Waiting for the iPhone
Oct 20th 2008 | 6:56 am
#31
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Re: Waiting for the iPhone
Is it possible to get a plan in Australia that offers unlimited data on a contract for the iPhone. We'll be bringing over our 16g 3G iPhones when we come over, and want to find the best deal.
Oct 20th 2008 | 7:31 am
#32
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Re: Waiting for the iPhone
I have the HTC Tytn II. The PDA part of it is awesome - does everything I need it to do. The GPS part is great - it does not need to download data like the Nokias. The phone part is shocking crap though. It drops calls. I often cannot make calls - even though I have a full signal. It constantly goes into roaming mode - even in the CBD. Terrible. It chews battery power too - especially when using GPS.
Oct 20th 2008 | 8:57 am
#33
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From: Canberra
Re: Waiting for the iPhone
I havent seen an unlimited data contract - well, not within my budget anyway. Aus is not big on unlimited anything really!
Oct 20th 2008 | 9:40 am
#34
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Re: Waiting for the iPhone
spent weeks researching smart phones.....the blackberry bold "AWESOME"!!!
Oct 20th 2008 | 9:55 am
#35
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Re: Waiting for the iPhone
Anything the Iphone can do the Viewty can do Better.
BTW the Viewty will take a 16gig Micro SD card belive it or not.
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=j0W617nGDeQ
Viewty with the Iphone theme installed. Which anyone can do.
So far the Only thing the Iphone has over the Viewty is GPS. A situation which is being rectified by Viewty hackers right now.
BTW the Viewty will take a 16gig Micro SD card belive it or not.
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=j0W617nGDeQ
Viewty with the Iphone theme installed. Which anyone can do.
So far the Only thing the Iphone has over the Viewty is GPS. A situation which is being rectified by Viewty hackers right now.
Last edited by ozzieeagle; Oct 20th 2008 at 10:02 am.
Oct 20th 2008 | 10:37 am
#36
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From: The Shoalhaven, New South Wales, Australia
Re: Waiting for the iPhone
They come, they go - but nothing on the market comes close to the N95 in whatever metric you care to judge it on. And if you really must have a screen you can paw at, then the Nokia Touch is imminent ...
Oct 20th 2008 | 5:44 pm
#38
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Oct 20th 2008 | 6:07 pm
#39
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From: Seattle
Re: Waiting for the iPhone
I may well be a Luddite but I can't get along with the touch screen. I have fairly small hands and I almost threw my husband's damn iPhone across the room when I tried to type a message; I just couldn't hit the right letters.
Seriously, is this the future of phones? If it is, I'm just going incommunicado. I love my stylus, I want to scribble on a screen. I've been suffering The Geek's cast off dopod/HTC S621 for six months now because my O2 croaked and I can't find anything else I really, really want.
Seriously, is this the future of phones? If it is, I'm just going incommunicado. I love my stylus, I want to scribble on a screen. I've been suffering The Geek's cast off dopod/HTC S621 for six months now because my O2 croaked and I can't find anything else I really, really want.
Oct 20th 2008 | 6:18 pm
#40
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Oct 20th 2008 | 6:48 pm
#41
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Re: Waiting for the iPhone
Are some people never satisfied?
Oct 20th 2008 | 6:51 pm
#42
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Re: Waiting for the iPhone
but I believe there is a hack.
Oct 20th 2008 | 8:31 pm
#43
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From: Brisbane Northside
Re: Waiting for the iPhone
Thanks. Guess we'll just have to look at how much data we use on average every month, then find a contract that fits that figure (if that's possible!)
