3G iPhone

[Platypus]

Thanks for the info on the MMS apps - I knew you could receive MMS's but not send them using a 3rd party app. That is good news....

WHS

[NickFitz]

The third party app business is going to make a good deal of difference to the iPhone IMO - those features that are lacking can be provided via that route for those who want them, but the base system doesn't have to be bloated with features.

For example I personally can't think of a use I might have for MMS. If I wanted to send somebody a photo I'd probably want to send it to several people anyway, and a CCed email makes more sense for me (given that most of my friends have old phones anyway).

[scooterscot]

Do any of them have an accelerometer? Some of the cool stuff Apple has demoed made excellent use of that...

Yes - I have an application installed that allows me to use the phone as a spirit level.

There also many games making use of the accelerometer.

FWIW anything based on Windows Mobile is pretty much doomed to be rubbish in my experience. I mean, a phone that forces you to use a task manager when it gets low on memory? WTF is that about?

If you watch the iPhone 2 launch video on the apple site they slag off the use of the task manager. They also talk about the applications running in the background, which the iPhone does not allow.

[scooterscot]

I'm getting one, or perhaps two. Looking seriously at the O2 Business Tariff's rather than the domestic ones.

Any have any experience of O2's business deals?

Kevlong

Serious the minute your in Scotty land O2 does a Houdini or anywhere sparsely populated, IMHO.

[scooterscot]

Taken from O2 site



You still have to pay the same as new customers for the phone when upgrading.

18 months!!!!!! Take a run and jump. Thieving gypsies

[scooterscot]

No MMS? You mean no picture messages? Or no video messages?

Thanks.

(I'm very seriously considering getting one too now it has 3G)

Beauty is SDK, plenty of people have already written applications that provide MMS requirement. Personally I never use it. Although I do use an application that makes the iPhone an video camera.

[NickFitz]

If you watch the iPhone 2 launch video on the apple site they slag off the use of the task manager. They also talk about the applications running in the background, which the iPhone does not allow.

I followed the keynote address at WWDC as it was happening - presumably the same thing. I chuckled when they slagged off the WinMobile Task Manager, as that's one of the things that made me go "WTF?" when I bought an HP iPaq the other year

18 months!!!!!! Take a run and jump. Thieving gypsies

I've never signed a mobile phone contract, and I never will. I'll get my iPhone on PAYG, like every other mobile I've ever had. I don't actually use a phone enough (being rather hard of hearing) to justify a monthly contract.

Beauty is SDK, plenty of people have already written applications that provide MMS requirement. Personally I never use it. Although I do use an application that makes the iPhone an video camera.

I reckon a Pinball game that triggers the "Tilt" penalty if your hand shakes could be endorsed by Alcoholics Anonymous

[NickFitz]

I don't actually use a phone enough (being rather hard of hearing) to justify a monthly contract.

Well, that and the fact that I've got nobody to talk to

[Flubster]

Well, that and the fact that I've got nobody to talk to

Post your number on here. Then wait for all the CUK weirdos (Lucy, Wilmslow, Bagpuss to name but one) to chat all day long.

[HeliCraig]

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