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| Looking for the best Prepaid iPhone 4S deal? The release of the iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, and iPhone 3GS has awaken the prepaid iPhone market with several major carriers now joining the race to offer customers a prepaid iPhone. The list of suppliers starts with the Apple Online Store, who offers the new iPhone 4 and 3G S as outright handset purchases. iPhone 5 is now due on October 5 (still rumours). Other providers include Optus, with their Optus iPhone Prepaid deals, who until now was the only one of the majors in the prepaid iPhone game and Vodafone, who have now released their Vodafone prepaid iPhone offer. Visit our iPhone store to compare all iPhone prepaid offers, covering every store that you can access a locked and unlocked Apple iPhone 4 and iPhone 3G S. Read on to find out about the best prepaid iPhone plans to buy when you have your iPhone in your hot little hands. |
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| iPhone Madness For those still interested in purchasing a iPhone 4 or iPhone 4S and are yet to find the most suitable plan here is quick guide on what is on offer. The 4 providers in the market that offer any decent prepaid iPhone deal that has a reasonable data offer to cater for what the iPhone 4 or 4S has to offer, include Vodafone, Optus, Virgin and of course Telstra. It pays to do your research here and we have done it all for you at PrepaidiPhone.com.au. To get the most out of your iPhone you need a decent Data plan. Data on a prepaid mobile plan has come a long way over the past few years. The choice is now much broader than your top 4 providers in 3 Mobile/Vodafone, Optus and Telstra. The likes of Amaysim, Savvytel, TPG, Live Connected, Club Telco, Woolworths Mobile and even Red Bull Mobile all offer great data plans that mean you can make the most of what your iPhone has to offer. Prepaid is however not your only choice. Sim Only or month to month cap plans are also very popular for iPhone users today. Lots of calls and more data than you need mean you have everything without the headache associated with a 12 or 24 month contract. With sim only you can leave whenever you like. |
| September 2011 Prepaid Mobile Internet & Prepaid Mobile Data Plans What a difference a few months can make. This week the media was full of articles showing the growth of smart phones around the world and the penetration of mobile operating systems such as Android and Apple’s ios4. Mobile internet options for contract plans have been gradually growing over the years, particularly with the birth of the first iPhone a few years ago. But that is contract. Prepaid mobile phone plans have been largely neglected by most carriers except for some of the more smaller sim only operators such as Kiss Mobile, Think Mobile and even Live Connected. So what has changed? Some time ago Optus launched their prepaid mobile offer – Dollar Days. For $2 a day you have access to unlimited calls to fixed lines, mobiles and mobile internet. This was the first time unlimited mobile internet was being offered to prepaid mobile customers. It was bold move. What Optus also did was introduce free and un-metered access to social media services such as Facebook, Twitter, and Foursquare. So now finally a carrier has recognised the need for a mobile internet offer to cater for the growing demand for internet by prepaid mobile users. Add to this the fact that the cost per megabyte has also fallen from $20 per mb to just $2. It makes you wonder just how much money they have been making for so long. Not to be outdone, Vodafone has released All-time which for $50 recharge offers unlimited calls and text, 1GB data and unlimited social media. However you also have the Boost $40 recharge offer which gives you unlimited calls and text, social media and 3GB of data. |
| September 2011 KISS Mobile Smart Phone Plans Kiss Mobile was one of the original sim only mobile plans. To be honest I stumbled across them and couldn’t quite work out what they were offering, “pre and post paid plans” is how they described their offer. I listed them on my site thinking maybe its something for the future. Since then sim only mobile phone plans have become very popular. Some consider them month to month plans, others no contract mobile plans. Call them what you like, these plans offer a real alternative for someone wanting more value than prepaid and more flexibility than a contract plan. Sim only sits right in the middle. Kiss Mobile recently underwent a review of their mobile plans as well as a much needed upgrade of their website. Everything looks a lot more professional and competitive today. The two key plans they are offer are the Kiss 15 and KISS 4 Ever. Kiss 15 gives you 15c per 30 secs calls and no connection fee. They also offer free 5 minute calls Kiss to Kiss. Txt rates are 14c. Pay as you go data is 5c per MB, you can however purchase a data plan. These start at $2.95 per month for 100MB, $3.95 for 250MB, $4.95 for 500MB and $9.95 for 1GB.My view is that call rates are competitive, particularly with no connection fee. Consider that a 3 minute call will cost you 90c only. The data plans are very reasonable and at 5c/MB charged in 20KB blocks, you receive real value for your money each month. You can compare KISS Mobile plans here. |
