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Desire. NEXT

I think iPhone 4 if it's not costing you anything, simply because what it does it does a bit better. Obviously the list of "what it doesn't" is longer than that of the Desire.

Its sort of off topic but not quite..
Do you know if I can just plug 3.5mm microphone into the iphone to help when recording video?

The quality of the iphone is 10x better than my sd camera so want to use that instead for a project at work.

I'd go for the Desire. I have it for work and it's brilliant. Only problem is now I don't know what I want for me now.

I just got myself an iphone 4 and it's so pretty.

Course it doesn't bloody work as a phone so I'm well pissed off and it's going back.

One thing I was a bit narked by when on the phone the customer services (aside from the suggest to hold it in my other hand, er no) was the suggestion that because I bought it from the shop rather than online they might not refund me.

Is this likely or just them talking shite / getting the distance selling rules mixed up? Because as far as I am concerned not only is it "not of expected quality" under the sale of goods act by the fact the reception is so shite, but as its contract there is still a cooling off period of 14 days.

Assuming the phone is new: I suspect if you wanted a refund, you'd have to return to the place of purchase. If you just want it fixed (by which it always means 'replaced with an identical refurbished model') the Apple store will definitely be able to help. They might well replace it with a 'new' model too when you show how new it is, just depends how important these things are to you.

Which reminds me, I dropped my iPhone (and, err, myself - texting in the dark - a few drinks - not a good idea) into a pond a few months ago. When I went to Apple and explained it was repaired ('refurbished replaced') for free, notwithstanding their water damage policy. Great service I thought, and it's nice to know one can put a price on dignity

Pete wrote:I just got myself an iphone 4 and it's so pretty.

Course it doesn't bloody work as a phone so I'm well pissed off and it's going back.

One thing I was a bit narked by when on the phone the customer services (aside from the suggest to hold it in my other hand, er no) was the suggestion that because I bought it from the shop rather than online they might not refund me.

Is this likely or just them talking shite / getting the distance selling rules mixed up? Because as far as I am concerned not only is it "not of expected quality" under the sale of goods act by the fact the reception is so shite, but as its contract there is still a cooling off period of 14 days.

YOU KNOW YOU WANT IT. SEXYYYY.

one of my friends has got an iphone 4, whilst that screen is just amazing, i think it is a bit overrated... and expensive.

let's be honest most of those things on the appstore are only a novelty if you're 12.

i did seriously think about getting one as i want a phone with a decent browser but the htc desire hd which another chum has just got seems just as good and for loads cheaper.... think 25 quid per month from phones 4 u.

Right well that's that dealt with. iPhone returned, contract cancelled and everything back to how it was at midday yesterday.

Now: which phone do I get instead?

I'd take into consideration the new BlackBerry Torch, which runs on the new BlackBerry 6 OS, which generally improves the UI, and brings in more of a social feel. It's a sliding phone, with a keyboard sliding out, and you can use it with the touch screen or the track-pad. Of course, you get BBM, and the email is the best for a mobile device around.

http://uk.blackberry.com/devices/blackberrytorch.jsp - Just a bit more on it.

A nice little exclusive from The Guardian today: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/20 ... vacy-fears taken from http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/04/apple- ... cking.html

It seems that from the start of IOS4, iPhones and iPads have been recording your location - taken from mobile network data, not GPS - on a file on the phone. This then gets uploaded to your computer everytime the device is synced using iTunes. The people who discovered this feature have written an application to convert the data into a map: http://petewarden.github.com/iPhoneTracker/

Even though it's been agreed to in Apples 15,200 word T&Cs (what you mean you didn't read them all?) many people, unsurprisingly, are surprised that this data is stored. I wonder how many spouses are checking out their partners location data this evening? And how many iPhone 4 users are regretting plugging their phones into their computer at work?