Pat Phelan: Bits, bytes and telecomsMobile, Roaming and Social Media

A number of pretty interesting posts popped up over the weekend by a couple of guys that I really admire and finally they got me to return to this forum. The first post is by Robert Scoble “Why I can’t kick the iPhone habit” Like Robert I have had the Desire, The Hero, The Nexus [...]

Some interesting news floating around regarding Apple and its interest in purchasing iCall a USA VOIP provider. iCall allows iPhone users when in a hotspot to divert calls off of the GSM network and onto the WiFi network. I have been testing it for a few week now and quality appears to be as good [...]

It appears that Irish mobile network Meteor are giving full 3G data free of charge. Chris Kennedy drew my attention to this early today. Meteor’s standard prepaid data costs €1 a day for 50 megabytes and 2c per kilobyte thereafter. However its appears that there is a exploit on Meteor’s prepaid data billing system. Chris [...]

Its like the team the never learns at O2 Ireland Its beyond disgraceful and they just don’t seem to give a damn about the Irish consumer on the Iphone 3GS launch. Check the UK prepaid pricing out here Check the Irish prepaid pricing here Retail for 8GB iPhone 3GS Ireland €519 UK €522.77 (Equivalent) Packages [...]

Well I wrote a post almost a year ago entitled Will iPhone become the junkyard for Facebooks failed voice applications At the time we hadn’t even seen the app store but over the past week I am convinced I was on the right track Christmas week saw huge sales of a fart application which whilst [...]

Just discovered a very useful new application on the iPhone APP store designed by an Irish company, is this the first Irish iPhone APP? EirText designed by Vincent Coyne aggregates your free online SMS from the carriers and allows you to send them from your iPhone. Works from Vodafone, Meteor and O2 Very clever, well [...]

Well today was the day and all went well in the end. Its a real simple process and you are not interfering with the phone itself in anyway whatsoever. Watch the QIK below and you will see an iPhone 3G running on Vodafone 3G I have tried every option so far and none of them [...]

It’s my first week with the iPhone 3G and I thought I had better write a little. Firstly power is a serious issue I have not gotten a full day from the phone on 3G whilst accepting incoming calls for the day only (I will not use O2′s network to make a call and have [...]

A friend gave me his iTunes login today to download the Google application for the iPhone 3G and I was shocked to see exactly what we aren’t getting in Europe. Firstly movie rental no sign of it on European store, why not, surely its a global market. Second TV series, I am a huge fan [...]

I have been looking for this since I got the phone, its a tiny hack and allows you to take screenshots from your iPhone, I presume it works on iPod touch also but haven’t confirmed this. Here is one I done early You click your home button and your power button at the same time, [...]