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I hope fucking so. I wince that I'm paying an inflated, if reduced from its worst excesses, price for services available elsewhere.

But it's priced at not that ridiculous a point to motivate me enough to lose the convenience and my email address of nigh on 10 years.
 
I use mobile me, think its great, there's been at least 3 occasions where i wouldnt have found my phone if it was for that....

Also the over air syncing (contacts + calendars), push email, idisk and gallery have been invaluable for me

you can get it cheaper on ebay ;)
 
I don't have phone insurance, but my home contents insurance covers it.

What with that and a stolen bike earlier in the year, next year's premium will be enormous :rolleyes:

If I don't get a like for like replacement (unlikely) then I'll probably get an HTC Desire.
 
I use Plaxo to sync work PC and home Mac - used to be free but now about £45/year iirc. Looks like Mobile Me has come down a bit - £59/year - might consider this once I've got an iPad to sync too.

tarannau said:
But it's priced at not that ridiculous a point to motivate me enough to lose the convenience and my email address of nigh on 10 years.
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Should have bought your own domain - same e-mail address no matter what ISP for £5/year...
 
I weakened and ordered the Desire on Vodafone. Good deal though, £25pm for 300 mins, unlimited text and 500MB data per month (I rarely got past 300mb on iphone due to wifi everywhere). 24 month contract mind.
 
ChrisFilter said:
I weakened and ordered the Desire on Vodafone. Good deal though, £25pm for 300 mins, unlimited text and 500MB data per month (I rarely got past 300mb on iphone due to wifi everywhere). 24 month contract mind.
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So you'll be gutted when the new improved iPhone comes out and have how many contracts on the go? ;)
 
Kanda said:
So you'll be gutted when the new improved iPhone comes out and have how many contracts on the go? ;)
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Was bored of the iPhone. and I can't see the 4G going too much further than the Desire, though I accept it's a possibility.

Wouldn't be willing to pay for it, anyway. No chance it'll be free with a £25pm contract!
 
ChrisFilter said:
I weakened and ordered the Desire on Vodafone. Good deal though, £25pm for 300 mins, unlimited text and 500MB data per month (I rarely got past 300mb on iphone due to wifi everywhere). 24 month contract mind.
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24 months? Ouch...can't bring myself to get one of them...
 
Quick iPhone question urban:

Should I wait for the 4G to come out next month or just get a 3GS? I can upgrade on my current Vodafone contract - for a £60 fee for the handset, I can get a 16g 3GS for £30/month with 300mins and unlimited texts (I think). The Vodafone chap I spoke to reckoned the 4G would be more expensive for everything. But the leaked photos make it look like a very tempting prospect. What do you reckon? Would it be foolish to get an iPhone now?

(BTW: I already have an iPod Touch, so this is a sort of upgrade for me - my heart is set on an iPhone, no need to persuade me otherwise...)
 
ChrisFilter said:
I weakened and ordered the Desire on Vodafone. Good deal though, £25pm for 300 mins, unlimited text and 500MB data per month (I rarely got past 300mb on iphone due to wifi everywhere). 24 month contract mind.
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You might be interested in this well-written article by a tech writer who's just switched from the iPhone to Android:

Why I became an Android fanboy
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20005011-264.html

The Desire is a great phone, btw.
 
exleper said:
Quick iPhone question urban:

Should I wait for the 4G to come out next month or just get a 3GS? I can upgrade on my current Vodafone contract - for a £60 fee for the handset, I can get a 16g 3GS for £30/month with 300mins and unlimited texts (I think). The Vodafone chap I spoke to reckoned the 4G would be more expensive for everything. But the leaked photos make it look like a very tempting prospect. What do you reckon? Would it be foolish to get an iPhone now?

