With the arrival of the UK iPhone only a week away I was expecting to be a little more excited than I currently find myself. When the iPhone first came out in the US I would have given my right arm to have one so what has changed?
Well a lot, firstly the carrier O2! I’ve never been a fan of their work and vowed never to be a customer of theirs again after my last run in with them and so that is a pretty big blocker. I understand from Engadget that we will be getting jailbreak for the iPhone pretty much as the iPhone lands but I also understand the implications of what jailbreaking means and that isn’t necessarily a route I want to go down.
Then you have all the reviews from America or even more so now the secondary reviews, the comments being made after the dust has settle and people have had a chance to use it a little bit more. The iPhone is still a great device but I don’t think it is quite living up to all the hype it got.
Then there is the iPod touch, this is everything the iPhone is without the phone. Great! So I get a great device to play my music on or my films, I can surf the web and I don’t have the hassle of having to jailbreak it or switch the devil that is O2.
Yeah ok so I have to carry two devices around with me but to be honest I do that now and I don’t complain, in fact I often carry a lot more than that.
I wonder how many other people are in the same position as me and will be making the same decision come 9th of November…
