I have been trying to unlock my 3GS for some time now. The first attempt failed completely. I had my confirmation email but then after nearly a month nothing had happened. I phoned O2 and after some time I got through to customer services representative who told me that for some reason my original form had not been sent through to the correct dept. He sorted that out and told me it may be up to 14 days before my phone would be unlocked.

I had a text from O2 which I thought was telling me I had been unlocked. Foolishly I upgraded my iPhone from its YellowSn0w jailbreak/unlock to OS 3.1.2. Then I found that my phone had not been unlocked… I checked the text from O2 again and realised it was not the unlock confirmation…
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Tesco is to sell iphone

Hot off the press is news that Tesco have joined in on the iPhone war here in the UK. On the Tesco Direct website confirmation of their move has already been made. It is suggested they will do both the 3G and the 3GS but nothing as yet on pricings.

It is also to be noted that this is a joint partnership with O2 so we could speculate that the rates will stay the same but if tesco history of price slashing is anything to go by we may see them set a president for Orange and Vodaphone to follow.

Let the wars begin?

Should be in before Christmas.

If you are reading this at a sensible hour (i.e. not near midnight) then you will now be able to unlock your O2 iPhone completely legally and, perhaps better, completely free of charge! O2 lose their exclusivity on 10th November when Orange iPhone’s start to go on sale and it is clearly not a coincidence that this is also the date that you can unlock your iPhone on!

Pay Monthly customers can unlock their iPhone, free of charge, at any point during their contract but they will need to pay the remainder of the contract (either monthly or in one lump-sum). Pay and Go customers will need to have had their iPhone for a year and will need to pay £15 for the privelege.

For more information and to apply to have your iPhone unlocked please go to O2’s Unlock my iPhone page.

Orange have announced the pricing structure for their Pay Monthly, Pay As You Go and Business plans for the iPhone in the UK. Rather unexpectedly no price war has erupted.

Available on Orange from November 10th, the published prices are strikingly similar to the current O2 offering. Take a look at Orange’s prices here and feel free to compare them to O2’s here.

With any luck, Vodafone will be a little more daring in their prices when they launch in the new year and bring the price down on the iPhone 3G and 3GS – both of which are often regarded as over-priced devices!

According to The Telegraph, Vodafone are expected to officially announce this morning that the iPhone will soon be available from them. This comes the day after Orange announced they will be offering the iPhone from October. Let the price wars begin!

You can register your interest at Vodafone’s iPhone website.

Orange have today announced that they will start to sell the iPhone later this year. There are no further details yet but you can pre-register your interest at the Orange iPhone website. Orange currently have the largest 3G coverage in the UK and their recently started merger with T-Mobile should improve this even further. Perhaps this deal might start a bit of a price war and reduce the cost of the iPhone and, better still, persuade O2 to improve their 3G coverage!

Following on from our comparative review of ‘Mobile Allowance’ and ‘Mobile Minutes Tracker’ (see previous posts here and here) O2 have now released their ‘My O2′ app. According to their AppStore description it allows users to see their remaining minutes and texts and their tariff, bolt-ons and calling plan prices. Those with a Pay Monthly contract can view recent charges (e.g. premium texts and roaming charges) and view bill summaries and payment dates.

This is all very nice in theory. In practise, however, it is somewhat different…

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Pageonce’s Mobile Minutes Tracker has been updated to add/fix pretty much all of the features/bugs that let it down in our recent comparison with Mobile Allowance. The AppStore update text states the following have been added: warning for when your current usage is predicted to breach your allowance, automatic support for multiple contracts, automatic refresh when the ap loads, improved response time, current spending information now available and suport for long usernames and business accounts.

Most UK iPhone owners will be on O2 (yes, we know about jailbreaking and unlocking, but for most general users…) and there are two apps that have been around for some time that help you keep track your remaining monthly allowance. These only work for standard customers (i.e. not business accounts) with a monthly contract. The two apps in question are ‘Mobile Allowance‘ and ‘Mobile Minutes Tracker‘ and here at Wired4iPhone we have put the two apps up against each other for a good, old-fashioned face-off!

Considering that neither app adds anything new to your life that you cannot already gain by logging in to the O2 website it is only fair that both cost a very reasonable 59p. While they don’t add anything new, they do however put everything into a simple, easy to access app on your iPhone – which is always faster than going to the O2 website!

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Wasn’t all plain sailing.  Original plan was to grab a couple of PAYG’s from CPW in Oxford Street as they were opening at 7.30am.  Then we could whizz round the corner to film outside the Apple Store,

But when CPW opened we discovered that they were not selling PAYG’s.  So quick change of plan saw one contract 3G S bought at CPW, and then we nipped round the corner and joined the queue at Apple.  The queue was out the door and round the corner by now (8am) but moved quickly.  In lesss than 30mins we were in posession of a PAYG 3G S and had a free coffee courtesy of Apple.

However, Apple transferred my existing 3G PAYG SIM to the new phone and claimed this was what they had to do?  Only when I got home did I discover that this meant no addittional 12mths Web & WiFi!  No mention of this in the store and no new SIM provided with my 3G S because of this.

A call to O2 reveals you only get that if you use the new SIM.  So why didn’t Apple tell me?  So now O2 are sending me the new SIM and I can the transfer my old number.  There are already a number of Twitter posts from users who have had similar issues at O2 stores.  Is this a policy or is someone taking advantage of a nice PAYG SIM that has 12mths free data?

I may use the new SIM in the old 3G and buy the £10/mth web bolt on when my current Web & WiFi package expires in September.  I topped up £10 when I bought the 3G last year and still have £3 left, not a big phone user hence why I wanted a PAYG with free data and not a nasty contract!

Plenty of interest in the new 3G S