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8GB iPhone End-of-Life'd in UK?

bacaramac said:
Wow, consider yourself lucky. I have taken an alternative approach to movies on the iPhone. I rip movies in full quality and use for both iPhone and ATV (see sticky under Apple TV forum). My movies are 2.5GB to 4GB depending on amount of action in the movie. I can get one movie and my music on my old 8GB iPhone that I sold. I can't wait for a 32 GB iPhone. If they don't do it now I will buy the 16GB 3G iPhone.
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and these full quality movies u say.. does the iphone play them perfectly, like without any glitches.?
 
sjo said:
yes, at 80% population coverage the world is finally ready, there is no advances to be made :)

well not quite. there're couple of factors making it economically viable to increase the 3g coverage. first one is that the operators want to get rid of gsm networks. it is much more economical for them to operate only one type of network, and 3g networks are much more economical than gsm networks. the economical 3g coverage for operators is thus 100%
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On what do you base that the networks want to get rid of 2G networks? That's what they make their money from. The shareholders (the owners of the businesses) require that they keep revenue coming in.

3G cells give much smaller coverage than 2G cells, so they are NOT more economical. Each network has already spent £5B on their licence, and £5B on rolling out the networks so far. A further £10B per network would need to be invested per network to give coverage approaching 2G.

As for the other person who says that 'boonies' don't want an iPhone, so just 2G does not matter. Fine, if you are a townie that does not travel. Many of us do leave our town from time to time, so coverage is important for us. 2G give national coverage. 3G does not. It's a simple physical fact. 2100MHz does not go as far as 900MHz.
 
bigmc6000 said:
Sadly that doesn't apply to me because I owed them some money so I have to wait for the paper check. Current estimated date for shipping my check is the 2nd or 3rd week of May.

I just thought about something - what if Apple releases 3G before 2.0 so they aren't deluged with new stuff all at once? I mean, if you release 2.0 and 3G all at the same time you're going to be stuck fielding problems with both. I think it would be smarter for them to launch the 3G first, send out a .x update or two to fix little things and then launch 2.0. I see 2 really positive effects of this

1) You can generate a lot of buzz about a 3G version and with the promise of 2.0 software soon a lot of people will buy anyway
2) The enterprise market will be able to order bulk iPhones by the time 2.0 comes out because some of the demand will have died down in the month between release dates.

I also think it would be beneficial to get the 3G iPhone is as many people's hands as possible BEFORE 2.0 so they can get a feel for their phone, build up the demand for the games and apps and then release 2.0.

It's fairly typical Apple - why get only 1 chunk of free media when you can make two launches and get much more free media? ;)
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hmmmm...
 
Why not release the 16GB and 32GB, which will handle Exchange synchronisation and application installation much better in time for 2.0?
 
sjo said:
and thirdly, the 4g is in the sight and the operators will not want to have three different types of networks to operate. again, this points to 100% coverage of 3g networks.
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Really? No-one has even decided on a technology for 4G yet.
 
this is mad, has o2/car really underestimated demand?
£169 and there all gone!!!!!!!!!!!
maybe they should release a press statement saying if that's it no more and take back their June date for end of the offer??
anyways hope everyone is enjoying their new iphones - where have you all been???
 
I suppose 02 and Carphone Warehouse have bitten the bullet, taken the loss on initial profits and shifted surplus stock before it comes pretty valueless on the announcement of the new model. Can't blame them for doing that.

Obviously they're not renewing stocks because:

a) They're making a loss or at best breaking even at £169
b) The point is to get rid of the damn things anyway.

Given that the iPhone 8GB was actually cheaper than the equivalent iPod Touch it's pretty easy to see why it's sold like hotcakes - after all, why would you pay for an 8GB iPod Touch when you could buy the iPhone, jailbreak it to PAYG and still have all the Touch's features?
 
Phooto said:
On what do you base that the networks want to get rid of 2G networks? That's what they make their money from. The shareholders (the owners of the businesses) require that they keep revenue coming in.
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i just gave you three reasons why, i'm not going to repeat them :) to summarize i might add that newer technology will eventually replace older technology. that's just a fact.

