I’ve been lusting after a SmartPhone for a while now, and until the Android phones get some serious real-world use and reviews, the best money is still on the iPhone, even if it means selling your soul to the devil. I was really looking forward to seeing what Orange would do, price-wise, and if that would start a small price war.<\/p>\n
Orange, you’re a bunch of stupid, stupid, stupid wankers. <\/p>\n
The Guardian ran an article about the tariff comparisons and, in a nutshell, there is less than a quid’s difference between the two. What’s worse is that Orange, in their usual shoot-yourself-in-the-foot mentality, have decided to put a 750MB data download cap on the contracts. They have later mentioned on the Beeb that they’re “re-thinking” this policy after it caused a small bit of uproar in their potential user base… Idiots.<\/p>\n
What’s the deal killer for me though, is that Orange’s terms and conditions for its mobile internet ban applications like Spotify, Facebook and YouTube. <\/p>\n
In the company’s T&Cs, it says: “Not to be used for other activities (eg using your handset as a modem, non-Orange internet based streaming services, voice or video over the internet, instant messaging, peer to peer file sharing, non-Orange internet based video). Should such use be detected notice may be given and Network protection controls applied to all services which Orange does not believe constitutes mobile browsing”. <\/p>\n
Orange has, however, commented to the BBC – saying: “We do recognise that iPhone customers will use popular streaming services such as YouTube, Spotify etc. As a result we do not intend to apply network protection controls to anyone, as long as they are within their usage allowance. The T&Cs are in place to reserve the right to restrict access should they continue to exceed our Fair Usage policy, and our other Mobile data users suffer a reduced data experience as a result”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n
So yeah. That’s my main reason to buy an iPhone gone out the window. And having to rely on the good graces of Orange not to do something terminally stupid? Not going to happen.<\/p>\n
*Sigh*<\/p>\n
I’ll keep my much-battered LG for now and hope Vodafone have more than two braincells they can spare and\/or that Android really takes off. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’ve been lusting after a SmartPhone for a while now, and until the Android phones get some serious real-world use and reviews, the best money is still on the iPhone, even if it means selling your soul to the devil. I was really looking forward to seeing what Orange would do, price-wise, and if that…<\/p>\n