[cite]Posted By: Swisdom[/cite]If I want to send a quick snap of my daughter to my wife I can in seconds on my iphone
If I want to check my emails i can on my phone in a matter of seconds.
I can play games.
I can check for hotels/restaurants/tourist attractions nearby in seconds
I can read Sky news whenever I want
I can view a map wherever I am
I can check the weather wherever I am
I can check yardages on a golf course anywhere in the world I may be playing
I can listen to music or podcasts
I can check train timetables whenever I want
I can access my betfair account whenever I want
I can scan a barcode and see if I can find a product cheaper somewhere else
I can check traffic wherever I am
I can listen to the radio
I can update/check on Facebook or twitter whenever I want
I can surf the web whenever I want
BUT, can you navigate free courtesy of Google? NO? Oh dear never mind - I can! Ooh and all of the above as well.
Android may not be as popular at the moment, but it's already caught up and overtaken Apple.
As much as I love my 3GS, the upgrade is not a worthy step up. Video calling, editing, multi-tasking are features I had on my N95 from 3-4yrs ago!
Had my 3GS jailbroken months ago, best thing I ever done with this phone. Its amazing the things you can do when it's not locked down. I've been using multi-tasking and folders for months! Who needs OS4!!!!
o2 have announced early upgrade offer for existing customers...
You must pay £20 for each month you have remaining on your existing contract. Take out a brand new 18/24 month contract on their iPhone tariff & pay however much it would be for the phone. Also agree there is no "get out" period, so you cant return the phone if your not happy with it after 10 days.
Not so bad if you purchased one straight away, your looking at forking out just under 300 notes to buy out and buy new phone. Sell existing 3GS for £240. Cost about 50-60quid.
UNLESSSSS....Your a platinum customer so you can upgrade 6months early and only have to pay for phone.
All this "Apple has revolutionised the way we interact with eachother" rubbish.
All I need is to send a text to my mates along the lines of "Who fancies a drink? 8pm at so & so" and then we interact at the pub.
All this "facetime" mumbo jumbo. How convenient is it to look into your phone in the office, or walking down the street, or in the car and have a "facetime" moment. What a lot of crap.
You want to ring people, text people, a passable camera, a few games to pass time and a few handy apps and that's it.
[cite]Posted By: JohnBoyUK[/cite]I have to say I'm mightily impressed with my HTC desire. Does everything the iPhone 4 can do apart from video calling. Er bothered.
Is that running windows mobile software?
I guess if you like it they must have a different software now because Windows Mobile is utter turd
HTC Desire runs Android, I don't think anybody on here would seriously say Windows Mobile (or even the upcoming Windows Phone 7) is better than iPhone OS (or iOS4 as it is now after apple bought the trademark for iOS from Cisco).
Android has similar features but personally, I find that no Android phone I've tried is as easy to use and live with as my iPhone 3g. I have also not seen a phone, running any operating system, which has a touchscreen as accurate and intuitive as the iPhone's.
Obviously there is a price to pay for that, as there is for any Apple product but if you were buying an iTouch, which you are getting in the iPhone, you'd be paying more up front than you do for the iPhone. Then you'll be paying for a phone contract whatever phone you get, so I don't include that in the price, the only extra I know of is that with o2 there is a £5 difference between their comparable normal tariffs and their iPhone tariffs (but iPhone tariffs include Wi-fi cloud access and unlimited 3g, along with what is imo a better phone). So for me, well worth the money.
[cite]Posted By: reserves[/cite]Apple are a very evil company, they assume they can get away with it by making good products and by clever marketing (with huge budgets).
If in anyway you think Apple are not as evil as Microsoft for example then I recommended you do some Google searches.
I for one will not be spending another penny on Apple products, however pretty they might be.
Had to laugh at this. Any company that gets to the size of distributing phones on a mass scale is going to be like that, whether it's Apple, Microsoft, Google, Samsung etc. Are you just going without a phone then, or buying cheap knock-offs like this, which aren't made by 'evil' large scale corporations?
No unlimited 3G with o2 anymore. Just announced tariffs, 500mb capped unless you want to start paying over 40quid a month. Extra 500mb will cost an extra 5 quid per month. Would say that's a con but just checked and my highest usage has been 420mb in one month.
[cite]Posted By: cafcpolo[/cite]No unlimited 3G with o2 anymore. Just announced tariffs, 500mb capped unless you want to start paying over 40quid a month. Extra 500mb will cost an extra 5 quid per month. Would say that's a con but just checked and my highest usage has been 420mb in one month.
How do you do that? would be interested to know mine
[cite]Posted By: cafcpolo[/cite]Would say that's a con but just checked and my highest usage has been 420mb in one month.
how do you check that? also you can get an unlimited bolt on for £7.20 a month.
Finally are Apps transferable through itunes from 3gs to 4?
Just rung up o2 to find out how to do mine. You log on, look at your previous bills, then "what I've used" and then UK browse and download, to get an itemised list, with a total in kb, divide by 1024 to get it in mb (which is what the new amount are measured in).
I have 3 push email accounts on mine and use the internet semi regularly on it and I'm well within 500mb a month. Think you'd have to be streaming Spotify 24/7 to go over the limits, cos I'm quite a heavy 'casual' user and I've never gone over 500mb (which is the new lowest inclusive amount).
Apps will definitely be transferable as long as the new iPhone is registered to the same iPhone account, I imagine you can just start the new iphone using the backup data of the old one, so you have the same apps, contacts etc. too. That was what happened when my mate upgraded from a 1st gen to a 3gs.
