Help me Lazyweb, you're my only hope.

[caddyman]

This is a quick question to those of you who have an iPhone and I know that there’s at least one of you out there on my friends’ list!

Are they worth the effort? I discovered over the weekend that I am well past my contract renewal with O2 (which is odd, as I am normally champing at the bit for a new phone if I can get it for free, but November came and went and I never noticed this time around). Anyway, if I read the O2 website correctly, one of my options would be a free upgrade to an iPhone – another option would be to go for something less fancy on a cheaper contract than I’m currently on and I may opt for that, but I have to confess to being beguiled by the thought of an iPhone.

So, are they worth having, I know they look plush and at least pretend to do lots of things, but what are the pros and cons from people who have used one? Is the G3 version any use, or is that a step further than people have experience of? I briefly tried a G3 phone about 4 years ago on 3 pay as you go but wasn’t impressed by the fact that if you paid £30, it was time limited and if you hadn’t used £30 worth of calls/features, it was cancelled at the end of a set period and you had to stump up more dosh. Plus the fact the phone was big, clunky and G3 was only properly available at that time in a few areas (a bit like Mercury in the early 90s, if you remember them before they became T-Mobile).

I assume that now things have moved on and O2 are big enough to have coverage for at least phone calls over the bulk of the UK (not St David’s though, as I recall from my lack of 2G signal and _tonylee_’s mounting horror with his iPhone.

Advice appreciated, Lazyweb. You are, as usual, my only hope.

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