iPhone - any ideas when?

DJLOREY said:
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Yes please lots of it too... I heard Vodafone I think we will be waiting till el jobso has a meeting about it before we know for sure. I think there may be some kind of London based iTunes tv/movies and iphone announcement along with a iphone announcement and possibly even an ipod one too? iPhone would probably be tacked on the end just like with the previous stevenote which had it tacked on the end.
 
Probably they'll announce it at the next Apple Expo in Paris.

I'm guessing announcements for iTunes Music Store (Europe), as well as new iPod annoucements.. no hardware until a few days later though.

Expo is 21-25th September :D
 
O2 definetly won the contract, in fact it was really Apple's choice as they wanted the best network........

....does it really matter?......we wont have the kind of network that somnthing like AT&T provide..at least that been my understanding. EVen 3G will be pants running on it.

Oragne will release it in France and T-Mobile in Germany.

I think they are still on for next March....thats the last I heard anyways.
 
I don't see why people are saying they won't buy an iPhone until it has 3G anyway.

The lab test "3G Vs. EDGE" on Anandtech showed that the iPhone has double the battery life (than a Blackberry) when used on EDGE, and even better when using WiFi to browse the net :)

Personally I'll take double battery life over a slower network speed (as I have easy access to a WiFi area), and the reduced size and weight.
 
DJLOREY said:
I don't see why people are saying they won't buy an iPhone until it has 3G anyway.

The lab test "3G Vs. EDGE" on Anandtech showed that the iPhone has double the battery life (than a Blackberry) when used on EDGE, and even better when using WiFi to browse the net :)

Personally I'll take double battery life over a slower network speed (as I have easy access to a WiFi area), and the reduced size and weight.
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That's not 3G vs EDGE, that's iPhone battery life vs. Blackberry. There's plenty of tiny phones with 3G and good battery life.

Edit: And to the guy saying Apple picked the best network . . . hah. Apple signed with whoever was crazy enough to give them kickbacks from iPhone contracts.

I like Apple stuff as much as the next person, but I am not interested in the iPhone. It's too pricey and too big, and doesn't really do much without 3rd party hacks.
 
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Caged said:
That's not 3G vs EDGE, that's iPhone battery life vs. Blackberry. There's plenty of tiny phones with 3G and good battery life.

Edit: And to the guy saying Apple picked the best network . . . hah. Apple signed with whoever was crazy enough to give them kickbacks from iPhone contracts.

I like Apple stuff as much as the next person, but I am not interested in the iPhone. It's too pricey and too big, and doesn't really do much without 3rd party hacks.
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Granted, but they were able to benchmark the blackberry on EDGE and again using 3G and the results were that generally 3G will drain the battery faster (more my point really :))

I do agree it's a limited device, but so is the iPod when compared with a Creative etc.

As for the best network.. 10% of revenue and a slice of phone sales! :eek:
 
It will be interesting to see if O2 getting the iPhone will cause them to change their plans around with regards to data. At the moment they are the least data-friendly network by far, preferring to pad their bundles out with thousands of SMS messages which are more or less free for the networks to handle anyway.
 
Indeed.

A piffiling 4MB data is their best for a £35 a month tariff! (:mad: ), here's hoping they change to an unlimited basis, which in turn forces the other networks to follow suit.
 
Caged said:
That's not 3G vs EDGE, that's iPhone battery life vs. Blackberry. There's plenty of tiny phones with 3G and good battery life.

Edit: And to the guy saying Apple picked the best network . . . hah. Apple signed with whoever was crazy enough to give them kickbacks from iPhone contracts.

I like Apple stuff as much as the next person, but I am not interested in the iPhone. It's too pricey and too big, and doesn't really do much without 3rd party hacks.
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Apples words not mine, they had offers from Orange, Vodaphone and O2.

Now if we are talking a case of money, im thinking Orange would have had the most on the table, Apple said they specifically choose O2.

Dont knwo what the deal is AT&T have already reported loss's on *** phone since its release.
Didnt they have actual low selling figures on its release?

No interest in buying one...though it looks a nice piece of kit.

I just want a decent phone :(
 
cu3ed said:
Apples words not mine, they had offers from Orange, Vodaphone and O2.

Now if we are talking a case of money, im thinking Orange would have had the most on the table, Apple said they specifically choose O2.

Dont knwo what the deal is AT&T have already reported loss's on *** phone since its release.
Didnt they have actual low selling figures on its release?

No interest in buying one...though it looks a nice piece of kit.

I just want a decent phone :(
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I think it was revealed that they sold 300,000 in the first 3 days in the US :)
 
yea thats true over the opening weekend....remember reading somhting on how AT7T have still got a load of them though and that sales have not been as strong as they had hoped for.......that was a few weeks ago.
 
EVH said:
Indeed.

A piffiling 4MB data is their best for a £35 a month tariff! (:mad: ), here's hoping they change to an unlimited basis, which in turn forces the other networks to follow suit.
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Thats why I stayed away from O2 when I got my blackberry, absolute rip off for using bandwidth.
I'm sure the phone will get unlocked anyway and Ill just carry on my T-mobile contract but get the phone somewhere :)
 
Whats o2 open then? I'm currently on Orange and have been for a very long time, just bought a house and the o2 signal kicks ass over my Orange one, so o2 does not sound a bad option for me.

Anymore news on the iphone release yet?
 
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