As usual, our friends across the pond (that little puddle we call the Atlantic Ocean) got their hands on mobile tech before us. This time (November 9 on O2, officially), the UK will get to play with the newest iPhone v1.1.2 firmware. Aside from some additional multi-language support and access to “The Cloud WiFi” hotspots,…
iPhone starts selling in UK this Friday; Set to become the fastest selling handset ever?
Apple iPhone is going on sale in Britain at 6:02pm this Friday, hence you’ll see more iPhone news coming during the weekend. The thing that caught my eye is O2’s prediction, which is claiming the iPhone will be the fastest selling handset yet. According to the carrier, we’ll see up to 200,000 iPhones sold by…
Carphone Warehouse expecting to hock 10,000 UK iPhones on launch day
Europe’s top mobile phone retailer, Carphone Warehouse, has announced that they are expecting to push out 10,000 iPhones come next week. You see, O2 and Apple are launching the UK iPhone on November 9, and the British hype is already starting to grow. With over 800 retail locations throughout the UK, Carphone Warehouse could very…
Apple launches UK iPhone site
Just a week left until Brits can get a legit iPhone in their hands! And, in preparation for the launch-day festivities, Apple has launched a UK iPhone site. Apple has posted more details about the UK iPhone and hooked it up with iPhone advertisements and guides to help eager Brits get ready for the iPhone.…
O2 brings MySpace and Facebook to mobile users in the UK
Social networking is definitely the hottest show in the tech-game right now, and bringing it to the mobile space is a logical step. O2 seems to understand the need to bring the most popular social networks to its customers – the UK wireless carrier has just inked deals with MySpace and Facebook to provide mobile…
O2 germany picks up the HTC Touch Dual as O2 Xda Star
If there’s one thing we love more than the quirky codenames coming out of HTC’s labs, it’s O2’s practice of renaming all of HTC’s best handsets. O2 Germany’s done it again with the HTC Touch Dual that was recently launched. It didn’t take long at all for the German carrier to pick up the HTC…
Apple and Orange still negotiating iPhone deal?
Wait, didn’t Orange and Apple just announce their partnership to bring the Apple iPhone to France? In fact, they did – just last week. But, according to Reuters, the two companies are still struggling to come to agreeable terms in the revenue sharing model that Apple is demanding from all potential iPhone carriers. With T-Mobile…
Google might be considering bidding on UK wireless spectrum auction – keyword here is “might”
We love rumors and hearsay, they’re the frosting to our mobile-phone-cake. And this new rumor is about as speculative as frosting gets (wait, what?). It seems that Ofcom’s announcement that they will be auctioning off part of the UK’s 900Mhz wireless frequency spectrum has fired up the rumor mill, via The Guardian. Ofcom is planning…
iPhone may get TV-out feature with update – O2 iPhone shows TV-out options
So, Engadget already had a chance to get their hands on an O2 iPhone and posted up a nice gallery of the UK JesusPhone. That’s all well and good, but there’s one little thing that caught our eye. It looks like the O2 iPhone has a new section in the “Settings” menu – the “TV…
Apple announces O2 as UK iPhone carrier – just like we expected
Well, it looks like the Apple Press Event in London was exactly what we expected – that is to say, Apple has just announced their European partners for iPhone distribution. This would have been a huge announcement had we not been expecting both O2’s partnership with Apple and Apple’s official announcement at the London press…