Who pays £900 for an iPhone?
'A fool and his money are easily parted'
Seriously. The 32 gig unlocked model is being sold for £900 on play.com. Amazon’s not that much better at £850. If you’re that desperate to get it unlocked, you could always shop around. An e-bay seller (not me, I swears it gov), is offering it for £675 unlocked with free postage and packing. That’s £225 saved after a two minutes search. Amazon Marketplace is offering it for £635 from a seemingly-trustworthy seller.
But why stop there? O2 is selling the most decent basic contract (600 minutes, 500 texts and unlimited internet) for about £35 a month with an initial cost of £275 for the phone (18-month contract). This means that for the phone and the 18-month contract you will pay a total of £905. That’s right. You can get the iPhone and an 18-month contract for about the same price as the unlocked handset on Play.com. Even if you buy the handset from Amazon.com marketplace, you’d be able to get the phone and 10 months of the O2 contract for the same price.
Or how about O2 pay as you go? It’s being sold by O2 for £538 pounds. With a top-up of £10 a month (and the £10 a month for internet, free for the first year), you could pay for about two full years pay & go for the price you’d pay on play.com for the unlocked phone.
Is it really worth it, even when not considering the myriad alternatives to working around a locked iPhone?