Do you regret getting you Iphone ??

magic roundabou

i am not a gadget person by any meant and i am deffo not an apple person - avoid at all costs - but i SO want an iphone ....
so i am wondering if anyone out there regrets getting one ?

guil

ha ha are u jokin
of course i dont regret it

joewicklow

Never. You can take anything, except my iPhone.

Swampy

Exactly what Joe Wicklow said.

Redshift

I'm not an Apple fan either but I succumbed on Friday and I'm quite blown away by it. I got the 16Gb 3GS and I just love it:D

Creamy Goodness

i would be completely lost without my iPhone. I cannot see any phone replacing it at all in the near future.

dolliemix

I love my iphone

Sad Professor

Well, I suppose I am what you call an "Apple person", but I was completely disinterested in the iPhone at first. It was too expensive and I didn't fancy the touch-screen. I finally bought one on impulse earlier in the year and my only regret was not getting one sooner. I could never go back to a regular handset now.

I would recommend waiting for the next iPhone though.

djk1000

magic roundabou wrote: »

i am not a gadget person by any meant and i am deffo not an apple person - avoid at all costs - but i SO want an iphone ....
so i am wondering if anyone out there regrets getting one ?

What??? That's ridiculous!! If I could have my iPhone surgically attached in some way, I would

jd83

I regret getting mine. More to do with o2 been the service provider than the actual phone it self. I have unlocked nexus one now and find it much better, especially for internet on 3g and wifi. But found the iphone very good for music, the music player on nexus is crappy.

Abelloid

I'm not an Apple person, I detest itunes, but I came very close to buying an iPhone last week. Thankfully I didn't. I'm going to wait for the HTC desire instead.

The Big Gig

Changed to 02 two years ago to get one. Unhappy as an 02 customer (soon to change) but iphone is actually life changing. I used to bring my Macbook everywhere, now it stays at home most of the time!

IamMetaldave

Any of my friends would tell you how anti Apple I was. My iPhone changed that, it is simply the best phone I have ever had and would never, ever go back another type again!

dodzy

magic roundabou wrote: »

i am not a gadget person by any meant and i am deffo not an apple person - avoid at all costs - but i SO want an iphone ....
so i am wondering if anyone out there regrets getting one ?

The positives far outweigh the negatives. Superb piece of kit.

chrislad

I love my iPhone. From my cold dead hands shall you take it!

alex73

its the best phone I ever got,.

magic roundabou

ok people you have convinced me .... not that i needed much to be honest - but a question , do you ever go over your internet , i know they say its unlimited but is it really ????

efb

Regret- Never! I never feel the need to go into a phone shop now, cos I love my iphone so much!

dudara

I have a jailbroken iPhone on Meteor and I adore the damn thing. I went into the Meteor shop a few days ago to check out the HTC offerings from Meteor and there was no comparison. iPhone wins hands down.

I want to stay with Meteor as my costs are so so low with them, but if they won't offer the iPhone, then I'm going to have to look at moving so I can get one of the newer models. (I have one of the original models). Right now, I haven't tried any phone that beats the iPhone as an overall package.

Creamy Goodness

it's not unlimited.

on o2 it's 1gig
on vodafone it's 2gigs

i'm on meteor and have 10gigs, and whilst i don't use the 10gigs i do go over 2gig's of data a month but i'd consider myself a heavy user.

Gregor Samsa

magic roundabou wrote: »

ok people you have convinced me .... not that i needed much to be honest - but a question , do you ever go over your internet , i know they say its unlimited but is it really ????

Just remember one thing - when you have wi-fi access, the iPhone uses that instead of the mobile network, and that access doesn't count agains your data usage. I have wi-fi at home and in work, so very little of my internet/mail usage comes out of my 2GB data allowance, and I doubt I'll ever use one GB, never mind 2 in a month.

But your situation could be different. If you don't have access to wi-fi, or are out and about a lot, then you could use a lot more from your data plan.

