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Which I remembered...you're still wrong though 😛

But right about the iPhone 8)


 
Posted : 19/06/2009 8:35 pm
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Gave in... Spent 45 minutes with a blue-shirt at the apple store yesterday and walked out with a black 16GB 3gs. Loving it.


 
Posted : 21/06/2009 9:05 am
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I've done the same. Finally caved in to the world of iPhones. Seems really good so far, lots of experience with blackberries has at least tuned my thumbs to the keyboard. So far very impressed


 
Posted : 21/06/2009 10:37 am
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For me, there isn't enough in the 3Gs to warrant an upgrade over the 3g once its had the 3.0 software installed. I am (somehow, as I can't see what has changed) getting better battery life now and the landscape screen really does make life easier!

Whilst I have around 20gb of music, if I want to lug a load of songs around (on holiday for example) then I'll take my old ipod......you can sync different songs to different Ipods (i.e. selective songs to the iPhone and everything to the IPod).

However, regardless of the hardware the real killer for me is that O2 have taken away the unlimited text bolt on for new or upgraded* iPhone contracts. Given the iphone eats texts like its going out of fashion, it seems a strange and rather shortsighted decision........and that for me is the absolute bottom line of why I'm not upgrading!

*I've heard mixed reports on this, but the option is definitely off the O2 website for new contracts.


 
Posted : 21/06/2009 11:47 am
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Given the iphone eats texts like its going out of fashion

What do you mean? ive not noticed going over my limit, tho i admit i dont send a lot anyway.


 
Posted : 21/06/2009 11:54 am
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What do you mean? ive not noticed going over my limit, tho i admit i dont send a lot anyway.

It may be my refusal to use text speak (i'll never ever be cool, dammit!), but I'm consistently up around the 600-700 mark.........and I'm not a heavy texter - it seemed to have gone up from my old contracts where I had around 500 texts and rarely went over that.


 
Posted : 21/06/2009 11:58 am
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Could anyone confirm that a single MMS message equals to 4 standard messages, and therefore uses free inclusive texts instead of charging extra? That's what I have been told by Apple rep.


 
Posted : 21/06/2009 12:12 pm
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How much easier does an application have to be? You shove a cd in the slot, iTunes opens, you click import cd, job done.
You have to click a button to rip a CD?
blimey - i use windows media - i clicked the 'automatically rip cd' tick box, so when i get a new CD i just pop it in the drive and it automatically rips to the specified location with all the ID tags completed.
I don't want iTunes to just rip a cd as soon as I stick it in the slot. I want to have control over what tracks I rip, because even on favourite albums there are occasionally songs I don't want. Also there are songs that I want to join together, and 'hidden' tracks that I want to crop out and record without a twenty minute silent space. Compilation albums always have lots of tracks I don't want. If you're happy to let your software import any old junk without letting you check what you want ripped first, that's your prerogative, but I want to maintain my own control over what goes in, thank you.


 
Posted : 21/06/2009 7:20 pm
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Could anyone confirm that a single MMS message equals to 4 standard messages, and therefore uses free inclusive texts instead of charging extra? That's what I have been told by Apple rep.

This is from the O2 website.......

You can use your text bundle to send picture messages in the UK and abroad. [b]One picture message equals four normal texts[/b], or if you've got no bundle texts left, they cost 24.47p a message (21.28p excluding VAT).


 
Posted : 21/06/2009 7:48 pm
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Wunundred!

I have nothing of any use to add.


 
Posted : 21/06/2009 7:50 pm
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It may be my refusal to use text speak (i'll never ever be cool, dammit!), but I'm consistently up around the 600-700 mark.........and I'm not a heavy texter - it seemed to have gone up from my old contracts where I had around 500 texts and rarely went over that.

I wonder if its because you cant tell how many characters you have typed? my old nokia used to show how many characters you had left to fit in 1 txt and if you went over it would cost 2 txts. That might be why your going over, its so easy to get carried away and type loads with the qwerty and big screen.


 
Posted : 21/06/2009 9:04 pm
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