How much will your iPhone cost?

I made a comparison chart that shows the overall cost of the iPhone 5 in the UK over the expected lifetime of the phone, using the announced 24-month contract pricing from the five major UK mobile networks, excluding EE.

Apple charges £529 for the sim-free iPhone 5 16GB, £599 for the 32GB version and £699 for the 64GB — if you’re considering buying it direct and using it with your existing talk plan, see if that’s cheaper than with a network by adding the following to your monthly bill: £22.04 for a 16GB handset, £24.96 for a 32GB handset and £29.13 for a 64GB model.

I think it’s all correct — contact @phowax for questions, corrections etc. Note that it doesn’t take into account any variations in benefits from the various tariffs — the chart assumes that your minimum requirements (inclusive text messages, data etc) are met by every tariff. I left out the Vodafone 12-month tariffs because they skew the data, and I couldn’t find 12-month pricing from any other network. Also, the O2 pricing refers to in-store sales; if you buy online it’s cheaper. The table doesn’t take into account customer service, availability of Visual Voicemail (O2 only, as far as I know) or the colour of the sky.

The sortable table below shows the important figures; click the image below for the full-size version which includes all pricing data for each talk plan, and which is coloured to show the cheapest plans. The colouring works per-line, so for the 16GB phone, the green boxes are the cheapest overall, and red the most expensive, same for the 32GB, and so on.