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Why is it every time someone asks a Q. about an Apple product, it starts-off a huge Windows v OSX debate rather than concentrating on the op?.
Personnally, as far as the Iphone 3GS is concerned, have you thought about importing one from one of the 13 EU countries where it is illegal to sell a mobile locked to a single provider?.
Be\r in mind also, that after 12 months, you have a legal right to un-lock your contract phone.Never Knowingly Understood.
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How difficult is it to import one and what are the costs involved do you know?
What about warranty?
If I had the money I would go for the 3G S0 -
How difficult is it to import one and what are the costs involved do you know?
What about warranty?
If I had the money I would go for the 3G S
You can import them for round about the same price as buying a P&GO from o2 here.
This is when you take into account things like import tax, exchange rate and shipping. I would suggest it is not worth it.
Also remember that whenever apple change the firmware - they can (and often do) re enable the sim lock. SO you have to wait for the jail break/unlock hack to be tested and working...I feel like the day he died0 -
Why is it every time someone asks a Q. about an Apple product, it starts-off a huge Windows v OSX debate rather than concentrating on the op?.
Personnally, as far as the Iphone 3GS is concerned, have you thought about importing one from one of the 13 EU countries where it is illegal to sell a mobile locked to a single provider?.
Be\r in mind also, that after 12 months, you have a legal right to un-lock your contract phone.
1. Some see it as a Window of opportunity to advance their prejudices.
2. In none of them is it illegal to sell a 'phone locked to a single provider but in some of them it is legally obligatory to also sell an unlocked (and unsubsidised) version.
3. Not if you have agreed voluntarily to an 18-month or 24-month contract which forbids it.
Don't laugh at banana republics. :rotfl:
As a result of how you voted in the last three General Elections,
you'd now be better off living in one.
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You do understand how Intellectual Property works, don't you?
Google have quite a few patents relating to mobile phones (including one revolutionary patent for a mobile phone case of all things, or as they put it a "cellular telephone casing, for enclosing and protecting a cellular telephone without interfering with the normal functionality of the cellular telephone, the casing having walls made of vinyl covered foam which define an interior volume for fully enclosing the cellular telephone"), but I don't hear you crowing about that.
Patents are more absurd as the idiotic notion you can actually "own" anything. Silly, silly people!!!!!
Did you know that about (probably more now) one fifth of your own genes (the things that make up your body) are patented by private firms? Hope they dont take you to court for being born with them.
Leopard I was simply baiting Marty cos I know he likes it. Besides we dont need to discuss anymore about the iphone since I won the last discussion......
Go on Marty bite!:rotfl:0 -
Why is it every time someone asks a Q. about an Apple product, it starts-off a huge Windows v OSX debate rather than concentrating on the op?
Because there's quite a pervasive "Apple vs the world" mentality, whereby the iPod is compared to every non-Apple mp3 player, the Mac is compared to every non-Apple computer, and the iPhone is compared to every non-Apple phone there is.
Why it always has to be "Apple vs everybody else" is beyond me. But people seem to be unable to like their computer without trumpeting how it's better than a Mac, like their mp3 player without going on about how much better than an iPod it is, and like their phone without thinking it's some sort of iPhone killer.0 -
Steve Jobs' supreme achievement has been to get everyone talking about Apple. :cool:
Don't laugh at banana republics. :rotfl:
As a result of how you voted in the last three General Elections,
you'd now be better off living in one.
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Because there's quite a pervasive "Apple vs the world" mentality, whereby the iPod is compared to every non-Apple mp3 player, the Mac is compared to every non-Apple computer, and the iPhone is compared to every non-Apple phone there is.
Why it always has to be "Apple vs everybody else" is beyond me. But people seem to be unable to like their computer without trumpeting how it's better than a Mac, like their mp3 player without going on about how much better than an iPod it is, and like their phone without thinking it's some sort of iPhone killer.
I think you'll mostly find this is apple and the apple fanboys fault. I've never known a group of people sprout on so much about how good their chosen tech is and how much better it is than yours (no matter what it is or even if it is), only to get their knickers in a bunch at the mere mention that it probably isn't as good as they think it is or theres something else that can do it as good/better.
Comments that put down apples products are usually followed with grumbles interspersed with various "innovative"s and "looks better"s.
If you set yourself up that (like apple has) way of course its going to be Apple vs Everything/one else.0 -
I think you'll mostly find this is apple and the apple fanboys fault. I've never known a group of people sprout on so much about how good their chosen tech is and how much better it is than yours (no matter what it is or even if it is), only to get their knickers in a bunch at the mere mention that it probably isn't as good as they think it is or theres something else that can do it as good/better.
Did you ever stop to think that it's maybe because people really like Apple products, and its particularly galling to be lectured about them by someone who has never even used them?
I'm sure you'd have a thing or two to say to someone with no experience using it, advising that Linux is hard to use, difficult to configure, and has hardly any programs for it, so everyone should stick to Windows.Comments that put down apples products are usually followed with grumbles interspersed with various "innovative"s and "looks better"s.
That's the thing though; why do there have to be comments putting down Apple products every time they're mentioned? Replace the word "Apple" with "Dell", "HP" or "Sony" (three manufacturers who make just as expensive, less well spec'd versions of Apple products) in any of these missives, and the results look quite incongruous.0
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