http://blog.o2.co.uk/home/2010/06/offering-fair-and-...

Whilst Ronan Dunne is offering the chance to reply on the blog I thought it would be a good opportunity to bring up the question of image optimisation. If the new pricing structure is fairer for both sides, shouldn't it be possible to choose how we use our data allowance? My post was removed in seconds. My account on O2 customer forums has also been disabled. I guess this is one question O2 doesn't want to answer.

In reply to a post by nonymouse:

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...

O2 on PAYG for me, I don't want (or need) a contract.

I'll put my [like new] iPhone 3GS 32GB up for sale in the next few days. and just get any credit (and number) switched over to the new [Micro]-SIM.

O2 switched my credit and number over to the 3GS SIM last year, and will maybe do the same this year, if there's anything on it.

Device type doesn't affect bitrate of purchases.

There's an option in iTunes to re-encode media to 128Kb/s for iPhone.

If you are talking about iTunes Plus, forget it - I won't be paying again for music that I've already paid for.

Thanks though.

The supplement gets a much better bitrate in return.

Your decision to buy music encoded at a low bitrate has nothing to do with the device.

I'm on Simplicity, £20 a month with the unlimited data bolt on (probably 500MB a month now).

If I have to go up to £35 a month for £18 months, then if the PAYG phone is more than £470 I'm better off on a contract.

Of course PAYG is not SIM free, so it would have to stay on O2,

I like how Apple lag behind a little bit, it means they want to get things right and not pump out 5 bad handsets.

Other companies release too many phones. HTC must release about 5 a year, they don't get time to optimise the OS get the best out of the hardware.

In reply to a post by Zadeks:

Device type doesn't affect bitrate of purchases.

There's an option in iTunes to re-encode media to 128Kb/s for iPhone.

Excuse my ignorance , but may I ask how I set the re-emcoded media for the iPhones bit-rate to 128kbps?

It's a checkbox in iTunes when the phone is plugged in (summary page when the device is selected).