O2 announces iPhone 3G Pay & Go pricing / launch date
We've known that a pay-as-you-go iPhone 3G plan was in the works at O2 since June, but the carrier has at long last fessed up and provided the formal introduction. The iPhone 3G Pay & Go plan will be live on September 16th, enabling users in the UK to purchase the handset sans contract for £349.99 (8GB) or £399.99 (16GB). Yeah, it's quite a bit more than free on contract, but those prices do include unlimited browsing and WiFi for the first 12 months after the phone is activated. Once that honeymoon ends, you're looking at £10 per month to keep browsing. Also of note, Visual Voicemail is conveniently omitted from Pay & Go phones, but if you're cool with that, you can get going in a fortnight by heading to your local O2, Apple or Carphone Warehouse store.[Via Stuff, thanks to everyone who sent this in]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
james @ Sep 2nd 2008 5:56PM
:( no mention
John @ Sep 2nd 2008 5:58PM
$800.. wow.. a hell of a lot more that the $299 contract price.
jon jones @ Sep 2nd 2008 6:20PM
actually the pound has declined dramaticaly over the past weeks, read a paper sometime, instead of just engadget :)
maty @ Sep 3rd 2008 8:07PM
Exchange rate as of now:
399.00 GBP = 708.218 USD
Still, tad more than the contract price o_O.
Si @ Sep 3rd 2008 4:36AM
Still works out cheaper than forking out for the phone AND an 18-month contract at £30 per month. I'm all in. As long as the b@st@rds don't go and dump the 32Gb version within six months but there's been no mention of that whatsoever anywhere, anyhow.
Level 5 @ Sep 4th 2008 8:04AM
A 32GB version is coming soon enough I'm sure... give it another 3-4 months I'm willing to wager. Plus who knows.. that Apple forum/conference is next week.
Carl @ Sep 19th 2008 1:13PM
I want one. As i'm stuck in contract i want it on pay as you go and to transfer it to my contract. But even though unlimited data and cloud wi fi access is on the sim, i'd have to buy them again if i put It on my contract. And, vis voice mail still isn't available. Can't believe i cannot buy it outright and get access to all the toys and functions. Bad bad bad