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My desk, originally uploaded by brucieweb.

View of files on my desk. This was simutaniously uploaded to Flickr and posted to this blog via an e-mail from my iPhone. Pretty neat and handy. There is a really cool app called AirMe, which can upload your images from your iPhone to Flickr and includes geo-location data and the weather!

Well, what a morning, got a text at 8am, which I only saw at 9am telling me that I could pre-order the iPhone 3G for delivery on the Friday launch day online.

I tried lots of times and managed to get half way though twice, before the process was closed down at about  lunchtime.

Arse, lots of chat about it online:

O2 taking orders for iPhone 3G
O2 iPhone ordering system creaks, strains
O2 out of stock of iPhone 3G online
O2 admits ‘unprecedented’ demand for iPhone 3G
iPhone 3G orders reached 13,000 per second – O2

Wow! 13,000 orders per second! Wow! Ok, fiar enough, no site could cope with that. Though it does seem like they have somewhat underestimated demand, which seems to be much much more than the original iPhone launch in the UK. Seems like the stores only have about 40 each with a total of 18,000 for the UK launch day!

A lot of people are going to be disapointed, I may be one of them. Will try my luck at the O2 store a 7 Oxford St, walking distance from my work – weel, lets see, will try to get there just before they open at 8.02am..

Apple (United Kingdom) – iPhone, originally uploaded by brucieweb.

It’s here people, can’t wait to get my hands on it! I will be so organised having all my data on me at all times and kept in sync up to the minute over the wire!

Apple (United Kingdom) – MobileMe, originally uploaded by brucieweb.

I’ve already signed up for the first year of this. Can’t wait, it will be great to have seamless syncing of all my email, calendars, contacts and photos between apple’s and the web!

Eat this Window’s Live Mesh!

Live Mesh Tech Preview-More, originally uploaded by brucieweb.

MobileMe kicks the arse off this!

So we are an hour in, and we have seen some very cool apps from the first developers. These are going to be amazing, work much better than in a browser and pixel perfect design for the iPhone screen. And many features of the new iPhone 2.0 software 
The eBay one looked very smart
 

and this med app
 

Games too
 

and enterprise feature set
 

We have just seen a new service called MobileMe, this was leaked. Looks cool, sync everything over the wire, like dot.mac, but much better.  it has an amazing web 2.0 website to support the service called me.com – this just completely blew Microsoft’s Live Mesh thing out of the water! 

looks very cool, add a new contact to me.com, it appears in your iPhone in ten secs, same for calendar appointments. Both ways, seamlessly. It’s going to be $99 p/a. 

Introducing the iPhone 3G. Here we go!!

Apple has learned so much with the first iPhone. They have taken everything they’ve learned and more and created the iPhone 3G. Even thinner, black plastic back, solid metal buttons, same gorgeous display, camera, flush headphone jack, and dramatically improved audio.

GPS support now integrated into the iPhone. With GPS, the iPhone can do tracking. A pulsating dot is moving across the Google map as a car drives down Lombard street. Data from cell towers, WiFi networks, and now — GPS.Showing all the countries, playing Small World — most of South America… Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, Czech, Switzerland, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Malta, Croatia, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Greece, Turkey, Jordan, Egypt, Niger, Mali, Senegal, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Kenya, Botswana, South Africa… man, way too many countries!

Now on to the final challenge — affordability. Started at $599 for an 8GB iPhone, now $399. The iPhone 3G 8GB will sell for… $199. $299 for the 16GB — a white version of this size will be available too. The iPhone 3G will be available July 11th in 22 countries. The maximum price around the world is $199 USD.

available in the 22 biggest markets on 11th July! Whoohoo! That will be a wicked birthday present!

Now showing an ad.

and that is it folks. Wicked, it looks very cool indeed. No other iTouch devices as always, and no iPhone Nano, still, the new version looks amazing, and I will get one. Not hugely sure about the black/white plastic, I thought they were getting away from that, and it was all aluminum from now on. Interesting departure indeed.The Apple site has just been updated with some killer images. You can see the ad here.  It is getting hammered as you can imagine, I will post some pics here later. 

