Comments on: o2 confirmed launch of iPhone in Ireland - March 14th

By: Molly

Molly — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:14:24 +0000

I am considering buying the iphone 3G from the U.S.A and getting it unblocked and using my vodafone net as the tariffs from 02 are very expensive.
Does anyone have any information on where to get it ulocked and the price to do so.
Many Thanks .
Molly

By: John Bosco

John Bosco — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:09:40 +0000

I’ve cancel my order for the iPhone and o2 with their no brain CEO can go and walk the plank.love cockney slang hahaha.No cash from me to them..I’ll wait until the 32Gb is on the market and by then we’ll have a better idea of who can give us the best deal.Look at patphelan.net He’s the man

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Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:51:57 +0000

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By: Carlos

Carlos — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:33:32 +0000

… for me since the beginning is a network problem, they physically cannot offer more than 1Gb for this network…. Do we have 3G in this network? or is only GPRS, it is the second one, who can imagine loads of us surfing at the sametime with this or another device ? I cannot.

As well, they will not offer visual voicemail, because again, we need improvement from the network … as Danuta Grey called us, “freaks”, lets gonna show them we are freaks, but not stupid.

Lets see how long gonna take until the prices drop ….

By: Stefan

Stefan — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:05:33 +0000

I’m with Juston here.

1GB is pathetic. why does the uk get much much more than us in Ireland? once again another reason for me to leave this pathetic country. Don;t get me started on the road tax ripoff!

By: Justin Mason

Justin Mason — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:38:44 +0000

1GB is utterly pathetic. here’s some figures.

First off, 1GB per month translates as 33MB per day.

Browsing to Google Maps, and zooming in a couple of steps, used up 3430KB of network traffic over the course of 10 seconds for me just now. So using Google Maps, alone, for only 1 minute and 36 seconds each day would hit the limit.

MP3s nowadays would typically be about 5MB each in size. so a gig limit means you could download or stream 6 MP3s per day before hitting the cap. not much use for online music then either.

Using Google Reader to read some blogs eats up about 270KB per 10 seconds. So you could read blogs for 20 minutes per day before you’d hit the cap.

Obviously, these combine — so that might mean that 2 mp3s combined with 5 minutes Google Reader use, plus 20 seconds of mapping per day, would be enough to breach the limit.

By: Joe Lennon

Joe Lennon — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:30:18 +0000

Stanper: Yes you can connect to a Wi-Fi network when available without using up the 1gb allowance.

If a web page is 140kb in size (suggested average size at http://www.optimizationweek.com/reviews/average-web-page/) then you would be able to visit 7,314 web pages with 1gb. Mind you if you use YouTube, Maps, have your emails download regularly or download software with Installer.app this allowance would diminish much more quickly.

Yes, the iPhone will sync with Outlook 2007 - http://www.apple.com/uk/itunes/sync/iphone.html

By: Stanper

Stanper — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:28:05 +0000

Not that up to date on the whole internet usage over the mobile phone thing, But am i correct in assuming that one can connect to a wifi connection for email and internet usage on the iphone with the o2 package without using up the monthly allowance of 1GB

Also how much usage will 1GB amount to in sites visited?

Will this phone sync with you m/s outlook 2007 getting conflicting info from the phone shop guy.?

By: Jeff Mason

Jeff Mason — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:28:06 +0000

o2 are a complete ripoff.

I bought an iphone from PhoneVolts.ie - sim free and not a bad price!

even thougn i am on o2 its much better value to buy it unlocked without a bill/contract

Br
JM

By: James Gallagher

James Gallagher — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 22:51:38 +0000

Can’t believe the ‘freaks’ comment … not a way to endear yourself!