handset is a Lumia 710 which cost me £129 on O2[1] and my TCO is £244.50 a year over two years and I have £85 of call credit left a year to play with...<p>So that is approximately 85 hours of calls, 2500 text messages, 512Mb of data for £15/month. The handset over 2 years is £5.75 a month so all for £25.75 with NO CONTRACT DEPEDENCY.<p>The only thing I had to do was cut my SIM down to a microSIM one which was easy with a metal ruler and craft knife.<p>If anyone can do better, I'd love to know.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.carphonewarehouse.com/buy/NOKIA_LUMIA_710_O2PYG_WEB10" rel="nofollow">http://www.carphonewarehouse.com/buy/NOKIA_LUMIA_710_O2PYG_W...</a> (now £115)
Unfortunately it seems that GiffGaff won't be offering nano SIM cards for some time yet, so at the moment they are not an option for the iPhone 5.
<a href="http://community.giffgaff.com/t5/Blog/giffgaff-nano-SIM-update/ba-p/5953002" rel="nofollow">http://community.giffgaff.com/t5/Blog/giffgaff-nano-SIM-upda...</a>
Very useful. I'm currently on £15.50 O2 simplicity with no contract, and i'm weighing up paying Apple £600 directly for the unlocked phone on entering a new contract with O2. Looks like the cost of £600 up front and my current £15.50 a month is about the same total over 2 years at the £26 a month option for the 32gb phone... Only difference is the contract gives me way more voice minutes...
well you could cut down a "regular " ( i think the regular was "mini" as the original was a credit card sized thing) SIM into a micro sim without great difficulty so it should be pretty easy to do the same for a micro sim an get it to a nano sim. However the painful part of all of this is needing a sim or micro sim adapter to put it into a non nano sim phone - kind of the same situation with SD, mini SD and micro SD cards