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O2 are apparently offering free or discounted (the basic package is free, the others are discounted) home broadband if you go for the iPhone internet tethering bolt on, until 31st December.

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thanks for the info. Was worried Orange might have tried to improve it and customise it.

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Nope its all good :D
Im really impressed, dont think Mrs Grandmaster is though since i have not really spoke to her since coming home..

Hmmm divorce app? :D

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I have convinced the person in charge of our telecomms budgets that it was cost effective (now that the 02 iPhones can be legally unlocked) to upgrade our four trial 3G iPhones to four iPhone 16GB 3Gs, at a one off cost of £57 per phone, which means I should be upgrading my iPhone soon.

I did feel slightly silly talking to myself, though....:D

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Anyone else downloaded the new Sky Mobile TV app? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8352178.stm

£6 a month for all Sky Sports channels, if you text Sky to 2020 you get 3 months free. The quality seems pretty good, i'll have to wait and see what watching a football match is like before i decide to start paying for it or cancel it.

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I can't wait until next year sat Feb when I can upgrade and then Voda should have a release date and price.

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Yeah it's pretty decent.

I like the 30sec rewind and pause live tv functions. I really like the fact that it includes espn. I reckon I may just cancel sky sports on the telly and use this with a tv out dock.

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Just had my 3Gs 16GB delivered - excellent!

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Yeah, it is really good. What would the quality be like if it's connected to a tv?

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Tesco are getting in on the act - http://www.tesco.com/mobilenetwork/content.aspx?page=12

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I heard a rumour that the PAYG iphone will cost around £800:shocked:

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Better gets saving those clubcard points....

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pay as you go carphone warehouse £538.30 iphone 3Gs 32gig
see link for more details
http://www.carphonewarehouse.com/mob...pple-iphone3gs

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Hope their contract is cheaper, which forces Orange to be cheaper, and away I go. I shall wait until the next iPhone comes out before I upgrade though.

Can anyone confirm that when my existing O2 contract expires, I can continue to use it on a month-by-month rolling contract until I renew? I actually have to confirm I wish to sign for another 18 / 24 months?

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Tesco is partnership with 02 as seeing as Orange and 02 have basically the same price then I think we can already work out the price Tesco will use too.

This only leaves Vodapone who might lower the price but I can't see that happening either

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The partnership with O2 is to use their network. I think O2 basically sell them network access and a fee for when it is used. Tesco can set their own prices and services. (As far as I am aware).

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Does anyone know when or around when Vodafone will have the Iphone?

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was told by voda early next year but nothing definate

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any news when the iphone will be coming on 3 as i heard its coming on tesco mobile soon

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New iPhone being trialled in San Francisco?

http://gizmodo.com/5414731/unknown-i...+%28Gizmodo%29

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january time i think

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I am thinking of going to the darkside. (Only when I gt another job, and I know I said "I wouldn't buy this piece of carp")

Most of the guys I work with have one.
But I have a few questions

1. I'm with orange PAYG, and want to know can I convert my number to pay monthly.
2. What happens to my remaining balance.
3. how does the inlimited WiFi work?
4. Do you need to use iTunes to put stuff onto the phone?
5. How easy is it to connect to a laptop as a modem and use the internet on the laptop.
6. how are you charged for apps?
7. can you download apps via the phone
8. Are there anything I need to look out for.
9. I guess the 3GS is the best one to get.

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Dunno..
Well, with O2, the contract for WiFi provision is with both The Cloud and BTOpenzone. The first time you go to a web page on either of the networks, you are asked to register your phone number. Then, they act like normal WiFi networks.
Officially yes. Unofficially, the ml_ipod plug in for winamp supports the iPhone. Be warned though, last time I tried this (a few months back, and there has been a new version since), I ended up having to reformat and transfer all my music and videos again. As the saying goes, Your Mileage May Vary..
As long as your tariff supports it (mine doesn't without an extra monthly payment which I am not paying), it should be easy..

You need to register a bank card with the iTunes store. You also need an iTunes account.
Yes. You can download Apps or Media from the iTunes store via 3G/Edge/GSM (if the download is less than 10 meg) or WiFi. To prevent accidental purchases or downloads, the phone will ask you to enter your iTunes password to download the item(s).
Apps wise? Well, we have a thread for that.. http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/26...hone-apps.html
Yes. It offers a compass and extra speed over the 3G. Apple do seem to be having some success persuading people to use those facilities. For instance, the Yelp app is a good local directory application on the 3G. It uses AGPS to display businesses and facilities in the local area. With the 3GS's compass, it becomes an "Augmented Reality" directory. Basically, you point the iPhone down the street, and it will highlight (on it's display) any facilities in that street. The 3GS also does video recording and trimming (it's not a full video editing package, you can't edit clips together or put special effects on them, but you can chop the start and/or end off).

