Comments on: iPhone – Vodafone Australia leaves it too late http://techdebug.com/blog/2008/07/09/iphone-vodafone-australia-leaves-it-too-late/ My tech thoughts put out on the blogosphere Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:13:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Tech Debug http://techdebug.com/blog/2008/07/09/iphone-vodafone-australia-leaves-it-too-late/comment-page-1/#comment-1805 Tech Debug Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:58:11 +0000 http://techdebug.com/blog/2008/07/09/iphone-vodafone-australia-leaves-it-too-late/#comment-1805 <strong>iPhone choices...</strong> As I posted late last night - Vodafone had not announced their pricing. They did - then retracted it. This is a major factor for an IT and tech geek who currently uses Vodafone. I’m now seriously thinking of taking my business to Telstra (I use t... iPhone choices…

As I posted late last night – Vodafone had not announced their pricing. They did – then retracted it. This is a major factor for an IT and tech geek who currently uses Vodafone. I’m now seriously thinking of taking my business to Telstra (I use t…

]]> By: lantrix http://techdebug.com/blog/2008/07/09/iphone-vodafone-australia-leaves-it-too-late/comment-page-1/#comment-1294 lantrix Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:04:01 +0000 http://techdebug.com/blog/2008/07/09/iphone-vodafone-australia-leaves-it-too-late/#comment-1294 Man they have it all wrong.. Safari on the iPhone is the ultimate mobile web browser that is ... um... not for the mobile web! You are not wrong though. A colleague of mine rang them too, and they said they would be getting Training on Friday - AFTER THE LAUNCH. Way to sell phones Telstra. I got the same in their T-Life store (see <a href="http://techdebug.com/blog/2008/07/09/iphone-choices/#comment-1293" rel="nofollow">newer post</a>) and all the rep went on about was 3.5Generation phone networks; even after I did just what you did and said "Aaaah the iPhone is not a 3.5G/NextG specific phone. It's a 3G device" They just dont know.. "Come back Friday" he says.... So despite this post thinking about Telstra, now I see that they will probably only include 5 stinkin' Mega Bytes, I'm seriously thinking of not getting an iPhone for the foreseeable future. I'll replace my broken Nokia with another one, and get a data card (3 or 5GB plan) for my Powerbook :-) Thanks for commenting Ben. Man they have it all wrong.. Safari on the iPhone is the ultimate mobile web browser that is … um… not for the mobile web!
You are not wrong though. A colleague of mine rang them too, and they said they would be getting Training on Friday – AFTER THE LAUNCH. Way to sell phones Telstra.

I got the same in their T-Life store (see newer post) and all the rep went on about was 3.5Generation phone networks; even after I did just what you did and said “Aaaah the iPhone is not a 3.5G/NextG specific phone. It’s a 3G device” They just dont know.. “Come back Friday” he says….

So despite this post thinking about Telstra, now I see that they will probably only include 5 stinkin’ Mega Bytes, I’m seriously thinking of not getting an iPhone for the foreseeable future. I’ll replace my broken Nokia with another one, and get a data card (3 or 5GB plan) for my Powerbook :-)

Thanks for commenting Ben.

]]> By: Ben Jackson http://techdebug.com/blog/2008/07/09/iphone-vodafone-australia-leaves-it-too-late/comment-page-1/#comment-1291 Ben Jackson Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:51:13 +0000 http://techdebug.com/blog/2008/07/09/iphone-vodafone-australia-leaves-it-too-late/#comment-1291 Get this though - I rang Telstra to get info, some bozo got on saying he hadn't had the 'training' yet, asked around, (when I asked about data rates with Telstra), came back and said "the iPhone isn't really suited to email and web browsing, you're better to go with an imate or htc [insert some crap phone here]"...!!!! I paused, gobsmacked, and said, "Um, I really don't think you or anyone you've asked knows what they're talking about". He hung up on me straight away. Beep beep beep...! WOW! Get this though – I rang Telstra to get info, some bozo got on saying he hadn’t had the ‘training’ yet, asked around, (when I asked about data rates with Telstra), came back and said “the iPhone isn’t really suited to email and web browsing, you’re better to go with an imate or htc [insert some crap phone here]“…!!!!

I paused, gobsmacked, and said, “Um, I really don’t think you or anyone you’ve asked knows what they’re talking about”.

He hung up on me straight away. Beep beep beep…!

WOW!

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