Does anyone regret getting an IPHONE ?

Ive got a little mobile phone It can make and recieve calls and send text messages pretty cool!
 
 

love mine to bits - couldnt part with it at all - best thing i have ever bought.

I can't get over how expensive they are (all smart phones really). I'd not have an iphone, but would consider an ipod touch, if I could justify it. Either way, a very slick piece of kit. Which where I have a problem. I can't. If I need internet, I have a pc and laptop. I don't see that the iphone offers anything over my existing tech. I pay £15 a month for my phone with silly amounts of free mins and texts. An extra £25-£30 a month to get a mediocre speed internet access seems excessive when I pay £9 a month for my broadband.

If I was going to go smart phone, I'd look down the HTC line. I think the next incarnation of the Nexus Google Phone should be very good, even the existing one is, once the bugs are ironed out. The whole open source approach to the device makes it a consumer driven piece of kit which should have a more organic evolution.

I've had a blackberry, which was very slick and felt like a phone for grown ups. My criticism of it was that effecting changes in settings was not enitely user friendly.

I'd hazzard a guess that for more than 90% of users, smartphones are luxury rather than a necessity. I see the app store as a giant Lakelands catalogue, full of "That's a good idea" type stuff you don't actually need.

So if you can justify the £45 a month on a luxury, fair play, they are good pieces of kit, grab it with both hands . I can't help but think the iphone represents a very expensive way to access internet data, slowly.

Rosc0PColtrane

I can't get over how expensive they are (all smart phones really). I'd not have an iphone, but would consider an ipod touch, if I could justify it. Either way, a very slick piece of kit. Which where I have a problem. I can't. If I need internet, I have a pc and laptop. I don't see that the iphone offers anything over my existing tech. I pay £15 a month for my phone with silly amounts of free mins and texts. An extra £25-£30 a month to get a mediocre speed internet access seems excessive when I pay £9 a month for my broadband.

If I was going to go smart phone, I'd look down the HTC line. I think the next incarnation of the Nexus Google Phone should be very good, even the existing one is, once the bugs are ironed out. The whole open source approach to the device makes it a consumer driven piece of kit which should have a more organic evolution.

I've had a blackberry, which was very slick and felt like a phone for grown ups. My criticism of it was that effecting changes in settings was not enitely user friendly.

I'd hazard a guess that for more than 90% of users, smartphones are luxury rather than a necessity. I see the app store as a giant Lakelands catalogue, full of "That's a good idea" type stuff you don't actually need.

So if you can justify the £45 a month on a luxury, fair play, they are good pieces of kit, grab it with both hands . I can't help but think the iphone represents a very expensive way to access internet data, slowly.

I pay £15 a month for 900 mins, free texts, unlimited internet and 120 international minutes. I bought a second hand iPhone for business purposes mainly as i need email on the go and the keypad is the best on any smartphone when it comes to speed and usability.

Mine runs TomTom navigation as well on quite a large screen, which is a bonus.

I agree though the cost of the phone is outrageous and i am left scratching my head sometimes at how they can justify such a cost,

Blue_Lagoon3000

Right any Iphone experts i need help, all my itunes were on an old broken laptop and when i got my most recent i phone i downloaded the tunes... Now on my new laptop i just set up an Itunes account....

Now i have only bought one album, but when i try to synk it it says "are you sure you want to synk music, all existing tunes on iphone will be replaced with songs from your itunes library"

How do i upload new music from a new account without wiping my phone guys?

http://www.ipodrepublic...ter-solution/2009/01/12/

I don't use the extra Apps to be honest apart from maybe London Tube. I use it for calls, texts, email and very rarely the internet when I'm away from home and I need to find something out. But I like that it's a real version of the internet and not some mobile smartphone version.

My only true "wow" moment was when I used it with free wi-fi access on a beach in Thailand for internet and with the TruPhone App (like Skype) to make free calls home. Amazing.

I don't really use it's extras but I like it because all my calanders, contacts, emails, bookmarks etc are all "synced" between the 3 machines perfectly and in real time. If I make a change on one machine, the others update automatically.

At home I have a desktop as a main machine and a laptop for surfing on the sofa or in bed. I don't take the laptop out much so the iPhone is my mobile email which now I couldn't live without and it all seems to come in a neater, slicker package than the competition.

I think the 3gs is pretty fast on the Internet but is it not twice as fast as an iPhone 3g

theiopener thanks for the advice but im so fcuking STUPID that i messed it up.... basically there was the instant download it said you can only do 3 tracks this way so i thought right i have to buy it and download online... anyway that was bollocks i payed $40 for some stupid sh!t and then it is a software package and they only deliver to America, im fuming at how stupid i am!

