I just came home from a wetherspoon pub and they have The Cloud WiFi and when i tried to get on it (with my phone) it took me to its home page. I clicked the link for O2 customers and it took me to an O2 page where i had to put my mobile number in.

What is this all about?

You have to register with The Cloud to use it free as an O2 customer.

O2 iPhone contracts give you unlimited access to The Cloud & BT Openzone WiFi access points. You have to type in your number to register on the access point.

If it doesn't work a quick call to O2 should sort it out. Mine stopped working a couple of days ago and needed O2 to re- register my number for the access

So what if you got a standard O2 Pay & Go (mine happens to be on Text & Web) and a phone with WiFi (i don't have an iPhone) does it make any difference or can you still use it?

Any wi-fi phone does the job (mine is a 5800).

You should only need to put your number in the first time you try to use the wifi. This is assuming you have the wifi bolt on as well (all iPhone contracts will but if you are on PAYG or a non iPhone tariff, you may not)

Saying that wetherspoons wifi points are free anyway if you don't have the wifi bolt on though you will need to register with the cloud and then log in each time you want to use it

It remembers The Cloud login details. Or is the iPhone not capable of that?

It's nothing to do with the iPhone, the server asks you to log in first time. You do this with your phone number and then it notes your IMEI and MAC address. It shouldn't ask you to log in again on subsequent visits unless you replace your phone. To reset it just text the word WIFI to 2121 in the case of O2.

So you didn't mean this then?

Jesus how hard is it for people to read posts rather than just pick out one or two words they like and twist

The logging in each time thing was IF you don't have the free wifi bolt on provided by most networks on iPhone contracts and some PAYG tariffs and would affect ALL wifi phone's and not just the iPhone (which the OP doesn't even have). Wetherspoons offer free wifi anyway through their cloud hotspots. But you'll need to create a cloud login and log into it through the landing page when you connect to the cloud hotspot. Its the same if you use a laptop, iPhone or an internet connected monkey! Of course the browsers in each of them (bar the monkey) can be set to remember login details but you will have to still click on login.

If you have the free wifi bolt on as psionic said you will need to login with your mobile phone number the first time you try and use it but after that you are good to go each and every time you connect.

God the Apple bashers are getting desperate today, if its not the antenna issue that affects hardly anyone in normal use, its an article that among other places has appeared in the daily mail (so there's scaremongering for you) and if that fails they'll resort to twisting words to suggest an iPhone can't automatically log into a cloud hotspot due to a quirk of the cloud that affects laptops or any other device using the free wifi service offered by wetherspoons pubs!

If it wasn't so hilarious as to what they are going to come out with next it would actually be rather sad

I don't need to.

Well your wetherspoons cloud hotspot must behave differently to the one here then

Rather my phone behaves differently to yours.

As well as different to PC's, laptops and other wifi enabled devices. You must feel very special