iPhone 5 through financing (Barclays)

poppasmurf_bewdley

I have an iPhone 4 but I won't be getting an iPhone 5 as I read yesterday that it will not be compatible with the full 4G service when it is introduced next year. It's only compatible with the 4G from EE. It will not be able to connect to 4G from 02 or Vodaphone.

Malky

shortcrust wrote: »

I can afford it

Really? So why take out finance to pay for it?

shortcrust

Malky wrote: »

Really? So why take out finance to pay for it?

I'm not the OP. I jumped in because people were calling the OP daft for buying the phone, and then said I could afford in response to various other posts from people who worry too much about how other people spend their money.

Malky

shortcrust wrote: »

I'm not the OP. I jumped in because people were calling the OP daft for buying the phone, and then said I could afford in response to various other posts from people who worry too much about how other people spend their money.

Sorry. My mistake

shortcrust

Malky wrote: »

Sorry. My mistake

No, it's my fault really for hijacking and taking the thread off topic to feed my iphone excitement. It does read like I'm the OP!:D

SuperHan

poppasmurf_bewdley wrote: »

I have an iPhone 4 but I won't be getting an iPhone 5 as I read yesterday that it will not be compatible with the full 4G service when it is introduced next year. It's only compatible with the 4G from EE. It will not be able to connect to 4G from 02 or Vodaphone.

Not strictly true... What has been said is that O2 and Voda won't have 4G up and running before the next iPhone. If you get a 2 year contract iPhone 5, chances are you will be able to use 4G on those networks.

O2 and Voda have done limited 4G work because they spectrum hasn't gone to auction here. 3 and EE are recycling spectrum that they already own. So the iPhone 5 should be compatible with all UK 4G, it's just a case of WHEN the UK gets 4G....

shortcrust

SuperHan wrote: »

Not strictly true... What has been said is that O2 and Voda won't have 4G up and running before the next iPhone. If you get a 2 year contract iPhone 5, chances are you will be able to use 4G on those networks.

O2 and Voda have done limited 4G work because they spectrum hasn't gone to auction here. 3 and EE are recycling spectrum that they already own. So the iPhone 5 should be compatible with all UK 4G, it's just a case of WHEN the UK gets 4G....

Sorry to take the thread further off topic, but this isn't true. The iphone 5 will never work on any 4G networks other than the EE network. The O2/Vodafone/3 4G networks will use frequencies that the iphone 5 can't use.

DavidDebt

shortcrust wrote: »

Sorry to take the thread further off topic, but this isn't true. The iphone 5 will never work on any 4G networks other than the EE network. The O2/Vodafone/3 4G networks will use frequencies that the iphone 5 can't use.

Last hijack!

3's 4G will work with iPhone 5 as they are buying a portion of the 1800MHz spectrum from EE.

To op. I'm dead excited about the iPhone 5. Boo to all the naysayers!

David

geoffky

So take a stand for yourself; for your country; for freedom and western liberalism and economic prosperity. Take a stand in defence of rational behaviour and logic.
Refuse to buy any more iPhones. ®



2. No swappable battery

This, for example, is one of the various reasons why the iPhone is just plain and simple less good. You don't need 4G data connections to run flat a smartphone battery of any reasonable capacity very quickly - turning on GPS, playing video, merely using the thing and keeping its display lit up, all these things eat up power rapidly. For the serious smartphone user, then, the ability to swap in a fresh charged-up battery quickly is extremely useful, if not indispensable. It's trivially easy to provide, and its absence on all iPhones for fairly cynical reasons should always have been a deal-breaker on its own.
By buying an iPhone you are rewarding that cynical mindset which says: let's build things so that people can't quickly and simply replace one of the most likely-to-fail parts. That way we encourage them to replace the whole phone much sooner, and maintain control of the replacement parts market too. Too bad that it makes the phone a lot less useful.
See what we mean, that this is you spending more to see yourself off?
3. No memory card slot

Another vicious slap in the face here. As flash memory prices keep plunging, microSD cards of greater and greater capacity become more and more affordable. In a proper smartphone, if you need more storage you can buy it and slot it in yourself. You can easily slot that storage into and out of myriads of other devices, copying and migrating data with ease.
The sale of different iPhones with differing amounts of memory is simply the old trick of selling the same thing at different prices: which as any economics student learns, means you make more money than selling it at one price only. Car firms and many others do it too - adding frills to what's basically the same product and bumping up the price by a lot more than the cost of the extras. With a top-end car the markup may not really be justified, but at least it's not as outrageous as charging hundreds of dollars for a quite-literally-cheap-as-chips SD card - and actually removing functionality to achieve this vicious gouging.
Again, you buy an iPhone, you are rewarding conscious and obvious decisions made by Apple against your personal interests. You are not acting as a rational consumer and as such you are introducing needless chaos into the marketplace.




http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/12/iphone_five_reasons/

Wyndham

Is this the right point to mention that my phone cost me £10 and can both make calls and send texts

No, thought not!