[akane_1984]

Hi I' ve been with 02 for 3/4 years now onto my third upgrade as of last year, though this time I' am on a 18 month contract, just wondering is there any way of leaving 02 or cancelling the contract and moving to a different phone for instance Iphone without any charge?

[phannon666]

No chance. Your options are:
Buy out your contract (your month cost times by months left) and get a new contract.
Sell your current phone use the cash to buy the iPhone and unlock it and continue to use your old sim.
If you try to stop your direct debit they will blacklist you and put a default on your credit report, ruining your chances of getting a contract phone, amongst other things in the near future.

[akane_1984]

I asked in the unlocking thread if I bought a Iphone could I use my current contract 02 Sim with it, so far one member has said no?

[phannon666]

You can, although its not official and any future firmware upgrades from apple may render the iPhone unusable, you can put any simcard in an iPhone if it has been unlocked.

[chrispayne47]

If you are a current customer of o2 and wish to move to an iPhone tariff, as long as you last upgraded BEFORE the 18th September you can move without any penality.

o2 will cancel your exsisting contract and you will be signed up to a new 18 month iPhone tarriff.

Now that the tariffs are changing so that the lowest £35 gets you 600mins/500 texts as well as unlimited data/cloud wifi/free voicemail....its not a bad deal at all now.

Consumer Customer Upgrades
You'll need to start a new 18 month minimum term contract and pay for your iPhone but you can keep your existing number.

If you became an O2 customer or upgraded on or before 18th September 2007
You can switch to an O2 tariff for iPhone without paying any remaining monthly charges on your existing contract.

If you joined or upgraded after 18th September 2007
You have a choice, you can either: (i) enter into a second pay monthly contract whilst keeping your existing contract; or (ii) start a new contract by paying a one-off transfer charge of £219 instead of the remaining monthly charges on your existing contract. O2 Simplicity and O2 Pay & Go customers will not be required to pay any additional charges.

http://shop.o2.co.uk/promo/iphonebeforeyoubuy

[akane_1984]

how much is the iphone?

edit; nevermind seen it on the site, now if someone could answer me this a friend told me the version 2 if you will is already near release in states was he talking bull or what?

also where does it state the tariffs are changing?

[chrispayne47]

http://www.o2.co.uk/iphone/o2tariffs..._-iphonelaunch

iPhone cost is £269 + 18 Month Contract (minimum £35/month)

£35/month isn't bad considering the you get 600min/500 text and unlimited data.

Best phone I've ever bought, so handy actually having a useable media player that syncs with iTunes, no worries about internet browsing, that syncs my email all day without having to do anything. I've always avoided features like this on other phones but this is the first one I've ever owned that makes it easy!

Yes there are whispers of a 3G version, most likely launching sometime this year. In fact its not a matter of if, its when.

People suspect the earliest it would hit would be summer in the states. Since we launched after them it mighe be delayed till christmas 08 for the Uk. Frankly noone knows. It will most likely go to o2 since they have an exclusive contract with them (and would **** off ALOT of current iphone customers if it didn't). As a result I would find it impossible to believe that you wouldnt just be able to buy the new handset (if you choose) and just start another fresh 18 month contract without penalty fees on the old one.

[akane_1984]

I got to say after seeing a friend use this last week I was very impressed, I would find it very handy to sync my ntlworld/University and hotmail accounts for on the move. How do you find texting with the phone as I' am a very big texter?

[chrispayne47]

Texting is one of those things you have to get used to and for a frequent texer it might annoy you initially. Most people get used to it quickly and find they can type pretty damn fast in the end.

The keys are pretty small and take some getting used to however the phone does have a pretty amazing corrective checker that auto corrects almost everything you write. Honestly sometimes it works like magic knowing excatly what you want to say! Sometime it wrongly corrects words but like any phone you slowly train it to learn the words you use (if they are not in the dictionary).

If you are worred about the keyboard watch the video:
http://www.apple.com/uk/iphone/getti.../keyboard.html

Should put your mind at rest.

Just to let you know, I don't think you will be able to download emails with a hotmail account. Microsoft I believe disabled the ability to do that using POP a few years back as it wasn't making them any money?

The other accounts should be fine though. Investigate to see if they can support a method of transferring email called IMAP. If they can then that means you phones emails and your emails online will stay in sync. ie. delete an email on the phone, it removes it from the server. Read an email online....it appears as read on the phone. etc.

[akane_1984]

ah thats right forgot about hotmail disabling POP, I'll have a look into IMAP cause that would be handy. Suppose I may check what i would get for my K810i and see if I can justify moving to the iphone, the gf is going to kill me if she turns up and I' am using one of these lmao