November 2007

With the iPhone being launched at 6:02pm yesterday (and having had a play with one in a shop today – it’s definitely shiny, it’s probably worth £70 on top of the iPod Touch*, but it’s not even close to being worth £900, this being the total cost over 18 months of an iPhone and O2’s lowest-cost tariff) the single outstanding question (other than “can a non-removable battery in a device that can’t be turned off or charged without a special adapter last for 18 months?”) is over network coverage for the EDGE technology that Apple, in their infinite wisdom, decided to hobblebuild the phone with.

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