OK, ok, so I promised Matt that my next post here would be more positive. But I’ll have to just get this one in under the wire first. I’ve visited several O2 and Carphone Warehouse retail shops in the UK in the last week - and ALL of them have the original iPhone firmware installed, […]

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I have another guest slot on Steve Litchfield’s Smartphones Show this week, showing off some tips to help iPhone users get a bit more out of their device, including an easy way for UK users to view MMS. They provoked some mirth from All About Symbian commenters, so go easy on a newbie in front […]

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It’s now been more than a year since the Apple iPhone was launched onto the world stage, to mass acclaim, seven months since it was available to buy in the USA and three months since it’s been out in the UK. Having played with the iPhone first in August last year, I could see the […]

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Every now and then something I say turns out to be correct. At the start of the month I wondered if the BBC would be bringing their programming to the iPhone, and now they are! In announcements over the last couple of days, the BBC has said in a press release that it is bringing […]

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Although I’m running an iPhone as decreed by Jobs - locked to O2, non-jailbroken - I’ve also been trying, on and off, to get my mate’s US-bought iPhone jailbroken and unlocked for him for about 2 months now.
I took a couple of goes to jailbreak his phone, which was bought with 1.1.2 firmware just […]

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It’s both customary and very cool for me to be able to let you know that All About iPhone is featured in this week’s Carnival of the Mobilists. You can find the latest Carnival hosted at Mobile Messaging 2.0.
My favourite post of the week? Ajit Joakar of Open Gardens has some thoughts about building a […]

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The rumours started on Tuesday, and within a couple of hours the US Apple Store had gone down - a sure sign of new products. When it came back up the 16GB iPhone had been unveiled, and as with all things Apple, it has been well reported all over the web.
But what’s been missed here? […]

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In the UK at least. Two examples from the last day or so. Firstly my long-time-industry-compatriot Marek Pawlowski was out shopping with his girlfriend, who was after a new phone  - read through his excellent post until you get to the iPhone part, by the way - in the O2 shop there weren’t any iPhones […]

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There have some been some tantalising tidbits floating around the web for a while, raising the possibility that the BBC’s iPlayer could be extended to more platforms, possibly including the iPhone.
At the moment, the iPlayer catch-up tv service is available in two flavours:

download - only for Windows XP and Vista using Internet Explorer
streaming – for […]

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