Getting an iPhone

If I decided to get an iPhone 3G, which I'm currently giving serious
consideration. Would I be better to go to 02, Carphone Warehouse or an
Apple store? I know stocks are limited everywhere at the moment, I'm
more interested if there is any benefit to using any particular retailer...?

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Clearly you have more money then sense, so it matters not where you buy ;-)
M

"Martin²" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Clearly you have more money then sense, so it matters not where you
> buy ;-)
> M
>


Buy one in France where they are not allowed to be locked, so you can
use whichever SP you wish.



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"James Luff" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> If I decided to get an iPhone 3G, which I'm currently giving serious
> consideration. Would I be better to go to 02, Carphone Warehouse or an Apple
> store? I know stocks are limited everywhere at the moment, I'm more
> interested if there is any benefit to using any particular retailer...?

Well Apple store has the benefit of most likely actually having stock, plus
they are the only ones selling the white version of the 16GB model if that is
of interest to you. I believe they activate the handset in store with you.

CPW has a bit of a bad reputation for being rather forceful with trying to
sell insurance (and may well phone you up afterwards to try again) so I would
be inclined to avoid them.

O2 store seemed fine when I upgraded from my 1st gen iPhone to the iPhone 3G
(which you can't do in Apple store) - I just had to sign a renewed contract
but the activation was left for me to do at home with iTunes (though that may
have only been because it was an upgrade).

So if you have an Apple store near you then I would use them, otherwise an O2
store - just phone first to make sure they have stock.

I wouldnt bother at all myself. Mate at work has one and everytime i see
him hes asking someone else in the canteen about how to set up his Hotmail
account (pop settings) and stuff along with being unable to use MSN etc.
There is some issue with "flash" not working cause the phone either wont
download it or run it which means he is unable to watch video clips etc.
Also unable to simply FWD text messages without a third party app - even I
was staggered at that - how basic is FWDin a text?

Why bother?

On 7 Aug, 11:08, "Frank Incense" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I wouldnt bother at all myself. *Mate at work has one and everytime i see
> him hes asking someone else in the canteen about how to set up his Hotmail
> account (pop settings) *and stuff along with being unable to use MSN etc.
> There is some issue with "flash" not working cause the phone either wont
> download it or run it which means he is unable to watch video clips etc.
> Also unable to simply FWD text messages without a third party app - even I
> was staggered at that - how basic is FWDin a text?
>
> Why bother?

- iPhone doesn't run flash cos Appel won't allow it.

- Hotmail : you can't use POP unless you pay a premium. Use gmail or
something. But whatever you do, DON'T use MobileMe. It's Apple's
biggest flop EVAR.

On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 11:53:59 +0100, nospam wrote
(in article <070820080353595944%[email protected]>):

> In article
> <7131e3a1-c1d9-4908-8a66-381fc96fb02a@f63g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 7 Aug, 11:08, "Frank Incense" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I wouldnt bother at all myself. *Mate at work has one and everytime i see
>>> him hes asking someone else in the canteen about how to set up his Hotmail
>>> account (pop settings) *and stuff along with being unable to use MSN etc.
>>> There is some issue with "flash" not working cause the phone either wont
>>> download it or run it which means he is unable to watch video clips etc.
>>> Also unable to simply FWD text messages without a third party app - even I
>>> was staggered at that - how basic is FWDin a text?
>>>
>>> Why bother?
>>
>> - iPhone doesn't run flash cos Appel won't allow it.
>
> the lack of flash isn't a huge limitation, but nevertheless, adobe has
> already demoed it on the iphone and a third party developer has ported
> flash lite.
>
>> - Hotmail : you can't use POP unless you pay a premium. Use gmail or
>> something. But whatever you do, DON'T use MobileMe. It's Apple's
>> biggest flop EVAR.
>
> i duno about the biggest flop ever, but they did **** it up.

it doesn't really fit in with their paradigm of text *conversation* in speech
bubbles between two people- if you want forwarding, attachments etc., you can
always use email.

On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 03:48:46 -0700 (PDT),
[email protected] wrote:

>On 7 Aug, 11:08, "Frank Incense" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I wouldnt bother at all myself. *Mate at work has one and everytime i see
>> him hes asking someone else in the canteen about how to set up his Hotmail
>> account (pop settings) *and stuff along with being unable to use MSN etc.
>> There is some issue with "flash" not working cause the phone either wont
>> download it or run it which means he is unable to watch video clips etc.
>> Also unable to simply FWD text messages without a third party app - even I
>> was staggered at that - how basic is FWDin a text?
>>
>> Why bother?
>
>- iPhone doesn't run flash cos Appel won't allow it.

True, but there is a built-in YouTube app which does work well.
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BGN wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 03:48:46 -0700 (PDT),

>>> Why bother?
>> - iPhone doesn't run flash cos Appel won't allow it.
>
> True, but there is a built-in YouTube app which does work well.

.... and doesn't use flash.

I agree, both flash and java are going nowhere on this platform. Apple
won't make any money out of it!

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BGN wrote:>
> http://mashable.com/2008/03/19/adobe-flash-iphone/ <-- "We believe
> Flash is synonymous with the Internet experience, and we are committed
> to bringing Flash to the iPhone."
>
> So Adobe are developing their own Flash platform for the iPhone.
> Wahay.

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oHDtXmmEWU>

! :-)

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Martin² wrote:
> Clearly you have more money then sense, so it matters not where you
> buy ;-) M

Iphone is an excellent phone, and i'm reasonably happy with the cost and the
contract.

Gaz

On Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:26:19 +0100, Adrian C wrote:

> I agree, both flash and java are going nowhere on this platform. Apple
> won't make any money out of it!

Why then, do the iPhone SDK APIs use Java?

sooba wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:26:19 +0100, Adrian C wrote:
>
>> I agree, both flash and java are going nowhere on this platform. Apple
>> won't make any money out of it!
>
> Why then, do the iPhone SDK APIs use Java?
>

They don't. Perhaps you are confusing Java with JavaScript?

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Good Luck