Rob

Bucks, UK

Digital Media Consultant

Jobs is so full of crap, 3G smartphones are fine if the battery is of a good standard, mine will last a good day and half before needing a charge and that's permanently connected to the internet, 90% of the time via 3G. Doesn't say much for the iPhone either, it has 2 batteries that you can't get at.

Perhaps some of those "girlfriends" felt quite lucky they didn't marry. From what I've heard a couple of operators turned Apple down due to the contract and how much cut Apple wanted from the iPhone tariff. I get a feeling Apple are still trying to re-coup money on the iPhone project, they sound quite desperate to claw as much cash as possible from the user, all in on an O2 contract and your looking at £900 for the phone with anything from 10 to 40% from the tariff going to Apple (which it looks like O2 have passed directly onto the customer by upping the tariff a little compared to it's equivalent).
As a phone deal in the UK it stinks and the technology is out of date, EDGE indeed, bet O2 are hating the fact they have to implement this, talk about being red faced in front of your investors.
Shame Apple came up with iPhone, if it had been Sony Ericsson, we'd probably be looking at the Carlsberg of smartphones, instead of out of date status symbol phone with flashy interface.