BillMonitor

Orange UK and Apple have announced an agreement to bring iPhone 3G and 3GS to Orange UK customers later this year.   Orange will sell the iPhone in their shops and on their website as well as through selected high street partners.  O2 will continue to offer the iPhone, giving customers a choice of carriers in the UK market.

We wonder when T-Mobile will also announce offering the iPhone to their customers.  As T-Mobile and Orange announced earlier this month, they will be merging their companies and the signing is expected to take place at the end of October.  The merger will probably give T-Mobile the right to offer the iPhone.  We imagine that T-Mobile will not announce adding it to their offerings until after the signing.

It didn’t take T-Mobile long to drop the exclusivity on the G1 from the original two plans: it’s now available on every plan that they offer, although you’ll pay up to £99 if you want to take it away on a cheap plan.

The best O2 have done in response to this is to make the iPhone available to buy online at last: something that’s been a long, long time coming.

It looks like the G1 has been a big success, expected to sell 1 million before the end of the year, and some really exciting apps are showing up on the Android Marketplace.  I can’t wait to see what the future of Android phones is going to be.