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Mr Miyagi
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On 2009-06-10 04:09:19, rule_breaker wrote:
Im just wondering if I should get black or white? My instincts say White by my brain says black!
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Hmmm tough choice. They both look good. How about just tossing a coin then deciding  . Also I don't think they will be launching a £10" iPhone. They would have announced it am sure at the developers conference. |
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whentheleveebreaks
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For me its not too expensive, id happily pay £175 for a 32GB iPod. My contract is up so dont have anything to pay off. Hopefully it wont be too difficult to get one on release day.
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bavlondon2
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If you are in your last month of your contract or you clear all the remaining months how much will an upgrade be?
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whentheleveebreaks
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I guess it the same price as buying it from scratch?
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voda_jon
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yeh the upgrade prices are the same as the new customer prices...
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bavlondon2
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It really is ridiculous for existing customers. Whats the point of 18 and 24 month contracts when they have a 12 month refresh rate?
I was going to wait till xmas to upgrade but the way I see it why bother as then we will only be 6 months away from the 4th iphone!
To quote someone else
"o2's business plan is bad news for Apple as it will seriously dent sales figures for the 3GS"
I hope the iphone 3GS fails big time!
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masseur
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O2 are not going to be doing pre-orders on this one I've just been told
CPW, on the other hand, have apparantly confirmed (on pocketlint) that they will have pre-orders up at http://www.carphonewarehouse.com/iphone sometime today
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RyaN
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On 2009-06-10 15:30:05, masseur wrote:
O2 are not going to be doing pre-orders on this one I've just been told
Do O2 actually do anything to make the customer happy - at all? No pre-orders? Why, cos they're too imcompetent to get it right or something? 
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Nanu
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On 2009-06-10 15:51:12, RyaN wrote:
On 2009-06-10 15:30:05, masseur wrote:
O2 are not going to be doing pre-orders on this one I've just been told
Do O2 actually do anything to make the customer happy - at all? No pre-orders? Why, cos they're too imcompetent to get it right or something?
I think O2 don't actually want to sell any of these, or at least it seems they are going out of their way to p*ss people off!
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masseur
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You hear such bad stuff about AT&T in US... I reckon O2 are taking a leaf out of AT&T's book, rather than it being the other way around! but at least O2 are offering the tethering which AT&T aren't!
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Barachus
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O2 can barely provide the advertised speeds for normal data browsing i wonder how they expect to cope with tethering |
masseur
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...or when they'll provide 7.2mbit HSDPA
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RyaN
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It is just amazing how Apple pick the two most seemingly unequipped networks for US and UK. I'm positive any other network wouldn't bodge-job the iPhone releases/tariffs. AT&T are absolutely years behind other US networks, Apple to a certain extent have to hold back on network related stuff as AT&T just wont be able to support it. How crap is that! NO MMS for AT&T until late summer? Why the feck not? They should be fully prepared and equipped! ie Banning people from using Skype over 3G?! WTF! O2 charging more for a crappy tethering bolt-on than they do for their own mobile broadband!?!? 
These company's make so much money, especially reselling a premium handset like the iPhone you would think they could get the network up to speed, tariffs sorted out and not just be thinking about culling £$£$£ of people for nothing
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Best speed i've ever seen on my iPhone over 3G is 1.5mbps, some way off the 3.6mbps... let alone 7.2mbps on the 3GS.
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julias
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Does anyone know what the business tariffs are?
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anonymuser
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O2 aren't great on some things and I think they're pricing is well off the mark on the new phones, but I don't understand the upgrade arguments. They're simply doing what they'd with any other phone, and expecting people (quite fairly) to wait out their contracts. If you bought a pay monthly 3G from them then you got it at a hefty discount, and its that subsidy you're paying back now over the term of your 18-24 month contract - if they write that off now they're simply robbing themselves.
So what if Apple have brought out a new model after a year - who's surprised by that? Who honestly bought an iPhone at any point in the last year thinking Apple weren't ever going to improve on it? Which phone manufacturer doesn't update its lineup at least once a year, regardless of whichever ridiculous length of contract the networks are favouring now?
Yes it would be nice if they offered cheap upgrades like they did last time, but let's not lie to ourselves, we all KNOW that they only offered the cheaper upgrade then because owners of the original iPhone had already paid the FULL cost of the device - their phones weren't subsidised at all so they owed the networks nothing. We on the otherhand have had our big saving on the phone up front and now we have to pay for it over the course of the contracts we signed - that's just how it works.
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Posted: 2009-06-10 08:03
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