IPhone 5 Price Breakdown (UK Only)

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&#60;-&#62;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...

For god's sake, please freeze the row and column! Thanks.<p>(<i>View &#62; Freeze rows/Freeze columns</i>)

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

Worth pointing out that even though GiffGaff has the lowerst total cost of ownership, you can't get LTE on their (i.e. O2's) network yet.

Interestingly Giffgaff and Tesco Mobile are both MVNO's based off of the O2 network.

Thanks for this! Very useful!