Geez who would have thought it...
I was sure Vodafone and Tmobile had this one covered, even 3 came above
O2 in my list.
I certainly won't be switching back to O2.
Generally what does everyone think about the lack of a SDK and Apple
forcing developers to build web applications? Is this a good move or bad
move?
Christopher Woods wrote:
Granted they do have a 3G network now, but O2, as usual, were horrendously
late to the party - they're forever playing catchup (and when everybody
thought they were going to introduce flat-rate data tariffs last month, what
did they do? Noooooo, just a lame Blackberry tariff!)
As a former customer of O2, where I was variously ignored, disserviced and
overcharged, even if I wanted an iPhone more than anything else, I'd give it
serious second thoughts about getting it if it was tied to the O2 network
and their customer 'services'. Once is enough, twice just isn't bearable for
me. I'm also a happy switcher to T-Mobile, for what it's worth - they know
how to treat customers right ;) and it would be a bit mad on their part if
they didn't eventually offer the iPhone in the UK territory, especially
considering their faster network and better data plans. (imvho)
-----Original Message-----
From: Ben O'Neill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 05 July 2007 14:58
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: Re: [backstage] O2 - iPhone deal - UK
Christopher Woods wrote:
Pfft.
Good things and bad things will come from this:
Good:
O2 won't be able to knacker the phone by slapping their custom
memory-hogging interface onto it (like they did with my
lovely XDA 2i,
it took me ages to clear out the crap they put on it!)
O2 won't be able to slap their branding on it
Bad:
O2 most likely won't bring out any inclusive data plan for
this, and
since when did they have an EDGE network? Orange has
largest European
EDGE network, and T-Mobile has one too pan-Europe, but O2?
Just plain
old, slow, GPRS. UK iPhone users are going to have HEFTY
data bills,
and they're going to be pissed off with the slow browsing speed.
O2 has a 3G network, it's expected the iPhone will have 3G
when it launches here anyway
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