“Consumer interest in the 3G iPhone is almost four times more than interest in its 2G predecessor, according to O2, Apple’s exclusive UK network partner for the device,” Dominic White reports for The Telegraph.
“More than 130,000 people have pre-registered their interest in the combined handset, digital music player and web browser on O2’s website since the phone was unveiled a week ago,” White reports.
“Only 35,000 people pre-registered their interest in the previous phone between its unveiling on September 18 last year and November 9, when it went on sale in the UK,” White reports.
Full article, in which White points out that the iPhone’s sticker price appears to have been a major concern in the UK, here.
I’m not surprised, although I am still confused as to whether or not my girlfriend can use my old Phone on her ordinary O2 contract. The guy in the Glasgow Buchanan St O2 store suggested I jailbreak it.
Scary biscuits.
The iPhone 1.0 was too expensive.
iPhone 2.0 costs more over the life of the contract but it is perceived to cost less.
We now know how many stupid people you can get to sign up in one week in Great Britain.
I bet there are many more stupid people buying phones in America.
I consider myself a die-hard Mac fan, but even I wasn’t much tempted with the first iPhone. The software seemed a little limited, and non-3G was a downer, considering it would be used for web / email extensively. And of course the price was too high.
The camera is still a bit naff, but everything else in iPhone 3G is now more than enough to compensate for that. At some point you just gotta jump in, and this is my time! I pre-registered my interest the day after the iPhone 3G was launched, wonder where I’ll be in the queue?..
BigAl
There are stupid people everywhere. America just has a higher loonytoon/wacko/murderer/flake/pervert concentration than most countries.
@ Please Bring Back Rose
The oonytoon/wacko/murderer/flake/pervert concentration is the sam in the US as everywhere else. We just give them better media coverage.
Our typos, however, are legendary.
ChrissyOne
I wish that were so.
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs2/r234.pdf
@Please Bring Back Rose
That’s an interesting Stat.
a few flaws, tho…
Oppresive countries don’t report most prisoners.
And here, most of our “oonytoons,” etc are running free.
I’m not saying either phone is/was not worth the price of admission.
I’m just saying those that ignored the ‘expensive’ iPhone 1.0 but jump at the ‘cheaper’ iPhone 2.0 are stupid.
“The oonytoon/wacko/murderer/flake/pervert concentration is the sam in the US as everywhere else. We just give them better media coverage.”
in america the nutjobs own their OWN media.
and behold their was faux news…..
gedboy- apparently you can pass your old iPhone on to your girlfriend – details are on the O2 website.
When people are discussing is the iPhone cheaper, they are usually making the wrong comparison.
The wrong comparison is comparing the 2.5G iPhone to the 3G iPhone. The right comparison is taking the price differential of 2.5G iPhones to other 2.5G cellphones, then comparing that to the price differential of the 3G iPhone to other 3G cells.
If you do that, you’ll see that the 3G iPhone is closer in pricing to other 3G cellphones than was the 2.5G iPhone. That’s the “cheaper” part.
You a basher and a total asshat.
Wahhh, wahhh, the iphone is too expensive, wahhhh.
You cry baby, can’t-cope fool. Carry your ass to another board.
podboy – the way I read it her current contract would have to go i.e. I couldn’t just put her sim in the old iPhone. I wonder if that’s fair as it’s my phone and I hope I can do anything I want with it.
Hey Big Al, there’s a Wahhhhhmbulance outside to pick you up.
35,000 pre-registered in November ’07 before the launch of iPhone 1.0.
O2 sold @ 200K in the first two months.
130,000 have pre-registered for iPhone 3G…
Does that equate to more than 5x sales again?
Hmmm…
@ ChrissyOne
> Our typos, however, are legendary.
I’m still cracking up, whooo… It’s dangerous to read MDN at work…
Big Al,
How do you work out that its more expensive? I have an original iPhone bought for £199 on day one (friend’s staff discount) and I’m paying £35 a month. Soon I could (if I wanted, which I don’t – I’m happy with my original) go out a buy an iPhone3G for £99 on a £35 a month contract. And contract lifetime costs are a useful measure of course, but people seem to add the cost of the contract straight onto the iPhone, without taking account of the calls, text and data they actually make.
“There are stupid people everywhere. America just has a higher loonytoon/wacko/murderer/flake/pervert concentration than most countries.”
Except than the UK which has a much higher violent crime rate than the USA and revels in it’s international reputation for being a country of slightly crazy sex perverts.