Multi-touch. Most people’s first introduction to this futuristic user interface was the 2002 Spielburg movie, Minority Report. Manipulating a computer generated 3D environment with ease is where multi-touch comes into its own. For many, seeing Tom Cruise’s character flip and spin those images around was a kind of eureka moment, a realisation of how things [...]

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“O2 Open” is O2’s offer for the employees of selected corporate accounts. In a nutshell, if you or a friend work for an eligible company, then you can get 30% off any retail monthly tariff or £20 off any pay and go mobile that costs more than £80. Not bad.
It’s for in-store tariffs only (no [...]

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I’m very happy to introduce a new contributor today - James Burland, of Nokia Creative and The Creative Life Blog.
James has put together a high quality video of the 3G iPhone, taking a close look at the external detail of the device.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eid3c1oVHio

It’s delicious torture for those of us who weren’t able to get their preferred [...]

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This was the scene outside Reading’s O2 store at 6.30 this morning.
See that man at the front of the queue? That’s Darren. Darren arrived at 2.30 this morning. That my friends, is dedicated geekery. The next in line did not get there until 5.15.
Almost everyone in line wanted the 16Gb version, and many are sure [...]

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Browsing through the confusion and anger on the O2 Customer Forums, I came across this post by chris22. He’s copied an email he received from O2 Customer Services detailing how to upgrade:

To upgrade to your new iPhone 3G, you’ll need to do the lite activation with your new iPhone 3G.
When you’ve received your iPhone, [...]

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After yesterday’s debacle, I emailed O2’s CEO Matthew Key. There was no ranting from me, just a query to see if I will be able to buy a new iPhone on Friday. The emails are detailed in full after the “Read More” link, but here’s my summary of their response:

New orders available from Apple, O2 [...]

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Bravo O2, bravo. Not content with Carphone Warehouse messing up the launch of the original iPhone, Apple’s carrier partner in the UK went one better yesterday. Despite knowing something the level of demand (having sent out thousands of text messages to people who had registered interest), both the ordering system and O2’s PR went titsup.
It’s [...]

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If you currently have an iPhone with O2 and want a 16GB 3G iPhone on Friday, you’ll have been frustrated to find out that O2 are already out of stock for online orders.
Fear not, I thought, I’ll just pop along to my nearest O2 store and pick one up. I’ll phone them up in [...]

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I received a text from O2 this morning to say that existing customers can now order their 3G iPhone.
iPhone 3G is here
The iPhone you’ve been waiting to early upgrade to. Order from 8am today.
As an iPhone fan, we are offering you a special, early upgrade to iPhone 3G.
This offer is only available at o2.co.uk/iPhone until [...]

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Nokia’s over-the-air synchronisation tool - Nokia Backup - has started to get some attention. Here’s a quick comparison to Apple’s announced OTA sync, MobileMe.

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