“With less than a week to go before the launch of the iPhone 3G, we thought we’d be able to compile a list of iPhone prices for the 20 countries where the new version or Apple’s phone will be making its debut on the 11th. But surprisingly, six operators still haven’t announced any pricing,” Iljitsch van Beijnum reports for Ars Technica.
“The pricing diversity around the world—or even within Europe—is staggering: you can pay anywhere from $94 to $377 for an 8GB iPhone 3G and between $24 and $128 for plans that may only have a (few) hundred MB worth of data or are “unlimited.” Denmark isn’t as bad as it looks, because the minimum contract is only six months and prices drop by a third if you stay after that. The Netherlands is pretty good, especially considering that you can have your iPhone unlocked for free after 12 months,” van Beijnum reports.
See the pricing chart in the full article here.
Where’d the comments go? Who wants an iPhone competitor, I want the real thing!!
Hard to believe we live on the same planet.
Inaccurate and incomplete…
not truly news worthy but it does give you hits, aye.
In Portugal I find the prices from Vodafone a complete joke!
19.90€ for 250MB a month, wtf?
@ Wandering joe:
My guess is MDN is about as sick of a certain someone as the rest of us are.
Forget the iPhone! Where is my Goggle Android operated phone?!
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That is meant to be Google Android operated phone!
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Guess you’re right, “…don’t bait the trolls…”
“I can’t help but notice that the French prices are missing”
Duh. That’s because the French don’t deserve the iPhone.
Mauro, tens de ter calma pá… podia ser pior! podiam ser 100MB como em muitos outros paises pah!
daqui a nada passo ai*
“@ Wandering joe:
My guess is MDN is about as sick of a certain someone as the rest of us are.”
Oh, please let it be so.
A good beginner’s attempt, but another case of piles of data out of context. Without local ‘cost of living’ figures, etc., it’s impossible to compare across the board. Compare Canada and the US – yes (Shame on you, Rogers, and on AT&T, too!). Compare Germany, Denmark, and Finland – of course. Compare Hong Kong to Switzerland to New Zealand by converting their pricing to US dollars – silly. Because I’m a math geek and understand numbers, I don’t trust them…
Hi… Telcel (Mexico) finally has posted it’s iPhone plans and looks very expensives!!
as usual for Telcel…. this is bad news for us (users), as Telcel are going to be the only one to sell in Mexico.
have a nice day
Alf
And thus Canada’s Ted Rogers proves that he is truly a world-class asshole by leading the world with by far the longest iPhone contract the Earth has ever seen.
I shamelessly quote myself from an older thread on the subject (this more-or-less applies to all nations who are subject to horrendous iPhone plans!):
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To those considering buying the iPhone in Canada under Rogers’ plans, don’t forget about the inevitable bandwidth inflation that occurs over time. Sure, maybe some of you have calculated that you can get by with Rogers’ imposed bandwidth limits, but remember that they’ve got you by the gonads for three long years. In three years Youtube videos will be higher quality, Webpages will be fancier and larger, photos will be bigger and so on, all of which will mean you’ll need considerably more bandwidth just to do exactly the same things you plan to use it for today. And it is virtually guaranteed new, cool things will emerge that you’ll want to take advantage of as well, but you won’t be able to because you’ll be stuck using some shitty plan that a greedy billionaire devised hoping you would think it was good enough for now, in order that he could squeeze every last asset out of your private parts in the years to come.
As a fellow passionate enthusiast of the iPhone and just about all things Apple, I urge you not to buy an iPhone under these crappy, insulting and degrading plans. Wait awhile, and things will have to change. And please urge others to do the same. We’re mad as hell and we’re not going to take it anymore!
Chip
@icesar
but then you have to remember what the average Portuguese salary is… 19.9 for 250 mb is iPhone tax pure and simple.
Yay! Vodafone New Zealand finally announced their pricing – we win! – we have the MOST EXPENSIVE HANDSET PRICES IN THE WORLD!!! – eat that rogers.
About US$416 for the 8gb and US$530 for the 16gb – on a 24 month plan! – with 250mb of data! – at US$60/month!
Yup, the New Zealand prices take the cake.
Vodafone will sell the 8GB iPhone for NZ$199 on a two-year plan with 1GB of data per month, costing $250 month – which adds up to about $6000 over 2 years. On the same plan the 16GB model will sell for $349.
No…… thank …… you.
They’re also offering an $80 per month plan (giving 250MB of data), selling the 8GB iPhone 3G for $549 and the 16GB version for $699.
And there’s a $130 per month plan giving 500MB of monthly data and selling the 8GB model for $449 and the $16GB model for $599.
Still don’t think so.
My old Sharp phone will have to do me for a few years yet.
I was poking around on the Rogers site looking at rate plans and some of the options.
Rogers has a page that will allow you to calculate the data charges you would incur if travelling abroad. It is located at http://your.rogers.com/store/wireless/coverage/roaming_calculator.asp
Roaming is rather expensive. I plugged in some numbers ( I think rather conservative ones.) I started with 200 e-mails, 150 web pages and 300 graphic images. This amount of use would cost well over $2300!
There is also a little line at the bottom of the page that refers to using instant messaging to let you know that leaving that turned on will have bandwidth use charges even while idle!
The MDN Magic Word is “help” and that is what I would need (in the financial manner) if I were to make an unfortunate error of using an iPhone abroad.
何の事だ、これ。。。。
The above is for iCesar…
I think it sucks that Apple has allowed control of pricing plans back to the telecos. That’s kind of a disaster. That said, for AT&T;in use, I’d much rather have unlimited data than bundled text messages.
Last month, I finally compared my voice, data and text uses; and needless to say, my bill would be over $500/mo if I had to pay for data, or had super low limits like 200MB or 2GB. My SMS (text) use was high as well, mostly because I now keep abreast of a number of topics via text alerts; but I send more as well. My voice use was lowly. In fact, I have just shy of 3,000 minutes to use by the end of the month before they expire. I wish I could trade voice minutes for text, or give them to a friend or something.
I just don’t use my iPhone to talk that much. I forward calls to it when I’m away from the office or otherwise out ad about. Sometimes, I’ll forward calls to it, just to use the visual voicemail, so I can skip having to go through lots of VM for a single message. Otherwise, my iPhone is cellular security for when I need people to reach me, but mostly used to look-up addresses, Twitter, BrightKite, get information alerts or look things up via the web.
As far as I’m concerned, if your country isn’t offering unlimited data, or at least something over 5GB/mo than the plans not worth it. But admittedly, some people actually use the iPhone as just a phone. Go figure.