iPhone 4 UK Pricing

Ok so you are probably thinking, iPhone 4? What’s all this? Cloud Bite hasn’t mentioned nothing about it! Ok ok, so you no doubt have heard about the iPhone 4 from other sources and the reason there was no big Post about WWDC and the announcement of the iPhone 4 over the past couple of days is completely due to a fail on my behalf. For those who don’t know I use WordPress and you can schedule a time for a post to appear online. As I tend to write my posts at 2am I like to release a post later in the day preferable around 8am-9am so I set up a schedule to do this but not concentrating and some how picked November? It’s a problem with writing at 2am half asleep! Anyway so sorry about that post not appearing but lets get on with pricing!

So slowly the Pricing is being revealed for the iPhone 4 in the UK. Please note all prices are correct at time of writing but may change and this is for the UK only for other countries contact your network providers!

Once more prices are in there will be a full breakdown here so keep checking back!

UPDATE: 23/06/2010: Tesco has Announced their pricing and this is so far the cheapest. Check their Pricing HERE. This Blog Post Will get updated as soon as possible sorry for any inconvenience.

Apple

iPhone 4 Sim Free (unlocked any network)
Black/White 32GB – £599
Black/White 16GB – £499

O2

Current Customers – If your a current customer and on a Pay Monthly tariff you can take advantage of the Early Upgrade offer. This is only available until 24th July 2010! You will have to pay a get out payment and this varies depending how many months you have left on your contract and you will have sign up to a new 18 or 24 month contract! See below for contract info as there have been several changes! Use this link to find out how much an early upgrade will cost you!

New Customers – If your a new customer and want to get the iPhone 4 you can choose 1 of 3 routes Including Pay and Go, Pay Monthly, P&G with Simplicity check below for further information on this!

Pay Monthly / Simplicity Tariff - I want to keep this simple so you can pick either 18 month contract or 24 month the 24 month contracts are £5 cheaper each month than the 18 month contract.

I have highlighted the Prices in the following way:

• Simplicity (NO PHONE) 12 Month – GREEN
• Simplicity (NO PHONE) 30 Days – BLUE
• Pay Monthly with Phone 18 Month – ORANGE
• Pay Monthly with Phone 24 Month – RED

All tarrifs come with Unlimited Texts, Unlimited Wifi, Visual Voicemail, Picture Messages now cost 20p and are NOT part of your text allowance (sneaky O2),

Update: 17th June 2010 – O2 have now released information on the handset prices for Pay Monthly Only:

• N/A / N/A / £25 /£30 – 100 min, 500 MB Data / 16GB – £209 £279 / 32GB – £299 £323
• £15 / £20 / £30 / £35 – 300 min 500MB Data / 16GB - £179 / 32GB - £279
• £20 / £25 /£35 / £40 – 600 min 500MB Data / 16GB - £119 / 32GB - £209
• £25 / £30 /£40 / £45 - 900 min 750MB Data / 16GB - £89 / 32GB - £179
• £30 / £35 /£45 / £50 – 1200 min 750MB Data / 16GB - £29 / 32GB - £129
• £45 / £50 /£60 / £65 – Unlimited Min 1GB Data / 16GB - £Free / 32GB - £29

So there are the Prices. Only the £30 a month has a different Price for the 18 Month Contract than the 24 Month contract. Also the Prices are correct (confirmed via O2) on a 24 month Contract you pay more for the Phone. Why? Not a clue seems backwards to me!

Also Remember after 9 months you can reduce your contract to the tariff lower than you first pick.

Pay and Go – With Pay and Go there is no contract however you must buy the Phone in full and then top up.

Cost of Phone – As of yet O2 are to announce this price. Check back soon!

Tariff – What you get is based on how much you top up each month:

Picture messages will cost 25p each or you can get a bolt on. Also there are no call costs with this so make sure you see the cost of calls here (scroll towards the bottom of the page)

• Top up £10-£14. Get 300 texts and 500MB internet
• Top up £15-£29. Get 500 texts and 500MB internet
• Top up £30 or more. Get unlimited texts and 500MB internet

Orange

Orange have now announced their pricing  and in true Orange style it’s not simple. Orange love to have more tariffs than you can imagine but I have tried to break this down as easy as possible! 1 Pro for Orange is they are the first to announce the actual phone prices with their plans which is good!

Current / New Customers

I cannot find any mention of different deals for current and new customers for the new iPhone on Orange so if you are already a customer I would give them a call (Number at the top of your bill usually)

Pay Monthly / Pay as you Go

Ok now as Orange have made this so complicated and have so many tariffs I think the best thing to do is link you striaght off the their page where it shows the tariffs in great detail but before you check them check the below information first!

For Pay Monthly Customers Orange claim all tariffs come  Unlimited Web Browsing and Wifi* << that little star actually means – Separate Fair Usage policies of 750MB / month apply to both BT Openzone WiFi and Mobile Internet Browsing. What I gather from this is you can have 750mb Mobile Web Usage and 750mb Wifi Usage, why they don’t just say this and be straight with the customer is beyond me.

For Pay as you Go Customers mobile Browsing is limited to 250mb and Unlimited Wifi for 12 months. Now it doesnt say the unlimited Wifi is actually 750mb for pay and go customers but it is likely to be this way!

Here is the link to check out the plans.

Three

Three have announced they will have the iPhone 4 but as of time of writing there are no prices announced.

Tesco

UPDATE: 23/06/2010: Tesco has Announced their pricing and this is so far the cheapest.

Vodafone

Vodafone have announced they will have the iPhone 4 but as of time of writing there are no prices announced.

This Article will be constantly updated when more information arrives.

However the problem is finding who is cheapest! Even though we are sitting down typing a few words into the browser, we humans are still lazy and usually unless the item we are buying is very expensive, we buy the product from the first perhaps second website we come across.

There are compare price websites out there for most things now, I mentioned several just for Car Insurance in my “Car Insurance” Post I made on 18th May 2009. There’s Food Compare websites, Electricity, Broadband, you name it there’s probably a comparison website out there.

Well a year or two ago a friend of mine showed me GamesTracker. This website is the best Game Price Comparison website I have come across and has saved me a small fortune. GamesTracker compares prices from many websites, including Amazon, Play, HMV, Asda, GAME, Tesco, Games Station, Simply Games, and lots more.

GamesTracker in Action.

GamesTracker also stores prices for New and Used  and even Downloadable games for all the major Platforms like PC, PS3, XBOX 360, Wii, DS, PSP, PS2, XBOX, and GBA. The website is really simple too use and you don’t have to register which is always a plus. The prices are listed clearly and even show you the Postage and Packing Prices aswell. In the above example I looked searched for inFamous a fairly new arrival to the PS3. The site showed me that in the UK Toys R Us are selling the game for £44.94 inc P&P but Powerplay Direct are selling it for £34.98 thats nearly a saving of £10 instantly!

Overall in these times when most people are having to be careful with there spending GamesTracker is one of the best ways I believe you can save money, on video games anyway.

Ill be giving posting some more “moneysaving” tips soon so keep checking the blog!