MacWorld 2008, Gentlemen Start Your Speculation

MacWorld 2008 starts tomorrow in sunny San Francisco with Steve Job’s keynote opening the Expo on Tuesday.
Steve Job’s keynote is traditionally where major Apple product announcements are made, last year saw the iPhone announced, and are also traditionally a major subject of speculation, rumour and gossip keeping the Apple interweb busy for weeks in advance… [...]

iPhone Hands On

I’m at the Future of Web Apps conference today, more of which later, and have just had my first “play” with an iPhone and it is niiice. Very niiice…
Much smaller than it looks in photos, it feels marvellous in the hand. The screen is awesome and the UI… the UI is completely and utterly [...]

It’s Official

As widely rumoured, discussed and let’s face it expected, the iPhone for the UK was announced on O2 this morning at the London Apple Store.
The main points:
- Available November 9 2007
- £269 on an 18 month contract (ok)
- Tariffs £35, £45 and £55 per month - all include unlimited data. (good)
- EDGE only (no 3g) [...]

O2 Secures iPhone for UK?

There has been much speculation and rumour over which mobile networks would “win” the iPhone in Europe and now the Financial Times is reporting that O2 has won the deal to sell the iPhone in the UK.
Not one for rumour mongering (ahem) I’ve not commented before on the rumours, but this ‘feels’ right - as [...]

You Gotta Love Daring Fireball

You gotta love John Gruber of Daring Fireball fame… In a great post about the iPhone, it’s launch week remember, John pokes fun at some of the iPhone doom mongers in the way only John can.
This piece made me laugh out loud; in which Mr Gruber responds to a quote from an Verizon executive:
Mr. Lanman [...]

Perfect Advertising?

In case you hadn’t realised my previous post Just when I thought I was over you was an ode to the iPhone.
Signals vs. Noise has a very interesting post in which they say that one of the iPhone adverts is “perfect advertising”.
You know what they could be right.
I was very definitely over the iPhone [...]