If you’re an Apple iPhone 3G user on an O2 network, you may need to be making some changes before October. Reports reveal that O2’s exclusive deal with the iPhone is to reach its official end on October 9th.

However, if you’ve been with O2 long, this shouldn’t come as a big surprise. You’ve likely held witness to its gradual downward spiral, suffering through everything from repeated network crashes to considerably reduced connection speeds.

Orange has also soured its customers further still thanks to its sudden price increase scheduled for September 1st. Fortunately, according to CNET, their terms of service allows you to escape this particular travesty by simply canceling your contract before the prices change.

While Orange believes their customer base will remain strong, sources say that many users are complaining that they aren’t receiving the quality service that they paid for, and with good cause …continue reading →

The iPhone, brought to you by Apple, is home to many different applications all of which complete a task everyone needs to achieve at some point in the day. With all of the applications available out there, who is making all of the profit out of them? Is it Apple?

Lance Stewart – a creator of the Tube Exits application you can purchase for your iPhone. Have it? Want to know the history behind it? Well it all started on the train, while he was waiting to get off and out of the platform, he found himself waiting to exit. He says that he, “got off the train and suddenly found myself behind a huge crowd of people blocking my way to the exit. I was just an average Joe in the rat race getting frustrated by being stuck behind the crowds.”

After this, he had a brainwave. He wondered if there was such a way that he could find out in advance, which carriage to board on departure so that once he arrived at his destination he could get to the platform exit first, therefore meaning that he wasn’t left lagging behind all of the tourists.

Stewart admitted that he hadn’t the slightest idea what to do when it came to the early stages of developing an application, and also adds that he didn’t even own an iPhone at the time. He also confessed that at first, he thought that finding all of the exits and carriages locations would have been easy. All it entailed was a simple train journey, a few notes followed by a little research …continue reading →

Editor’s Note: Apple issued a 3.0.1 iPhone update for this security flaw less than 24 hours after it was demonstrated. Kudos to Apple for their swift response.

Do you have the privilege of owning one of the world’s most well known smartphones… the iPhone? If you do, then this article applies to you. As from Thursday 30th July 2009, two researchers showed the world the flaw that they have found in the SMS system set up by Apple on the iPhone.

If you receive a text message after the 30th July and you own an iPhone then be aware, as if once you open the message it should contain a single square character of some sort, then you are strongly advised by researcher Charlie Miller to turn off your device as quickly as humanly possible.

This plain and simple symbol is a warning to you, to tell you that it is highly likely that someone is trying to or has already tried to use this new bug, created by Miller and his partner cybersecurity researcher Mulliner, on your mobile phone. This new finding was made public at the Black Hat cyber security conference which was held in Las Vegas.

It is said that this bug could quite possible virally infect iPhones through the SMS facilities found on mobile phones …continue reading →

One of the managing directors of one of the most powerful mobile phone companies in the world, Nokia, has launched a scathing attack as the company launches the Nokia N97 as a rival to the ever popular iPhone 3G S, released last month.

The managing director recently stated that he believes that the Nokia N97 will perform better in the smartphone market because it has stronger features and a better functionality than its nearest rival that is offered by iPhone.

Mark Loughran said this: “The new iPhone seems to have the same design and colour, upgrading from a sub-standard two-megapixel camera to a still low 3.2-megapixel camera, and is probably a disappointment for many people given the high tariff and lifetime ownership costs.” …continue reading →

The birthday candles were out at the Infinite Loop last week as Apple celebrated the first birthday of the App Store.

It has been a rollercoaster ride of a year for the store, which has enjoyed almost as many controversies as successes. One of the most notable successes has been the fact that one billion app downloads have already been achieved – the milestone was reached earlier in the year.

Apple has pulled out some celebratory stops to celebrate the significant milestone. The App Store has gone from strength to strength and now has over 50,000 applications to its name. It is believed that the store is the market leader in the applications industry at the moment, with other stores like Ovi from Nokia lagging behind. …continue reading →