(BTW: I already have an iPod Touch, so this is a sort of upgrade for me - my heart is set on an iPhone, no need to persuade me otherwise...)
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If you got the cash I'd wait.
 
editor said:
You might be interested in this well-written article by a tech writer who's just switched from the iPhone to Android:

Why I became an Android fanboy
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20005011-264.html

The Desire is a great phone, btw.
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The following doesn't inspire confidence:

Where Android falls short
Not all is smooth sailing:
• Probably the single biggest weakness of Android phones is application availability. There are lots, with more arriving steadily, but it's no match for Apple, especially when it comes to games. Note that iPhone games also run on the iPod Touch and now the iPad, so the incentive is powerful for developers to reach that market. No doubt Android will follow somewhat into those parallel markets, but for now, it's clearly not the top priority among mobile programmers. I find it baffling, for example, that there's no Yahoo application for using Flickr, though the Web-based mobile site is reasonable and it's simple to upload a photo via e-mail. I missed the Kindle application, but with the Aldiko reader app, I've discovered the glories of out-of-copyright books such as Grimm's fairy tales, "Tarzan," "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," "Oliver Twist," "The Three Musketeers," "Moby Dick," and a bunch of Rudyard Kipling tales (I read aloud to my son a lot). (Update: Amazon said Tuesday that Kindle for Android will arrive this summer.)
• A user interface that's at times clumsy and/or incoherent. The worst example here is when filling out forms such as entering passwords or addressing e-mail. The virtual keyboard covers a lot of screen real estate, and navigating among the input fields can be awkward. Overall, the iPhone was just simpler and more direct to use. I'll cut Android a little slack here, since the iPhone can be obtuse with complicated actions such as e-mailing multiple photos.
• Painful browser zooming. Double-clicking to get maximum width out of a column of text is nice, but if the animation can't be done right, it shouldn't be done at all. Here, the iPhone wins, hands down, and the feature is more than cosmetic, because it really does help you keep track of where you are spatially in a Web page.
• Copy-and-paste is unpleasant, if it works at all. It's not trivially easy on the iPhone, but it's better.
• And my single biggest gripe: Typing is just better on the iPhone's virtual keyboard. It's faster and more accurate for me. When I went back to an iPhone briefly after a couple months not using it, I experienced mild distress when I found my fingers flailing around looking for a back button--but when it came to typing, I breathed a sigh of relief. I hadn't known what I was missing.
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exleper said:
Quick iPhone question urban:

Should I wait for the 4G to come out next month or just get a 3GS?
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As it's just a matter of weeks I'd wait.

I've just sold my payg 3gs in readiness of the 4g release - though I'm kind of without a phone for the next month or so :D
 
Hmmm, not a bad article, but I think he's getting various phones confused here:

• Painful browser zooming. Double-clicking to get maximum width out of a column of text is nice, but if the animation can't be done right, it shouldn't be done at all. Here, the iPhone wins, hands down, and the feature is more than cosmetic, because it really does help you keep track of where you are spatially in a Web page.
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Not sure what he's on about here, the pinch to zoom in/out is exactly the same as the iPhone IME.

• Copy-and-paste is unpleasant, if it works at all. It's not trivially easy on the iPhone, but it's better.
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Again, the system on the Desire is damn near identical to the iPhone.

• And my single biggest gripe: Typing is just better on the iPhone's virtual keyboard. It's faster and more accurate for me. When I went back to an iPhone briefly after a couple months not using it, I experienced mild distress when I found my fingers flailing around looking for a back button--but when it came to typing, I breathed a sigh of relief. I hadn't known what I was missing.
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I'm guessing he's refering to the Nexus One here, the HTC Sense keyboard is a lot better than the standard Android one, and IMO much better than the iPhones I've used.
 
I agree with the author.

When it comes to typing on a screen the iPhone does it better.
On the desire when I try to type an o I get an I 80% of the time. Something that never happened to me on the iPhone. I can't explain why this happens but it does and its the same for certain other parts of the virtual keyboard.
 
Gromit said:
On the desire when I try to type an o I get an I 80% of the time. Something that never happened to me on the iPhone. I can't explain why this happens but it does and its the same for certain other parts of the virtual keyboard.
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There's a calibration thingy you can do, might be worth a try?
 
That is rubbish.

For me Android is becoming a nightmare and heading for a slow lingering crash. The desire has a new UI over the top to provide all those features. That cut and paste was created by Apple and now its on the Desire. The swipe left and right for apps? Any takers on who invented that?

It will be fine for 'phone' software but that for me isn't what a smart phone is about. Its about people being able to develop for it. It might be free but its becoming a platform maze for developers as I am in that very position at work.
 
beesonthewhatnow said:
There's a calibration thingy you can do, might be worth a try?
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Completely agree. The typing accuracy got miles better after I'd calibrated the keyboard.

That said I use Swype now and pecking away at a keyboard seems quite antiquated in comparison.
 
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