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By Mark Tennent in Reader

Posted in Uncategorized on June 10, 2009 at 6:06 pm

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The new iPhone is all I want. Perhaps a little smaller would make it better for my needs but I want a pocket computer/camera/organiser/phone. What I don’t want is the expensive contract.

I use a mobile phone as often as I want, talk for as long as I like and telephone anywhere I fancy. Friends and contacts in France, Canada, the USA, Australia…  they are all in my phonebook. Sometimes I use the Internet on my 3G phone and never worry about download costs, especially if it’s to get a new application, or just to check Google.

My total annual mobile phone bill is around fifty pounds, factor in the cost of the phone and extra RAM to reach double at one hundred pounds. That’s the equivalent of about eight pounds a month. Why would I spend over four times as much for a monthly contract, as well as paying hundreds for a handset?

Apple and O2 are missing a trick here. Whenever surveys come out I usually find myself somewhere between Mr Average and the window seat on the Clapham Omnibus. I would be happy to pay for the handset and my actual use of airtime. Even their highly expensive Pay as You Go solutions have airtime which expires each month.

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Meanwhile, Linotype FontExplorer Pro has been updated and fixes the bug we found in the last version. It is now our chosen font handler over and above Suitcase Fusion 2 which really ought to have plug-ins for earlier versions of QuarkXPress and Adobe Creative Studio.

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