| June 2011 Sim Only Mobile Review – Amaysim Unlimited It also started about a month ago when Boost Mobile launched their Recharge $40 offer across many of their prepaid mobile plans. Recharge $40 currently offers unlimited calls and text to anyone, unlimited social networking about 3GB of data. I covered it within the PrepaidPlans newsletter as ‘Could this be the best prepaid mobile plan ever?” At the time it must have been coming close. This was followed by Vodafone launching their All-time prepaid mobile plans. Giving you unlimited calls, unlimited social networking + 1GB data when you recharge $55. This week, Amaysim held a Press Conference to announce they had launched a sim only no contract month to month arrangement called Amaysim Unlimited. This the latest offering from Amaysim gives you unlimited calls to anyone in Australia, unlimited SMS, unlimited MMS plus unlimited social networking and a bonus 4GB of data for just $39.90 per month. This is a month to month arrangement which means there is no contract so you can leave whenever you like however until you do so, you have a recurring $39.90 charge to your credit card which gives you access to all of these great services. Whilst it might not be fair to compare it to prepaid mobile plans, at the sim only level it is by far the best offer available at the moment, particularly when you compare it to plans such as Virgin’s topless which offers unlimited calls and text to anyone in Australia and 4GB of data for $89 if purchased online. The difference between $89 and $39 is significant.Already the traffic to this plan on our site has been extraordinary. If you would like to know more then visit Amaysim Unlimited now. |
| April 2011 Prepaid Mobile Review – Telstra Prepaid Cap Encore Relaunched in late 2011, Telstra’s Prepaid Cap Encore is Telstra’s best offer when it comes to combined prepaid calls and data for your iPhone. There have actually been a few revamps of these plans over the past 12 months and each iteration has resulted in much more competitive prepaid offer. If your own your own iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 or iPhone 4S, then consider this range of prepaid mobile plans from Telstra. At $30 you get $250 in calls and 500MB. This is great starter pack and will meet most people’s needs. You then upgrade to the $40 recharge plan which offers $550 in calls and 1GB. So doing a little internet and social media? 1GB should be more than enough for you. The next move up is $50 recharge which offer $1000 in calls and 2GB in data. The last move up is the $100 recharge which offers $2000 in calls and 4GB. Lets compare this with Optus’ New Turbo Cap Plus. At the $40 mark, Optus gives you $600 in calls, unlimited TXT, 1GB of data plus unlimited Facebook, Twitter access. At the top recharge level of $100, Optus’ New Turbo Cap Plus offers unlimited calls, $1200 of credit for international or other services, unlimited local fixed line and mobile calls, 7GB data and unlimited Facebook/Twitter access. There is a difference in value certainly. Having used the Optus network personally for a few years and the mobile data, it is reasonably good. If you are really after speed though then maybe Telstra is the way to go. |
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| September 2011 Prepaid Mobile Review – Live Connected Live Connected recently went live with a new range of no contract mobile plans. We start with Lite.r which is an easy start plan offering $100 call credit and $100 to other Live members and 100MB. Just enough to see a few emails. However do note that data is counted in KB not MB, so it should last you a lot longer. This is a great starter plan if you don’t use your phone much but do want some ample credit each month and for $5 it look like great value. Need to bare in mind with Lite.r that the call rates are 99c per minute with a 40c flagfall, so not the cheapest around. $100 gives you 42, 2 minute calls per month.The next range is the Pioneer range, starting with Lite, upgrading to medium and then heavy. The calls rates now drop to 90c per minute and 35c flagfall. Lite gives you $145 in calls with 200MB in data for just $8 per month. Then you have Medium with $400 in calls and 1.5GB for $15. The number of calls per month you would achieve with these plans is 67 and 186 respectively. Again great value. The final plan in the Pioneer series is Heavy with $740 in calls and 3GB for $29. Compare that to many of the prepaid mobile plans out there and you can see why sim only is proving to be very popular. At $740 in credit you can expect 344, 2 minute calls.Finally we have Zen, Live Connected’s answer to the various unlimited plans out there. 4000 calls minutes, unlimited text and sms/mms, $40 of international calls, 4GB of data and unlimited social network access for $40 per month. As close to unlimited as you can get without actually naming it that way.Also note that these plans allow you to make calls to 13, 1300 and 1800 number which a lot of other plans don’t (eg Amaysim unlimited). Furthermore data sessions are based are charged per KB rather than per MB so your GB will last a whole lot longer.Live Connected will certainly be kicking some goals with these new plans. |
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| iPhone/iPad Accessories Listed below are the most popular Apple iPhone and iPad accessories. There are plenty of reasons to check out Apple’s great accessories pages.
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