One thing I like about the iPhone (I have a 3G) is that Apple have been very successful in encouraging programmers to write apps to use the iPhone's features. Featurewise, the iPhone 3G offers slightly less than my old phone, the N95. However, Nokia seem to be spectacularly bad at encouraging developers to use those features (I only found a handful of apps that used GPS and even fewer that used the accelerometer, both of which are used extensively on the iPhone).

Good luck.

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When I said

I meant any concerns or issues.

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Sorry, wasn't sure. The only concerns I have are that if you travel abroad a lot, it is easy to build up a large bill for data comms. Thankfully, you can put the iPhone in Roaming mode, which disables any "push" data facilities (like Push email) and stops the phone automatically checking other email accounts.

Another concern is that (like pretty much any smart phone) the iPhone can go through the battery at a rate of knots. Particularly if you play a lot of music/games/videos. Thankfully, the iPhone will charge from anything with a USB port (unlike my N95) and you can buy external battery packs if the power is a problem.

Also, the iPhone can only be managed by one computer. Not a concern if you only have one computer, but a pain if you have more than one. Thankfully, this is fairly easy to work around using the instructions at http://www.andrewgrant.org/2008/03/3...computers.html

My final concern isn't a real concern, but something to be wary of. The iPhone makes it easy to purchase things from the iTunes store (if it's too big to download on the phone, iTunes will download it next time you sign in on that). The problem comes because it is easy to hear a song (on the radio or elsewhere) and think "I haven't heard that in a while, think I'd like a copy of that" and before you know it, you've already bought it. And yes, this has happened to me. You just have to discipline yourself..

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do u know when 3 will get it

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Thanks for that Stuart.

That was very helpful.

My only concern is that when I was with T-mobile I had a very good signal at home.

When I went to Orange (they only did the phone I wanted at the time on PAYG) the signal level is very poor at home.

I would love to keep my number but get a orange iPhone contract and get a carp signal.

I guess O2 would be better, and I could transfer my PAYG orange to pay monthly on O2 if the need arises.

Once again thaks Stuart.

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3 are not yet a confirmed carrier.

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The carriers at the moment are as follows

O2 - avaliable now
Orange - avaliable now
Tesco - Coming soon
Vodafone - Coming soon

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Received my Orange iphone yesterday,what a nice toy! :D

Seriously,will I ever be able to live without my Applecrack again? :erm: :disturbd:

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Just a novelty now - I don't really use mine apart from the odd internet search and as a phone/text device. The app store novelty has worn off

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Is there a way of conecting your iPhone to your PC and watching whats on the screen on your PC (i hope that makes sense?). I have the Sky Sports app and want to see if i can get it to work on a bigger screen basically, i've tried but can't find a way of doing it.

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I was in a Vodafone shop today and asked a assistant. She said Jan 2010 and then tried to sell me a Nokia.

I told her I would only have an iPhone and that I wanted to replace my 2G iPhone, which is unlocked on Vodafone with a 3GS model.

She replied I couldn't possibly already have an iPhone on Vodafone as they were not out yet.

I shown her my phone and she said it wasn't an iPhone because it had a silver back and iPhones only come in black or white - gotta love these people!

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The Apple Logo didn't tip her off :D

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:LOL: that was funny. You should go back in and show them the software and the big shiny apple logo on the back of it :) I prefer the look of the 2G iPhone to the new ones (I had to replace my 2G for a 3G as the speakers stopped working - insurance job)

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I have just upgraded my 3G to a 3GS (on O2 Business Tariff, I get to keep the old one) - does anyone know if the 3G will accept a pay as you go sim, with the unlimited data and texts tariff (for the lad, and it's only £15 per month, and he infrequently calls, just texts)?

I have tried it with my personal pay as you go sim, and it works fine except no data.

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I suppose it could...I can't see any reason why not. You would be better speaking to O2 though.

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It doesn't care what SIM you put in, so long as it's an O2 SIM (unless of course it's been unlocked, in which case it doesn't care at all).

The access point info is different for PAYG though, & needs to be changed:

http://service.o2.co.uk/IQ/SRVS/CGI-...obj%2819044%29

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Matt, thanks for this - it is an O2 PAYG sim.

