sorry im not getting a good answe for this....so please forgive me for re-posting it.....
Can someone help me decide on whether i want pay as you go or contract.
3G S model, preferably.
1) business or corportate deals (what are these?)
2) 16gb and 32gb difference is purerly hard drive space? nothing else?
If i dont plan to use iphone as music player/media player....16gb is more than enough right?
3) Do you HAVE to top up each month on Pay Go? like a tarriff?
4) 300 texts = £10-14...?!? why cant they give exact price?
5) So if you have pay as you go... you are not tied to a long contract? And can pack up and leave any time? And take PAC code too?
6) Their deals/plans dont mention MMS allowance.
7) If you take a picture on the iphone, can you send it to an email address? Or only via MMS message to another number?
My friend takes pics and sends them to my email adress directly from his iphone in usa.
If theres unlimited internet data usage..... we can just send pics to an email address, cant we? for free.... so no need for MMS....?
I think i would be happy with 100-150 mins....possibly less.
200-500 texts...possibly less....
25 MMS messages per month
If this is what i normally use..... should i be a contract iphone user or a pay as you go iphone user....?
sorry sorry sorry.
and thankyou thankyou thankyou for any help.
with 02...if i buy some texts....that means i can not buy any minutes?
can i buy texts and or minutes as and when i need them??????
1) As the name suggests, they are tariffs designed for businesses and not for regular customers.
2) Correct, the difference is purely the storage capacity - it sounds like 16GB would be fine for you.
3) No need to continue topping up on PAYG - only need to top up when your balance gets low.
4) There are lots of options for PAYG - probably best to go to an O2 or carphonewarehouse store to try and get them to explain them, but basically the different options give you different bonus bundled texts, mins etc. (on top of the balance that you top up).
5) Correct - no tie-in, leave whenever you like.
6) MMS details are shown on
this page, but basically for contracts 1 MMS = 4 texts (or 24.47p out of bundle) and for PAYG 1 MMS = 3 texts (or 25p out of bundle).
7) Yes you can - in fact that is what the iPhone offered from the start and is why it didn't originally support MMS. Apple thought why would people want to spend money on MMS when they could email pictures for free - but people complained anyway and so Apple decided to introduce support for MMS in this new software version.
From the amount of texts and minutes you expect to use you would probably be looking at the £34.26 per month tariff if you went on contract (since the £29.38 one wouldn't give enough minutes and texts and you would end up spending more than £5 difference on the excess each month). That would be an upfront cost of £184.98 if you went for an 18 month contract, or £87.11 if you went for 24 months.
If you went PAYG instead then you would probably want the Text Anytime tariff as you seems to text more than you talk. This gives you bonus texts depending on how much you top up, so you would use up the bonus texts before they started coming out of your balance. 150 minutes per month on PAYG would probably end up costing in the region of £30, so if you topped up between £20 and £30 each month you would be getting either 500 or unlimited bonus messages, which would cover you for that side fo your usage. You don't get visual voicemail or tethering on PAYG though, so you couldn't use the iPhone as a mobile broadband modem for your laptop.
So on a month by month basis the contract and PAYG would be fairly similar, but when you factor in the upfront cost of the PAYG phone (£440) you would probably find the PAYG route would be much more expensive, even though it would offer more flexibility in terms of monthly cost and not being tied into a minimum term.
The third option would be to buy the phone on PAYG, but instead of using the PAYG SIM you could instead get a Simplicity tariff SIM to use instead. In that case the £19.58 tariff would suit you best and would also end up being slightly cheaper than a proper iPhone tariff over time, despite the higher upfront cost. The downside is that again you wouldn't get visual voicemail (and I expect tethering won't be allowed with it either - though I'm not sure about that), and also that tariff would only include unlimited mobile web (i.e. 3G, EDGE, GPRS etc.) - cloud/Bt openzone wifi would not be included like it is in the full iPhone contract tariffs and PAYG. You aren't tied in with Simplicity though (well only for the current month) so are free to leave anytime, just like PAYG.
So which one you choose depends on a few things:
Will you want to use your iPhone as a mobile broadband modem? If so get it on full iPhone contract with a tethering package.
Is inclusive wifi important? If so Simplicity won't be the most cost effective and you will be better off with full iPhone contract or PAYG.
Is upfront cost an issue? If not then PAYG phone + Simplicity tariff is likely the cheapest option.
