So, all things being well, tomorrow I will have an HTC Desire mobile phone instead of my much loved and lamented iPhone 3GS.  The iPhone went missing, and stock was not available at my insurer, so I opted to switch to the Desire.  On paper, the Desire is a better phone than iPhone, but the [...]

Apple Announces iPhone 4S CUPERTINO, California—July 7, 2010—Apple® today introduced the all-new iPhone ® 4S , the world’s most desirable mobile telephone, capable of making telephone calls and accessing the internet while held in the left hand.  The revolutionary new ‘TalkTime’ feature enables iPhone 4S to transfer speech and data through a 3G connection.  The [...]

This time of year, for the last three years, has me checking the various Apple rumours websites, anxiously awaiting the launch of the new iPhone. I didn’t get the original, because frankly it was unfinished hardware. The day Carphone Warehouse told me there was an iPhone 3G available for me, I sprinted half a mile [...]

To save you all the trouble happening everywhere else, here’s a guide to what worked for me with the jailbreak of my iPhone 3GS with the iPhone Dev Team’s Redsn0w.

The iPhone 3GS is an improvement over the 3G and a massive improvement over the iPhone 1st generation. I’m filing this article under geek, so please feel free to move on.

So, the wait is over, and I have my hands on the iPhone 3GS. Ireland apparently only has black editions of the phone, but I managed to get a 32GB model. The staff at the Dublin Henry Street store were exceptionally professional and friendly, and very knowledgeable about the phone, which is something of a [...]

So here goes, prepare to hear the sound of the world’s smallest violin playing. I am on the way to Dublin City Centre to queue for an iPhone 3GS. O2 official policy is ‘no preorders’ but it seems very many stores have taken allocation lists. The rule should be first come first served, according to [...]

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 [...]

Assuming the iPhone 3GS is available in Ireland by July 13, I am practically certain there will be a new iPhone 3GS in the river Tiber by July 17. On 14 July, I visit Rome, to attend the wedding of a good friend, with my girlfriend. She’s a lovely woman, she is delightful in conversation, [...]