Mr Jobs came to this green and pleasant place to tell us today that he’d be anointing us with his highly desirable iPhone profit generator on November 9th. The UK price will be £269 (inc VAT) for the 8GB model, but you’ll need to take out an O2 contract for 18 months, at a minimum of £35 a month. So that’s a total outlay of £999 for the joy of having a phone that doesn’t even have 3G.

Myself I’ll be sticking with my ancient Nokia and a pay-as-you-go spend of £30 a year, approximately.

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