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If your one those people who don’t like paying O2 huges fees to own the latest mobile hardware, can afford to shell out for the phone upfront and your itching to get the Palm Pre with a UK Qwerty keyboard, then your wait is nearly over.
Available now for pre-order from SuperEtrader for the not so scary fee of £500. Supplies will be short initially but if you like to gamble, expect the price to drop nearer to the £450 mark after they start shipping.
Nokia’s little brother to the N97 is now available across the UK in unlocked and contract flavours. Vodafone are first on the bandwagon with the N97 Mini but it looks like O2 will be along shortly.
Pick yours up for £399 at Mobilefun or for free with a £35pm, 24 months contract at Vodafone. If you want to save a few pennies, the smart option is to buy it through a creditable reseller like Mobile Phones Direct on a £30-35pm, 12-18 month Tmobile contract with a nice little bonus as most handsets from MPD come unlocked.
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I gotta tell you something: American space organization NASA is not very impressive lately. But what about their iPhone app?
Our latest podcast, Episode 47, is now available for download, this week we discuss Orange iPhone tarrifs, the Acer s200, Palm’s stock and much more . You can subscribe via iTunes, RSS or download the mp3 file here. Full show notes after the break.
Engadget are reporting that the GSM Palm Pre has already been unlocked but its not a software solution, it relies upon a small insert that goes into the phone with the Sim Card and fools the phone into thinking it is on O2.
All 3G data and voice features are working fine and there is a video of it in action above. Unfortunately Engadget are also reporting that the European Pre does not have the radios for US 3G so if you do decide to import one into the US be prepared for Edge only data.
via Engadget Mobile
Only had it a few hours and decided to do a quick unboxing. Initial impressions are, its a nice sleek device, little plasticy but minimalistic and good value. Full review to follow in around a week.
Today is the day a lot of iPhone users have been waiting for, after agonising over updating to 3.1.2 firmware in the fear of losing the ability to be able to sim unlock your iPhone in the future, that is all about to change.
GEORGE HOTZ is about to release blacksn0w which is the unlock for the latest 05.11.07 baseband, and will also enable official tethering. blackra1n, a jailbreak for 3.1.2, has been updated to RC3, with hacktivation support, 15 second speed improvement, Tiger+PPC support, and installation of the latest blackra1n.app
If you are a loyal blackra1n user who kept the blackra1n.app on your iPhone, run it. You will see Icy replaced by an option "ra1n". Install this to upgrade your app. After upgrading, run blackra1n.app again. You will see "sn0w". Install this, and enjoy your unlocked iPhone.
If you are new to the scene, just looking for an unlock, finally ready to upgrade to 3.1.2 and the accompanying baseband, willing to restore for the latest and greatest, or stuck on the "Connect to iTunes" screen, you are in luck. Jailbreaking and unlocking have never been easier. Go to blackra1n.com, click on the logo corresponding to your operating system, run the app, and click "make it ra1n". When your phone reboots, you’ll see blackra1n.app. Run this, install blacksn0w, and enjoy your unlocked iPhone.
Also, a note. This may be the best iPhone users ever have it. Be sure, if you have a 3GS or iPod Touch 3, to use Cydia’s "On File" or Firmware Umbrella in order to be able to restore to 3.1.2 in the future. And as always, the baseband cannot be downgraded, so be *super* careful with updates if you need the unlock.
Found a pretty handy price comparison chart at Mobile Computer. Can’t say there is much in it but I guess the majoy benefit is for those who have shoddy reception on O2 have another option.
It seems Verizon has made a bit of a mess of the upcoming Motorola Droid Engadget reports:
The GSM flavor of Motorola’s DROID, or Milestone as it will be known in Europe, has multitouch built-in to the UI. For reasons we can only assume have something to do with an unspoken intellectual property agreement between Google and Apple, the US version of the user interface lacks multi-touch features like pinch-to-zoom even though the underlying 2.0 OS supports multitouch events. However, the video of a GSM DROID headed to Europe clearly shows this feature at the 3 minute mark. No really, see for yourselves after the break.
Orange today announced that it will launch iPhone in the UK on 10th November. iPhone 3G and 3GS will be available in Orange stores on Tuesday November 10 from 7am*, with new great value Pay Monthly and Pay As You Go price plans for both business and consumer customers.
Orange iPhone Pricing:
Orange is launching a range of specifically designed iPhone plans and price points all with excellent data usage options, to ensure as many people as possible can enjoy iPhone on Orange.
· Pay Monthly – iPhone 8GB, 16GB and 32GB models will be available on multiple monthly plans, with the 3GS free on all £45 plans and the 3G model free from £30 plans (both with a 24-month contract). For those looking for full all-inclusive packages, a new high end “traveller” offer with inclusive roaming call and data allowance is available at £125 month. All plans include unlimited** anytime, anywhere UK mobile data usage on Orange’s data network, which has the largest 3G population coverage in the UK. In addition customers will also get free unlimited use of the UK’s largest single public Wi-Fi network, BT Openzone.
· Pay as You Go (PAYG) – Customers topping-up by £50 at purchase will be able to buy an iPhone 3G on Orange PAYG for £333. Any customer buying an iPhone on Orange PAYG will automatically get 250MB of data each month, plus unlimited use of the UK’s largest single public Wi-Fi network, BT Openzone, for 12 months.
· SME Plans – Similar to PAYM Consumer pricing, with an additional £50 monthly tariff.
· iPhone tethering bundles – Customers wanting to use their iPhone to get mobile broadband on their laptop can take out additional bundles starting at £5 per month.
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