iPhone UK

Posted by stephen on Tuesday, 18th September, 2007 @ 10:30

So the cat is out of the bag... It's on O2, it's £269 (the same price as the 16Gb iPod Touch, same as in the US), it's on an 18 month contract, ranging from £35-55 per month, with unlimited data, which apparently means 1,400 web pages a day and no more. It's EDGE/GPRS because apparently 3G would kill the battery. There's a wifi agreement in place with The Cloud, offering free access at around 7000 hot spots in the UK. And it comes out on November 9th, mostly from Carphone Warehouse.

My plan... Activation of the phone happens through iTunes once you get the phone home, much as it does in the US. So, buy the phone, unlock it and run it on T-Mobile web'n'walk, starting at £22.50 per month, including 3Gb data. No visual voicemail, but it's not a big loss.

How about that free access on the Cloud? Might that make it worth the extra cost to be on O2? Well, unless it requires creating an account with The Cloud registered to your phone number and logging in at each access point, I'm wondering if perhaps you're simply let online if you have an iPhone MAC address. If so, the network won't matter. We shall see!