Just finished watching Leo Laporte's 24 hour live video cast of the 3G iPhone launch, what a legend! Personally watched a few hours yesterday, a bit this morning and the last hour just now.
For iDay I headed down to the local Carphone Warehouse store to have a quick go with the new iPhone; was comparing the page loading speeds of the 3G unit with my unlocked model on GPRS and quite obviously it was way faster. AppStore looks good, not tooo similar to Installer. Guy in the store asked if I was upgrading, I said no 'cos mine is unlocked so I'll be waiting for the 3G to become unlocked, he interrupted me saying "oh it's already been unlocked, they did it last night". I did already know this (nice one dev. team!) but to be told by the guy who's job it is to sell me the phone with a contract was quite surprising.
Just checked eBay and there are some on there which customers are selling due to keeping their original iPhone, current prices range from £400 to several thousand....hopefully that'll settle down in the next few weeks.
I'm hoping for a release of the 2.0 hack in the next couple of days - as I already have several AppStore applications to try out - and the PAYG 3G's will be out around Christmas I guess. If the prices of those currently on eBay due to un-regostered upgrades falls to £300 and a SIM hack becomes available then I'll flock mine and get one for sure.
Finally, Mobile Me seems to be online for good although its painfully slow for me, especially when using email, and I'm not sure if its syncing back to my computer at all. Oh and iTunes 7.7 on the Mac Mini still refuses to launch without instantly crashing.Hmm.
For iDay I headed down to the local Carphone Warehouse store to have a quick go with the new iPhone; was comparing the page loading speeds of the 3G unit with my unlocked model on GPRS and quite obviously it was way faster. AppStore looks good, not tooo similar to Installer. Guy in the store asked if I was upgrading, I said no 'cos mine is unlocked so I'll be waiting for the 3G to become unlocked, he interrupted me saying "oh it's already been unlocked, they did it last night". I did already know this (nice one dev. team!) but to be told by the guy who's job it is to sell me the phone with a contract was quite surprising.
Just checked eBay and there are some on there which customers are selling due to keeping their original iPhone, current prices range from £400 to several thousand....hopefully that'll settle down in the next few weeks.
I'm hoping for a release of the 2.0 hack in the next couple of days - as I already have several AppStore applications to try out - and the PAYG 3G's will be out around Christmas I guess. If the prices of those currently on eBay due to un-regostered upgrades falls to £300 and a SIM hack becomes available then I'll flock mine and get one for sure.
Finally, Mobile Me seems to be online for good although its painfully slow for me, especially when using email, and I'm not sure if its syncing back to my computer at all. Oh and iTunes 7.7 on the Mac Mini still refuses to launch without instantly crashing.Hmm.
No comments:
Post a Comment