I received my iPhone 3G the morning of the launch - delivered to my office at 8:05am. I had no problems with the activation - just simply inserted my existing SIM card having already spoken to O2, and had the iPhone bolt on added to my account.

The phone works great - cant put it down.!

Steve, Sheffield,

Actually there is no way a web page on the iPhone can look good. The display resolution is 480-by-320-pixels which is 30% less than an old color TV! The Nokia N800 at least has 800x480 resolution. It just goes to show that with enough hype you can sell anything, you just need a gullible audience who

Dave, Fairfax, Usa

B Redfern, Zdole, Slovenia - Yes, you can find a phone like that. Just go back in time (about 1990) and you will find a cell phone/mobile which just make calls or, if you prefer, just use your landline telephone lol. :-)

Fabianne, Dartford, UK

Having just spoken with Apple's UK support it appears that (a) you need iTunes v7.7 to activate your iPhone 3G (which I along with thousands others have queued for hours to buy); and (b) the download area on Apple.com is currently unavailable and will be unavailable until Lunchtime tomorrow. AWFUL

Dermot Smurfit, London, England

Strange that there's an assumption that everyone uses Outlook for e-mail.

Wesley Williams, Milton Keynes, UK

Come on people get a life it's a phone who cares! We had hundreds queing all night long here for their chance to be the first to have the new phones................really big yawn!! Seems the nerds have taken over the world.

Phil, Melbourne, Australia

B Redfern - there are phones a-plenty which will do very little but make phone calls, if that is really what you want them to do. You would know this with the bare minimum of research. Why are you reading this article? Do I detect a bit of "I can't afford an iphone" bitterness?

B L A L GRIFFITHS, London,

Oh the irony.

Suddenly everybody's a fan of the iPhone! Cheaper than the last? No it isn't. I bought my iPhone 1 for £269 and unlocked it for free. No contract required. Much better than the last iPhone? No it isn't. Exactly the same but for GPS and 3G. The old iPhone can even run the 3G's software

Andrew Reid, Manchester, England

"when the phone was roaming in France, it found no 3G network whatsoever"

Did they have data roaming turned on? As with the 1st gen iPhone, if you have data roaming turned off the edge symbol will not appear, just the carrier name.

Andy, Manchester, United Kingdom

Re: Arthur Norton, Ipswich, England

Up front isn't US slang, it simply means that you will have to pay for the phone in the first instance rather than getting a 'free' phone where the cost is paid for over the year in your monthly phone charges

Jon, Bristol, UK

Up front isn't US slang Arthur. Get out of East Anglia and into the real world

G, Manchester,

I am waiting for them to invent a phone - a cheap device allowing you to just dial a number and talk to someone. No memory, no pictures, no camera, no computer, no internet, no stupid ring tones, nothing. But apparently that's too complicated a job it would seem.

B Redfern, Zdole, Slovenia

"Getting your hands on a new iPhone will involve shelling out up front". Please explain what "up front" means - presumably, it is US slang; if so, please use English.

Arthur Norton, Ipswich, England

This all sounds great, if only I could get my hands on one.

Sam Tilston, london, UK