O2 the official carrier for the iPhone in the UK have announced today a restructuring of iPhone tariffs which will take effect on the 1st February 2007. £35 and £45 a month tariffs see an increase in minutes and texts included in the allowance with a new tariff of £75 available with an included allowance [...]
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Cinema Times is designed to be used on the iPhone and the iPod Touch that let’s users search for film times in cinemas near them. It works in both the US and the UK by retrieving the results from Google Movies. Point your safari browser to http://themacbox.co.uk/iphone/cinema/
Designed to be used on the iPhone and the iPod Touch that let’s users search for UK train times. It also let’s you save your journey details for access without an internet connection, just in case you forget that journey time. Point your safari browser to http://themacbox.co.uk/iphone/trains/
This is a WebApp designed to be used on the iPhone and the iPod Touch. It lets users view the UK Top 40 Singles and Albums charts on their device, and touch any item to view it on the iTunes Store, where you can listen to a 30 second preview of the song and buy [...]
This webapp, for use on the iPhone and iPod touch, allows UK users convenient access to BT’s residential telephone directory. Users can enter a surname and location, and are then given a list of results in alphabetical order (by first initial). These are displayed ten at a time. You can click on a result to [...]
Choose the day you want to find out whats on, either today, tomorrow or four days after that and then the channel. It’ll then list whats on when for your convenience. Point your safari browser to http://uktv.touchapp.net/ to see whats on TV.
Apple and O2 have been taking hits recently for poor sales performance of the iPhone in the UK, with would-be users complaining that the price is too high and those who have taken the plunge having problems with coverage. Nevertheless, O2 have been calling it the “fastest selling device [we’ve] ever seen” and the company [...]
Despite hiring nearly 1,400 temporary staffers to deal with the iPhone launch, O2 CEO Erksine says he had no grand dreams of an unprecedented iPhone launching day demand. Sticking to modest estimates in the tens of thousand, he begged to disagree with initial iPhone sales estimates in the 100,000 range. It had taken Apple 74 [...]
Crave.net.co.uk posts a video from the UK launch of the iPhone at Regent Street on November 9th, 2007: Last Friday Crave attended the UK launch of the Apple iPhone, one of the craziest technology events we’ve ever been to. The queues were massive outside the Apple store on Regent Street and the atmosphere was [...]
O2 are claiming to have sold tens of thousands of iPhones in the UK since it’s launch on Friday at 6.02 PM saying “It has been the fastest-selling device we have ever seen.” Two thirds of customers buying the iPhone were new customers to O2 according to Peter Erskine, the chief executive of the mobile [...]


Skype for iPad supports video calling and will be released very soon.