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Originally Posted by bigman  No need to sign a long-term contract. The contract only comes into force if you use itunes to activate the iphone. If you buy on O2 and then use iliberty (or the other jailbreak/unlock software) then you bypass the need to take out the contract. So an iphone without contract for £169. |
Are you sure? As far as I know, the only places you can get phones without contract were the Apple stores, both retail and online. Those buying via AT&T, O2 or T-mobile had to sign a contract, cos it was in their interest that you pay for the subsidized phone. Apple on the other hand is all about the User Experience
You leave their stores without any hassle.
If on the other hand we can indeed buy iPhones without contract from O2, then that is great news
Samurai san, one more thing that is interesting about the iPhone is that there are very few differences between models. So far the only changes have been in the storage capacity department. When a 3G iPhone comes, there wont be a huge change. You can write software for the iPhone knowing that it will work on all phones from the first model. This is similar to how Mac's have limited hardware to support
Compare this to the thousands of models that companies like Nokia, SE, HTC put out. Everytime a new model brings in unique hardware, you are forced to rewrite the code to suit that model. And if that model only has a samll userbase, it is a complete waste of time.
