o2 - Apple iPhone 3GS
iPhone 3GS and o2 carrier package ... what a rip off! For what? a compass, larger capacity (who has 16GB of songs atm, many of us running out of space?), slightly faster process (but no FLASH!) and tethering? You've got to be kidding me!
Read on: http://www.t3.com/news/o2-keeps-iphone-3g-s-exclusivitiy-reveals-pricing-and-tethering-tarrifs?=39087&allCom=y
We have to pay large sums of money to get tethering with a few pitiful GB a month even though we are on an "unlimited data plan" hahaha!
MMS is pointless, as again you have to pay heavily to use it ...
As an existing iPhone 3G user I don't see ANY reason to upgrade, especially if I have to pay a hefty amount of cash to get out of my contract with o2 ... so I can get back in to a contract with o2 for another year and a half, which doesn't even sync with the hardware release cycle from Apple! What a complete joke!
As soon as my contract runs out with o2 I'll be switching to another carrier as o2 are PANTS in London, UK. Such spotty 3G it's almost pointless using it unless you are standing still underneath a cell!
Honestly, I think the iPhone won't be feature complete (version 1.0 in my eyes) until 2015! You may scoff at that but we're up to version 3.0 of their firmware and it's still not on parity with phones that have been out for years.
I really dislike it when a company reduces their phone's features and drip feeds these features in to the product over many years to maximize their profit, sacrificing being leading edge and yet still posing and acting like they are pioneering.
Hey Steve Jobs! Get over your angst with Adobe and get flash support working (now that you have a faster CPU what's holding you back now?), and tell your developers to get out of the habit of not introducing COMMON features so that you can SLOWLY introduce them under much fanfare without having to be innovative in the slightest. Stop riding the wave of vacuous marketing campaigns. This is proving that you just do not innovate anymore, your flash (arf) in the pan moment was releasing the product, we're over it already, the fancy marketing has dulled, lost it's edge, start showing us something worth buying\upgrading too and stop the nonsense with inflated prices and carrier lock-in and abuse.
The iPhone was designed as a tool for carriers to extort money out of consumers, rather than a tool for consumers to get the most out of "todays" technology.
Come on Microsoft, I've said this before, build a phone to compete with this one, make the SDK available to everyone (free download accessible to ANYONE) and build in support for Spotify so that iTunes can be removed from the equation entirely.
Pioneer and innovate, lead ;-)