Paul Maunders | Web log

This is my first post using my iPhone. I’ve installed the wordpress app and now I’m typing on the phone itself! First thoughts: it’s great! I was a little concerned that the iphones spell checker wouldn’t work but it does (although not in the post titles). I’ve tried to attach a photo of brendan so [...]

My brother has just given our dad his old 2G iphone after upgrading to the 3G one. Initially I thought he would have to pay £35 a month for the iPhone tariff, but it turns out that you can use the old iPhones with any o2 tariff. There are a number of sim-only Simplicity tariffs, [...]

So the iPhone 3G has finally been revealed by Apple today. Built in A-GPS 3G Data transfer, downloading a web page is over 3.5 times faster than EDGE, and even up to 36% faster than on an N95 3G. Improved battery life: 2G talk time up 25% from 8 hours to 10 hours. 5 hours [...]

It’s been 8 months since I posted my last summary of the mobile broadband market in the UK, and things have developed fairly rapidly since then. In November, O2 launched the iPhone with unlimited Internet access along with some competitive USB dongle packages. Orange have also now joined in the fun, which means that all [...]

As many blogs have been reporting today, Google has launched a new feature for their Google Maps for Mobile service called “My Location”. My Location is simple; it shows a little blue dot on the map to represent your current location. However, the really clever part is that GPS is not required for this to [...]

I’m pretty jealous… Brendan picked up his new iPhone yesterday and has been flashing around the office all day. I have been telling myself since the iPhone launched that I would wait until the 3G version (hopefully) comes out next year, but after seeing Brendan effortlessly read his e-mails, speedily tap out text messages, listen [...]

It’s not often that Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) launch a new software development kit with a $10 million prize for developers and a video explanation / press release from one of it’s founders. Yet that is exactly what has happened today with Android’s offical SDK release. Before you read on, you should probably watch Sergey Brin’s [...]

Three have launched some impressively innovative features in the last year or so and they’ve continued this trend with the arrival of their new Skype Phone today. Looking back we’ve had… 3 X Series First there was X-series that allowed free unlimited internet access on your mobile to services such as ebay, skype, Google, sling [...]

The last few months have been pretty exciting for anyone interested in mobile broadband in the UK. Until now, T-mobile has lead the way with their ‘Web N Walk’ unlimited data tariffs, but as of the beginning of this month both Three and Vodafone have launched competitive data products. I believe now is the first [...]

Thanks to new regulation by the European Commission, the cost of making and receiving a mobile phone call while you are abroad in the EU is set to fall from next week. The following table highlights the new roaming prices that UK operators will charge. Network Making a call Receiving a call Three 25p per [...]