Edit: And no, I haven't regretted getting it for one second.

sink

I'm on O2 clearsim billpay with 250mb of data and I have never gone over it. I read my emails and news websites/boards on my way in and out of work. At home and at work I have wi-fi and my commute is only 30 mins so I never fo much over 150mbs. I can't stream radio over 3G anyway because I go through several black spots where I loose reception. I love my iPhone and could never go back a lesser phone.

djdunny

i loved mine so much i bought another one using one on o2 and one on vodafone. 2 years ago i would have led the negative campaign against apple but now ive completely u-turned. best phone ive ever had.

skibum

I had a nokia 6310i for the last 6 years or so, put up with the slagging from friends and family as i loved it's simplicity and great battery life, I gave in last jan and initially wasn't to impressed, but as I got to know the phone and it's apps I love it

Mr Bloat

I've had all three generations of iPhone and while I don't regret having one, I'm kind of fed up with it at this stage. Well, not fed up of the phone, more fed up of Apple's control freakery. The iPhone is a fantastic device and most likely you won't regret having one. It was, up until now, the finest smart phone available. However, now there are other contenders for that crown. I don't know if they are better than the iPhone but they certainly aren't as locked down as the iPhone is and they seem at least equal to it in other aspects.
I don't regret ever owning an iPhone but if Android was around when the first gen iPhone came out, I probably would have gone for that instead as I was never a fan of Apple and I'm glad there is finally a decent competitor to it.
You will regret having to use iTunes though, what a manky piece of bloatware that is!

dolliemix

i have unlimited data with o2

paddym355

3 years ago I got the 1st gen iPhone, imported from the states and hacked, and at the time I was working as a manager in a mobile phone shop (and it wasn't O2 ;-)
It was worth the stick I used to get over having a phone that wasn't available on our network (although I did have a work phone so the iPhone was for personal use - and was kept hidden from the customers who visited the store, that would have been difficult to explain ;-)
As I was working in a phone store I was able to use every phone available at the time - the iPhone destroyed them all.
I used to upgrade phones every 3/4 months - I kept my 1st gen iPhone for 2 years as I had no need to upgrade. It did everything I needed it to.

Got the 3GS last summer. My wife still uses my 1st gen. It truly is an amazingly well designed phone - still slightly in awe of it. I remember the old phones where I used to browse the newspapers online using a ****ty joystick (Nokia E61 and similar), the net was an awful experience. The whole UI on phones was an awful experience. What struck me was Apple got the phone close to perfect 1st time, where the phone companies couldn't manage a decent UI after decades of trying (helped along by mobile networks insisting on their own crap user interfaces being imposed on all new phones, awful walled garden versions of the net etc.). They have refined it twice since and IMHO it is still better than other phones on the market (although they have improved significantly since Apple gave them an almighty kick up the rear, and Google gave them Android..)

Wait for the 4g and go for it ;-)
http://gizmodo.com/5520164/this-is-apples-next-iphone?skyline=true&s=i

phill106

joewicklow wrote: »

Never. You can take anything, except my iPhone.

From my cold dead hands.....

GopErthike

JustinOval wrote: »

I'm not an Apple person, I detest itunes, but I came very close to buying an iPhone last week. Thankfully I didn't. I'm going to wait for the HTC desire instead.

Can someone explain why some people 'detest' itunes, I just don't see the problem?

Eire Go Brach

Well I bought it for an iPod + a phone. I have always had iPods. Had the touch and loved it. So just mixed them both up. But then there is the connectivity thats what got me. Apps and more apps.

But if it helps you, my girlfriend regrets me getting an iPhone:)

Creamy Goodness

GopErthike wrote: »

Can someone explain why some people 'detest' itunes, I just don't see the problem?

It's absolutely rubbish on a pc, i hate when people ring me for "tech support" when it comes to using iTunes on a pc, it's like nails being dragged across a blackboard.

