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In Depth: iPhone in the UK: two years on
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Two years ago today, we stood inside the Apple Store on Regent Street, London watching in disbelief as a queue of people waited outside to spend £269 on the first generation of the Apple iPhone. And that was before you got to the £35-a-month O2 contract. At 6.02pm the doors opened. The launch was hectic and disorganised. At the time we noted the scenes resembled Beatlemania. 'Absolute pandemonium' at UK iPhone launch We headbutted a cameraman and tripped over a newspaper photographer - it was a real battle for elbow room as Apple hosts greeted the first few buyers through the door with whoops and chants. Buyers went through the back of the store, purchased their ...
iPhone worm cripples handsets with Rick Astley
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A new virus is infecting iPhones - the Ikee - forcing users to look at a picture of Rick Astley as their wallpaper. It's only affecting jailbroken phones - those modified to run non-Apple approved software - but can jump from iPhone to iPhone with no input. The hacker that developed the worm has been identifies as Ashley Towns (who goes by the handle ikeeex), who has stated that he initially infected 100 units with the worm. "Due to the nature of it, it's kind of hard to tell, I know my phone hit about 100 alone but from there I have no idea," he said. Waving hello to Astley He said that the virus hit the first wave of people at 4am on 6 November, and has quickly ...
Hands on: Motorola Milestone review
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The phone networks need a hot handset to woo Christmas shoppers, Google wants to kick-start the production of apps for Android, and if Motorola doesn't get a best-selling handset soon (its first since the RAZR) it might stop making phones. No pressure then. For a handset with so many expectations, the Motorola Milestone– which launched as the Droid in the US last week - is underwhelming in the design department. It's certainly solid enough and benefits from a gorgeous 3.7-inch capacitive touchscreen. But the old-school boxy edges and painfully flat QWERTY keyboard have had little thought put in to them. How many mobile keyboards have you seen that ship with two completely blank keys (bottom ...
14 million Nokia chargers found to be defective
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O2 allows customers to unlock iPhones for free
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O2 has confirmed to TechRadar that iPhone users will be able to unlock their iPhone for free and use it on any network they wish at the end of their contract term. Some reports have suggested that a fee will be charged to perform this action, but O2 has told us that this will not be the case for contract users. Those customers that have had a pay as you go iPhone for at least 12 months will be able to unlock their device too, although it will incur a £15 admin charge to do so. Unlocking confirmed CEO Matthew Key was quoted in The Times as confirming the network would be allowing customers to unlock the iPhone after it was rumoured the network would be blocking ...
