Total Cost of Ownership for iPhone 3GS in Ireland

I’m a geek. As a result, I think I got this right, but I may be off on my maths. Consider the sweet spot, which I reckon is the €65 with unlimited texts. Tariff 8GB TCC 16GB TCC 32GB TCC Fee Fee Fee Silver 45 €99 €909 €199 €1,009 €299 €1,109 Gold 65 €49 €1,219...

Death, taxes and wanting a new iPhone

The launch at the Apple World Wide Developers’ Conference yesterday of the new model iPhone 3GS was a damp squib, a spectacular confirmation that Apple can make a bunch of geeks in an auditorium applaud at will. The new phone will look like the one I’m...

Apple unveils iPhone OS 3.0 preview

Apple today announced major changes to forthcoming iPhone software, including a plan to use a full gamut of Bluetooth protocols, enhanced maps functionality and peer-to-peer networking. Turn by turn navigation is likely to be adopted, but developers will have to...

SOPODS Full Screen Browser for iPhone

I bought and installed this, hoping it would make my browsing experience on the iPhone better, but after two uses, am not impressed. The render is slow (how and why, when it’s based on Safari?) and it scrolls incredibly slowly and jerkily, much much worse than...