Thanks to Engadget for the live feed — great work, once again. We’ll update this post as news happens…
…£269? That’s really pushing it, we think, from a ‘perceived value’ point of view. But take out the VAT (that’s the UK’s 17.5% sales tax, for any US readers) and you’re down to £228, which is only around £30 more than the US price ($399/ £200).
O2 will be the operator, with £35, £45 and £55 tariffs offering unlimited data (probably with a 1GB ‘fair use’ limit, we’re guessing). The deals are on an 18-month contract.
No 3G… Oh man, that’s not going to go down too well. But Engadget seems to be talking about a free wi-fi service across 7,500 hotspots operated by The Cloud. Now that sounds very interesting…
…But O2 is talking about having just 30% network coverage for the iPhone’s 2.5G EDGE data. That’s absolutely dire. Steve Jobs claims that battery life is the issue with 3G in the iPhone, but also lets slip that it’s (unsurprisingly) on the way, saying that it is “something we think we’ll see later next year”.
Carphone Warehouse is the other UK partner, as rumoured for a while, and is planning to have an iPhone ‘expert’ in every one of its 1,300 stores. Yeah, right.
No news on other European countries, which is a little surprising. We guess that Steve Jobs must be on tour this month.
The iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store is coming to the UK this month, which was a fairly predictable move — but still very welcome (considering how long it’s taken to get TV shows on iTunes here).
Apple’s PR site has just been updated with the iPhone UK press release, which 100% confirms that the company has done a deal to offer free wi-fi access at The Cloud’s 7,500 hotspots across the country. The release states that:
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