[AndyJ]

I went for the HTC Desire in the end, it's the main rival to the iPhone. The HTC is brilliant. Very good phone and very solid, although the battery doesn't last long at all!

[DannyBoy]

All of the new features on iphone 0S 4.0 its got Multitasking and App folders


And the BEST news, the new OS is fully compatible with the iphone 3Gs so you will get to use all of its features WHOOO RAAA!

[foot-loose]

Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice!

[DevilsDuck]

Aren't most of those features quite old except the ad thingy?

[foot-loose]

Have your read the article?

[DevilsDuck]

Mutlitasking - what smart phone hasn't done this for the last 3 years......the iphone

Fast app switching - N97 does this and is about a year old

Local Notifications - not sure what this does, cant work out how this would be helpful.....but im ready to be proved wrong


App folders - once again....only the iphone that doesnt do this

the new mail app - my n97 already lets me have multiple email address in a unified inbox

ibook - I would rather read a real book, but can see the benefit of it....but once again my N97 has a book reader app

custom backgrounds- really....i didnt realise the current iphone was this out of date

game centre - ooooh......nokia ngage is older than the original iphone

iAd - good for developers and will mean more great free apps......this will be good

5x digital zoom - well, my N97 is about 1year old technology and has a 5mega pixle camera with 4x optical zoom so a year-18mons later you would expect the camera to be a lot better, but there are alot of phones now with 10mp cameras

bluetooth keyboard- its a phone, who the f**k is going to buy a keyboard for there phone




You only own it, did'nt invent it so don't take it personally like all other apple users!

Overpriced and not actually that good!

[foot-loose]

When you said "arn't these features quite old", I thought you meant to the iPhone specifically, not the conception of them on other devices. I could go through your list and pick it to bits, but I'm too tired.

Last time I used a Nokia though, it seemed buggy, badly laid out and froze every half hour. They may have changed them since then.

[Munki Bhoy]

A colleague of mine at work has the most awful Nokia phone I've ever seen. Over the years Nokia phones have got progressively worse for bugs - I had an N95 when it first came out and it was seriously buggy. I stuck with it and after a few months it was a decent phone. In her case she's pretty much had a phone that doesn't even make calls properly for months while Nokia release update after update which gradually makes it better.

Funnily enough, I've never had a problem with my iPhone in all the time I've had it. So I think I'd rather have an iPhone that works first time but have to wait a bit longer for the same features as you'll find on phones that don't work properly without a series of patches... patches which take so long to come out that by the time the phone is actually in a working state the iPhone technology has caught up with it!

[Jill]

My Iphone arrived yesterday. Tis quite fiddly to operate, but im already addicted to Angry Birds

[Yudster]

Best phone I ever had was a Nokia. It was years ago, when phones were for phoning and texting people - that's all it did, but it did it reliably and the battery lasted aaaages. I think it was an N66...? It was little and red anyway. All the phones I've had since then have been increasingly complex and and correspondingly unreliable. I've currently got a Sony Ericsson something or the other, it has all sorts of gubbinrey which I have no need for so don't bother with (like internet and email and probably loads of stuff I don't even know about), but the camera is excellent (although I greatly prefer to use a proper camera for photography, and usually have one with me), it seems to work as far as calls and texts are concerned, and only needs charging every three days as opposed to every 36 hours like pretty much all the other phones I've had since the Nokia.

My son has an iPhone. He seems to like it, but the only thing I know about it is that it hasn't received a single text anyone has sent him for a month now. Somehow this seems not to have impacted on my son's love for the thing, which makes me ask the question - are Apple including a secret app on these things which hypnotises the owners into thinking that something which doesn't work very well is actually wonderful?!

[GottaBeAndrew]

I think a main difference with getting an iPhone with getting a HTC phone or any other phone is that you get a lot more for your money in terms of texts, minutes and internet usage for what you're paying. I'm paying £25 a month and get something like unlimited texts, 600 minutes and 500mb internet usage. There are people on £35 a month on iPhone who are getting about 300 minutes, unlimited texts and unlimited internet and for the privilege it's also an additional £150, if you want the lowest model.

[foot-loose]

I've got an iPhone. I pay £15 a month. I get 1000 texts, 600 minutes and unlimited data.

Sim only contracts with a staff discount are the way forward!

[jocky85]

I got my new phone this weekend. Went with the new Samsung Monte - getting on with it ok so far, touch screen is difficult to adjust to

[MK Chris]

FAO Apple fans...

[newsbeat]

trustedreviews.com apparently are a well respected site Newsbeat. Link below for the cookie.

http://www.trustedreviews.com/mobile-ph ... e-KP500/p1

Sorry for the delay, was away in Romford last week, been a bit busy this week. Thanks for that, probably gonna get that soon (ish)

[newsbeat]

I've got an iPhone. I pay £15 a month. I get 1000 texts, 600 minutes and unlimited data.

Sim only contracts with a staff discount are the way forward!

where did you get that deal from, may sway me from the LG Cookie

[Yudster]

I've got an iPhone. I pay £15 a month. I get 1000 texts, 600 minutes and unlimited data.

Sim only contracts with a staff discount are the way forward!

where did you get that deal from, may sway me from the LG Cookie

Sim only contracts with a staff discount are the way forward!

Do you work at the same place as foot loose then newsbeat?

[foot-loose]

I've got an iPhone. I pay £15 a month. I get 1000 texts, 600 minutes and unlimited data.

Sim only contracts with a staff discount are the way forward!

where did you get that deal from, may sway me from the LG Cookie

Sim only contracts with a staff discount are the way forward!

Do you work at the same place as foot loose then newsbeat?

I got it from my friend that works at O2. I don't work for them.

[Jill]

My iphone is £35 a month on O2 - 600 mins, unlimited texts and unlimited data/wifi