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T-Mobile finally is offering iPhone to it’s customers. It is the last operator to get this device out of all operators in UK. Initially T-Mobile refused iPhone as an upgrade to customers who had Friends and Family discount. If you are one of them, there are some good news for you! T-Mobile now decided to change the rule since many customers were deciding to leave the operator because they could not get their hands on the desired device.

Now you can get hands on iPhone 4G 16GB version for free if you upgrade to 24 months Flext 60 contract for £60 per month (£30 after discount). Sounds expensive, but this is top tariff which gives you unlimited calls, you can select flexible booster and 1GB internet usage. iPhone will cost you £720 over 2 years, but you will get mobile service as well, so deal is not bad. The only downside is you are tied with this operator for 2 years.

If you have been waiting for Apple’s latest toy and on T-Mobile, call them now and see what options you have.

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!