Comments on: iPhone 3G S Not Fast Enough for Me!

By: tomii

tomii — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:30:03 +0000

The original iphone was bought out right, if you remember £269, therefore they were not paying it up with portions of line rental, as all subsequent iphones have been.

What on earth are you people thinking? How dare o2 hold you to a legally binding contract that you agreed to? How dare they expect you to honour that?

No one is stopping you buying a 3GS and using it on your contract.

Your contract is for a minimum fixed term. Just because you are crazy enough to like the opver hyped and over rated iphone, does not mean you get special treatment.

Imagine your outrage if o2 doubled the length of your contract just because you were an iphone customer – you wouldnt be happy, well why would you expect them to half it, just because you are an iphone customer.

If you dont like the terms and conditions of a contract – dont sign it! its not rocket science people…

seriously, get over yourselves and grow up

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 08:01:50 +0000

Well said, indeed.

I like the hardware improvements, especially the performance improvements, never mind the camera, video, etc, but I don’t think I like them enough to pay that much for an upgrade. (PAYG is probably the only option there, anyway, as it would be daft to enter into another contract in the new year with the chance of another revision next summer – although there’s obviously no guarantee of it. But PAYG is way spendy.)

In an ideal world I;d be able to pick one up for development/testing, but that won’t be in the next few months.

For scale, the cost of a PAYG iPhone 3GS is a large chunk of the cost of the top-end 15″ MBP I’m lusting after.

By: otto-mate

otto-mate — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 07:48:50 +0000

So those that ponied up and bought a 3G are screwed over while those that didn’t are rewarded?

Gee, thanks Apple / O2.

By: DigMo

DigMo — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:23:35 +0000

Chris H not much better here. I noticed AT&T don’t seem to be offering tethering ?

By: Chris Hamady

Chris Hamady — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:08:23 +0000

Exceptionally well said. Those of us that have camped out for the first two iphone releases surely played a part in the generation of the buzz and excitement. It would be a shame if we can’t participate in this release because of AT&T (who in my opinion is rapidly becoming a greater and greater liability for Apple).

By: Steven

Steven — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:59:13 +0000

I am going to do the Maths tomorrow re PAYG. I really don’t want to be tied into a contract and miss the next one in June 2010. The 3GS is a great looking phone but is it a real revolution? Perhaps the next one will be? For current 3G owners you could go to 3.0 and hold off until June 2010.

By: jon182x

jon182x — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:44:08 +0000

I am very surprised at this decision from O2, there are a vast amount of people currently with an iPhone 3G who were looking forward to upgrading, however having to buy out of their current contract has taken this option away from most.

It is almost like they don’t want us to buy more kit from them…madness.

By: DigMo

DigMo — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:35:17 +0000

Reading great things about the Palm Pre. I am actually considering going pay as you go from now on. No contract means no limits.

By: Chris Oldroyd

Chris Oldroyd — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:30:39 +0000

I cannot believe that O2 are taking this stance, its an awful way to treat early adoptors and loyal users, we should have the option of no upgrade fee if we sign a new contract. Apple need to open the iPhone to other UK networks as to be frank O2 stink with coverage and pricing, I am stepping back from this and really considering where to go next, I may now keep my 3G and as soon as my contract expires unlock it and switch networks, to be honest the Palm Pre has just received an amazing boost from O2’s attitude but maybe they are not worried as from what I hear O2 will soon have the power to shaft us on that one too.