iPhone & HTC Touch Diamond

[petemc]

Originally Posted by Daz

I'm confused Pete, did you get one? How the devil is it?

I did They had 2 16gb models at a random store near me. Luckily I managed to reserve one yesterday. They opened at 10am so I didn't have to get up at stupid o'clock and queue. In fact when I got there at 9:30 there was only 1 person queuing. They had been at the o2 store round the corner since 7am and missed out by 1 iPhone so they came to this store. Upgraded without issue and was done by about 10:15. Loving it so far. Still a fair bit of stuff to sort out. MobileMe's push email works perfectly. Its something I've wanted for years now. The ability to get notified of a new email just like a new SMS. I tried it years ago when I set my phone to check for email every 5 minutes. I got a huge bill Theres a program called Exposure that integrates with Flickr and GPS. I can instantly see photos on Flickr taken near by. The closest is about 1km away. Brilliant stuff. Imagine being somewhere and wanting to know whats around the corner. I'm still trying to work out a few other things, like whether the camera stores gps data or not. The speaker phone is by far the best I've ever heard. Really clear and no distortion at full volume.

[Mark]

As for Quidco, I just got £15 back from MyLotto24 for spending £5. Everyone's a winner. And no, I didn't wager the rest - haven't touched the account since.

Thanks Desmo.

[Daz]

Originally Posted by petemc

Its something I've wanted for years now. The ability to get notified of a new email just like a new SMS.

Me too, have to run my own Exchange server to get it, but it's a big bonus. I tell people to email me now whenever they can, saves us both money!

Glad you're enjoying it. Exposure sounds very funky, very useful in a city. Doubt there'll be much of old Swad

[Daz]

No dude, it needs Active Directory I had a full AD network in a test environment already, since I moved and got my 24/7 server all I've done is left them running and moved my mail into it. Way overkill for most

[edit]Couple of places do free Exchange Push email (mail2web for one), but I'm not sure what limitations they have considering they dont cost owt!

[Desmo]

I deleted my post as after about a 5 second think about it, I don't really need it

But thought I'd add this again otherwise it makes your post above look stupid

[Daz]

Thanks

[Haly]

I got £100 off quidco when I got my iphone the other month Very handy Recently done the home insurance and RAC membership through it too, it made the RAC stupidly cheap in the end.

Not updated my iphone yet to 2.0, looks great though.

[petemc]

I had a quick play on Monkeyball which is hard. Bomberman is quite cool though. Good potential there for games. Not a huge lineup out right now but there is a good potential there. I've got a stupid program that makes the mario jump sound when I jump up and down.

[Chuckles]

I popped into the Apple store at 8.15am this morning to see what the fuss was about. Never seen a queue as full of sad acts. They all seemed to be talking about World Of Warcraft and I thought they were going to break out the dungeons and dragons playing cards any second.

I then realised that I was actually hanging round with them and had actually asked a few questions giving the impression of friendship so I scurried on.

The guy from the Apple store I spoke to said they had tons in stock anyway and would open until late tonight until the queues went down. The O2 shop was only doing upgrades though and that sold out of 16GB's early apparantly. It certainly seemed that if you wanted one, you could get one though.

Mine gets delivered tomorrow which worked out well as I didn't need to pay the saturday delivery and couldn't have been in to take delivery today.

So rather than a dreary trip to some god awful depot tomorrow, I get to sit around in my pants eating left over pizza and then play with new gadgets

[Desmo]

Poop. Just noticed that the £150 Quidco for Orange runs out on Sunday night. Now O2 don't even have the Diamond listed yet although I believe it's out next month. So, do I take a gamble and go with Orange or just stick with O2 and hope that I can get a decent deal.

Only downside with Orange is that my monthly payment is going to be a touch higher and it's an 18 month contract. But with the phone at £40 and £150 cashback that's pretty good.

O2 might want to charge a lot for the phone and my monthly cost will probably be around £27 with the unlimited internet so only a few quid cheaper each month.

Is there a cooling off period with Orange? I could order from them and then still have time to maybe sort something with O2.