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iPhone 3G free on £34/month for 24 months from Carphone

Ewan — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:23:59 +0000

Carphone Warehouse will put an 8GB iPhone 3G in your hand for just £34 per month — on a 24 month contract. That’ll get you 600 minutes and 500 texts per month.

And if you fancy the idea of a 16GB one, add on an extra tenner.

For anyone really keen to get stuck into the iPhone — and provided you’re ok committing to a whopping 2 year deal, this might be right up your street.

The offer is available at your local Carphone Warehouse from the 3rd of April.

I imagine if the new iPhone comes out a few months later, you’ll be able to upgrade — either by extending your contract (3 years, maybe?!) or by paying an upgrade fee.

More at www.carphonewarehouse.com.

I need a new battery for my N95 8GB

Ewan — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:51:16 +0000

My Nokia N95 8GB battery has gone rubbish – I need a new one. What is your recommendation for a place to buy Nokia batteries online?

N95 8GB: Phone start-up failed. Contact the retailer.

Ewan — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 12:03:07 +0000

Ah dear. I dug out my N95 8GB the other day and charged it up. I was going to try and use the device more – as a camera (because if you recall it arrived from T-Mobile UK without data functioning). Well. I can’t use it. Not at the moment. I’ve never seen this message on a Nokia before:

“Phone start-up failed. Contact the retailer.”

Any suggestions on how to get it to work?
Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device

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N95 8GB on T-Mobile won’t connect. Still.

Ewan — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:07:50 +0000

I picked up my N95 8GB yesterday. It’s been gathering dust and I thought I’d take it with me to this presentation I was giving later in the evening.

It was only when I got on to the train and had a fiddle with the device that I remembered: Arse. It’s a disabled piece of shit.

I don’t know what went wrong with it. It has NEVER, EVER connected to the T-Mobile Data APN. Never. Not once.

I am at a slight loss.

I think I need to try putting the sim card in another device to check if my account is actually screwed. Who knows. I still cannnnnnot believe that it’s possible to acquire a locked T-Mobile handset that doesn’t ‘work’ on the internet by default.

Next.

N95 8Gb address book question

Ewan — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:31:31 +0000

Right then, I need the services of a Nokia Genius to help solve this issue below.

I had a reader, Tony, send me this by instant message:

quick geek question

i just changed to a different N95 8gb cause my other one had a touch of the N Series about it (crashing etc)

and now it doesnt seem to correlate anyone in my address book with sms or incoming/outbound calls

ie just their number shows, not who it is

any ideas?

I thought he might be using the wrong address book (i.e. SIM address book) but apparently not. Any ideas?

I just bought an N95 8GB on T-Mobile

Ewan — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:42:05 +0000

So, I went through a spate of mobile purchasing last night. The iPhone, yeah. And then T-Mobile.

Well, I feel it is my mobile-industry duty to have a handset on every network. I’ve got the UK covered and I have a dormant $10/month Sprint account in the States, too. (Since they’re CDMA, their devices obviously don’t work in the UK.)

I headed over to my T-Mobile account and clicked on the ‘upgrade me’ link. I played around in my mind with buying a Windows Mobile device… then I clicked on the N95 8GB.

There was a ‘confirm’ button.

I pressed it to see what would happen.

“Thank you, your order is being processed!”

Shit!

Woops.

So. Right. I, er, have a new phone. And, presumably a new contract will come into force when I accept it.

Although at no point was I explicitly advised on this. That’s a bit spooky. I don’t know if I’ve signed up to an 18-month, a 12-month or a 24-month stonker.

I suspect I shall find out by reading the delivery note that arrives with the handset.