iPhone 5!

[chriswt]

Today i upgraded the wife

300min,
unl text,
500mb data,
free wifi,
magic numbers,

12 month sim contract for...£10.50 (orange)

Ha,

That sounds like the one the wife is on, blimey is it that cheap?!

 

[evdok]

They've got an offer at the moment & if you have broadband with them its a further £5 cheaper!

 

[Major774]

Fastest selling iPhone pre-order to date, 1hr to sell out all of their 21st September stock.

I'm not a Apple person (LG person) but I still managed get my wife's phone for the 21st delivery.

 

[Crespo]

I hate Apple and the skinny jeans wearing nerds who use there over priced products.

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[pos.k]

I hate Apple and the skinny jeans wearing nerds who use there over priced products.

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None taken!

....oh and btw it's 'their'

 

[@MARK]

do people actually pay for phones?

Only the smart ones

The rest sign up for 24 month contracts and end up paying twice the sticker price for their FREE handsets.

 

[@MARK]

Video and iPod Out not supported."

.

The iPod out function isn't supported my Mercedes today anyway. Indeed BMW are the ony mainstream manufacturer that does.

iPod Out Is nothing to do with the AUDIO output over the connector.

With the £30 adaptor, the new IPods and iPhone should work just fine with the existing Mercedes media connectors or at worse just need a firmware update.

 

[gIzzE]

Only the smart ones

The rest sign up for 24 month contracts and end up paying twice the sticker price for their FREE handsets.

Huh?

I pay £29 a month for my 32gig 4s over 24 months which is £696 total.

It would have cost me £520 for the phone, and then £18 a month for the same package as sim only. Total of £950.

 

[gIzzE]

The iPod out function isn't supported my Mercedes today anyway. Indeed BMW are the ony mainstream manufacturer that does.

iPod Out Is nothing to do with the AUDIO output over the connector.

With the £30 adaptor, the new IPods and iPhone should work just fine with the existing Mercedes media connectors or at worse just need a firmware update.

Apple took a couple of days to announce there was a dac in the adapter.
However, they got straight in there announcing the new connector was digital only.

But my head unit uses video out for the apps, so I won't be upgrading.

 

[sinewave]

I couldn't make an iPhone pay by buying it Sim free when I looked last December.

Bought 2 x 4S's on 12 month contracts for £50/month plus £120 each for the phones

Total over 12 months of £732, that's 1200 mins, Unltd Txt, Unltd Data etc etc.

Buying outright at £500 each plus above Sim only deal worked out way more.

We only 'do' 12 month contracts so can always upgrade annually!

 

[Major774]

Got this sorted for my wife.

On Vodafone, 500 minutes, Unlimited texts and 500MB date £8.23 per month (24 month contract).

+

£529 for iPhone 5, bought phone unlocked from Apple online.

Total cost = £726.52

 

[@MARK]

Got this sorted for my wife.

On Vodafone, 500 minutes, Unlimited texts and 500MB date £8.23 per month (24 month contract).

+

£529 for iPhone 5, bought phone unlocked from Apple online.

Total cost = £726.52

Likewise on T-Mobile I got 2000 anytime minutes, unlimited landlines, 2000 texts and 3GB internet for £8 per month SIM only on a 12 month contract.

Total cost over contract term is £616 assuming £529 for the handset

 

[MattDC]

Those with sense (use the term loosely coz you still bought an iclone) and got their iPhone by paying for it will also have a much higher resale value as long as they purchased a non network locked sum free version... The value of which is rolled over into the purchase of the 5 making that a lot cheaper and if its some free is worth more yet again than a networked locked one....

 

[moonloops]

If anyone wants to know how to milk sheep, just go and ask Apple.

 

[Spinal]

But to be fair to the Apple... they can't be expected to keep the same connector forever.

Even the non-Apple handset industry moved from propriety connectors, to Mini-USB, then to Micro-USB over the years.

Not through their choice... my understanding it was legally mandated...
Common External Power Supply - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[moonloops]

Not through their choice... my understanding it was legally mandated...
Common External Power Supply - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Correct, it was an EU mandate that Apple chose to ignore..

 

[Deleted member 37751]

I hate Apple and the skinny jeans wearing nerds who use there over priced products.

While I'm also not a fan of skinny jeans, I really don't understand this hatred of, what is essentially, just a gadget maker.

 

[V12]

I'm not a fan of the apple prices, but I am a fan of how it creates excellent competition and forces other companies such as samsung, HTC, LG to push the boundaries which in turn brings the price down on existing models very quickly.

It's all very good for the consumer really.

 

[brucemillar]

Love them or hate them you cannot escape the fact. The majority of people who try their products end up owning them and then converting others to them. Look at their dominance in the smartphone/tablet market if you need an indicator of the desirability.

Jobs goal of making intuitive products is neatly bundled in IOS and the i-phone.

When Nokia, Samsung, Motorola and others were trying to go their own way with some really clunky software (try sending a picture in a text from an older Nokia) Apple said Look at the picture you want send then hit text. Difficult? No look at the tune you want then hit download. Difficult?

That simplification added the smart thinkers who said let you and I design the apps that we would use and want to have either free of paid for is what makes them what they are.

Nokia ponced about with Symbian for sooo long in the belief that one day it would become user friendly. The best test I ever saw was in a room of people who were asked who had never used an Iphone or a Nokia E72.
Two people were chosen from the show of hands.

One was given an Iphone. One was given a Nokia. Both were then asked to send an email, send a text, create and call a contact.

Within two minutes the Apple user was done. The Nokia guy never got finished. That was repeated several times during the day.

My daughter who studies music uses an iphone in ways that are just so cool to an old fart like me.

I hear a piece of music. What is that song, who sang it. She switches on an app. The phone listens and gives her the song title and recording artist in seconds.

What we see now is the rest of the industry engaging a price reduction game or some copying in an attempt to catch up. What is really needed is somebody to come up with a really innovative alternative technology.

 

[Crespo]

While I'm also not a fan of skinny jeans, I really don't understand this hatred of, what is essentially, just a gadget maker.

Its the way they go about there business. They bang on about innovation when there ideas are stolen and when a competitor comes out with something vaguely similar they get thrashed with law suits.

Instead of trying to keep ahead of the competition with realistic prices and competitive hardware they try to stop other manufacturers selling better products through the courts. Yet they bang on about innovation.

The Apple Ipod was actually an idea by a British man in the late 70's and was stolen by Apple. Without the Ipod Apple would be nothing today.

Steve Jobs, 1996: “Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal”

When you strip down an Iphone it is pretty crap compared to other phones out there and way over priced.
Anyone would think apple invented the touch screen smart phone but they didn't that accolade belongs to Ericsson, You don't see them taking Apple to court.


But in reality i don't hate Apple but i am not a fan of there marketing strategies and the Ipod generation that use them.

It infuriates me how people will happily pay way over the odds for an inferior product just because it is cool.

Its the very same reason i don't drive a VW camper van. A good one is probably worth the same as my merc but i like my mod cons.


I guess it probably boils down to the young lads i employ who are always asking for subs at work because they have blown all there hard earned on an Ipad to go with there Iphone (surely its the same thing but bigger) and who go in to melt down every other day when the piss poor screen cracks again or there Itunes stops working.

And if i could get them to stop playing with the fu***ng things my production would go up 3000%.