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iPhone Dev Team releases iPhone 1.1.1 Jailbreak with a side of wolf-nipple chips {Engadget}
Oct 11th 2007 3:56AM You Luk'y Luk'Y Bastards
The Google Phone: It's the OS dummy {Engadget}
Oct 8th 2007 6:45AM As each day passes, I'm getting more and more glad that I've made a decision to hold out until iPhone 2
And it's not even out yet here in the UK.
This time next year... will I be buying the gPhone? Will it be Nokia's inevitable iClone (but unlocked and 3rd part configurable), or maybe iPhone 2nd Gen?
Whoever I go with, it better be unlocked so that I am not tied into an 18 month contract for a £35 per month (A ridiculous price considering that I am having to also pay for the phone!)
Apple, I love ya, but not THAT much!
After the storm: iPhone & the U.K. {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Sep 28th 2007 7:59AM Is it a coincidence that out of the handfull of Apple stores in the UK, Manchester has 2?
After the storm: iPhone & the U.K. {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Sep 28th 2007 3:34AM As a person from Manchester (and late to the party), I would like to also chime in.
I was all hell bent on buying the iPhone, but after some deep thought, it seems absolutely stupid for me to buy the iPhone, in that there are too many compromises.
1) Tie myself in for 18 months
2) At a rate of £50 per month!!
3) 30% Edge coverage
4) Edge!!
5) No GPS
6) Steve Jobs has admitted that they are working on the 2nd & third Gen models already.
Myself? For the last 3 years, I have been buying phones off E2Save (a Carphone Warehouse company), and with cashback, been paying a maximum of £0 per month. (sometimes even less)
I am an Apple Fanboy, with 3 Ipods (nano, 4G 60GB and 160GB classic), a 24" imac and a macbook.
But this??? I think Apple have made a very bad decision by tying the iPhone in with one carrier. They could have made the iPhone a generic non-tied phone... They would have sold millions all over the world...made many more deals with many more carriers, and a lot less hassle to boot.
So upon reflection, it seems stupid for me to try to justify buying the iPhone. I mean, it's Apple's job to entice me as a potential purchaser. Not my job to make excuses to buy it as an Apple fanboy.
Steve Jobs arrives in London: jeans, turtleneck and New Balance expected soon {Engadget}
Sep 18th 2007 3:19AM For the record, I think the multititude of Apple annoucements on Engadget is appropriate. The company is cutting the edge of the cutting edge. I think Apple's problem is that they make it look too easy, most of the time.
As for me? I'm waiting, with my PAC code and credit card ready to go to the Trafford Centre Apple shop today should the iPhone be announced. There's also a Carphone Warehouse on Trafford Rd, and an O2 shop in the Lowry Centre should I get desperate. (Manchester, UK, BTW..200 miles from his royal Jobsness)
On the trail of Fake Steve Jobs {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jul 16th 2007 4:14AM I agree with some of the posters here.
I am sure that there are plenty of people who know who the fake Steve Jobs is... but they realise that keeping it a secret is something that would be of more benefit to the Apple & Geek community as a whole.
I feel it was bad form doing what you did...Tantamount to stalking.
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
Apple confirms 802.11n unlock fee, but it's just $2 {Engadget}
Jan 19th 2007 6:20AM Matt
RE: The Muslim analogy
That was a crap comment based on an ignorant, media driven, stereotype of 1 Billion people on this planet.
My advice: Switch off Fox News, get out and actually meet some Muslims before you spout you hatred.
Evesham releases iplayer IPTV set-top box {Engadget}
Dec 19th 2006 3:57AM Friggin 'ell. That thing is designed for the consumer through and through.
If Apple's iTV came out with those specs it would fly off the shelves.
Unless Apple's iTV tops those features, I'm buying one of these babies when I get my 50 incher in the new year.
WOW!
Palm's Ed Colligan laughs off iPhone {Engadget}
Nov 21st 2006 5:44AM There are known knowns, there are unknown knowns.....
No body really known what Apple is going to do, but the truth is, that a significant part of the success of the iPod has to do with Apple being there at the right time. It's debatable as to whether that was due to luck or design.
The thing with phones, is that the all-in-one solution actually sells phones. People WANT an MP3 player, emailer, picture taker, radio player phone. But historically apple has shied away from that in order to keep things simple.
