O2 Announcing UK iPhone Deal Tomorrow
Written by Michael Johnston on September 17th, 2007 with no comments.
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Run Mac OS X Dashboard widgets on your iPhone with the latest hack
Are you one of those who assumed that Mac OS X Dashboard widgets will be on your iPhone since it is running on Mac OS X too only to be shocked that the only widgets available were three basic widgets. No problem, Erica Sudan over at Tuaw seems to have (almost) figured out how to get the Mac OS X Dashboard widgets on the iPhone.
Written by iPhonehacks on September 17th, 2007 with no comments.
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Dashboard Widgets for iPhone
Written by Ben Levine on September 17th, 2007 with no comments.
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Pros And Cons Of Using an Unlocked iPhone in Europe
The European version of the iPhone looks like it’ll be available only in the UK and Germany at first, leaving iPhonophiles in other EU countries looking at unlocked iPhones as their best bet of getting their hands on a multitouch phone.
My friend Roger Aberg, who runs the MacFeber site, already has an unlocked iPhone he uses in Sweden. He has no problems with the device, he says, but he’s hoping the European iPhone will be upgraded to HSPDA — a super fast 3G standard that’s common in Europe.
Writes Roger in email: “People are a bit skeptic about the non-3G-part. I hope for a HSDPA-version (or turbo 3G) that is plenty faster and is pretty common here. Its 3.6 mbit (regular 3G is 0.3 mbit) and would be sweet on the iPhone! That would make me upgrade.”
However, some analysts don’t expect a 3G version of the iPhone until 2008 at the earliest, when Apple will introduce the iPhone to Asia.
If Apple delays the 3G iPhone, Europeans outside the UK or Germany looking for an unlocked iPhone might be best off shopping for one in the U.S. Thanks to the weakness of the dollar, and local European sales tax (or VAT, which can run to 25 percent in some European countries), Yankee iPhones will likely be cheaper — about $35 according to Roger.
Written by Leander Kahney on September 17th, 2007 with no comments.
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Unlocking = confused voicemail
The same day that Cyrus Farivar wrote a guide to unlocking your iPhone (for free) on Macworld.com, I went through the unlock process myself, my first hacking of the phone. It worked perfectly, with only a slightly disconcerting red dot on my Phone icon. Perhaps the hardest part of the process was finding someone in the office with a T-Mobile SIM card that I could borrow to test that everything worked OK.
After verifying my unlocked status, I put my stock iPhone SIM card back in, and was back up and running on my normal phone number. A few days later I pulled out my phone and saw a box requesting that I enter my voicemail password (something I haven’t had to do since I set up Visual Voicemail on the phone when I activated it). I immediately thought, “oh no, did unlocking and switching SIMs mess up my voicemail?” I entered the password and waited anxiously for what seemed like minutes (several seconds, probably) before a red number “1″ popped up on the Voicemail badge. I tapped to get to my voicemail and was able to play the message from my wife.
The moral of the story is, hacking and/or unlocking your iPhone isn’t something Apple intended you to do, and might mess things up. I got lucky, but don’t be surprised if swapping SIMs leads to some software confusion.
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Written by Jonathan Seff on September 17th, 2007 with no comments.
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