Also, their broadband is 'unlimited' in the same way that most ISPs state it. i.e. it is actually pretty limited. If you go over their small 'fair use' limit then they totally screw you an extortionate rate.

Normally one of the biggest benefits of signing up with a contract, rather than PAYG is that you get a free or subsidized handset. But this handset isn't subsidized at all, which means you are getting screwed even further.

Another bonus in favour of the iPod Touch is that TheCloud.net are doing a broadband wifi package for only £3.99 a month, exclusively for iPod Touch owners, which is a bargain. The browser on the iPod Touch and iPhone is one of the best features.

i think i fall in the category 'AM I BOVVERED!'. I'm very satisfy with my current MP3 player.

The iPhone is nasty, Apple in their wisdom have decided to lock down the phone, as someone that likes to tinker with things - this phone is not for me. While most of the large phone companies are opening up their hardware to allow users to add software and applications to their phones - Apple are going in the other direction - "it's your phone, but we're going to tell what you can and can't do with it".
Get the iPod touch and a separate phone - more storage and cheaper!

I have decided for me a pensioner Mobile Phones are for calls, text and a diary. So the iphones marvelous facilities our not on my requirement list. If I was a celeb or Hi-flying business person the answer would be different.

Anyone for an iPhone

Comparison with the wi-fi iPod is sensible. The latter does not allow email handling as it does not have software to process this information locally. It will also be unable to support many widgets unlike the claim for the iPhone. My own view of the iPhone is to regard it as a micromac which just happens to work as a phone. If you put it alongside a Blackberry and associate contract then it doesn't look too expensive.

As a Mac user, to have a wi-fi device that actually works seamlessly alongside my Mac applications is a BIG plus

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Apple have made the UK wait for ages after the release in the USA, purely to maximise profit and to sell it for more money here. I have a HTC Touch phone which is superb and does pretty much everything the Apple widget does. For toying with us over the availability of I-Phone in the UK long enough for competitors here to release comparable equipment, Apple can keep it. No thanks.

Why are you sending unsolicted emails without explanation of where the data was harvested or collected?

i will purchase anything apple - it makes no difference if it is good - the only thing i am interested in is that they dominate the market. Why? because they're better: better products, better service and most importantly they look so cute! My only gripe is that they stopped making different coloured ibooks! shame, shame on apple. in every store i've been to around the world the service has been stupendous- this to me says that if the shop floor are buying the mission then management must be believing and enforcing the mission. nothing shows more about a company's commitment to its own mission than at the shop floor level - if the minions like it then they are no longer minions! makes management sense to me!

What a load of anti Apple advertising rubbish. Your comments are both untrue and offensive. I agree with number 8. You make no recommendation of any other product to replace it though except iPod Touch.

Anyway who are you to tell us. You must be working for some hic mobile phone company who don't have the ingenuity to produce anything as remotely cleaver as the iPhone.