O2 today announced that Apple’s highly anticipated iPhone 3G will go on general sale from 8.02am on Friday 11 July in O2, Apple and Carphone Warehouse retail stores*. To ensure fairness, O2 will sell the device on a strictly first come, first served basis to both new and upgrading customers in all retail outlets.
Since O2 went live (or as discussed here, dead) with online ordering of the new iPhone 3G they have provided some details on what you need to order and also answer some questions on upgrading, activation, returns and warranty. Full details can be found after the break and it makes interesting reading especially the part about activation at home.
According to O2’s website the iphone 3G is sold out already, that is 8 gig and 16 gig models, Come back on the 10th July for more information!!! Makes you wonder how many were actually available in the first place.
XDA- Developers are at it again, this time forum member Sacha Lange has created Diamond TF3D Config. This small CAB file will allow you to customise the HTC Diamond home screen and let you change the order of the tabs in the TouchFLO 3D user interface and hide those you do not want to use. Screen shots and links to download after the break.
Well it has been a totally frustrating morning for anyone who has been trying to pre-order the O2 iPhone 3G, the site has been down since just after 8am this morning and now when you eventually do get in a position to place the order, all that is available is the 8 Gig version. This cannot be right, has demand been that great that they have sold out already, has anyone actually managed to place an order?
As mentioned in our earlier post, O2 decided to accept pre-orders for the iPhone 3G this morning starting at 8am. Unfortunately it seems that the online ordering has been anything but a success, we have received a lot of comments that the system is breaking down and sure enough when we checked it just now it was offline.
There is a good discussion going on over at at Apple which you can take a look at here.
Well some of the rumours were right, most were wrong, I received an email from O2 this morning and from 8am 7th July you can pre-order the iPhone 3G. You do not need to go into any store as they will deliver free of charge to your home on July 11th. You can order it from this link.
Wondering what the experience is going to be like on Friday when Apple makes its long awaited iPhone Software 2.0 available? Well, wonder no more, Paul Thurrott has got his hands on a near-final version of iPhone Software 2.0 and iTunes 7.7, and he shows you the install experience as well as some of the MobileMe and Microsoft Exchange integration pieces.
Was lucky enough to join the team at msmobiles on Saturday and talk Windows Mobile with Edward and Mickey Papillon from The Cell Phone Junkie. Had a good time and it looks like this may become a more permanent arrangement. You can get the podcast from MSMobiles or download it directly here. Show notes after the break.
If you are looking for a new top of the range Windows Mobile device, chances are you’ll be considering the HTC Touch Diamond and possibly the Samsung i900 Omnia. So you may be wondering which of these two devices is best?
Luckily the guys over at GSM arena have put together an extensive head-to-head review of the Diamond and the Omnia and although they struggle to come up with a difinitive answer as to which one is best, looking through the review should help you make up your own mind.
Diamond over Omnia:
- VGA display (2.8-inch, 480 x 640 pixels)
- TouchFLO 3D Home screen (better than Omnia’s Touchwiz UI)
- Nicer design
- More compact body
- Lighter weight
- Active magnetic stylus (Omnia has no stylus slot)
- Touch-sensitive scroll wheel (better than Omnia’s optical joystick)
- Better sunlight legibility (by a small margin)
- Standard miniUSB slot (as opposed to Samsung’s proprietary custom plus)
- Dedicated graphics chip with 64MB memory
- Comes with the amusing Teeter game (uses the accelerometer)
- Has pre-installed YouTube client and MP3 Trimmer application for ringtones
- Better video playback performance
Omnia over Diamond:
- Bigger, though lower-res display (3.2", 240 x 400 pixels)
- Has a better, more solid build and finish
- Almost double battery life
- Better CPU performance (by a nice margin according to software benchmarks)
- Quad-band GSM support (Diamond has two versions to cover all the four bands)
- microSD card slot (Diamond has none)
- 8 or 16 GB of storage memory (Diamond has 4GB)
- Much better 5 megapixel camera (better processing, higher resolution, face and smile detection, geotagging)
- TV-out (Diamond lacks that)
- Landscape QWERTY keyboard (Diamond has one but only in browser)
- Auto screen rotation is available in all applications and can be switched off
- Comes with DivX video support (Diamond has none, but DivX players can be installed)
- Has pre-installed a custom Alarms app, a Video editor and a unit converter
Anyway, it’s nearly impossible to give a conclusive judgment as to which of these two fine PocketPCs deserves your money better. The Samsung i900 Omnia and the HTC Touch Diamond are both excellent choices with their own set of advantages and shortcomings. The good thing is they hardly overlap, so getting your priorities right is all you need to make the right choice.
Read the full review HERE.
Posted by: Matt
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