“Matthew Key was in California last week, briefing Steve Jobs on the iPhone’s impact in the UK,” Andrew Parker reports for The Financial Times. “The incoming chief executive of O2 Europe, the exclusive mobile network for the iPhone in the UK, gave an upbeat report to Apple’s chief executive.”
“Mr Key says 200,000 iPhones should have be sold in Britain by early January – in line with his expectations since its November 9 launch, although some analysts claim his target is conservative. Gartner, the research firm, says sales of up to 400,000 should be possible,” Parker reports.
“A 3G version of the iPhone will be launched by Apple next year; Mr Key is confident that O 2 will also have an exclusive deal for the mark two device,” Parker reports. “O2 has signed a multi-year deal with Apple for the iPhone, and Mr Key insists Vodafone, for example, could not muscle in and take the 3G iPhone in the UK.”
“Capitalising on the iPhone will be one of Mr Key’s priorities when he succeeds Peter Erskine as chief executive of O 2 Europe at the end of January,” Parker reports.
“About 60 per cent of iPhone customers are sending or receiving more than 25 megabytes of data per month, which is the equivalent of sending 7,500 e-mails. By comparison, only 1.8 per cent of O2 ‘s other mobile customers on monthly contracts are consuming more than 25MB per month,” Parker reports. “The O2 research suggests that, after years of dashed hopes for the operators, customers are on the verge of surfing the web on their mobiles in significant numbers.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Mike in Helsinki” for the heads up.]
iPhone customers use data because the device wasn’t designed by blind, tasteless engineering monkeys and bland bean counters who are concerned infinitely more about profit than usability. For one example: the ease with which iPhone takes a photo and emails it routinely astounds non-iPhone users. Leaves ’em speechless. Beyond being sad, that’s also a telling indictment of the state of non-Apple mobile device makers’ user interfaces (or lack thereof).
I ain’t in the UK, but I use my iPhone often to access the internet. When my wife and I go shopping, I’m perfectly content to remain in the car and surf on my iPhone, whereas during pre-iPhone days, I used to just have to sit there and be bored. Steve Jobs wasn’t blowing smoke when he introduced the iPhone as a “revolutionary device.”
Not to be confused with Cerium diOxide, or CeO2
@Arnold Ziffel
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“pre-iPhone” that’s cool.. the calendar will change to instead of BC-AC to Bi and Ai
” . . . I’m perfectly content to remain in the car and surf on my iPhone . . .”
That would explain the jump in hits for spankmypig.com.
“spankmypig.com.”
you mean like Gam Gam does?
MDN’s comment about emailing a picture is true. That is what I tell all non-Mac, non-iPhone users to do when they go play with an iPhone for the first time. Current Mac users expect something that cool and visually stunning from Apple, but others simply gape at it.
hmmmm, I presume you meant BC-AD ?
Or BCE-CE.
I heard that many in San Fran use the AC-DC dates for calendars, and are, naturally, hung on the closet door….
@ Cubert
That’s what I say whenever anyone complains about the camera on the iPhone. I tell them to take a picture with their phone, which they do, and proudly show it to me. Then I tell them to send it to me in an email. They hear the ‘whoosh’ of my sent mail before they can even fail to figure out how to do it.
@ChrissyOne
Send email w/phone. Wow, Just Wow.
“the ease with which iPhone takes a photo and emails it routinely astounds non-iPhone users. Leaves ’em speechless.”
I am equally astounded by my iPhone’s inability to send photos by text message, or to send any text message to a group instead of an individual.
Yesterday, Christmas, instead of writing a “Merry Christmas!” message and sending it to all my friends as a single broadcast, I didn’t send yule tidings at all. Technology is to blame. Bah humbug!
Use of Usage? Now THERE’s an odd sentence structure.
I wonder how much of the higher data usage stats are due to iPhones using a wifi connection, and how much is over the cellular network? Or if the providers even have a way of gauging wifi traffic.
I’m sure a lot of the increased data usage is due to not having to pay a fee for every message sent or for every bit downloaded. I recall when many of the US providers tried that route to extract more money from their customers, and were then surprised when data usage didn’t jump as high as they expected.
I’m looking forward to see what 3rd party developers offer for the iPhone next year. No IM client is a bummer for now- who wants to have a limit on the number of messages that they can send before they start paying a per-message fee? SMS is one of those techs that I think will go the way of the dodo once more phones have IM clients on them. I’d really like to see some one develop something like Docs To Go for the iPhone- that would make it a viable option for me.
yep even i have an iphone
iPhone users are surfing more NOT because of the web experience but because of the UNLIMITED DATA PLAN!
I never surfed the net on my old Sony Ericsson because it cost me a fortune to do so.
I surf the net all the time on my iPhone BECAUSE ITS FREE.
Melikes the idea of pre-iPhone days being called Bi and post-iPhone being known as Ai. But I’m wondering how we deal with the period between the announcement of iPhone at MWSF ’07 and its actual release in June. Any ideas from my fellow MDN readers?
Perhaps we ought to push for designation of June 29th as “iPhone Day.”
“Perhaps we ought to push for designation of June 29th as “iPhone Day.”
I’m not sure, but I do know that Microsoft revolves its calendar around the day “Office” was released as BO and OD……
Things I did on my first day of iPhone: Checked AAPL, new all time high $198.80. Then, setup Gmail account, zoomed in on satellite photo of Olympia Washington house where I was staying, synced all my contacts and calendars and 1Passwd data, watched Ratatouille, took photo of kids and pugs, mailed same to grandma, surfed web in Safeway, checked the weather in every city where I have a sib or parent, shopped for after Xmas sales. Called my mom.
Please confess that you have
not yet held a iPhone in your hand.
Nor tried out it’s functions.
140 students at the University of Waterloo are using iPhones here in Canada… all with different computer backgrounds… but when it come to telephone communication they claim there is NOTHING like this.
I suggest to give it a test run.
I promise you will be impressed.
Dougless
Don’t look now, but AAPL just blew the lid off of 200.
Merry Christmas, all.
@ ChrissyOne
I can’t help myself… I keep looking, and I keep smiling!
@Arnold “Any ideas from my fellow MDN readers? “
iPhone Advent
Jim – TIV:
epiPhony?
@ Ampar
HOLD IT RIGHT THERE BUDDY – puns have already infected one thread today.
Don’t make me punish you.