Tag: iphone 3g
iPhoneck creating backup battery for iPhone 3G
With all the Super Money Balling, YouTube watching, and GPS navigation…ing of the iPhone 3G, you’re going to run out of juice pretty quickly, no matter what Steve says about improved battery life.
To the rescue comes iPhoneck, a company working on a backup battery for the iPhone 3G…
Apple sells one million iPhone 3Gs in three days, 10m App Store downloads
Apple claims to have sold one million iPhone 3Gs over launch weekend, despite problems which plagued its debut in several countries. That’s 25 times faster than the original iPhone, which took 74 days to reach the million mark, albeit in just a few countries rather than the 22 privileged nation to the second incarnation.
Steve Jobs said, “iPhone 3G had a stunning opening weekend.” Well, he was hardly going to say it was crap, was he?…
Top 10 tech treats I'd rather buy than an Apple iPhone 3G
Rubbish! That's what I reckon. iWhat? Sure, it's sexy little number but at what cost, I ask you? What cost? If you go for the cheapest iPhone 3G package, you're going to spend £639 over 18 months and that, my friends, is a lot of wonga.
Do you really want to spend all of that on a phone? My mobile bill over the same period is nearly half that at £360, and, let's examine the evidence here, while I receive a healthy 250 texts per month and a muscular 750 minutes, you get poxy 125 SMSs with the iPhone 3G and a minuscule 75 minutes and most of those will be taken up with "Can you call me back?"
No, the iPhone 3G package is all kinds of wrong. You don't want to buy one of those. Instead here are 10 other much better items that'll bring you far greater happiness and value for your hard slaved £639…
Gallery: UK iPhone 3G unboxed and ready to go
I'm lazy, and couldn't be bothered to go and queue at an O2 store this morning, so I had my iPhone 3G delivered. Arrived just before 10am.
Here's a gallery of the unboxing. Yes, they're all over the web, but not many have got the British mains plug, or my Facebook profile page. Gotta be worth something, I'd have thought.
Special Feature: iPhone 3G Launch Day Fun Part Two: London and West
Check out part one of this special feature for iPhone launch day fun east of London.
Queues are building up outside Apple’s flagship store in Regent Street, London. Well, OK, there was one person in a bright yellow cocoon in this photo, but apparently they’re arriving in droves now, with as many as TEN people sighted.
You do know you have to pay for this iPhone, right?
Liveblog (via Macworld UK)
Special Feature: iPhone 3G Launch Day Fun Part One: East of London
I know, you're sick of the iPhone 3G launch already, aren't you? You knew it was going to happen, though, didn't you — most technology sites did exactly the same thing last year. Still, before near-normal service is resumed on…
iTunes 7.7 now available: iPhone App Store live
With New Zealand’s iPhone launch less than an hour away, it’s no surprise that Apple has finally released iTunes 7.7, a required piece of software for activating the iPhone and accessing the applications store.
It’s a 48MB download, but given that you need a broadband connection to use the iPhone anyway, it should only take you five minutes or so to install (unless Apple’s web servers start crawling, which is a possibility)…
O2 to iPhone 3G desirers: join the Friday scrum
O2 has published a guide to not getting the iPhone 3G this Friday. It thanks visitors for their interest in the device, but warns that unprecedented demand means that it will be the end of summer before everyone who wants an iPhone 3G gets one.
As expected, each O2 and Carphone Warehouse store will have on average just a few dozen handsets, though that will depend on store size and location. Apple will also be selling iPhones at its stores, but only for new customers, not those upgrading…
First iPhone 3G unboxing, or dubious Photoshop skills?
To add further misery to those who probably won’t get an iPhone 3G on Friday, photos claiming to be the first “unboxing” have appeared online.
Boy Genius Report has a whole gallery of images of the IPhone 3G, while a Portuguese site also claims to have one…
iPhone 3G pre-orders take down O2 website, 16GB iPhone gone already, PAYG later this year
From 8am this morning, O2’s web site started accepting iPhone 3G pre-orders. Around an hour later, the site crashed due to heavy volume. At around 11.30am, the web site reappeared, claiming that the 16GB iPhone 3G was already unavailable.
At a similar time, The Carphone Warehouse’s web site started taking pre-orders, but their shopping cart refused to accept 16GB iPhone 3G orders, placing the 8GB model into the basket instead. About half-an-hour later, pre-ordering was removed, and only came back online at about 11.30am…
