get a cheaper iPhone tariff for free

On April 17, 2010 in Apple, iPhone.
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iPhone’s are notorious for being expensive. If the handset wasn’t enough itself, you have the added cost of the tariff, extra charges, insurance and app downloads.

Depending on when you bought your iPhone will depend on the tariff that you will be paying. I was previously on the £35 per month contract, which gave me 600 minutes and 500 texts, and then used to pay an additional £7 per month for an extra 500 texts. This came to a total of £52 per month after the addition of insurance.

So, here is the punch line. I’m paying £2 less per month, with the same amount of minutes, data (edge / 3G) and unlimited texts! This is because O2 have brought out a new set of iPhone pay monthly tariffs for new customers. You can see how they stack up here. All I did was ring and tell O2 that I wanted to switch tariffs. There are no hidden charges, no contract renewals and the same billing date as previously.

A word of warning though, I had to go into settings > general > reset > reset network settings as I was getting sporadic data connections, but it’s all fine now! It’s a better deal all around, and you pay less than the old tariffs.

O2 said that they conveniently don’t have enough resources to call there iPhone customers and tell them of the new cheaper tariff changes. So, if you want to give this a go, or talk to an O2 iPhone customer support person just call 402 from your iPhone handset!

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University iPhone application poll

On April 13, 2010 in Apple, iPhone, Nottingham Trent University.
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Thanks for taking the time to visit this page. Please complete the Poll and submit your results. The findings from this poll may be published as part of my Final Year Dissertation and will definitely be used to help me make decisions regarding the direction of my project.

Which TWO of these options would you use most in a university based application?

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XCode 3.2 not running on MacBook Pro

On April 6, 2010 in Apple, Development.
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So, I have spent the last half an hour waiting for my girlfriend to get her skort on ready for netball trying to fix my first MacBook issue – I could’t get XCode to load?!

I tried a variety of things, but eventually found the problem! The run file (like the exe in Windows) was in the applications folder, where as it should have been in the development/applications/ folder!

Duh! – Seem’s so simple now, just like a shortcut in the wrong place, but its’ taken me half an hour on this new OS to get my head around it. Never the less, it’s SO much fun!

More mac entries coming soon!

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Apple MacBook Pro 13″ 2.53Ghz

On April 5, 2010 in #60SecondShout, Apple, Nottingham Trent University.
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Just a quick one to say I have my NEW MacBook Pro 13″ 2.53Ghz and I love it!

I’m going to use it for my final year dissertation project; Something along the lines of an educational interactive learning game developed using the iPhone platform (Basically a glorified iPhone application!!).

Due to this step-up in my educational performance and seriousness i’m going to add two new categories to the blog; Mac (for all my MacBook tutorials/issues/resolutions) and FYD (The one where I will talk about the progress of my Final Year Dissertation!

WHAY!

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Little White Lie – MacBook Pro Marketing

On April 2, 2010 in General, iPhone, marketing.
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I’m looking at buying a MacBook in the next month or so to stand as the powerhouse behind my Final year dissertation – “Some sort of Interactive Learning application for the iPhone platform” (not the official title!). I went into PC World today to check out the models, and was looking primarily at the 13″ and 15″ MacBook Pros, each with 2.53Ghz processor and 4Gb of RAM.

Anyway, the people at PC World told me that they had basically quote “…Stopped selling the 13″ model due to lack of stock country wide”. I asked why the lack of stock, when such product was in such high demand, to which I got a shrug of the shoulders.

Now, normally I would drop it at that point, but when walking out of the shop I couldn’t help but wonder why Apple would (assuming a little here) produce less of the 13″ model than the 15″ (more conventional) model, as they both contained exactly the same hardware (minus the screen, of cause).

Could it be to sell more of the higher models? No, because there is a 17″ powerhouse also on sale!
Could it be due to lack of 13″ screens? No, because both the 13″ and 15″ screens are produced on site at the same factory using the same resources.
Could it be to promote another product? Possibly, but this just seemed like bad marketing at a time of such high demand.

And then I stumbled across what I think is most likely the answer. The iPad. With its 9″ screen, it is very similar to the small notebook that Apple sell – with almost identical processing power, resolution and alike. My thoughts are that perhaps they have halted production on the 13″ model in preparation (i.e. to build demand even higher) for the iPad.

It all made sense, as the PC world sales person had said the regular shipment had ceased late February. Bingo!

HOLD THE iPHONE! – I got home and rang Apple, only to discover that they had plenty of 13″ models in stock – Could it be that my focus should be on PC World’s marketing, instead of Apple?

Damn you PC World, and please don’t file a law suit, Apple UK!

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