^ Right ok ive managed to find a free download for something i just payed $40 for which wont arrive anyway (because im so fcuking stupid) and now i have downloaded it it says put a tick next to songs you want to import.....?!?!?!

Do they expect me to tick all 579 songs? Idiots!

The scene at Blues flat earlier;

Rosc0PColtrane


I'd hazzard a guess that for more than 90% of users, smartphones are luxury rather than a necessity. I see the app store as a giant Lakelands catalogue, full of "That's a good idea" type stuff you don't actually need. 

Thats a good quote. I think thats my way of thinking and we are just to tight hahaha

essex_chris


The scene at Blues flat earlier;

HAHA!

Life is full of stuff we don't actually need. Do we really need £50K cars? Do we really need massive widescreen TV's? Do we really even need to go to the gym to build overly big muscles? Not really. Do we enjoy having and using these things? Yes. App Store is no different. Yes, it's full of some complete crap, but then it also has apps like Budget trackers and Gym Buddy to help me when I'm down the gym building the muscles that I don't really need along with all the smart games that are available.

Desmo


Life is full of stuff we don't actually need. Do we really need £50K cars? Do we really need massive widescreen TV's? Do we really even need to go to the gym to build overly big muscles? Not really. Do we enjoy having and using these things? Yes.

     EXACTAMUNDO DUDE !!! 

      Nothing winds me up more , when talking about smartphones , than the  "A phone is just a phone , as long as it makes calls ...."  thing !    WTF ??
          .... that could be applied to absolutely ALL aspects of life  !  A car is a car , a house is a house ,  a lampshade is a lampshade , and so on....                 

I had a play with one for first time yesterday and was very impressed with the speed things go on it like moving between apps etc.

I had one of the first two models of the orange SPV's when they first came out and was sort of the strat of smart ish phone. Its quite unreal how smooth it all moves and solid the handset feels. Its a clever bit of kit for how small it is

Blue_Lagoon3000


^ Right ok ive managed to find a free download for something i just payed $40 for which wont arrive anyway (because im so fcuking stupid) and now i have downloaded it it says put a tick next to songs you want to import.....?!?!?!

Do they expect me to tick all 579 songs? Idiots!

Blue, are you using a mac or a pc for itunes? Do you have your songs on your iPhone backed up somewhere?

I've never been an Apple fan boy, so try my best not to buy anything apple.  But I was stuck for choices, and at the time the iphone was the best product on the market so I brought it, and now I love it!  The only annoying thing is the Motorola Milestone was the phone I wanted and it got released like a month later so was a bit gutted about that.
 
This will probably be one of the last iphones that are the best on the market, they will soon get overtaken as everyone else is catching (but not yet!), so its last chance to get one whilst it's still top dog.

arambol

Blue_Lagoon3000


^ Right ok ive managed to find a free download for something i just payed $40 for which wont arrive anyway (because im so fcuking stupid) and now i have downloaded it it says put a tick next to songs you want to import.....?!?!?!

Do they expect me to tick all 579 songs? Idiots!

Blue, are you using a mac or a pc for itunes? Do you have your songs on your iPhone backed up somewhere?

Hey mate, all the songs on my iphone are on an itunes account on a broken laptop.... I cant set up a card on their because the internet is broken so had to do it on my new computer... i have bought 1 album and i can't put it on my Iphone, i now have the iphone tunes > Mac software to transfer my old songs on to my new account but it just showed 570 songs and said tick the ones you want to import, i cant even be bothered its a piss take 

Especially when i paid $40 for it when its free :s

If it won't let you select all use this. It's free and you can copy them all at once.

Then when your iphone tunes are on the mac you can just re sync them back to the iPhone along with the 1 album.

http://www.fadingred.com/senuti/


When the songs show up in Senuti just "select all" (cmd key and A key) and then click "Transfer". 

Should do the trick

Thanks for the help mate but im not paying for it again, its one big piss take

Just gonna throw my mac out of the window lol, thats how i feel

(after my mt sesh of corse)

does anyone regret gettin an iphone?


well, i didnt get the iphone, i didnt want to be a sheep and follow the masses (and its fooking massive) and instead i got the
HTC touch diamond 2

which i do regret

its an awesome piece of kit, but totally aimed at business useage
and im not a business person, and like the gimecky apps of iphone

there is wm marketplace to get apps for the windows run htc touch, but they re a bit crap, and really expensive

i regret NOT getting an iphone