I Phone, Great phone or worthless ol tat?

[MrNuts]

As the question says, upgrade time and considering one of these.

Text a lot, use very few mins talkin and would like to surf tinternet

[trailfox]

once you get used to typing with it its great, pretty intuative like most of apple's stuff.
its a little mac, a phone a crappy camera and an ipod stuck into a touchscreen rectangle :-)

[keyserni]

I like it cuz I used to have to carry about 3 things (phone, pda a ipod) now I don't but saying that the tariff's aren't that great. Better to buy a jb one.

[ryan]

For the love of god hold off and get the new one coming out in the autumn. I've had the first and second generation one and will be getting the third, but anyone buying one now needs their head examined.

[MrNuts]

For the love of god hold off and get the new one coming out in the autumn. I've had the first and second generation one and will be getting the third, but anyone buying one now needs their head examined.

Was wondering about that, not really upto date on all the latest stuff

[keyserni]

Because of the way apple work I doubt there will be anything must have in the update and buying one now won't stop you from getting the updated os or stop you running apps. If you had a first gen I'd tell you to wait but since you don't then I'd just go ahead and get one. An autumn iphone isn't even confirmed everyone thought it was gonna be June.

[ryan]

Well I've been running a beta test version of the new operating system and believe me, you will need the new phone to run it (it crawls on the older phones). The new one comes with a better camera amongst other upgrades (which I don't personally care much for but quite a lot of people gripe about the camera)

[keyserni]

I think by the time it comes out 3.0 will run pretty well on the current phones, apples known for making sure os updates run well on and even speed up older machines.

[mark]

best phone I've owned
Good for Internet but I think the apps are a bit ott
And never used to text before this phone

[Steveb]

iPhone: Great toy. Average phone, poor comms device, cool paperweight.

According to the ad on tv just now you can use it to split a restaurant bill 5 ways, find a cab in a strange town, put up a shelf straight and some other crucial part of life. If these things are important to you, get one. If proper battery life, good call quality, easy dialing, replacable battery, robustness and basic functions that most phones had ten years ago, maybe look elsewhere.

Just an opinion,

The iphone really is a triumph of marketing over reality.

[Marky]

Kevin get yurself a Nokia 5800. They are a decent phone with all the mod cons and the great sport tracker. Carphone warehouse were doin good deals of late with unlimited txts and mins for £15. Check it out.

[MrNuts]

Kevin get yurself a Nokia 5800. They are a decent phone with all the mod cons and the great sport tracker. Carphone warehouse were doin good deals of late with unlimited txts and mins for £15. Check it out.

Fallen out of love with Nokia recently, have had SonyEricssons of late, my K850i has now had its 18month self destruct chip initiated:banghead:

All phones look way too complicated now, i like my K770i and my K850 but the new c902 looks fragile with the end that slides out, guy in work recons his iphone is the dogs dangly bits.

[beechill_banty]

Nokia E71 Kev - A grown-ups phone. It's made of metal too, like bikes and battleships - what's not to like?

[Steveb]

Nokia E71 Kev - A grown-ups phone. It's made of metal too, like bikes and battleships - what's not to like?

2nd'd. The e71. The thinking mans iPhone. :-D

If a full qwerty comms device is your thing, opposed to a really cool toy, then the E71 is hard to beat. I've had the three predecessors to it (e61, e61i) and whilst they both fell a bit short the e71 hits the mark big time.

It does email (pop, imap and push), net (via the crap built in browser or Opera Mini, which is excellent), full office suite (you can create and edit docs not just view them, take note Apple), all the usual Nokia apps plus tons of third party ones that work. Like Fring (MSN, iChat, Twitter, LastFM etc interface) Twibble (Twitter client), Gmail notifier, Satnav (built in GPS), and so on and so on and so on.

Bets of all it can multi task third party apps (again, take note Apple) so all these can be running in the background, sharing the data-packet net connection, and ready and waiting for you. It's got wifi too and most apps will happily switch between the data connection and available wifi networks without bothering you.

In the box comes two batteries (take note Apple (AGAIN) but even with four apps constantly using the data packet connection, the wifi on all the time and near constant use I still get two days full use out of each charge.

Yes, I'm on a commission. ;-)

[mprules]

Im loving my sony Xperia at the minute!

[After_You]

I'm looking at the E71 at the minute.

I had a total nightmare with an HTC, I wouldn't touch them again with a barge pole. I returned the phone under warranty cos it couldn't hold a signal. They changed the screen, which worked fine before, and didn't fix the original fault. A day after I got it back the screen they had installed broke too. When I sent it back the second time they said the warranty had expired in the interim and wanted £55 to fix the original fault.

[chris_mcl]

the blackberry 8900, is an awesome phone, i had the 8310 for a couple of months then i upgraded to the 8900, it is a great phone does everything you need it to, get for email and has a good camera and a decent media player also with expandable memory on microSD card.

[NiallC771]

Yeah, the Blackberry is a great phone.