I wouldn't buy one until they had a Pay-As-You-Go (you know my views on credit)... now they have; it's such a beautiful design but I have mixed feelings about it.

I always use Pay as you Go too, but I'm not much into technology so my mobile is a simple old green screen model. It does the job.

The advantage of the iPhone is picking up e-mails and going online...

If you like to do all that when travelling, then agree it's an advantage. I don't even have a laptop because when I go away I like to leave the net behind me and enjoy a low-tech period. People who need to contact me have my mobile number. I only switch the mobile on when I'm out and about. At home it's normally switched off. I recall our late friend John Peel had a similar attitude to technology.

Maybe I should go on Grumpy Old Men, although I not really old enough yet.

I think they are great, but heard mixed views on the battery life and syncing with my PC email. I am sticking with the crackberry for now, especially as i have met a 10 year old child with one so I can't take them seriously!

But others like the Blackberry aren't Pay As You Go and I hate those monthly bills.

JK2006 wrote:
The advantage of the iPhone is picking up e-mails and going online...

Yep, plus facebook, eBay, Safari and basically anything you want to have installed!

The last time I was in London I was staying in Bayswater and used Google Maps which is freely installed, to get me from Paddington to the hotel - easily and quickly!

Those of us who live in Bayswater (and have done for 42 years) don't need no maps, Steve!

JK2006 wrote:
Those of us who live in Bayswater (and have done for 42 years) don't need no maps, Steve!

To be fair living in London for ten years in the 1990s it was one area of the city that I didn't know and had never been to before! Bayswater had quite literally slipped past me!