On mac however to paraphrase steve jobs, it just works.

KeithM89_old

I bought the 3G about 6 weeks before the 3GS came out ( i wasnt aware of apples annual update back then) and was absolutely gutted

whiterebel

dolliemix wrote: »

i have unlimited data with o2

No such thing.

120_Minutes

O2 is 3gb fair usage per month, neither unlimited nor 1gb as mentioned earlier. As for regret, I'll post in more detail later.

Redshift

Redshift wrote: »

I'm not an Apple fan either but I succumbed ... and I'm quite blown away by it. I got the 16Gb 3GS and I just love it:D

Dave Eyesclosed wrote: »

Any of my friends would tell you how anti Apple I was. My iPhone changed that,

What they said.

I really dislike iTunes ('I'm a PC'), as i find it runs slowly, I need to manually re-load my music folder any time i download new music via *external website* or rip a CD using media player. Ripping CD's with iTunes is an absolute chore and burning CD's - though quite rare for me these days - is only slightly faster than slow. Also Apple are so tight-fisted with damn formats I can't use WMA, it needs to convert it first. Which would be fair enough only it won't convert FLAC at all. I like to have high quality audio(most of my mp3's are 320kbps), hence why FLAC is a sticking point for me. Oh and it doesn't like Audio-books obtained from *external website* either.

The gripes I have with my iPhone is the lack of multi-tasking and the camera. It's decent but I'll keep my W995 to hand for video at gigs, parties, taking snaps, etc. Overall though, I certainly don't regret buying it.

drunkmonkey

Eire Go Brach wrote: »

But if it helps you, my girlfriend regrets me getting an iPhone:)

mines thinking of starting a support group, I'll probably be divorced if I get an ipad!

eeloe

I honestly, 100% couldn't live without my iphone!

It's my portal to the world.....no way!

Abelloid

GopErthike wrote: »

Can someone explain why some people 'detest' itunes, I just don't see the problem?

On a PC it just doesn't work properly, last time I used it it completely locked up looking for an ipod I had ejected the previous day. Nothing would console it. It just sat on my screen crying like a little bitch. :P

(chiwawa )

keane2097

no

Lord Nikon

My 3Gs had to go back to Apple last week for repair(Home button worked and didnt work). I have a Nokia E51 that i use in work because the signal for 02 here is non-existant, and unfortunately for me it only takes a Vodafone sim.

I have a donkeys old N70 that works, but it's such a pain to use.

I have always used and loved Nokias, but life with the iPhone is better. Okay it should have more features, but for what it does, it wins hands down. No other phone can compete with it, and anyone who complains about it has obviously never owned one.

Kashkai

Got my first mobile in 1996 when very few people had one, eg if you were walking down the street talking on it, you got some funny stares!!!! I've had all sorts of phones since from motorola, panasonic, siemens, Sony and nokia but the iPhone is from a different futuristic century to them.

Whatever your gripes about Apple, you have to admit they got the iPhone so right first time. It's a brilliant piece of kit and I have to admit I love my iPhone. Going back to a "normal" phone would be like using a steam powered car instead of a Ferrari.

Elessar

Never regretted it for a second. The best phone I have ever used, period. Everything is so simple intuitive and enjoyable to use.

Like another poster I imported the first gen from ebay and unlocked it. I had that phone for two years. I bought a Nokia N97 for a change but it was like going back to the victorian era. Horrible device and I sold it 4 weeks later for a €200 loss. Bought myself a 3Gs immediately after.

Jailbroken, this phone is hands down the best phone on the market. Absolutely nothing comes close. I cannot ever see myself moving away from the iPhone.

Honestly I'm struggling to put into words how much better and game-changing this phone is.

Mister Gooey

Elessar wrote: »

Never regretted it for a second. The best phone I have ever used, period. Everything is so simple intuitive and enjoyable to use.

