If you’ve unlocked your iPhone, because you wanted to choose which airtime provider to use, or because you live outside the US, then be warned; Apple will be disabling your handset with their future software updates.
Not only will Apple’s future updates turn a working handset into a brick, users who suffer this because they […]
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Unlocked iPhones in Apple’s firing line
September 25, 2007
iPhone iPricing iPalaver prompts iRebate
September 6, 2007
Just yesterday, when asked about reducing the price of the iPhone barely 10 weeks after release, Steve Job’s response was “..that’s technology“.
Today, after the early adopters, who were prepared to pay a stupid amount of money for the kudos of owning a locked-down, locked-in cellphone-cum-music-player, voiced their unhappiness, the thought of all those torch and, presumably, iPhone-wielding villagers descending on […]
SIM-Free iPhone Appears for UK Buyers?
July 25, 2007
Cell-phone and general gadgety-goodness retailer, devicewire.co.uk, has got the 4gb and 8gb versions of the iPhone listed on their website. No pricing or availability details, but both are listed as SIM-free:
I thought that, as in the US, Apple would be making it very difficult to get a SIM-free iPhone, which is why UK and […]
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My Orange SPV E650 SUCKS!!!!
May 21, 2007
I had to replace my cell-phone last week after my trusty SPV C600 died; Orange don’t stock the C600 anymore, so I was given an SPV E650 as a free upgrade - now, I know what you’re thinking, “Dude, it was free, stop complaining!!!!”.
Even though I knew I would have to replace my existing 2gb […]
Posted in gadgets, rants, smartphone 7 Comments »
Promises, Promises
April 14, 2007
This video popped up on YouTube in the week, and although I’m pretty sure that some of the features and services will never be available, its interesting to see where Intel thinks the future for the UMPC might lie:
Whereas, the pitch for the Origami was very much along the lines of a single device-type […]
XBox Update Bricked your console?
December 12, 2006
In response to a wall of silence from Microsoft, an unhappy Xbox customer has set up a web site where anyone whose favorite games console has been bricked by a recent software update can add their name:
http://www.xbox360defective.com/index.php
He is one of a growing number of angry gamers frustrated at the way Microsoft are ignoring the scale […]
Posted in Microsoft, gadgets, games, xbox 2 Comments »
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