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Westyfield2 said:
That's the one I used. It said it was valid but the price stayed at £282.50 :confused:.... though the price box was above the promo code box so I don't know if it would update?
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I dont no mate, i just did a bit of google'ing for codes.
Will have to wait for some1 that has actrully done it for an answer.
 
Is there any truth in the 4G rumours... In that they would release this then a 4G model later?

How good is the 4G coverage in the uk?

I really want one of these but don't wanna upgrade in like 6 months :(
 
cymatty said:
I had a play with my friends 3 and 3gs, the 3 crashed safari everytime you tried to do anything with a page before if fully loaded which was annoying.
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Well then that's just his phone, or the way you're using it. My 8GB 3G is lightning fast when browsing in Safari and for the 4 months that I've owned it I've never had a single problem in regards to Safari crashing.

cymatty said:
There was no radio on either model (that the owner could find, so I could be wrong on that one:p) which is also a pain.
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It doesn't have a radio per-se, like in the Sony Ericsson's but you can listen to Internet radio and also use services like Last.fm, which is great.

cymatty said:
Also trying to do simple tihngs can be a pain, we were on a train with no signal and my friend tried to send the text which of course did not go through. To resend the message he had to either forward it to the same number again, or copy paste into a new message. Even on my crappy sybian there is a resend option.
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There is a resend option. If you try and send a text and it's unable to then you get a little (!) next to the message. You press that and a menu comes up saying "Try Again", you press Try Again and it will attempt to resend, simples.


cymatty said:
The iPhone has an intuitive UI dont get me wrong but if it cant get the basics right then I don't care about the flashy stuff.
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It does get the basics right it's just you clearly don't know how to use it. I'll give you the expandable memory point you made, but then I doubt many people really care, and they probably already know it's memory is built in before they make a £350+ investment.
 
I am not overwhelmed with the update as the update basically brought the phone up to date with most of other phones on the market. Some of which have been out for 6 months so Apple is a bit late on the show. Hell, some features they are so late into the show, one might say they missed the show all together, i.e. front facing camera, that was a new thing back in 2006/2007 !

That said, I do believe now the iPhone 4G is a pretty solid package, the spec is decent now, the OS is good and intuitive, the battery life is great and of course it is also an iPod under all that jazz as well.
 
K1LLSW1TCH said:
It doesn't have a radio per-se, like in the Sony Ericsson's but you can listen to Internet radio and also use services like Last.fm, which is great.
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Which is only good if you have an interent connection.

K1LLSW1TCH said:
There is a resend option. If you try and send a text and it's unable to then you get a little (!) next to the message. You press that and a menu comes up saying "Try Again", you press Try Again and it will attempt to resend, simples.
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Fair enough, I did not see that option but if it is there then I will conceed that point

K1LLSW1TCH said:
It does get the basics right it's just you clearly don't know how to use it. I'll give you the expandable memory point you made, but then I doubt many people really care, and they probably already know it's memory is built in before they make a £350+ investment.
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Does it send pictures via bluetooth yet? As I would say that is fairly basic

Also not having flash is not much fun either.
 
The bluetooth thing was a BIG deal when the first iPhone came out but i have never actually heard a iPhone owner complain about it, nor someone who can bluetooth pics does it often enough to say that is a necessity.
 
From watching the Apple iPhone 4 video I presumed that iMovie would come with the phone, but it seems not as all the text ref iMovie says 'Its coming soon to the App store'. I wonder how much that will be?
 
K1LLSW1TCH said:
'll give you the expandable memory point you made, but then I doubt many people really care, and they probably already know it's memory is built in before they make a £350+ investment.
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I'd rather have 16 or 32GB of non removable flash storage rather than 512mb and a storage card which you can't install apps on (I know this is supposed to be coming to Android with 2.2 but it's optional so no doubt not all developers will allow it).
 
mark66 said:
From watching the Apple iPhone 4 video I presumed that iMovie would come with the phone, but it seems not as all the text ref iMovie says 'Its coming soon to the App store'. I wonder how much that will be?
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$4.99 so probably under £3 in the UK app store - not sure I'd bother though!
 
So glad I've got a Simplicity tariff, and skipped the 3GS.

Buy the handset PAYG, pop in a micro-sim and go. I never want to be tied in with O2 ever again :p
 
EVH said:
So glad I've got a Simplicity tariff, and skipped the 3GS.

Buy the handset PAYG, pop in a micro-sim and go. I never want to be tied in with O2 ever again :p
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I also skipped the 3GS and went with the Simplicity Tarriff...

Do you reckon its really cost effective to buy PAYG? it might pan out over the course of 18 months but its not as good for cashflow...

Saying that, I can get £180 odd quid with this recycle thing which seems interesting... do you reckon thats a good price for a well used 3G 16gb? cosmetic scratches but all good otherwise?

(edit: actually, £202 with that voucher code... doesn't sound too shabby to me tbh...)
 
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cymatty said:
Which is only good if you have an interent connection.
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Not really. If you're on PAYG, O2 do a Web bolt on, you top up 10 a month and get a load of net access as well as your £10 talk time and whatever kind of bonus texts tarriff you're set up on. As for contract users, they usually have the same thing, or free wifi in places like Starbucks, Wetherspoons and McDonalds so if you're out and about it's likely you'll be in a hotspot and if you aren't then that's where 3G comes in.

cymatty said:
Fair enough, I did not see that option but if it is there then I will conceed that point
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It is there. :)

cymatty said:
Does it send pictures via bluetooth yet? As I would say that is fairly basic
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I have to be honest and say I haven't actually tried, I don't think anyone has ever asked me to send a picture via bluetooth, infact, the last bluetooth related thing I did was in the school playground. iPhone to iPhone transfers are a piece of cake though, not tried bluetooth I must admit.

cymatty said:
Also not having flash is not much fun either.
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It's not really a necessity seeing as the majority of videos are viewed on YouTube and the majority of YouTube's videos already work on the iPhone, not to mention BBC iPlayer which also works perfectly.

I don't mean this in a patronising way at all but I think you need to live with the phone day to day for a period of time before you critique it.:)
 
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