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Tesco to offer iPhone contracts from 14 December

Not cheap though :(

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8405542.stm

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Morrisons is doing a 2 x £15 Itunes cards offer for £20. Quite a bargain. Offer is on only till the 20th December I think.

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OH just landed in Sweden working this week, anyone know how much it will cost if i have to ring him? I'm on general o2 contract - £35 a month (600 mins, 500 texts). Can't make it out from the website :dozey:

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nowt get him to phone you lol

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After looking on the O2 website. Calling abroad from the UK (to Europe) is 89p/minute.

However if you text it uses 4 standard (free) texts for one text abroad. So it might be cheaper :)

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If he's on business... won't the company get his expenses? If so get him to call you as Zing said :D

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Use Skype or something.

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I'll text him and tell him to ring me lol.

Thanks for your help :tu:

Wow! 89p a minute! I don't think it cost me that much when he worked in the states :rolleyes:

The company will pay, it was really just in an emergency - you never know ;)

He just phoned me, he's under 4 inches of snow with a 2 hour journey ahead of him on foreign roads!

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Yeh will do, i've downloaded the app, but never used it. Does it work ok?

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I use the skype app to talk to my girlfriend - it's great :)

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quick question, don't worry if you don't know the answer I will be ringing Orange later in the week.

If I order the iphone do they take the payment straight away or wait till my next billing date ?

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They take the cost of the handset straight away.

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thanks for letting me know. In that case better wait until pay day before I order the phone

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lololol apparently iphone owners often suffer from 'Stockholm Syndrome' :D

http://www.mobiletoday.co.uk/Mobile_..._Syndrome.aspx

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What would a telecoms consultant know about Stockholm Syndrome? All I know is that my iPhone is a lot better built than the N95 it replaced, and crashes less frequently than either the aforementioned N95 or the Windows Mobile phone I had before that.

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Just been and purchased my shiney new 16gb 3gs :-)

Will activate it tonight - yay

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GOTD has this http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/wond...one-converter/ - it allows you to use any ringtone you want for your iphone, available for today only.

No idea how good it is though.

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I will give it a try now - cheers :)

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I use iRinger which is free anyway :) I'm going to have a go with it anyway.

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was just going to post about this. Got mine last night and don't like some of the tones. if I use the above app can I select my own MP3 file for this ?

Anyone know any other good FREE apps ?

Did see one app that said it could upgrade the camera to a 5MP camera, which sounded a bit dubious to me as surely the sensor is only 2MP

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Yes you can use 40secs of any mp3 you have and you ca choose the 40secs that you wish to use along with fade in/out effects

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loving the app \ ipod side of the phone. Still getting to grips with the phone side.

One thing I can't work out how to do is how to clear down my missed calls list without removing the whole phone call history. As soon as I go into it I can either tap the name which calls them or hit the button at the end which brings up their contact details. If I hit clear it removes the entire call history including received calls

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Unfortunately you can't clear missed calls separately to the whole call history. It would be a useful feature though!

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ah wondered about that. There are a few things on the phone side I wish were a little bit different.

When I look through my contacts and select one I want the icons at the botton to change to call \ txt \ edit \ delete. Instead they stay the same.

Apart from that a great phone

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I've just put another £10 on the sim that came with my iPhone - so now there's enough to unlock it :)

MMMmmm hope ir doesn't take too long :)

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I can't find that app, can you post a link to it please?

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thanks cuggle...been away from laptop for a while...christmas stuff and all that stuff :)

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Thanks ;)

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The first rumoured spec change for the inevitable iPhone 4 is: a 5Mp camera. It's also rumoured that it will be announced in June (which is in line with previous iPhone announcements)

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/23/iphone_rumors/

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Unreal Engine 3 on the iPhone 3GS & the 3rd generation iPod Touch:

http://www.anandtech.com/gadgets/showdoc.aspx?i=3695

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Oh ruddy nora, I've only had my 3GS for a few months..

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Apple have released a new iPhone model the last three summers running (original, 3G, 3GS), plus have also, IIRC, actually said that it has an annual product cycle, so I think it's a given that there'll be another one next June...

I wonder what else it will have other than a rumoured 5MP camera...

My contract is up in June/July...

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I've got 18 months left but I am seriously considering a move from 02, they only reason I havn't is because everything I know, literally is on 02 and saves me a fotune with the bolt-ons

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Speaking of o2 iPhones - does anyone know how long it will be before my iPhone (3g pay as you go) will take before it's unlocked, they took the cash off the o2 sim yesterday but when I checked it was still locked last night. I've reset it back to 3.0.0 so it's factory fresh and left the o2 sim in it.

