Unlocking a 3G iPhone is hard. The best efforts of the iPhone Dev Team have not yet produced a software unlock, so if you really want an unlocked iPhone, then you have two options:
1) Buy a legally unlocked iPhone from Australia - with a premium of at least £200; or;
2) Use an unlocking SIM card.
The [...]

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Of course, you may well be happy to follow your nose in Apple’s iPhone on-device AppStore. If you’re anything like me, it’s proving rather addictive. Am I the only one who taps eagerly on the icon each day hoping for new updates, new apps, new ideas? The iPhone AppStore is certainly by far the most [...]

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BBC iPlayer goes from strength to strength. The iPhone has become the best way of accessing the quality content of the BBC. Recent changes included an iPhone formatted front end, availability of an entire series, and now streaming radio via wifi.
The radio shows are provided in MP3 format at 128kbps. I listened to Radio One’s [...]

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Today sees Google, HTC and T-Mobile unveiling the G1, the first Android phone, with (seemingly) all its data ‘in the cloud’. Essentially, your Contacts, Calendar, Documents, Emails and Photos all live in Google’s data cloud and sync in real time with local copies (if even appropriate) on the device, over the air. Think of it [...]

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Yes, yes, I know this information is on other pages around the internet, but if you’re anything like me then you keep forgetting which iPhone/iPod-Touch keystroke is which. So, without further ado:

Press and hold the ‘Home’ button for at least ten seconds to terminate the current foreground application. Use this when an application freezes while [...]

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Intomobile is reporting that DataViz is bringing Word, Excel and Powerpoint editing to the iPhone. This is great news, but at the same time, somewhat useless. As James from the site notes:
“If you’re out of the office, no problem. Edit up that proposal and send it back to the office or to your client… [...]

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Firmware 2.1 is out. Some observations so far:
(1) The phone is snapper, definitely, especially in Contacts searching.
(2) 3G reception seems the same, i.e. poor.
(3) The status icons for cellular connectivity have changed again. This previously happened with the 2.0 firmware. I now occasionally get an empty circle that tells me… nothing. See:

At the time of [...]

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Do you have any killer apps on your iPhone? I’m not referring to Vicinity, Wikipanion or Twitterific, all three of which I consider to be essential applications for any iPhone. No, I’m referring a handful of iPhone apps that quite literally kill your iPhone.
Here’s how it goes. You install your new app, it freezes causing [...]

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Depending on your point of view, there are quite a few things missing from the iPhone. One of these is direct disk access - the ability to use your iPhone as a standard mountable hard drive.
Classic and nano iPods has this ability (known as Disk Mode), but iPod Touches and iPhones do not.
There’s no [...]

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An article I’d been planning for a while involved comparing the third party application scenes of the Symbian, Windows Mobile, Palm OS and Apple iPhone worlds. While this will still happen in the fullness of time, the flavour of each ’scene’ is becoming very obvious and I was struck by one specific point from the [...]

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