whyPhone?

Pete · Fri 27 Mar, 2009 13.53

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/27 ... ws_mobile/

cdd · Fri 27 Mar, 2009 14.33

Hadn't seen that but it's not the page loading that's slow, it's just the application is so bloated and sluggish and uses non-standard UI elements, it's ridiculous. I might give it a go when it comes out, I spend enough time browsing on my mobile to make it worth trying it out...

rts · Sun 05 Apr, 2009 12.34

Interesting article on the front of todays Business section in the Observer. Could this be the end of O2's exclusive iPhone deal?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009 ... bilephones

iSon · Sun 05 Apr, 2009 14.03

Could you imagine the uproar if all of a sudden a new iPhone appeared with a different provider? Any iPhone owner at the moment will currently be locked into a contract for at least a few more months with the only option but to buy out of the contract. Ouch.

I would be particularly miffed as of course I'm only a few months into the contract of the current iPhone 3G and would have liked to think that if a new version comes out there might be a sweetner for current o2 iPhone customers. May not happen anyway but it would be nice...

I thought the o2 deal was for "3 phones" anyway?

cdd · Sun 05 Apr, 2009 16.34

If the iPhone appeared on TMobile, I'd buy one like a shot.

That said, I'd miss the Use Phone As Modem (Internet Sharing) feature that my current Windows Mobile phone offers... the iPhone doesn't appear to have an equivelent without 'hacking' it.

iSon · Sun 05 Apr, 2009 21.29

cdd wrote:If the iPhone appeared on TMobile, I'd buy one like a shot.

That said, I'd miss the Use Phone As Modem (Internet Sharing) feature that my current Windows Mobile phone offers... the iPhone doesn't appear to have an equivelent without 'hacking' it.

At the moment the clever people have managed to find the "Internet Tethering" hack within the 3.0 software that allows the iPhone to be used as a modem. However I would imagine this would be disabled by default with a view to charging a mobile broadband add-on to get it enabled.

Of course there's lots of speculation about a new iPhone, but ultimately it will be 32Gb perhaps with a better camera. The 3.0 software is what will offer the biggest upgrades for existing users. At least that's what I'm telling myself when I can't upgrade!!

rts · Fri 01 May, 2009 12.16

Lots of rumours about a 32GB iPhone in the summer. I imagine this will be joined by a 16GB version.

Does anyone know if these two will be physically the same size, re dimensions, or is the 32GB going to be larger?

I've got over 50GB of music in iTunes so either way will have to have a slimmed down library.

I have 12 months less with Orange, so short of the iPhone coming to Orange this summer, I'm seriously considering getting an iPhone on O2 and buying myself out of my Orange contract.

Gavin Scott · Fri 01 May, 2009 12.34

Does anyone seriously need their entire music collection with them at all times?

16GB of music files would play for, what, a week?

Anything beyond that seems OTT to me.

Sput · Fri 01 May, 2009 12.38

You could say the same about any MP3 player bigger than a few gigabytes. I think to most people (using me as a sample group) it's about not having to decide in advance what you want to listen to, rather than listening to it all.

Gavin Scott · Fri 01 May, 2009 13.06

Sput wrote:You could say the same about any MP3 player bigger than a few gigabytes. I think to most people (using me as a sample group) it's about not having to decide in advance what you want to listen to, rather than listening to it all.

Och, yer arse in parsley.

The thing is - people have entire albums within their music collection.

Of all of the ones I own, or have owned, there are very few that I would want to hear every track on. Maybe 4-6 tracks per album I would want with me, and the rest would be skipped anyway.

Sure gigabytes are cheap now - but it would be a shocking waste of money to upgrade from an iPhone 16 to an iPhone 32 if that's the only thing to be "upgraded" in the handset. A little housekeeping would probably mean that anyone with a reasonably large music library could keep it all on a 16GB with no bother at all.

But hey - people like to spend their money I suppose.

Sput · Fri 01 May, 2009 13.15

Oh sure, I wouldn't spend that much to upgrade to a bigger version of the same thing. I'd insist on it holding all the music to start with.