Yep, as mentioned above just look at previous bills.
Never used spotify n such so not sure why mine so high. Had to live without broadband for a while so could be that but any large apps require wifi anyway so can't see anyone being able to do 1gb in one month, 500mb would be a push!
Just be interesting to see how much the phone will cost now. Basic around 175 I reckon.
Will be able to transfer apps, connect to iTunes, right click on phone and choose transfer purchases.
[cite]Posted By: cafcpolo[/cite]Yep, as mentioned above just look at previous bills.
Never used spotify n such so not sure why mine so high. Had to live without broadband for a while so could be that but any large apps require wifi anyway so can't see anyone being able to do 1gb in one month, 500mb would be a push!
Just be interesting to see how much the phone will cost now. Basic around 175 I reckon.
Will be able to transfer apps, connect to iTunes, right click on phone and choose transfer purchases.
Just looked at the usage log on my iPhone and, in two days (since I got the replacement) it reckons its downloaded 2.5GB! Ooops!
[cite]Posted By: allez les addicks[/cite]Had to laugh at this. Any company that gets to the size of distributing phones on a mass scale is going to be like that, whether it's Apple, Microsoft, Google, Samsung etc. Are you just going without a phone then, or buying cheap knock-offs likethis, which aren't made by 'evil' large scale corporations?
Comments
BUT, can you navigate free courtesy of Google? NO? Oh dear never mind - I can! Ooh and all of the above as well.
Android may not be as popular at the moment, but it's already caught up and overtaken Apple.
Apple are Evil!! (But i'd still like an iMac!)
Still can't believe the battery life on iphones and that you can't remove the battery!
Had my 3GS jailbroken months ago, best thing I ever done with this phone. Its amazing the things you can do when it's not locked down. I've been using multi-tasking and folders for months! Who needs OS4!!!!
You must pay £20 for each month you have remaining on your existing contract.
Take out a brand new 18/24 month contract on their iPhone tariff & pay however much it would be for the phone.
Also agree there is no "get out" period, so you cant return the phone if your not happy with it after 10 days.
Not so bad if you purchased one straight away, your looking at forking out just under 300 notes to buy out and buy new phone. Sell existing 3GS for £240. Cost about 50-60quid.
UNLESSSSS....Your a platinum customer so you can upgrade 6months early and only have to pay for phone.
1:43 made me laugh out loud
If I can get that then maybe just maybe
All I need is to send a text to my mates along the lines of "Who fancies a drink? 8pm at so & so" and then we interact at the pub.
All this "facetime" mumbo jumbo. How convenient is it to look into your phone in the office, or walking down the street, or in the car and have a "facetime" moment. What a lot of crap.
You want to ring people, text people, a passable camera, a few games to pass time and a few handy apps and that's it.
Is that running windows mobile software?
I guess if you like it they must have a different software now because Windows Mobile is utter turd
Obviously there is a price to pay for that, as there is for any Apple product but if you were buying an iTouch, which you are getting in the iPhone, you'd be paying more up front than you do for the iPhone. Then you'll be paying for a phone contract whatever phone you get, so I don't include that in the price, the only extra I know of is that with o2 there is a £5 difference between their comparable normal tariffs and their iPhone tariffs (but iPhone tariffs include Wi-fi cloud access and unlimited 3g, along with what is imo a better phone). So for me, well worth the money.
Had to laugh at this. Any company that gets to the size of distributing phones on a mass scale is going to be like that, whether it's Apple, Microsoft, Google, Samsung etc. Are you just going without a phone then, or buying cheap knock-offs like this, which aren't made by 'evil' large scale corporations?
;-)
No details on phone prices yet.
How do you do that? would be interested to know mine
Finally are Apps transferable through itunes from 3gs to 4?
Just rung up o2 to find out how to do mine. You log on, look at your previous bills, then "what I've used" and then UK browse and download, to get an itemised list, with a total in kb, divide by 1024 to get it in mb (which is what the new amount are measured in).
I have 3 push email accounts on mine and use the internet semi regularly on it and I'm well within 500mb a month. Think you'd have to be streaming Spotify 24/7 to go over the limits, cos I'm quite a heavy 'casual' user and I've never gone over 500mb (which is the new lowest inclusive amount).
Apps will definitely be transferable as long as the new iPhone is registered to the same iPhone account, I imagine you can just start the new iphone using the backup data of the old one, so you have the same apps, contacts etc. too. That was what happened when my mate upgraded from a 1st gen to a 3gs.
Never used spotify n such so not sure why mine so high. Had to live without broadband for a while so could be that but any large apps require wifi anyway so can't see anyone being able to do 1gb in one month, 500mb would be a push!
Just be interesting to see how much the phone will cost now. Basic around 175 I reckon.
Will be able to transfer apps, connect to iTunes, right click on phone and choose transfer purchases.
Errrr, just short of 12 months you clown!
Oh, and it was replaced for new within 10 minutes of arriving at the Apple store... you wouldnt get service like that with Nokia, Samsung etc...
Just looked at the usage log on my iPhone and, in two days (since I got the replacement) it reckons its downloaded 2.5GB! Ooops!
Can't be - Steve Jobs said that Android was for Porn
What, midgets?
My Nokia does not break after 12 month though !
Still i am sure the extortionate insurance you pay each month on an Iphone covers it :-)
I guess you still buy your petrol from BP then?