Big day today at 6pm (UK time) the mighty Jobs will preach to the converted, and alow us to see what they have been working on at Cupertino.

Live blog updates are here:Engadget | Gizmodo | Macworld US | MacWorld UK | MacRumors

And on twitter:Engadget | Gizmodo | MacRumors

There are probably many more, but that is enough to be getting on with. I have added the three above and expect my mobile to light up at 6pm! This is the first year I am going to follow a SteveNote on twitter, I will try and get home for 6 – or else I will be at work till 7.30ish, and will follow on the web too.

I am not the only one looking at twitter at this time, it is a big day for them too!

Such excitement, they are so amazingly good at hyping us all up for these big announcements, Apple are. There really is nothing to compare it too in the entire tech industry.Wonder if Steveo get’s nervious? He puts in remarkable rehersal and prep time prior.

I now own one of these babys! Nice, but prob should have waited until Apple reveal their new products on Tuesday – rumor of an ultra mobile laptop called a MacBook Mini! Could be very cool.

Still, this is a cool piece of kit, pretty much almost an iPhone without the phone. The wifi and web browser swung it for me in the end, and getting it for £70 cheaper on eBay from my trusted trader I got my 160gb iPod Classic from!

The Cloud, who offer the free* on the hoof wi-fi access at their 7500 points for the iPhone, offer Touch owners the ability to access the same network for £4/month – might have to get that too!

I am spending like a bastard on Apple at the moment…can’t get enough of them!

This product was released on 7th September 2007.

*as part of the monthly £35, 45, 55 tariffs from O2.

UPDATE: Well, I got this a day later and I am well impressed! The interface and the software are spot on, it truely is a mobile computer, not just an iPod, and it is so light and thin.

It is totally responsive, instant on and has great battery life and is very quick to recharge. It can recharge to 80% in 1.5h. Pretty neat.

The wi-fi is so very handy while out and about. I have joined up on The Cloud network, but now wonder if the BT OpenZone may have been better – it is more expensive, but they are all over Westminster.

The Safari web browser is good, but some webpages look crap in it – and it is quite hard to type on the keyboard. The sites that work best are the ones that have been optimised for the iPhone/iPod Touch – like Google and Facebook. I guess we will get to see more of these, especially as this platform has now gathered 27% of the smart phone market from a standing start!

The iPod part of the system works so well, Cover Flow is quick, smooth and works so well, it is an interface that lends itself so well to being flipped through by your fingers. The whole interface really does. It is amazingly intuative – no guide book included or required.

 All in all, it is a very very cool piece of technology – the iPod certainly has come of age – we have been waiting a long time for the full screen iPod, but no one ever thought that it would look or work this good.

Makes me want an iPhone more than ever! I am going to wait and see what Tuesday brings – and maybe manage to hold off till Novemeber/next Jan! Yeah, right!

Got this today – looks immense! I will be able to carry around every tune, video, podcast and photo I have. The size is amazing. My first iPod was 60gb, and I thought that was huge. One of the main reasons for upgrading has to be the video ability and new user interface – both of which are excellent.

 This is a total indulgance mind you, and I did’t REALLY need it. I had a good play with the iPhone in the Apple Store last night. It is really smart, but I was almost a little bit disapointed. It is a bit bigger and thicker than I thought, and the OS was a tad sluggish. I reckon I would love one, but may be a little disapointed. It is hard for anything to live up to such hype.

I think I am glad I managed to control myself and wait until the later versions. V2 will be out in January, and they are already working on version 4. Also out in Jan is expected an Apple sub-notebook – their first since my 12″ PowerBook stopped production.

That is something I am sure I am going to be interested in. Although, with classic timing, I just bought a 2nd hand white MacBook on eBay and have since upgraded the memory to 2gb and hard drive to 250gb – it is a flying machine. Never mind, something that spec should have good resale value – esp once I upgrade it to Leapord/Vista/Office 2007 & Office for Mac 2008! Niiiiiice!