The BBC have been promoting a show called “Britain from Above” in which which they take telemetry from various trackable sources and generate fancy maps of our activities and, presumably, add a thick layer of social commentary. In the promo video linked below they show a few examples of air, land and sea movements but [...]
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Today only, S60 QuickOffice for $1
For whatever reason, the folks at QuickOffice have decided that, for one day only, they are going to sell their well regarded S60 office suite for just one dollah! So for around fifty of your Great British pennies you can create, edit and view Word, Excel and Powerpoint documents on your S60 device. Sounds like [...]
Want unlocked, unsubsidised handsets? Go to Belgium!
In light of my recent issues obtaining service on a particular operator who happens to be the sole UK provider for a certain new iHandset, Mike Adams got in touch to tell me that I should go to Belgium. You see, it seems that the beurocrats over there (and, with it being the European Union [...]
Goodbye o2, it’s been an absolute nightmare.
Please note: The following is Dan Lane‘s opinion, the opinions of other SMS Text News contributors may vary. I don’t think there are many people who have tried as hard as I have to become a customer of any company, but as you’ve read recently I’ve tried two different retailers, queued for eight hours and [...]
The iPhone 3G failure to launch continues!
Remember that iPhone 3G I queued for? Yup, that’s it up there. Notice something about it? That’s right, O2 still haven’t activated the SIM! I’m not some incredibly unlucky iPhone purchaser, this is NORMAL! The O2 customer forums are awash with people who either queued over the weekend or who pre-ordered through Carphone Warehouse and [...]
Dunstone Checks In — with an iPhone purchasing solution?
Literally minutes after my last post was published I recieved a call from Carphone Warehouse. Remember I said that Imran, the store manager, said he would escalate the issue? Well this is the exact quote from the call… after TWO days of contemplating a fix to the problem, THIS is the best solution they can [...]
Apple succeeds in selling me an iPhone, eventually!
This post is part two of this little tale of ineptitude and disappointment from the front lines of the iPhone 3G release. Once I got back to the SMS Text News office I rang Ewan who was still in Ireland after the Unlimited Drinks event in Dublin. I also spoke to my friend Jonathan who [...]
Carphone Warehouse FAILS to sell me an iPhone
“Thanks, but I don’t want a free one, I think I’d rather report on the purchasing experience as a consumer”. These words haunted me for most of yesterday and I don’t think I’ll find myself saying them again soon. As you saw from my live videos (powered by the excellent Qik) I spent yesterday morning [...]
Live coverage from the UK iPhone 3G launch
The queues are growing on Oxford Street, continuing coverage over on my Qik page Jason Bradbury from Channel 5′s Gadget show was on-hand to work the crowd and was officially the first person into the store (with an impressive roll under the half-close shutter) shortly followed by yours truly (with a much less elegant errr [...]
Carphone Warehouse and the iPhone 3G
While we’ve heard multiple horror stories of O2 cocking up web pre-orders, I’ve not heard a peep from anyone ordering their iPhone 3G from Carphone Warehouse’s website. In fact, it claims that both the 8 and 16GB models are still in stock for new contracts (pop back on the 11th for upgrades, apparently). While we’re [...]
16GB iPhone 3G sells out, but where is the white one?
Within hours of accepting pre-orders for the iPhone 3G the O2 site is already reporting that the 16GB Black version is unavailable. But where was the white one? As we saw in Steve Jobs’ keynote, buyers of the 16GB iPhone 3G were supposedly going to get to choose black or white finishes and in episode [...]
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T-Mobile’s Full Monty price plan: Unlimited everything — it’s brilliant and it’s the way ahead
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Trying DaaS on my iPad — it really does rock
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