UK iPhone, Has it failed?

[alFR]

The maps are fun for 10 mins but once you looked at your house from above and amzed yourself that it can tell you where mcdonald's is what the hell do you do with it.

Er, like, find stuff I need to get to? You know, on the map?

I don't know what the rest of you do with your phones but me and everyone I know use ours for sending chain and joke text messages

I've never forwarded a text in my life. I don't actually expect I ever will - I (like everyone I know) get enough spam on email, thanks.

sending pictures of our genitals to our partners

Hmm, I don't think that puts you in the target market for the iPhone.

swapping videos and music by bluetooth

That must take a while over bluetooth, unless they're really heavily compressed or really short. Hope they're from unsigned, independent artists licensed under Creative Commons.

changing our ringtones every ten minutes

You can do that on the iPhone, no bother. You can't pay £5 a week for it, mind you.

 

[memesmith]

I must admit, I though timblewee was joking. Do you mean people actually do that stuff? I guess they're unemployed, so it probably just as well there are other, cheaper phones to buy.

On the tariff, I'll admit I'm being screwed a bit @ £35/month but, what are the unlockers actually paying? And what are they getting for it? So far 200 mins and 200 texts are enouigh for me, and I reckon I'm doing 250 mb a month of data, so ... what better deals can I get for that usage? (excluding any free phones, 'cos I ain't interested).

 

[iPhelim]

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[iPhelim]

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[Lau]

On the tariff, I'll admit I'm being screwed a bit @ £35/month but, what are the unlockers actually paying? And what are they getting for it? So far 200 mins and 200 texts are enouigh for me, and I reckon I'm doing 250 mb a month of data, so ... what better deals can I get for that usage? (excluding any free phones, 'cos I ain't interested).

I agree – it's not many minutes and texts compared to other plans, but then I didn't use my full 100 minutes and 150 texts on my old plan. Having the data means I may well send an email rather than a text as well, so if anything, I'll be using less minutes and texts, and the unlimited data is brilliant.

Between that and the way it works, well – I'm really glad I got it and it's my favourite thing.

 

[timblewee]

I must admit, I though timblewee was joking. Do you mean people actually do that stuff? I guess they're unemployed, so it probably just as well there are other, cheaper phones to buy.

Oh yes I must be unemployed!!!

I may have taken phone use to the extreme and absurd in my examples but yes people do actually do these things with their phones (in the real world). and the iphone doesn't do them.

Instead of acting all "Well Really!!!" and "How frightfully la dee da" at my comments, jut think about what the average joe does with their phones. I can't believe that people can be so out of touch with reality! I can'y wait to see the comments about that line.

Anyway back on topic, the iphone has not failed in the UK nor will it fail. Yes it's expensive, doesn't do everything and the contract is costly and long, but what the hell as long as there gadget freaks like me around and I'm sure there are, they will sell. Apple know their market they've been around too long not to.

I love my iPhone but dear god it infuriates me sometimes, the same as every other phone I've owned. When I buy "Iphone the revenge" the week it comes out my love/hate relationship with my phone will start all over again.

PS

I wonder if the next one will have cupholders

 

[memesmith]

Obviously not joking - no sense of humour

 

[Cloudane]

Bring out a 3G version, lower the price, 18 month contract, and it'll be a hit I think.

Bring out a 3G version, FREE[1], 12 month contract, and it'll be a guaranteed hit and flood the market.

[1] It can't cost that much to make, it's just a Touch with a phone. Many handsets that cost £400-500 SIM-free cost £0 on contract so why not this one (greed, of course)

 

[evillageprowler]

I'm an American who doesn't own an iPhone, so please be gentle with me...

Regarding the decision not buy the iPhone, these were my reasons: the price of the phone (since come down); 8G capacity (I ended up buying a 16G IPT); and size (I've become comfortable how my IPT feels strapped to my belt).

I understand that the ATT plan seems much more reasonable than what you get in the UK, so that is not an issue I can address. However, I can speak somewhat of the usage of the iPhone.

[My usage profile would be nothing like Timblewee's...]

