PAYG iPhone 3G Delayed Until.....Christmas

via Gizmodo


The notion that the UK might be punished for having so many iPhone users with hacked phones did seem a little far fetched last week when we covered the claims of one UK retail insider, but today it's looking likely that the iPhone 3G is certainly not arriving as originally thought.

Today, it's been confirmed that the pay-as-you-go (PAYG) - or Pay & Go - iPhone 3G has been put on the backburner for the UK and will not ship later this week on July 11.

The O2 site now lists the device with the message: "Pay & Go will be available later this year". More ominously, an official statement from Carphone Warehouse says the PAYG iPhone 3G will arrive "in time for the Christmas period". That's a bit of a blow for those hoping to use a 3G iPhone on their own networks.

Both O2 and Carphone Warehouse have opened up pre-ordering for a 'limited time' before it starts selling to Joe Public on Friday morning and, to entice buyers, they are promising courier delivery on Friday. Carphone claims that that pre-registrations for the 3G device are 10 times higher than they were for the original iPhone.

And where is the white one that other countries will be getting?