O2 obviously noticed Steve’s post on iPhone pricing because they’ve introduced new tariffs for new and existing users (woohoo!). Current and potential iPhone users are now being offered:

£35 - 600 mins, 500 texts
£45 - 1200 mins, 500 texts
£75 - 3000 mins, 500 texts

O2 iPhone tariffs page

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Nearly two weeks after the Macworld keynote which officially unveiled the 1.1.3 upgrade, O2 and the Carphone Warehouse’s stores are still selling iPhones with the older 1.1.2 firmware.
Of the four stores that I’ve tried in Swindon and Reading, all were selling iPhones that had not been upgraded. Of those, only one was planning to […]

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It’s been interesting watching the reported sales figures for the Apple iPhone trickle out from the various networks across Europe. In each case, they’ve been healthy without really going as stratospheric as the device itself would seem to warrant. It seems to me that there are some serious price issues at work here that have […]

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It’s a bit late in the day (a compressed blogosphere day, that is) but here’s my wrap up of the rest of 1.1.3’s enhancements. I’m not going to detail all the changes. As I said this isn’t going to be a copy and paste blog, and the changes are well detailed elsewhere. I want […]

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I’m going to outline my thoughts on the rest of the enhancements to the 1.1.3 release of the firmware in my next post, but for now I’d like to skip to the feature I was most excited about since the news was leaked - upgraded Google Maps with a pseudo-GPS function.
A New Look
The Maps interface […]

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Let’s get this straight, I respect Apple’s core software team tremendously. OS X and Leopard have some astonishingly smooth features, immaculately programmed. This post isn’t aimed at the guys behind the OS.
But around the core team, there are some idiots. I’ve expressed my frustration with some of the decisions made by the team behind Apple’s […]

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Here we go then - buy a domain, whack up a Wordpress install and Hey Presto, it’s a successful blog!
Well, not quite. Original content, good writing, and an enthusiasm for the subject make for a good read, and that’s what I’m aiming to provide.
This site is launching off the back of an article that I wrote for All […]

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