Several times a week I wished that my IPT has the Internet capabilities that the iPhone has. I usually don't *need* to read/check my personal email while away from home, but the need does occasionally arise. I usually don't need the new Map and locate features, but on occasion I think I will find it very useful. And, there are other occasional reasons I urgently need to access an Internet site that is blocked by the company's firewall.

In short, I really want an iPhone. I know this because I have an IPT and also use friends' iPhones in a pinch. If I hadn't already a 16GB IPT, then I'd wait until Apple releases a 16GB version of the iPhone. Now, I will wait until the right moment to buy my iPhone.

EVP

 

[page3]

Has it failed in the UK? What is it's sales numbers?

If you judge the success (or otherwise) of a product by number of sales, then recent indications (as opposed to ongoing uninformed gossip) are that it has done very well indeed. 190,000 sold in the UK, just shy of O2's 200,000 target.

 

[The Phazer]

I must admit, I though timblewee was joking. Do you mean people actually do that stuff? I guess they're unemployed, so it probably just as well there are other, cheaper phones to buy.

They do them an awful lot - I don't regret buying my iPhone in the slightest, but they are functions when I'm talking to people that they regularily do with their phones, and it's a little embarrassing that when they ask me to bluetooth over a photo I've just taken to their phone I can't do it.

Then they say at a push I can MMS it. And I can't do that either...

These are not difficult things to fix, and it's getting quite annoying they're *still* not done.

Phazer

 

[Sobe]

They do them an awful lot - I don't regret buying my iPhone in the slightest, but they are functions when I'm talking to people that they regularily do with their phones, and it's a little embarrassing that when they ask me to bluetooth over a photo I've just taken to their phone I can't do it.

Then they say at a push I can MMS it. And I can't do that either...

These are not difficult things to fix, and it's getting quite annoying they're *still* not done.

Phazer

Tell them about this thing called "email"

I hear it might catch on...

 

[slot-a]

I remember a couple of weeks after launch talking to a friend of mine who works in procurement for a certain major retail launch partner of the iPhone and they said that the company had sold a fifth of what they'd expected to. And that they also make a whopping £5 markup on each unit shipped.

I think the second gen iPhone will do a lot better as the contract prices approach sanity and the feature set becomes more competitive with phones in the similar bracket in the UK. At least that's what I'm hoping for as my current phone is driving me up the wall with its UI

 

[Phil A.]

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I remember a couple of weeks after launch talking to a friend of mine who works in procurement for a certain major retail launch partner of the iPhone and they said that the company had sold a fifth of what they'd expected to. And that they also make a whopping £5 markup on each unit shipped.

I think the second gen iPhone will do a lot better as the contract prices approach sanity and the feature set becomes more competitive with phones in the similar bracket in the UK. At least that's what I'm hoping for as my current phone is driving me up the wall with its UI

that could have more to do with the bad publicity a certain retail launch partner got over trying to rip consumers off with dodgy claims about indsurance, etc

 

[iPhelim]

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[SilentLoner]

Were you like on the tube or something? I find browsing relatively easy with a few bars of GPRS on a train hurtling through the countryside.

Same here, plus knowing there wont be any nasty suprises on your bill makes it that much sweeter.

 

[iPhelim]

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[SilentLoner]

Oh come on, that's ridiculous.

Firstly, you don't have to take out insurance, its not like it's a car where you're legally obliged to do it and most people actually have it covered on there home contents insurance.

Next, you would be able to transfer your old number to 'iPhone 2', you might even be able to use the same SIM, we don't know yet.

And your 5th point is the silliest of all. You don't need mobile signal to use the iPod function of the iPhone, to use Wi-Fi or to use the camera do you? You don't even need to have a SIM card inserted to use the iPod.

I thought you needed a sim card in it to make it work or is that just for activation after you phone is activated your good to go?

 

[iPhelim]

I thought you needed a sim card in it to make it work or is that just for activation after you phone is activated your good to go?

Yeah, after activation you can use the iPod, Wi-Fi and camera features etc. without a SIM.