iPhone abroad: usability nightmare
Last month almost the entire company decamped to Austin for the South by Southwest (SXSW) interactive festival. My experience with my iPhone there was frustrating, to say the least.
My carrier, O2, prices a 3G data connection when abroad so rapaciously (at £6 per megabyte), that there’s no realistic option of having a network connection when abroad, unless you can find a functioning wifi network. Open wifi networks appear to more common in Austin than they are in London, especially in hip cafés and bars (not that I ever visit such places in London), but at times when you are genuinely out and about, you’re stuck with no data at all, and the iPhone in effect becomes an iPod Touch.
