Two hundred and seventy four pounds? Good grief, that’s just obscene!

What am I talking about? I’m talking about how much money Orange want to provide me with a shiny new iPhone 3GS – that’s what. Now I shall not deny it – I am indeed a bit of an Apple fan-boy and therefore I went weak at the knees when Orange started to offer the new iPhone. But prices like these are just silly. £274 is simply not a reasonable amount of money to pay for a new mobile phone, even if it is the coolest gadget on the face of the planet to be manufactured in living memory.

What particularly wounds me is that I’m told that I spend quite a lot on mobile phones. Usually when I walk into the shop to upgrade, the sales staff suck air through their teeth when I point out my latest choice of technological pornography and they utter the words “oooh, that’ll be very expensive”. Then they tap a few keys on their computer, view my account details, their eyes widen, and they say “oh, I see you spend quite a lot with us Sir, so your upgrade will be free today”. “Thank you” I think to myself, “that’s much better”.

So how on earth can Orange expect me to pay over two hundred pounds this time around? Well I wont, so there. Sorry Orange, you’ll have to do better. I have a price in mind, and it certainly doesn’t contain three digits. Well, not unless you include the pence anyway.

iPhone? iThink not.