O2 are once again allowing existing customers to abandon the last months of their current contract and switch to the new iPhone. With a new 18 month contract (but in practice my previous "18 month" contract will have been about nine months.)
http://www.o2.co.uk/iphone/paymonthly -- existing customers pay £99/£159, get the new phone. Looks like I might even be able to downgrade my tariff to £30/month, though I'm not exactly sure I want to because if I was on a 75/200 tariff I might actually have to keep track of minutes.
Oh, goodness; the unlimited free WiFi, which at the moment is only through the not-very-prevalent Cloud, is going to include BT Openzone from 11 July. I've accidentally picked up BT Openzone hotspots hundreds of times since having the iPhone; this is very good news.
To me, the iPhone wasn't worth $499/$599, but the new version is worth $199/$299 -- just as an ipod/phone replacement. The bluetooth stack worries me less, given other ways to sync. I do wish they would allow tether -- and I suspect the reason the corporate data plane is $15/month more is that it will allow tether.
The guys ranting about how it won't support VoIP need to pay attention to what an iPhone is.
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Selling is dependent on having worked out how to efficiently wipe it of course.