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here's a quick one. Had a call yesterday while the phone was locked. I had the slide to answer option but I didn't want to answer the call I wanted to reject it and couldn't work out how to do that.

Tried iringer which is a good app but seems the only way to change the text message tone is to jail break the phone which I not sure I want to do at the moment

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AFAIK, we don't use anything like that. Any changes server side would need to be made by Paul M, Mick or Frank (although it would be more likely to be Paul M)

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Tried the button on the top of the phone?

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not yet but assume that is the one. Tried the home button but that wouldn't do much. Shame it isn't like when the phone is unlocked where you can answer or reject or just do the slide to make those available.

Thanks for the info, knew you could do it just didn't know how

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press the power button on the top twice in quick succession.

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Not really an important thing, but I've just found a site that tells you how to add subtitles to a movie that you can turn on/off at will (ie not burned in).

It's quite a quick process as well. But, you do need a Mac (or at least OSX) and you do need to download the iPhone or Mac SDK (the iPhone SDK includes both), which is around a 2 or 3 gig download.

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.p...09081913171253

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My COntract is Due in march , used to have the IPhone 2G 18 Months ago and didn't like it was slow etc..

is the 3GS Any Better? can you transfer files via bluetooth? or can you get a app for that?

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I cant tell any difference in speed of general usage between my old 2G, my Current 3G and my colleagues 3GS.... however, your mileage may vary :)

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Next IPhone Rumoured for April

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles...il_report.html

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Hmmm thats far earlier than the June Developers Conference when they usually announce new models :)

I still don't think I'll upgrade my 3G one to an "iPhone 4" because of the lack of H/W keyboard. My digits are far too big to type on the iPhone's screen.

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Dont let it bother you. Just think, I'll skip the iPhone 4 and wait for the iPhone 5.

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I thought that as well, it turns out that my iPhone typing is near as makes no difference as quick as my normal keyboard typing - and that isn't slow ;)

I've not had the 3GS for all that long and it does everything I want and more - I definitely won't be upgrading yet, I'm going to wait for the one after the new one (by which time my contract will be up, this one will be abit more worn, and I'll be itching to move to the newest and bestest again :D ).

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My contract has ended. I am getting verious pay-as-you-go sims to see which network is best and then switching to a £15 sim only contract. I might get the upgraded iPhone (when it comes out) but might buy the phone right out.

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Can anyone comment on the newer i-phone bluetooth connectivity?

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In what way?

I have a 3g and use it with a stereo headset which is very good. Still not able to send / recieve photo's from other phones tho :(

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Cheers Thomas,

I'm using a Sony Ericsson A2DH headset (HBH DS2200) and I'd also like to know if a bluetooth hookup is possible using a samsung N10 netbook as one of my current providers is offering unlimited browsing if I take a new 3G phone.

If that's possible I can dump my 3GB per month dongle.

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The headset should be fine. As for the use as a modem you'd need to ask the phone providor as I think some of them don't allow that with their iPhone contracts and some do.

I've not used the iPhone as a modem as I have a £5 a month virgin dongle deal so I can't comment on how good it is for that sorry.

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Many thanks Thomas - a few useful pointers there.

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I know with O2 you have to pay an extra £15/month on top of your contract to use the tethering (modem via laptop) features and then its not unlimited, its got a fair usage limit on it.

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Where is the best pace to get an unlocked iPhone with out a contract?
I've a blackberry with work on vodafone and was thinking about getting an iphone and sticking that SIM in it.

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Is there an app, paid for or free that will allow me to block a number, for text, mms and calls ? It's an ongoing battle with Lloyds bank, they used to send me 3 texts a day with account balances, the only thing is, I don't bank with them, I've been into a branch, that was sorted out for all of a day, my old phone Samsung g600 had the feature, an old old phone, wtf doesn't the all singing 3GS have it.

Thanks.

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The merry-go-round starts again:-

My contract is up soon and quite tempted to get one now :)

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Please tell me the 4G will do multi-tasking? If it can't, then even I might be sorely tempted to go elsewhere!!

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There are several options for jailbroken iphones to improve bluetooth connectivity, for example I have installed A2DP onto an iphone 2g (and no it does not have the option normally)

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My iPhone (3g) no longer opens up or shows the camera roll when I plug it into my windows 7 pc.

Does anyone have any (useful) ideas as to how to get this back before I do a restore?

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You can multitask now on jailbroken iphones, I use proswitcher and backgrounder, works a treat.

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So I've done a full restore now and it STILL doesn't show up in the 'computer' section so I can't get the pictures off it.

It still syncs just fine so windows is picking it up fine.