Entries from July 2008

Review: Carphone Warehouse Silicon Case for iPhone 3G

July 31st, 2008 · 2 Comments

Having finally managed to track down a 16Gb model, I was looking for a case for my new iPhone. I wanted something similar to my original iPhone case, which was made by XtremeMac. This case has fared fairly well in my hands, but had been destroyed by those of a toddler. Anyway, it wouldn’t work [...]

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Replacement cost of a lost iPhone

July 30th, 2008 · No Comments

When I upgraded to my new iPhone last week I was warned by the O2 sales rep about not taking out any insurance. “If you lose your phone, that’s it. You can’t buy a new one, at least not until the PAYG version is released at Christmas”. It turns out of course, you can.
CPW’s iPhone [...]

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No online ordering with O2 anytime soon

July 29th, 2008 · No Comments

O2 have updated their iPhone availability page, and it now states:
2.3. We are expecting further stock this week.
2.4. For the forseeable future the only place to purchase iPhone 3G will be in an O2 Retail, Carphone Warehouse or Apple store if you are new to iPhone. Existing iPhone customers looking to take advantage of the [...]

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Only on O2 - but for how long?

July 29th, 2008 · No Comments

Over the weekend, El Reg alerted me to a blog post at Omio which reckons Orange will be the next iPhone provider in the UK. The original iPhone was only launched in four countries - the US (AT&T), UK (O2), France (Orange) and Germany (T-Mobile) - and none of those carriers have so far [...]

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O2 promises more iPhones on Friday

July 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment

But how many will they get?
If - like me - you’ve been unable to get your hands on a 3G iPhone yet, then the O2 iPhone availability page has been refreshed a fair bit lately. Recently, O2 have updated the page to state that “We are expecting considerably more stock from Friday 25th July onwards.” [...]

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Bungie + iPhones = ?

July 22nd, 2008 · 4 Comments

This little tidbit came to me along the grapevine. I have it on very good authority that Bungie is handing out free iPhones to all its employees. Why would the company behind Halo be giving them away to their staff?
I’ll bet there are all sorts of excellent freebies to be had working for Bungie. However, [...]

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iPhone OS 2.0 Cheers and Jeers

July 17th, 2008 · No Comments

The new firmware is a very welcome upgrade for existing iPhone owners, but what have I found good and bad so far?

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iPhone 3G vs Touch Diamond - The Smartphones Show reckons it’s not even close…

July 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Over in Smartphones Show 63, embedded below, I look at all the reasons why the theoretically outgunned Apple iPhone 3G manages to completely trounce the also-new HTC Touch Diamond. It’s not all about the interface, you know, but when one of said interfaces is a horrible kludge then picking a winning device really isn’t that [...]

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Carnival of the Mobilists 132 is out

July 16th, 2008 · No Comments

I’m a bit late on this one, but there are some great reads as ever. One article of interest to iPhoneistas should be Igor Faletski’s post about the 3G lifestyle. He writes about how his new iPhone is essentially a digital multimedia portal, and that in hours of usage, he hadn’t made a single telephone [...]

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Mellow yellow? iPhone 3G screen issue considered

July 16th, 2008 · No Comments

Whilst some iPhone 3G owners have barely noticed the warmer hues of the new screen, others it would seem are becoming quite upset. In this video I take a quick look at the difference in colour temperature between both devices. What do you think? Is this something that Apple should ‘fix‘, or do you see this as [...]

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