[maemo-users] Nokia device usage

[From: Julius Szelagiewicz]

On Fri, 6 Mar 2009, Matt Emson wrote:
> On 6 Mar 2009, at 18:16, Julius Szelagiewicz <julius at turtle.com> wrote:
>
> > Ognen,
> >    I'm sorry that you took offence at my joke. This really was a
> > joke, but obviously poorly worded.
> >
> >    I find it mildly amusing that people complain about N810
> > functionality and the need to add application at the same breath
> > praising
> > Iphones and saying how they were able to download applications to make
> > their very, very expensive device functional. The real price of an
> > Iphone
> > is the monthly rental charge disguised in the phone bill.
>
>
> Well no. I pay the same for my monthly bill as people I know do for
> their regular phone tarrif. I get unlimited data too. As in, I use
> cellular data free every single day. I easily use £35 worth of data,
> SMS and calls every month, but I get no additional charges.
>
> The iPhone just *works*. Politics aside, the basic out of box
> functionality runs rings round my N800. For what *I* use it for. Ymmv,
> obviously.

Oops, my bad. You don't live in the USA, so you get to pay through the
nose for your Iphone right up front. Here you get to pay as you go along
and get rather poor service to boot.
julius