*** The iPhone 3G Thread ***

SooTyLaD said:
this'll be my first iphone so the big thing i'm wondering is if its worth the extra 60 quid for the 16gig...

after you've installed a modest amount of apps (not going overboard) what kind of space do you realistically have left for music / vids etc?

which one will you lot be going for?
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16GB, without a shadow of a doubt. I can't see any reason to skimp out on the memory unless you're really cash strapped.

8GB - OS and apps will leave you very little room for any kind of content. (Not that 16GB is much better, 32 would've been nice.)
 
16Gb white coming my way!!!!

First 6 months includes free Wifi, after that its £10... I might unlock it!!!

Edit: How does the O2 PAYG work?

If I top up £15, I get the free 500 texts, does that mean I still have £15 in credit for whatever else I want to use it for? Eg 500 texts + 150 texts?
 
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Formatted, you'll start with 14.9GB on a 16GB iPhone.

iTunes can give you a breakdown of the media on the iPhone, which is arranged by colour (e.g. 6.43GB Music (Blue), 2GB Photos (Yellow) etc etc).

It all depends on the size of the apps you'll install. Most Installer apps were 2-5MB, but were installed on the iPhone's own system memory, so they didn't use space on the "media" partition. This had it's limitation because the iPhone OS took up about 2/3 of the partition, and a load of apps could mean "out of memory" messages.

If installed properly, there's no reason why you couldn't have 12-13GB solely for Apps as they would get installed in the same media partition as music, photos, podcasts etc.
 
right, well i'm easily convinced - 16gb it is :D

that gives me the option of the white one, but after looking at the pics, i reckon black looks better due to the front being black... tis a tough call tho...
 
SooTyLaD said:
right, well i'm easily convinced - 16gb it is :D

that gives me the option of the white one, but after looking at the pics, i reckon black looks better due to the front being black... tis a tough call tho...
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Finger prints and scratches on the black tho...

Need to get a foof case or whatever it is for it :D
 
Ohhh that reminds me of a new thread i was gonna start.

Incidently, i know i seem to be full of complaints, but would anyone like a manual override to the accelerometers? Sometimes it can be a bit of a pain switching portrait and landscape, and also doing it when i don't want to.
Maybe it is just me.
 
Friend of mine who works for CPW is saying to me that the prices are £300 for 8GB, £360 for 16GB on PAYG. Just throwing that out there, take it or leave it!
 
16GB white one for my personal account and an 8GB black for my buisiness account.
The black one will scratch like crazy but at least I will be able to tell which is which :)
 
Durzel said:
Friend of mine who works for CPW is saying to me that the prices are £300 for 8GB, £360 for 16GB on PAYG. Just throwing that out there, take it or leave it!
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That would nearly make me reconsider moving to O2.

Does anyone know, out of interest, the minimum contract you can move to on Orange to then buy yourself out?

I can probably buy myself out of my Orange contract and get a new iPhone and still end up paying the same per month for far more with O2.... Can't work out why I want to stay, but I do!
 
Concorde Rules said:
16Gb white coming my way!!!!

First 6 months includes free Wifi, after that its £10... I might unlock it!!!

Edit: How does the O2 PAYG work?

If I top up £15, I get the free 500 texts, does that mean I still have £15 in credit for whatever else I want to use it for? Eg 500 texts + 150 texts?
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anyone know where this info came from?
 
csmager said:
Does anyone know, out of interest, the minimum contract you can move to on Orange to then buy yourself out?
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orange recently changed their policies on this... they have now decided that (for the exact reason you want to do it) you are only allowed to drop it by one increment, so if you're on the £35 tariff for example, you can drop it to the £30 one and that times the number of remaining months will be the buyout cost...

a lot of people say the o2 tarrifs are really bad but the £35 one looks like similar minutes and texts to most other networks, but yes you have to pay towards the phone...

is the tariff that bad?
 
SooTyLaD said:
orange recently changed their policies on this... they have now decided that (for the exact reason you want to do it) you are only allowed to drop it by one increment, so if you're on the £35 tariff for example, you can drop it to the £30 one and that times the number of remaining months will be the buyout cost...
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That's it pretty much decided. I'm on a £45/month contract with orange. There's no chance I'm dropping that to £40 and buying out the contract. Complete waste of money!

I could buy an iPhone on PAYG for £360, then still move to O2 6 months later and get another for next to nothing and sell the first one.... or (more likely) not bother moving.
 
does anyone know if you still can move from an o2 simplicity contract to the iphone contract (like a port) or has it changed with the 3g version?
 
Im really sorry if this has already been answered, but I cant seem to find the answer.

When is the 2.0 software being released? First I heard June 27th, then early July, but I cant find any info anymore. Sorry if im being blind. :p
 
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