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Buy the iPhone from Apple and unlock it instead and get the best of both worlds. If you buy from Apple you do not signup for any contract until you activate the handset from home using iTunes, exactly the same way that people are unlocking them in the US.
Unlimited data on all tariffs £35, £45 & £55
Visual voicemail available as is EDGE. No 3G.
o2 have also created a agreement for 7500 WiFi hotspots around the UK via Cloud. These are free.
Oh and as feared it is a 18 month contract :(
If they update the iPhone with a larger onscreen keyboard then it wouldn't be so bad for texting, the narrow keys are terrible. Having said that, if you hold it horizontally for texting does it display the landscape keyboard in the same way as the net browser does? I didn't check that when I had...
If you have a memory card in the phone then goto the application for it (Tools/Memory/Options) and you can backup the phone there.
You don't need to worry about over the air, update it using the supplied cable.