For some reason, my feed-reader had quite a few items about the iPhone in it today, and these three from MacWorld particularly caught my eye:
No iPhone price cut from O2
The iPhone’s provider in Germany, T-Mobile, has chosen to subsidise the cost of buying an iPhone by €99… nice! MacWorld obviously asks the question of whether we will see a similar deal here in the UK, where O2 are the iPhone provider. However, at the minute, O2 have no plans to follow suit. Having said that, though, O2 have just increased the calltime and SMS allowance on their iPhone contracts, so it’s not as if they’re doing nothing at all… just that they don’t think they need to start offering cut-price iPhones in order to stay competitive.
3G iPhone in 60 days
The lack of 3G is one of the reasons I’m more than happy to wait until my current contract runs out in December before buying an iPhone. The EDGE network isn’t that widespread in the UK, so I see 3G as a must-have if I’m going to use a phone for accessing the Internet. Well, there have been rumors of a 3G iPhone for a while, and now Walt Mossberg (Wall Street Journal) is claiming that it will ship in about 60 days time. He offers no evidence for his claim, but it is in line with similar claims made by other sources. Could we see the 3G iPhone come out by the summer? Great, if so, because it gives the technology time to bed-in before I start seriously thinking about whether I should get one or not.
Quake for iPod touch and/or iPhone
Wow… I’m almost speechless. No, seriously… just wow. Quake is being unofficially ported to the iPod Touch and iPhone. The video below shows two iPods linked via wi-fi, playing a two-player deathmatch. Just watch the video:
Now tell me that isn’t cool!
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