iPhone: 10 better things to spend your money on!

So O2 have got the iPhone contract in the UK, and guess what, its ludicrously expensive! The basic handset will cost you £269, but you’ll also have to sign up to an 18 month contract costing you between £35 and £55 a month. So over the course of your contract you could be spending up to £1,259 for the pleasure of owning a gadget that doesn’t even have 3G let alone HSDPA (broadband speed internet connection), and only has a 2 mega pixel camera (both the Nokia N95 and Samsung G600 have 5 mega pixel cameras). The first 2 mega pixel camera phone was the Sharp V902 and was launched in 2004, catch up Apple!

So before you commit a sizeable portion of your salary to owning the expensive iPhone, read our quick guide to what else you could spend your money on!

1) Phones for three families (12 people)

An O2 contract on the Nokia 5300 costs just £105 including the price of the phone for the duration of the contract. So for £1 more than the cost of the iPhone, you could get a brand new phone each with inclusve minutes and texts for three familes of four!

2) Three Nokia N95 contracts.

The Nokia N95 is by popular opinion the best phone that has ever been produced and in terms of specs it blows the iPhone out of the water! 5 megapixel camera, Sat Nav, HSDPA, etc, see full N95 spec. It’s an expensive phone, but you could have three them for quite a lot less than the cost of an iPhone

3) All of our top 6 selling handsets

While we’re on the theme, you could actually take out a contract on every one of the top 6 selling handsets on our website (as displayed by the bar on the right hand side of the homepage) for less than £1259. So that would get you a brand new Samsung G600, Nokia N95, Samsung U600, Nokia 6300, Sony Ericsson K810i and an LG Shine. Not bad!

4) Phones for a class of schoolchildren

Ok so the Samsung D500 is getting on a bit now, but it was a great little handset in its day, and you could pick up a whopping 25 Samsung D500s at £49.99 for the price of one iPhone + calls.

5) 56,700 minutes of calls or 113,400 texts

Quite what you’d do with a 56,700 minutes of calls we’re not sure, and you’d have sore fingers after working your way through over 100,000 texts, but £1259 buys you 3½ 18 month Flext 35 contracts (yes we know you can’t have half a contract!) that give you up to 900 minutes or 1800 texts a month!

6) 173 albums at the Nokia music store

Shun the iPhone and deliver a poke in the eye to iTunes as well by spending your £1200 on a mountain of music from Nokia’s new music store!

7) A Porsche

Looking slightly further afield (Ok, so there’s only so far you can run with examples from the DAP website!) you could do worse than spending your money on two tonnes of German power metal! Well alright, that one’s a bit battered, and its no 911, but a Porsche’s a Porsche right?

8 ) A holiday to Dubai

£1200 buys you a stay at the super posh Jumeira Beach Hotel in Dubai. And while you’re there you can check on the progress of the Burg Tower, the largest free standing structure in the world. (I came across this on the web today and had to throw it in, what a monster!).

9) Food for a year

How about saving your money and buying yourself food for a year! £1259 buys you £24.21 of food a week. I would estimate I spend about £50 a week on food for a household of four, £12.50 per person, leaving me £11.71 for snacks and maybe a Pizza Express if I skimped on the wine!

10) Food and shelter for a family for 20 years

Here comes the guilt trip! For the price of your iPhone you could donate £1200 to the Ambassadors for Life charity, who would see that your money goes towards providing shelter, food and water to a Nicaraguan family for 20 years!

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