{"id":1458,"date":"2009-06-09T22:31:25","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T22:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/06\/uk-iphone-users-up-in-arms-and-to-think-that-people-think-that-i-whinge-on-this-blog.htm"},"modified":"2009-06-10T00:00:15","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T00:00:15","slug":"uk-iphone-users-up-in-arms-and-to-think-that-people-say-i-whinge-on-this-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/06\/uk-iphone-users-up-in-arms-and-to-think-that-people-say-i-whinge-on-this-blog.htm","title":{"rendered":"UK iPhone users up in arms &#8211; and to think that people say I whinge on this blog&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/iphone\/iphone-3g-s\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/iphone3gs.gif?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"iPhone 3G S logo\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/pr\/library\/2009\/06\/08iphone.html\">This week&#8217;s announcement of a third generation of iPhone (the 3G S)<\/a> has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/scienceandtechnology\/technology\/apple\/5483574\/Apple-iPhone-3GS-O2-customers-express-anger-over-upgrade-costs.html\">left existing UK iPhone users seething<\/a>.  You see, when last year&#8217;s iPhone 3G shipped, Apple&#8217;s UK partner (O2) let existing users upgrade regardless of the remaining contract length (they had to&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/11\/the-great-iphone-insurance-swindle.htm\">it was in our contracts<\/a>&#8230;) but, critically, the original iPhone was not subsidised &#8211; and its 3G replacement was.  Now existing subscribers are waking up to the fact that they have to buy themselves out of their contracts if they want to move to a new device.  Well, welcome to the big bad world of mobile telecoms guys &#8211; that&#8217;s the way it&#8217;s been for years and why should the iPhone be any different?<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong &#8211; I have an iPhone 3G and I still have about nine months to run on my contract so I&#8217;m caught up in this with everyone else but I won&#8217;t be looking to upgrade to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/iphone\/iphone-3g-s\/\">3G S<\/a>.  After all, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/pr\/library\/2009\/03\/17iphone.html\">Apple has committed to giving me the 3.0 software upgrade for free<\/a> (something I wouldn&#8217;t get on a competitive platform &#8211; if I had a Windows Mobile phone I would have to wait for the telco to approve the software and, even then, they might not offer me an upgrade).  I would like a better camera but I&#8217;ve managed with crappy iPhone optics for two years now and, anyway, I&#8217;m not convinced that the new one will be that good either &#8211; it&#8217;s still only 3MP and a camera phone is always hampered by a tiny sensor and poor quality glass (maybe even plastic!). I can live without a compass and, as for video&#8230; it&#8217;s hard enough to take a decent photo on an iPhone!  Voice control will be good, but I don&#8217;t think that relies on the new hardware (I may be proved wrong on that). Finally, Apple claim that the 3G S is twice as fast as the 3G&#8230; but the network will still be the bottleneck!<\/p>\n<p>The other gripe is the fifteen quid that O2 wants for using the tethering functionality on the iPhone.  Here I think the complainers may have a point &#8211; after all we have unlimited data access on the iPhone already and why pay more (for what&#8230; more data than &#8220;unlimited&#8221; data!)?  Then again, using a full-sized laptop (tethered) to surf with a larger screen will pull down larger graphics &#8211; which means more data &#8211; and a subsequent hit on O2&#8217;s network.  The charge is broadly equivalent to that of taking out a contract for a 3G data connection but I would like to see a PAYG option for tethering &#8211; I&#8217;m simply not going to stump up fifty quid a month for a mobile phone contract (\u00c2\u00a335 for the base iPhone deal and another \u00c2\u00a315 for the tethering, minus a few pence from last year&#8217;s VAT cut).<\/p>\n<p>If we&#8217;re lucky, someone will write a WiFi router application (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmwifirouter.com\/\">like they did for Windows Mobile<\/a> where the telco doesn&#8217;t know you are tethered &#8211; the laptop talks to the phone over WiFi and the phone looks like it&#8217;s using its 3G connection for its own data.<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;m sorry for my fellow UK iPhone users but this is the reality of signing up for a mobile phone contract &#8211; either buy an unsubsidised (expensive) phone and be free to move around or have a subsidised one with a contract that the telcos will enforce.  As for tethering, it is an additional feature, so hoping that O2 wouldn&#8217;t charge for it was probably a little naive.  With any luck there will be a 4th generation of iPhone this time next year and most of us will be freed from our contracts by then!<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/iphone3.jpg?resize=40%2C44&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"iPhone 3.0\" width=\"40\" height=\"44\"\/>In the meantime, the iPhone 3.0 software is due out next week&#8230; it looks like I had better upgrade iTunes to 8.2 then&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s announcement of a third generation of iPhone (the 3G S) has left existing UK iPhone users seething. 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