November the 9th is most certainly a day to mark into your schedule! That’s right, it’s finally confirmed, you may have been reading some of this news recently from our previous blog posts or off the news, but O2 has finally confirmed today on its site that they will be the sole carrier for bringing iPhone to the UK.
As well as this, Apple has also announced the same news on their site:
If you would like to know more about the version of iPhone that will be coming to the UK, I would recommend seeing the information provided by the Apple link above. Based on the quick look I had, it seems that the UK will not be the same as that which will be available in Germany by T-Mobile.
From previously leaked German adverts, their iPhone will be 16 Gb with HSDPA, what about ours? Ours will be a quad-band, running on 8 Gb but only with WiFi, EDGE and bluetooth 2.0 (see Apple iPhone specs). If the German rumours are true, then it seems our extra 8 Gb and 3G s’ been pitched…
More on UK pricing and tariffs after the jump…
As you can see from the screenshot above, the iPhone tariff will be as low as ?35, however all customers will subject to a 18 months contract. This ‘European iPhone’ will be sold for ?269 which is actually about the price you would expect for any top brand phones you would see during their launch.
Also, from the screenshot, there is a * after the words ‘unlimited’, though it is quoted to be unlimited data and WiFi for every tariff that will be availabe, there is actually a catch… the *fair usage policy* actually limits data transfer for up to approximately 1400 internet pages per day… so that’s what ‘unlimited*’ actually means in case you were wondering.
(The above issue has been updated, read here…)
As least one good thing is that Apple has worked out a deal with Cloud to provide free WiFi internet service for their iPhones, this adds up to over 7500 hotspots across the UK, however if you decide to take your iPhone out of the UK, for example on business trips, the likelihood and the availability of free WiFi for your iPhone may then very much depend on your destination country.
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