New iPhone uses MicroSIM

Wow the new iPhone looks amazing! According to O2's website it uses the MicroSIM so I wonder if like the iPad this spells the end of the APN which bypasses image optimisation (compression)?

The microsim is just a cut down sim, with less plastic. You can make a microsim out of a sim with a sharp pair of side cutters. I can't see that this spells any fundamental shift in the way the service is provided.

What *is* this image compression bypass you keep banging on about, anyway?

Also wonder what bit-rate any new music purchased via iTunes will be.

For example:

iP3g - 128kbps (same as CD) - 16Gig memory = x amount of songs.

iP3gs - 256kbps (hi end hi-fi) - 32Gig memory = 1/2 x amount of songs.

Don't get me wrong, I'm getting one, just hoping that it doesn't go up.

Cut off all the card surround on existing SIM and use that.

The settings are changeable are they not?

I'm liking the new phone, really glad I stuck with my 3G instead of going for a 3GS in feb. I see there's plenty of people who aren't impressed, usual Android apologists. They can keep their Java software (probably why the power management sucks so much) and their ugly hardware.

With this update they seemed to have answered a lot of the criticisms used against the now old iphones.

Alan, O2 have 2 types of connection one which goes via proxy and another without. The proxy server does it's usual cache thing but also reduces the quality of images passing through it - they call it image optimisation. The result affects everything from web browsing, iTunes store, App store, anything server side but also anything passing through it such as uploading photos to a blog. Imagine saving a jpeg in Photoshop and setting the quality to 30% - that's how it will look to the end user with O2's proxy. The proxy is bypassed by changing the default APN and username. The iPad microSIM is not provisioned with this APN so it doesn't have the ability to avoid connecting via the proxy. I wonder if O2 will do the same on the iPhone - a beautful new display will not prevent O2 making images look low res at source.

Giles I think the new phone is incredible and cleverly retains a distinction from the iPad. Before this I had been considering switching my phone back to a cheap, regular non smartphone handset now that the iPad is here. This update changes everything.

a colleague has a business contract iPhone and says that she get's automatic upgrades so you wouldn't have to wait til you've saved your pennies to get a new one.

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I'll be getting the new iPhone 4.0 as soon as possible - it's a massive step in the right direction, and was going the right way in the first place.

But on what network and monthly contract or PAYG??

MacUser did a price comparison a few issues ago and PAYG seemed the cheapest.

Is probably what I'm going to do...

The only decision now is whether I am generous and go for matching his and hers!!?!

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