Hot on the heels of the iPhone 3G is the iPhone 3GS, the latest must-have from the Apple stable…and we are going to show you how to get it free!   Read on for chapter and verse or get started with this quicklink:  Free iPhone 3GS

The iPhone 3GS is more powerful than the iPhone 3G, twice as fast and offers great new features such as the ability to shoot, edit and share videos, a 3-megapixel camera and voice control.

The devices retail at around £500 and although they are cheaper when taking out an iPhone contract, there is an increasingly popular method for getting hold of the iPhone 3GS completely free of charge.

Thanks to the phenomenon of Internet referral marketing (which allows consumers to receive rewards for signing up to free offers and advertising web sites) many people are now getting their hands on a free iPhone and all sorts of other must have items such as games consoles, cash and laptops.

Visitors to www.simplyfreeiphone.co.uk are learning how to get iPhones and more for free, thanks to the site’s easy to use format and documented proof that the referral system is genuine and provides access to tons of free stuff.

All that is required is for visitors to Simplyfreeiphone to take out a free, no obligation offer featured on the web site and refer some friends, setting them on the path to receiving their free iPhone 3G S or other desired free gift.

The site even provides a guide on how to unlock the iPhone once it arrives and for those who don’t want a freebie the site even guides them to the best iPhone contract on the market.

The system has since been featured on the BBC’s ‘Newsnight’ programme as a great way to get the latest gadgets for nothing.

Simplyfreeiphone is part of the eXceem community, which has netted £250,000 of freebies for its members so far.

O2’s pricing policy for the iPhone 3G S has been causing quite a scandal since the details were unveiled, but there’s a glimmer of hope in sight for iPhone 3G owners hoping to bust out of their contract early without expense. How you ask? Better read on and find out!

You’ll be able to switch out of your iPhone 3G contract with as many as six months left on your contract via O2’s priority lists. Any iPhone 3G owners on the Platinum Priority List will be able to make the jump to the iPhone 3G S with half a year left on their contract, while anyone on the Gold Priority List can with three months left. Silver List O2 members meanwhile can punch out one month early.

Yes, we’re aware of the irony that in order to save money on upgrading to the iPhone 3G S ASAP, you’re going to have to spend more on your bill, but it’s good news for anyone already paying through the nose for the iPhone 3G. Bounce on over to your My O2 account to find out where you stand in the queue, and see you on 19 June!

Source:  Mirror.co.uk

The launch of the iPhone 3G S garnered a rather apathetic opinion from me when it launched last night while you guys have seemingly been split down the middle. There is however a new announcement in relation to the handset which we can all agree upon…

O2 has released its pricing for the new Apple phone and it’s ludicrous, barmy, batty, recession-timed-madness that makes me so cross I’m going to simply copy and paste in this table to try and cut down on more adjectives.

In short, yes these run in stark contrast to O2′s generous iPhone 3G tariffs which appeared one year ago almost to the day. In fact, whereas a flagship 16GB iPhone 3G in 2008 would cost you just £59 on a £45pm 18 month contract now the replacement 32GB flashship iPhone 3G S clocks in at a jaw dropping £175.19 on the same tariff.

Perhaps worst of all are the deals for the ‘affordable’ 8GB iPhone 3G which supposedly received a 50 per cent price cut yesterday to attract new users into the smartphone sector. Well SUPRISE! O2 hasn’t changed the tariff at all and will still charge roughtly £99 (£96.89) for the handset on both £29.38pm and £34.26pm 18 month deals – the exact same rate it launched at 12 months ago. Thanks O2.

Think that’s the end of it? Oh no. O2 will charge £2.94 for downloading each megabyte of data inside the EU and £6 per megabyte everywhere else. That new MMS functionality will come at the cost of no less than four SMS messages and tethering – oh my word tethering – costs an extra £14.60pm for a 3GB allowance or £29.36pm for a 10GB allowance. This is the exact same price O2 charges for its mobile broadband packages and at least there you a) get a free dongle and b) won’t kill your iPhone battery in the process.

There’s more.

Pay & Go pricing. Now let’s put this in context: currently the 8GB iPhone 3G sells for £342.54 and the 16GB version costs £391.47 not an inconsiderable amount. Now the apparently 50 per cent cheaper 8GB iPhone 3G will sell for – yep – £342.50 with the 16GB and 32GB iPhone 3G S demanding a quite simply potty £440.40 and £538.30 respectively.

Feeling depressed? O2 has one final killer. Speaking from its official Twitter page the network has confirmed it will be abandoning the early upgrade options it offered to customers for the original iPhone and iPhone 3G launches. Now “Every O2 customer needs to pay to end their contract if they want to upgrade early.” How much will this be? “The early upgrade cost is likely to be monthly cost x (multiplied by) months left on your contract.”

So let’s get this straight with an example. An early adopter of the 16GB iPhone 3G who bought it at launch in June will need to pay up the six remaining months of their contract – say the midrange £34.26pm tariff – then up to £184.98 for a replacement 16GB iPhone 3G S before signing up to another £34.26pm 18 month deal. In total that’s a £395.54 upgrade cost combined with a new contract.

I’ve said a great many positive things about O2 over the last 18 months – all of them richly deserved – but it has not so much dropped the ball here as collected the ball, its chain, a few pro wrestlers and body slammed them onto the toes of existing and potential customers slap bang in the middle of the worst recession in nearly a century.

(No, that table insertion didn’t really stop the adjectives – did it?)

Source: Trusted Reviews