iPhone - Edge, GPRS and Wifi

While I still think the contract is a bit steep I ended up paying it to guarantee an easy life for the future. I was all set for breaking it but at the last minute I reconsidered.

I wussed out basically. ;)
 
I'm still reserving judgement on the £35 a month. Just waiting for a number port and took a £25pm 30day O2 sim.

Maybe when the SDK is released I'll sign up just for the easy life of unlimited data, mines used a megabyte in a week and I haven't knowingly used it. Besides work pays for the damn thing anyway.

I purposely didn't set an Edge username and password so that wouldn't work but now my Edge Settings have disappeared from Settings >> General >> Network. This is the second time thats happened, to get it back the first time I reset everything from scratch. But I really can't be bothered to reset it and jailbreak it all over again.
 
The £35 a month isnt really the issue for me, its the 18 month contract, there are only a few things i have commited too for that amount of time . . . .


Girlfiend
House
University
Car


I dont know if i can put the iphone fifth :p
 
It doesnt make sence to me simply because your risking £269 (i.e. possibly bricking it) to 'save' money in the long run, i know its a risk but I think its a bad one because the money you think your saving will be negated automatically if its bricked, and the real saving is less because you have to have some kind of bolt on internet data plan, because the iphone is all about internet, remember the keynote where steve j. introduced the imac, i was internet etc... well internet phone, thats a very good description of what it is, a phone with internet, and if you cannot afford the internet on it or are worried about going over limits it seems pointless.

But hey, each to their own i am very happy with my non unlocked and non jailbroken phone.
 
unknowndomain said:
It doesnt make sence to me simply because your risking £269 (i.e. possibly bricking it) to 'save' money in the long run, i know its a risk but I think its a bad one because the money you think your saving will be negated automatically if its bricked, and the real saving is less because you have to have some kind of bolt on internet data plan, because the iphone is all about internet, remember the keynote where steve j. introduced the imac, i was internet etc... well internet phone, thats a very good description of what it is, a phone with internet, and if you cannot afford the internet on it or are worried about going over limits it seems pointless.

But hey, each to their own i am very happy with my non unlocked and non jailbroken phone.
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I'm seriously considering one but I don't want to get tied down for 18 months!
 
I went with an official tariff because my other contract ended on the launch month and I didn't fancy waiting 2 weeks before I could jailbreak it.

That said, I've thoroughly enjoyed the usage I've had out of my iPhone since launch, and couldn't live without it now.

I've unlocked a few for resale value, and done a few for the family, but I'm always using mine on the Cloud WiFi hotspots when out and about, and all the EDGE data I'm racking up would have kicked me in the nuts.

Most of my calls are inbound, and I know a free SMS website so meh :p

I would have been tied down for a minimum of 18 months with other carriers, so I took the plunge on the basis that I can just sell/bin the phone when it's revised, but in the mean time I'll get any of the updates (like the nice new maps) for free :)
 
I have the £7.50 bolton for my non-iphone o2 contract and its working well for me, I use it to retrieve mail, do the occasional google map etc. I've only seemed to use up 13mb in 2 weeks, how the hell are you people going through 85mb?! Unless you watch youtube etc.?
 
gurdas said:
I have the £7.50 bolton for my non-iphone o2 contract and its working well for me, I use it to retrieve mail, do the occasional google map etc. I've only seemed to use up 13mb in 2 weeks, how the hell are you people going through 85mb?! Unless you watch youtube etc.?
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Web browsing, google maps and emails and im eating thru it..... not a lot to do @ work right now so lets just say im recharging my phone every day :P

Im @ day 13 into this months bill and im @ 132.7mb :D

And no it aint you tube i just luvv the internet.

Also today was the first time i used an O2 cloud, very impressed and sooo easy to connect.
 
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unknowndomain said:
Im well over 250mb since launch day, really don't understand why people don't just sign up for the contract its a really good deal and jailbreaking/unlocking can cause so many problems if it goes wrong.
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Because you'll then be stuck for a year and a half with a phone that can only do EDGE with no hope of being able to upgrade before that time?

My friend jalibroke his perfectly fine, and he's not even a techie.
 
Richdog said:
Because you'll then be stuck for a year and a half with a phone that can only do EDGE with no hope of being able to upgrade before that time?

My friend jalibroke his perfectly fine, and he's not even a techie.
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So if a new iPhone comes out, why can't you just sell the old one and buy a new one? You're still in the contract I know, but you can upgrade your phone..
 
It depends on how apple approach it though, say for example they release an update (hardware) at Christmas and it has 3G, they could either just let you swap edge for 3G unlimited data or they could create new taffifs based on the new phone locking people out.

Hmmmm . . . . . .
 
Mark JB said:
It depends on how apple approach it though, say for example they release an update (hardware) at Christmas and it has 3G, they could either just let you swap edge for 3G unlimited data or they could create new taffifs based on the new phone locking people out.

Hmmmm . . . . . .
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Yeah they could do, but that would cause a huge fuss. Especially since a large majority of the iphone users are going to be techie people who will want the latest phone. Don't think they'd react well to having to take a new contract out :mad:
 
To be honest, I find EDGE perfectly alright for what I use it for, so they'd have to come up with something special to make me upgrade the handset. Even if it had 3G, GPS and 16GB of memory I still dont think I would.

The SDK is going to give it a massive injection of cool software. I can't wait to see what people come up with. Instant messaging can't come quick enough.
 
I'm now on the offcial firmware and contract but havent connected to edge once yet! :eek:I keep trying whenever i leave the house as its now annoying me! Also I have no edge setting under general and network, is this right ?
 
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