i Phone & the red comma

**V8Ian** · 9th June 2009, 10:27 PM

Originally Posted by Captain_Rightfoot

I'm sorry but that's your own choice.

I contacted the Telecommunications Ombudsman and got out of my contract with Optus. The moment the phone was switched to Telstra it worked just like the ads - fast and everywhere. Brilliant.

I see here the poor saps on Optus think it's getting worse.. somehow..

I have also been onto the TIO, Voda offered to release me from the contract, or take two months free phone/www access, they believe the issues will be resolved by then. If not I can go. Can't be fairer than that.

**Captain_Rightfoot** · 10th June 2009, 05:52 AM

Originally Posted by V8Ian

I have also been onto the TIO, Voda offered to release me from the contract, or take two months free phone/www access, they believe the issues will be resolved by then. If not I can go. Can't be fairer than that.

Cool. Let us know how you go.

**V8Ian** · 10th June 2009, 07:43 AM

When you phone customer care, you get a call centre full of people speaking very-hard-to-understand English. The TIO gives you a number for someone in Australia, well Tasmania acutally

**Captain_Rightfoot** · 10th June 2009, 05:39 PM

Originally Posted by V8Ian

When you phone customer care, you get a call centre full of people speaking very-hard-to-understand English. The TIO gives you a number for someone in Australia, well Tasmania acutally

Yep, and they are well spoken and customer focused. They just want to see you happy, which is not what the Indians seem to want..

**willem** · 11th June 2009, 02:40 PM

Has anyone checked out the Palm Pre? Its supposed to be the bee's knees and like the iPhone, only better. The lady I spoke to at the Telstra shop said 'its beautiful!', but I haven't seen it myself. Apparently it has a slide out keyboard as well as the touch screen.

Willem

**awabbit6** · 11th June 2009, 03:16 PM

Originally Posted by willem

Has anyone checked out the Palm Pre? Its supposed to be the bee's knees and like the iPhone, only better. The lady I spoke to at the Telstra shop said 'its beautiful!', but I haven't seen it myself. Apparently it has a slide out keyboard as well as the touch screen.

There are a few videos on youtube of the Palm Pre. I've not been a fan of the Palm devices but this one looks very good!

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRnlzbuLRwM"]YouTube - Palm Pre[/ame]

**Captain_Rightfoot** · 11th June 2009, 06:33 PM

It's funny.. the head of Ipod development leaves Apple and joins palm... and a little while later we have the Pre.

**DiscoStew** · 11th June 2009, 09:34 PM

I really like my iPhone but as a telephone it is a backwards step. The bluetooth capability is too limited, the speaker phone is poor quality.

The email and calendar functions work well for me and it is quicker for me to look at the iPhone for appointments over 3G than get outlook to startup.

The "SatNav" features is a compromise and no substitute for the real thing but then again they don't claim it ti be. I find it useful but not as a 'real-time' assistance.

The SMS keyboard is better than the old way but I can see that if someone is competent the old way they would not like it.

Have been learning how to write iPhone apps but cannot get access to a mac with an Intel chip unless I go and spend some money

I wouldn't go back to a normal phone but I know my manager's are experiencing productivity drops and are on the verge of abandoning them.

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