BBC use iPhone photo to illustrate huge data bill story

[sananda]

Have a look at this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/default.stm

the story is quite interesting in its own right. but the bbc put a photo of an iphone next to the headline!

 

[netdog]

Incredible as the iPhone is one of the few that we can be certain he didn't use. I pointed this out to the Beeb and trust that others will do the same. Shoddy journalism. I expect better.

 

[fastbite]

the BBc are intrinsically a bunch of wankers.

 

[The Phazer]

Incredible as the iPhone is one of the few that we can be certain he didn't use. I pointed this out to the Beeb and trust that others will do the same. Shoddy journalism. I expect better.

Can we be "certain"? The guy is Canadian, so if he had an unlocked iPhone (and it is possible to pair it to a laptop) it wouldn't have unlimited data.

Phazer

 

[Phil A.]

Very very poor journalism by the BBC there - as others have said the mere fact he racked up the bill by tethering the phone means the iPhone couldn't have been used!

 

[arkitect]

To be fair… they do not actually use an iPhone to illustrate the story…

I just cannot imagine the Motorola Fan club forum seething with rage at the BBC's "inapropriate" use of their favourite phone.

 

[Iggy]

To be fair… they do not actually use an iPhone to illustrate the story…

I just cannot imagine the Motorola Fan club forum seething with rage at the BBC's "inapropriate" use of their favourite phone.

OUCH!

 

[sananda]

To be fair… they do not actually use an iPhone to illustrate the story…

I just cannot imagine the Motorola Fan club forum seething with rage at the BBC's "inapropriate" use of their favourite phone.

i think the motorola fan club meets at a phone box in aberystwyth!

 

[Daeve]

Very very poor journalism by the BBC there - as others have said the mere fact he racked up the bill by tethering the phone means the iPhone couldn't have been used!

Why not? - I've seen threads on how to tether your iphone all over the place, and read that lots of people have done it.

I think using an iphone for the article is actually fair - an unlocked iphone would rack up a large bill for data - the net is easier and more of a joy to use than other "smartphones" therefore you are more likely to use it. This is the reason I avoided an unlocked phone - I figured my data usage would bankrupt me so O2 it was.