Phooto said:
3G cells give much smaller coverage than 2G cells, so they are NOT more economical. Each network has already spent £5B on their licence, and £5B on rolling out the networks so far. A further £10B per network would need to be invested per network to give coverage approaching 2G.
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there are other costs associated in running an network other than the number of cells. the costs of the licenses is money gone already, it does not affect the future investment decisions.

Phooto said:
As for the other person who says that 'boonies' don't want an iPhone, so just 2G does not matter. Fine, if you are a townie that does not travel. Many of us do leave our town from time to time, so coverage is important for us. 2G give national coverage. 3G does not. It's a simple physical fact. 2100MHz does not go as far as 900MHz.
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operators have already started implementing 3g on 900mhz, and the 3g phones being released lately for european marktets this year generally have had this frequency.
 
I dunno whether to be happy or not about this, I was waiting for the price to come down to a PAYG price and then I wouldve been able to buy it on payday (which might be today, I havent checked my balance yet).

Maybe this is fate telling me to wait for the 3G version, hmm, What Would Steve Do? :apple::p
 
BTW, O2's iPhone page has changed this morning. It now reads 'currently not available' as opposed to 'no longer available' which it said yesterday. Interesting...
 
bigmc6000 said:
Actually, in his example 'Jewel Foodstores' is a singular entity - much like Albertsons. If you're talking about the grocery down the street (and generally people don't refer to all the grocery stores, just the one they go to) it's a singular entity regardless if it ends in an "s." Much like a person whose last name ends in an "s" you wouldn't say "Joe Cardenas *are* sick", you'd say "Joe Cardenas *is* sick."

Yay for grammar lessons!!! I actually find these conversations sometimes more interesting than people complaining about Apple's latest move.
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Well sort of! but "foodstores" is clearly "foodstore"[singular] + "s"[plural marker], unlike your surname example. In the UK we wouldn't usually use the plural when talking about one particular branch of a chain of shops.

As for the "Carphone do not..." example that got Americans crying "bad grammar is bad grammar in any language", read this.

Oh, and the language is English, not American :rolleyes: (only joking:p)

Now, bring on the 3G iPhone...
 
Apple Store UK still selling them - got all the way to the checkout with an 8GB iPhone and not once was I told it was out of stock. Granted, they are £269.

I bet the phone shops' supplies have drained and they mean that they won't get more til the offer is over.
 
My wife has just rang me to tell me she's got me an iPhone from the 02 shop where I live so clearly some stores still have them!

Can't wait for her to get home now - which is unusual 'cause normally I can't wait for her to leave me in peace! :D
 
I emailed O2 about this story and this is the reply I received.

Dear James,

Thanks for emailing us about the availability of the 8GB iPhone.

The iPhone price promotion has been more successful and this is the reason we're currently out of stock of the 8GB iPhone on our online shop. We still have 8GB and 16GB iPhones in O2 stores although availability of the 8GB device is now limited.

Please visit your local O2 store to check the availability of the 8GB iPhone.
 
Baron58 said:
There is NO bad grammar in that memo. It is all standard British English. Point out what you consider bad grammar so I can correct you. :p
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There is a glaring error you seem to have missed:
The Carphone Warehouse is now out of stock on the Apple iPhone
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This should read "out of stock of the Apple iPhone." Both here and in the US.
 
HELP! HELP! HELP! I need you immediate help! My friend went to England today. He found some iPhones in some O2 stores, he offered cash, they didn't accept it. He offered his Visa Credit Card(Turkish Bank's) they didn't accept that too. So he asked for someone in the street. Nobody would buy iPhone for him, he offered giving an extra 40 pounds. They didn't accept that too. He called his English friend, his credit card's limit was full. He spent 4 hours to buy an iPhone for me and he is still trying to get one.

It just annoys me so much that i find one but they don't give it and just accept an English credit card!!! Please help me! I just need to get one! What are the possible solutions left? What can he do? He's expecting a call from me. Please everybody just HELP ME!
 
redgaz26 said:
the £100 of is for people who paid £269 for the phone a month before the price drop
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Snips said:
...it arrived in the mail this morning, can be used against any Carphone Warehouse purchase, and valid until 30th June 2008.

Thing is, I bought mine *after* the reduction, so it looks like I'm getting my iPhone for £69 ;)

btw, I did activate it on O2.

...think I'll use my voucher towards my 3G iPhone upgrade at the end of June :D
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