tuaw.com — There's been a fair bit of debate (and disappointment) with the O2 200 megabyte 'Fair-Use' data transfer policy that was expected to appear with the U.K. iPhone contracts this Friday. Thankfully, it seems O2 has heard us:
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hackeronNov 6, 2007
O2 charge £4.60 per MB roaming, that's almost $10 US -- that's $200 USD per 20MB. -- I wish we had the sad state of Canadian telcos here in the UK.
jamesburton1Nov 6, 2007
Maybe due to the fact that the iPhone only works with EDGE, maybe, just maybe.
skinfitzNov 6, 2007
iPhone has an amazing interface, but unfortunately the phone part of the iPhone is severely lacking - for example:No 3G (!)Good browser, but stuck with EDGE data (O2 has very poor EDGE coverage)Cant send texts to more than one person at onceNo copy / pasteNo supported apps (...yet)Camera but no videoNo MMSThen there are little things like browser cannot upload files (no uploading photos anywhere, and heaven forbid, upload a video to YouTube (see 'no video' above)).iPhone seems to be an exercise in what you can't do.The ONLY good thing about the O2 deal is them throwing in use of their 'The Cloud' hotspots with the contract - I will wager that was thrown in in pure desperation as a sweetener as otherwise the iPhone would be unusable (imagine Safari over GSM data... ew)
hackeronNov 8, 2007
Could there be a version of iPhone in the UK, maybe, just maybe that uses 3G because Edge is almost useless in the UK?