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Updated version of popular Apple’s iPhone, iPhone 3Gs, is coming to UK on 19th June 2009.

Phone has several improvements, most important ones being:

1. Faster Internet download speed

2. Cut, copy, paste (how long did it take to put these basic features in!)

3. Keyboard in landscape mode

4. Video recording

5. Improved search

6. Compass

7. Voice Control

8. Camera upgrade (3 mega pixels)

New iPhone will be available from Apple stores.

You can get full review of new features on Apple’s website.

From 3rd April, O2 introduces new iPhone tariffs, which will enable you to get iPhone for free! Sounds nice but downside is you have to sign up for 24 months contract or pay almost £45 per month on 18 months contract.

iPhone proved to be very popular among UK punters, O2 sold over million iPhones.

Below is the table with new iPhone tariffs:

Apple prepares OS update for iPhone and iPod Touch in June, version 3.0. Update will bring long-awaited features like MMS support, copy-paste support and many others.

Source: O2 Press Release

If you are iPhone user, you can now update your phone software to version 2.1. Simply connect your iPhone to computer, launch iTunes and click update.

This is the list of updates/improvements that Apple says is included in this update:

* Decrease in call set-up failures and dropped calls
* Significantly better battery life for most users
* Dramatically reduced time to backup to iTunes
* Improved email reliability, notably fetching email from POP and Exchange accounts
* Faster installation of 3rd party applications
* Fixed bugs causing hangs and crashes for users with lots of third party applications

* Improved performance in text messaging
* Faster loading and searching of contacts
* Improved accuracy of the 3G signal strength display
* Repeat alert up to two additional times for incoming text messages
* Option to wipe data after ten failed passcode attempts
* Genius playlist creation

There are important improvements in this release as you can see from this list like better battery life, fixes for bugs that crash iPhone and improvement on dropped calls.

For more information check Apple’s website.

O2 UK finally announced that it will offer Pay As You Go iPhone from 16th September 2008. O2 website says that iPhone is yours just for £349.99 for 8GB version and the 16GB version for £399.99.

You will be given O2 SIM which includes unlimited browsing and Wi-Fi for the first 12 months, which is pretty good deal if you are planning to use this device mainly for Internet video and music. Also it is automatically enrolled into O2 ‘Favorite Place’ tariff.  Below is the table of texts and minutes that you will get on this tariff.

If you think this tariff is not for you, then O2 promises that you are free to change to any other prepay offer tariff that O2 has.

After your first 12 months, you can continue to receive unlimited browsing and Wi-Fi if you topup at least £10 per month.

The Carphone Warehouse and Apple stores will be selling Pay As You Go iPhone at the same price as well.

If you have spare cash sitting in your bank and you don’t want to be tied to lengthy and expensive contract, this is the proposition for you!

Today at Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco USA, Steve Jobs announced that next version of iPhone will be launched on 11th July in 20 countries.

New version packs impressive battery life, it is said that device will allow 5 hours of 3G browsing and 10 hours of GSM talk time! Video playback is expected to last 7 hours and audio 24 hours, that is very impressive battery life! Almost same design, same screen size , plastic back cover – white for 16GB version and black for 8GB version.

There is as expected integrated GPS module, HSDPA connectivity, improved audio quality and flush headphone jack.

Enterprise applications will be fully supported, Microsoft Office and iWorks, Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, calendar, searchable contacts and advanced web browsing with Safari browser. iPhone will be using built in Cisco Systems software for secure virtual private network (VPN) access.

Current iPhone did not create a serious rivalry to enterprise solutions like Blackberry, but new version will definately be capturing enterprise market share, according to Steve Jobs, 35 per cent of the Fortune 500, the biggest companies in the US tested new version of iPhone.

Price has been cut dramatically as well, first iPhone debuted in US at $599 and $699 (£300 and £350), and then fell to $399 (£200). This time 8GB version will cost only $199 (£100) and $299 (£150) for 16GB version.

In UK, O2 as an exclusive iPhone distributor will probably give new iPhone for free on most expensive tariffs. O2 website currently does not have any information about upcoming device, but has a banner asking customers to come back tomorrow for more information:

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