Vodafone
iPhone is crap say Vodafone!!!
21/09/07 20:39 Filed in: iPhone
If anyone's with Vodafone and is thinking of
getting an iPhone, you've got to tell them you
want the iPhone when you phone for the address to
send your cancellation letter to.
The conversation I had with there cancelation department went a little like this:
Me- I want the address to send my cancellation letter to please.
VF- Sure it's ***** ***** *****
Me- Thanks.
VF- Can I ask why you want to cancel?
Me- I want an iPhone.
VF- Your going to pay £300 for a iPhone.
Me- It's £270.
VF- You do realize it's been absolutely slated in the last few days since it came out, they say it's really crap.
Me- Not by all the people in the US who have already bought it.
VF- AH but they've changed all the technology in it for the UK market.
Me- No they haven't it's the exact same phone.
VF- No it's not, they have taken the 3G out and replaced it with a slower kind of technology.
Me- The iPhone has never been 3G in the US, it's always been EDGE.
VF- Well they have changed a lot of the other spec's.
Me- I think you'll find it is the exact same phone mate. I can read out the spec's from the Apple US and UK sites for you now if you'd like.
VF- Well if thats all sir.
Me- Yes thanks for your help......
It's sad that Vodafone feel that they have to resort to these kind of tactics to keep customers just because they didn't get the iPhone.
They obviously didn't try hard enough or didn't want to agree with the terms Apple wanted.
I still haven't decided when I'm going to actually buy the iPhone. I would love to but one on November the 9th but there are a few things that I would really like to wait for.
3G is a big thing here in the UK but I can live without that.
No MMS yet, I can live without that until Apple hopefully issue a software update to add this. Especially as the UK spent 325 million on MMS last year.
I know there is E-mail to send pic's , fair enough if the other person has an iPhone, but it's a nightmare setting up and using e-mail on most other types of phone.
8Gig is OK with me as I'd keep my whole music library on my 30Gig iPod video.
The main thing is the Bluetooth I think I can only use this as a means to connect to a headset or handsfree kit and not to swap files, Bluetooth is the way I swap files and pictures etc with most of my friends and I'm not sure if this can be changed in a software update.
The conversation I had with there cancelation department went a little like this:
Me- I want the address to send my cancellation letter to please.
VF- Sure it's ***** ***** *****
Me- Thanks.
VF- Can I ask why you want to cancel?
Me- I want an iPhone.
VF- Your going to pay £300 for a iPhone.
Me- It's £270.
VF- You do realize it's been absolutely slated in the last few days since it came out, they say it's really crap.
Me- Not by all the people in the US who have already bought it.
VF- AH but they've changed all the technology in it for the UK market.
Me- No they haven't it's the exact same phone.
VF- No it's not, they have taken the 3G out and replaced it with a slower kind of technology.
Me- The iPhone has never been 3G in the US, it's always been EDGE.
VF- Well they have changed a lot of the other spec's.
Me- I think you'll find it is the exact same phone mate. I can read out the spec's from the Apple US and UK sites for you now if you'd like.
VF- Well if thats all sir.
Me- Yes thanks for your help......
It's sad that Vodafone feel that they have to resort to these kind of tactics to keep customers just because they didn't get the iPhone.
They obviously didn't try hard enough or didn't want to agree with the terms Apple wanted.
I still haven't decided when I'm going to actually buy the iPhone. I would love to but one on November the 9th but there are a few things that I would really like to wait for.
3G is a big thing here in the UK but I can live without that.
No MMS yet, I can live without that until Apple hopefully issue a software update to add this. Especially as the UK spent 325 million on MMS last year.
I know there is E-mail to send pic's , fair enough if the other person has an iPhone, but it's a nightmare setting up and using e-mail on most other types of phone.
8Gig is OK with me as I'd keep my whole music library on my 30Gig iPod video.
The main thing is the Bluetooth I think I can only use this as a means to connect to a headset or handsfree kit and not to swap files, Bluetooth is the way I swap files and pictures etc with most of my friends and I'm not sure if this can be changed in a software update.
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