Like another poster I imported the first gen from ebay and unlocked it. I had that phone for two years. I bought a Nokia N97 for a change but it was like going back to the victorian era. Horrible device and I sold it 4 weeks later for a €200 loss. Bought myself a 3Gs immediately after.

Jailbroken, this phone is hands down the best phone on the market. Absolutely nothing comes close. I cannot ever see myself moving away from the iPhone.

Honestly I'm struggling to put into words how much better and game-changing this phone is.

Agree totally with the above comments. I have had many phones over the years but the Iphone 3Gs is a different league. It is just a joy to use. It is so simple, the Apps are great and you can use it as a phone, a Squeezebox remote, a PC mouse, email, an MP3 player, office calender etc. Immediate access all at the press of a button.

Itunes is a bit slow, depends on your PC spec. However, it is years ahead of what Nokia or Sony offer for their phones.

BigDuffman

Love my iPhone! Its the little niggles like crap battery life, lack of text groups and profiles that annoy me!

quad_red

GopErthike wrote: »

Can someone explain why some people 'detest' itunes, I just don't see the problem?

It's slow, it's resource footprint is large, it resists attempts to remove unwanted active processes, it is constantly updating.

I've a macbook and it's not as bad on OSx as it is on windows.

MagicMarker

HTC Desire FTW.

120_Minutes

Ok, have time for a more lengthy post now.

I watched with interest when the first iphone was launched. sure, it was shiny, new and a touch screen, had wifi and email and youtube and all that malarky, but the n95 which i was using at the time did most of that too. I also resented the fact that to really make the most of the device, you had to hack it and void the warranty...sorry apple, on point of principle i wont buy it.

so i waited.

along came the 3g, nice i thought but not quite there yet.

then the app store launched....now we're getting somewhere.

finally with the launch of the 3gs, and the fact that now you didnt really have to jailbreak to get decent use out of it (for me anyway...i do respect ppl who jb, its just not for me.....yet) i was ready to buy.

do i regret buying it? no.
do i regret waiting this long? again no.

i do love the phone and what it can do, but my opinion of it hasnt changed:

there are many phones out there that do what the iphone does, or even more...but few do it with the ease the iphone does.

when i used phones such as the n95 which could surf the net, view youtube, get my emails etc...i never really did it as it was a little bit of a chore. the iphone however integrates all of the above so easily that you start to wonder how you survived without it.

so to sum up, i dont regret buying it, but i may come to regret depending on it!

and theres never been a better time to buy one....even with the imminent 4g, theres still life in the 3gs for at least another 18 months.

Oafley Jones

quad_red wrote: »

It's slow, it's resource footprint is large, it resists attempts to remove unwanted active processes, it is constantly updating.

I've a macbook and it's not as bad on OSx as it is on windows.

Plus how the store is organized is terrible. The biggest negative against the iPhone/iPod is iTunes, hate using it. Didn't think it was possible but it actually got worse with 9.0. Apple really need to start over with it.

listermint

Have an i touch and i love it, it is simply the business!; but i simply detest touch screen phones for texting so wont be taking the plunge. I have used many touch screens through my line of work from HTC WM to most of the new android units and while i love the clean flow of a touch screen you can beat feedback of real hardware for typing. no one has come up with a viable option to date incl that blackberry farce.

my 2 cents.

alexiadexia

I bought a HTC Legend and it's the business! I am soooo happy I didn't opt for the I-phone in the end..

I would have got one but I use so little credit the O2 & Vodafone tariffs for the I-Phone were just shockingly expensive. The Only bad thing is the battery life..

mad muffin

Love it, wouldn't do without it:D

I used to get the latest phones every 2 to 3 months because I would grow board with them.

Everyone told me to get the iPhone but I just wasn't convinced. Then after getting the LG Arena (God what a POS that was) I decided to get an iPhone almost a year ago and haven't even looked at another phone since.

Eagerly awaiting the new iPhone to be released. I wouldn't go out and buy one ATM you must resist temptation and wait for the new one.:)