A warm welcome all, to this week’s Carnival. Make a mug of tea, get your comfy slippers on, and settle in, because we have some treats for you.

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Schmap are releasing a public beta of a new service today to enable your website for the iPhone. Add Schmap’s javascript snippet to your website, and it will additionally display contact and address information formatted in a very iPhone-friendly way. Here’s how it looks on their featured site, Pure Food And Wine.
Touching any of the [...]

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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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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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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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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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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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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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“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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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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