O2 Stops Selling iPhones May 08, 2008

"Others would argue that buying the overpriced Apple accessory in the first place is a sign of some mental deficiency."

*applauds*

is this an indication of imminent new iphone or an end to O2s exclusivity?

"Others would argue that buying the overpriced Apple accessory in the first place is a sign of some mental deficiency."

And still others would argue that you might stop beating this tired old drum and actually do some real reporting once and a while and *ask* the people who bought this "overpriced accessory" what they actually think of it instead of just regurgitating posts from Engadget and passing them off as your own.

I bought an iPhone on the day of launch and it continues to be the best phone I've ever owned and worth every penny despite the propeller headed beanie wearers tell me otherwise every other day.

I'm sick of hearing these garbage complaints from people who don't even own one. We get it. It doesn't have every feature of every phone ever therefore you don't like it. Give it a rest. We've heard this ad nauseum. It's tired and boring. Time to change the record.

It's still eons ahead of every other phone for those of us who actually use it. It will take something astounding to move me off it to another phone manufacturer. Apple got it right in every respect for most people... Sure they didn't include every geek's dream gadget. Cope. It works for the "rest of us".

I think those who bought them for £169 must have unlocked them and sold them on a popular auction site :)

bring on the 3G model!

The iPhone is the only mobile I have ever owned that does the job exactly as I want it to every time, all the time. Every other phone has crashed, been unstable, had piss poor reception, mangled web protocols and been generally shit in comparison.

the iPhone, to me, is worth every penny because it bloody well WORKS.
In my business, nothing is more important.

Clear lie? It's working now... only the 16GB versions available

Stop trying to convert these unbelievers.
Their the same idiots who asked: "Who's ever gonna buy a dedicated MP3 player called an iPod?" duhh

Headline on Gizmodo June 16th: "3G iPhone is fastest selling device ever!"

i am one of those 'idiots' who bought a beautiful phone for the cut down clearance price of £99...what a great phone for that price.

i leave it to mentally deficients like you to buy the expensive 3g model with crappy fad features like 3g chat

I think there is a division of opinion and one-dimensional judgement between people that do have an iphone and people that don't. I'm sorry to say that SOME iphone users are as much to blame for this situation. I personally don't care what anyone else has, but like a cult religion, SOME iphone users feel they are privileged and have superior aesthetic and functional consumer selection processes for buying new products. Apple is a great product in many if not most areas, but the aggravation comes from of the ‘fashion conscious’ people that buy it, who along with all fashionable items, benefit from being different but at the same time homogonous, excepted by all, and maintaining the pretence that everyone wants to be like them, but they just can’t quite do it. No doubt everyone has examples that contradict this, but I’m tired of getting iphone users ranting on about how good it is, and how it has so many features my phone doesn’t have e.t.c. It’s almost like they don’t have the confidence to just enjoy the product for what it is, and what everyone else to conform to their expensive purchase. I can go out and buy a superior computer, pair of shoes, bottle of wine… but I just don’t have any desire to bang on about it to everyone else all the time. I think many iphone/apple users antagonise the rest of us by their dogmatic blind belief, fuelled by the huge investment to join the ‘club’. Just think, if we ALL had iphones, then many users will feel they have lost their place in the fashion market and will have to look else where. People/life/society functioned before the iphone, regardless of what SOME users might say, and will function after it is a distant memory. Let’s not forget that.

The argument over the iPhone will rage as much as the perpetual mac vs. PC argument. Personally, the reason I won't get one (yet) is because of the overpriced contracts you must take up in order to have the device. That is all. There's no denying that they are beautiful and well engineered pieces of equipment.

In closing, If you're not so bothered about having more than one device on you but you really like the iPhone. Keep your cheap-to-own handset and buy an iPod touch. Laaaavly.