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Suffering from flu I've been passing way my time playing the addictive Waterslide iPhone app, possibly the best piece of mobile marketing I've ever seen. Inspired by the Barclaycard waterslide TV ads, the free game is a fun ride through none levels of slides in which the player has to stay in the slide while also collecting diamonds and hitting speed boosts. Other than on the … [Read more...]
A lot of people have been excitedly touting the new HTC Hero as an iPhone killer but I'm not convinced. It has an obvious advantage over the iPhone in that it's going to be available in the UK from both Orange and T-Mobile, but although it's not quite as ugly as the G1, it retains that dreadful 'chin' from the earlier model and still looks functional rather than stylish. As the … [Read more...]
Like probably most other iPhone users I consider O2’s to tethering charges more than a little greedy but when my T-Mobile broadband failed earlier today I thought I’d give O2 a try so I could at least compare the two. The resulting conversation didn’t go well, first I was told it’s impossible to add tethering ‘same day’ and I’d have to wait until my next bill … [Read more...]
It's clear there's a lot of people unhappy at the upgrade policy of O2 for the iPhone 3G. The network currently wants everyone with an iPhone 3G to pay off their current contracts if they want to upgrade to one of the new 3Gs models. I say 'currently' because it seems the UK launch is being marred by some pretty negative headlines and I can't help but think Apple will soon step … [Read more...]
