boo hoo iphone bye bye

rubberbullet

Morning everyone,

Over the weekend, my beloved iPhone 3GS finally copped it. Firstly, the home button stuck so I excitedly followed online tutorials for opening the thing up and fixing the connections. It worked! I then realised that the volume key had fallen out of position, re-opened the shell, and er... Now it's very broken. Screen's fine, but home key and volume keys are !!!!!!ed and I'm not sure if the speaker's gone too. Ooops? The phone is covered as part of my Endsleigh home and contents insurance but I doubt they'd pay up for this.

Anyway, I was coming to the end of my tether with its dodginess when it came to calls anyway and have been planning to move on.

I bought the phone on PAYG and slotted in an O2 simplicity SIM (it was the cheapest way at the time).

Now... Would love to keep the cheapy simplicity SIM but guess that it won't work as a micro sim and not massively keen on shelling out £500 for a new PAYG phone. Are any providers other than O2 any good? I've heard that Three are useless and T-Mobile/Orange has no signal. Maybe just bite the bullet and go for an O2 18m contract?

Secondly - the iPhone 5 will be in the shops within six months or so. It's playing on my mind that the iPhone 4 will be outdated very soon into my having started to play with it and maybe an N8 or something would tide the techno-geek within me over.

I realise that nobody really needs an iPhone or a smartphone or a shiny thing to make their life better... but I want one and therefore replacing my ability to get on the 'net and maps on the move is taking on an all-together disproportionate importance in my life. What would you do in my shoes, right now..? Any cunning help much appreciated!

JJ_Egan

Buy an Android phone while you wait for IPhone 5 .

but I want one and therefore replacing my ability to get on the 'net and maps on the move is taking on an all-together disproportionate importance in my life.

Net Users annoymouse self help groups ???

jje

aggi

orrrr you can sign into 25/m contract with bb torch on vodadone (p4u) and get 500 min ult txt and 500mb internet, but ask before buying weather you can then chanche your sim to micro sell torch (£400 isch) and buy iphoneafter 6 months.

orrrr go onto 12 month contract with ip4, o2 will roll out 12 contract in aprill or go now onto different network.

flyingscotno1

Probably best to buy a cheap Android phone, use that for months and get an iPhone 5 if you want to later on.

The Orange San Francisco is a belting phone if you are prepared to do a bit of techy work with it, even without it, they are superb.

BRSurvivor

I'd probably get an out of warranty replacement from Apple at a cost of £146.44.

Google "ERS iphone uk" to find Apples support pages.

NB: Not sure if you having opened it will make a difference to cost or not.

Lum

You can turn a normal SIM into a micro SIM easilly enough. Just need to carefully cut it down to shape.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOZIsT3XdCs

rubberbullet

Now there, BRSurvivor would be a great idea if I hadn't spent some time trying to break and enter into the iPhone!

Very much liking the idea of the Orange San Francisco - what's the downside on those? Are they noticeably worse for the two things that I use the iPhone for (being internet and maps?)

Rusty!

It'll be better for maps as Google Maps/Nav is brilliant. Internet should be about the same really.

Lum

Is there any way to download all the google maps yet, e.g. for driving in Europe and not getting roaming charges.

Just flashed to CyanogenMod 7.0.0-RC2 and there still doesn't seem to be an option.

Rusty!

No there isn't unfortunately. Bit of a pain.

neil40

rubberbullet wrote: »

Morning everyone,

Over the weekend, my beloved iPhone 3GS finally copped it. Firstly, the home button stuck so I excitedly followed online tutorials for opening the thing up and fixing the connections. It worked! I then realised that the volume key had fallen out of position, re-opened the shell, and er... Now it's very broken. Screen's fine, but home key and volume keys are !!!!!!ed and I'm not sure if the speaker's gone too. Ooops? The phone is covered as part of my Endsleigh home and contents insurance but I doubt they'd pay up for this.

Anyway, I was coming to the end of my tether with its dodginess when it came to calls anyway and have been planning to move on.

I bought the phone on PAYG and slotted in an O2 simplicity SIM (it was the cheapest way at the time).

Now... Would love to keep the cheapy simplicity SIM but guess that it won't work as a micro sim and not massively keen on shelling out £500 for a new PAYG phone. Are any providers other than O2 any good? I've heard that Three are useless and T-Mobile/Orange has no signal. Maybe just bite the bullet and go for an O2 18m contract?

Secondly - the iPhone 5 will be in the shops within six months or so. It's playing on my mind that the iPhone 4 will be outdated very soon into my having started to play with it and maybe an N8 or something would tide the techno-geek within me over.

I realise that nobody really needs an iPhone or a smartphone or a shiny thing to make their life better... but I want one and therefore replacing my ability to get on the 'net and maps on the move is taking on an all-together disproportionate importance in my life. What would you do in my shoes, right now..? Any cunning help much appreciated!

Have you looked at Giffgaff?.They are a payg network running on the o2 network with better deals than o2 simplicity.
On the subject of the iphone 5-not sure how they can improve on iphone 4 except signal issues maybe.

Neil