Comments on: Why is there no Irish interest in new 3G iPhone?

By: Anthony Kinsella

Anthony Kinsella — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:24:56 +0000

I have to say i totally agree with each comment i read here,the price plans are way too high. Not only that i would certainly not ush into buying the new iphone 3g. The new apps firmware was released but sucks. Itunes Ireland gets half the apps than anywhere else. Although there are many there are actually no games on Itunes Ireland. I did update my original iphone and to be honest i am very dissapointed with the lack off apps, although many of the apps will appeal to some people,not me. Apple and o2 really need to pull there sock up

By: keith bohanna

keith bohanna — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 06:46:19 +0000

Hey Pat

you are a man with contacts – can you dig out anything more on this?

http://msmvps.com/blogs/thenakedmvp/archive/2008/07/10/o2-ireland-listened-we-now-have-business-plans.aspx

keith

By: Gerard Hartnett

Gerard Hartnett — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:41:00 +0000

Evert is right. I don’t understand why they didn’t complete the bluetooth stack . Because of this it’s missing out on mobanode compatibility.

By: Evert Bopp

Evert Bopp — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:35:04 +0000

I’ve already got a HTC Touch and a Nokia N95, both do what the iPhone does but better.
I’ve played around with the iPhone on a few occasions now and it just does not grab me.
Also what’s with the no MMS and no bluetooth?! What are they thinking of? Look at a huge chunck of “trendy” phone users (kids). What do they do a *lot*? Exchange files. How do they do it? Bluetooth…
iphone V3 anyone?

By: Sinéad

Sinéad — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:51:53 +0000

For me it’s all to do with the long term costs. If you’re not a heavy user and a billpay customer then changing over to O2 billpay just for an iPhone is totally unreasonable.

I’ll stick with no mobile internet for now, so I can save myself a fortune on calls and texts. You just can’t have both – it’s either one or the other in this country.

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By: ulf

ulf — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:00:47 +0000

New Zealand, being the first in the world to get the 3G, was in for a shock today. The plan pricing is way past what most people expected:
The 8GB model for example costs NZ$549 (260euro) with monthly costs of NZ$80 (38euro) on a two year contract or NZ$199 (95 euro) with monthly costs at NZ$250 (120euro), making this a NZ$6199 (3000euro) experience over two years. Usage is between 250MB and 1GB, included minutes a sad 120mins – 600mins.
Costs for the 16GB are steeper still…

By: John

John — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:04:13 +0000

GPS on a phone – who really needs it?
3G its ok, im not going to surf anough to upgrade my iPhone, BIG no interest here…

Software 2 is good thou?

By: mj

mj — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:35:04 +0000

I think there’s probably plenty of interest in the phone itself but with the contract terms offered by o2.ie, I wouldn’t buy it either.

By: Shane Mc Allister

Shane Mc Allister — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:25:43 +0000

The 3G iphone, whilst a nice update to the first version, doesn’t have enough new features to warrant a rush. The first iPhone was a total game changer, long anticipated and revolutionary in many respects (though backwards in some – MMS, Bluetooth, Video etc). The 3G iPhone addressed the network speed issue, and some enterprise concerns, added GPS, and opened up the prospect of 3rd party apps, but other than that, it’s more of the same again. Same Form factor, UI, Crappy-ish camera, same storage capacity etc. It would have been easy for Apple to nail some extra features to give the wow factor again, but they missed it.

Most people who craved an iPhone found a way to get them the first time pre O2 launch and the 3G changes are not sufficient to make them salivate to change. That, coupled with the fact the O2 Ireland messed with tariffs and pricing so soon after the previous launch means that some people are adopting a suck it and see approach to see what happens. Add to that, the new registration policy that means you’ve to sign up to a contract there and then, and no user accessible Sim, you have many people feeling they’re buying a brick again!