O2 UK to block unlegit iPhone from its network?

UPDATE 12/NOV/2007: Works fine, no worries then. UPDATE 09/NOV/2007: 10am: works fine still. ORIGINAL POST: Third degree rumor! Through a friend I’ve heard from a source within O2 that they intend to run online checks on their network to decline those iPhones the use of the network that have not been properly activated and registered [...]

iPhone with 3G coming out 2nd half of 2008

According to an interview with O2 UK chief Matthew Key, the 3G version of the iPhone is due in the second half of 2008. This piece of information is coming from his negotiations with Apple for securing the exclusvie UK deal for the iPhone. Here’s the interview at Macworld UK: http://www.macworld.co.uk/ipod-itunes/news/index.cfm?newsid=19584

New iPhone Firmware 1.1.2.

OK, so it is somewhat official. Apple is bringing out a new firmware version for the EU launch of the phone. It will include international keyboard support, a fix for the TIFF exploit (thus rendering the jailbreakme.com solution useleee) as well as other security updates. Oh, and of course it will attempt again to brick [...]

iPhone SMS Bug

Here’s a funny one! If you receive a text message from some service that sends its name in the sender/originator field, the iPhone doesn’t show you the message content, yes sometimes it does not even show you the full name. Why, you ask? It would appear that the SMS app is not able to properly [...]

iPhone – The first true convergence device

So last week in the US I finally got my iPhone which I, purely for educational purposes, activated, jailbreaked and unlocked. It did work like a charm. The first time around it took me a little longer, the second time (why, a second time? for fun of course) the whole process including downgrade and update [...]