Oh yeah!

The announcement of that Iphone thingy went out yesterday about the second generation model being 3G.

I didnt want a first gen Iphone because of the sky high price and the features it should do that it doesn't because its an Apple product.
Features like (which I care about):

• Sending pictures, movies and music over bluetooth (v. important to me)
  
• No formal way to write some kind of text document
• Lack of a file manager
  
• which is linked to the first two reasons; without a file manager there is no place to organise where you would keep there files. A compromise would be for Apple to let itunes to have some kind of basic file management function but that very un-Apple because content on Ipod's and Apple tv's are always handle from a centralised point (your computer) and not on the device itself.
  
• Cut and Paste
• Not sure I care much about MMS, in the many years Ive had phones that can send them Ive actually sent none but I have received a few and seen situations where they are useful or fun. It would be nice to have MMS and its absences is baffling.

So thats the list!

Lets do some maths shall we, Minimum you pay at the end of an iphone contract in the UK is £269 + £35 a month for 18 months = £899 (thats without going over monthly texts and minutes) faint!

Me being the cheaparse that I am I paid £45 up front and took out a 12 month contract at £35 a month = £465 minimum with that I got 500 minutes and 500 texts, a Nokia 6300 (admitedly its a crap phone which needs charging ever night) and a Playstation 3 with Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction and the movie Stealth on blu ray (which was bad to say the least).
Still thats bang for buck no matter who you are.

A good friend of mine who is an admitted apple fanboy (he even works in an apple reseller) bought an iphone early this year, while using it I have to say it's really good and what is does do it did well. I loved the internet on the go even if it was like using a dial up modem in terms of speed. When we were at the pub having a slightly tipsy introspective conversation I couldn't stop playing with the thing. But as cool as it was it wasn't £269 of front cool.

So getting to the point, now that its going to be £99 and o2 have said they will let any existing customer upgrade Im pretty sure im getting this iphone thing when I get a spare £100. That's the maximum I'd ever pay for it upfront, I wouldn't ever get the 16gig. Spending £59 for 8gigs difference in 2008 is just ridiculous if you ask me. (I bought a 8gig class 6 SD card for extra storage for my eee pc for £20 ((told you Im cheap))