Tag: launch
iPhone UK launch: Liveblogging the Apple press conference
So, here we go again. It’s a cold September morning, and yet again, we’re all here, poised, ready and waiting for an Apple announcement. Except this one is slightly different.
We know what the product is. We don’t know who’s going to tell us about it (there are rumours that we’ll get an Actual Steve Sighting) and we’re not entirely sure what the details are going to be (although the smart money is on O2). It’s also UK specific, lending further weight to the iPhone-report stuff. If Steve does turn up, I’m three rows from the front. If the phone does go to O2, I have an O2 contract. And if it’s not an iPhone announcement? Well, we’re all screwed.
Apple iPhone announcement in London tomorrow: will O2 be confirmed as network provider?
I think we all know by now, don’t we. Since UK journalists were invited last week to the top secret press conference at Apple’s Regent Street store, rumours have been circulating over just what they’ll be announcing, and everyone’s finger keeps on being pointed in one direction – the iPhone.
The Guardian is reporting today that after months of wrangling, O2 has been chosen as the exclusive network carrier for the iPhone in the UK, a deal which one operator told the newspaper was “madly money-losing”. T-Mobile, Vodafone and Orange were all being courted by Apple as well, and reportedly pulled out when the stakes got too high and the figures being mentioned meant they wouldn’t actually earn any money from the deal whatsoever.
Infact, 40% of revenue gained will be returned to Apple, it’s being rumoured, leaving not much for the actual carrier to play with. Sources who spoke to the Guardian are claiming that all four networks were played off against one another by Apple, all believing they had an exclusive, confirmed deal for the iPhone…
Shopping social networking site OSOYOU launches in beta
Surely some girls read Tech Digest, right? You’re not all hovering around Shiny Shiny getting your fix of all things pink and fluffy, are you? So hopefully there’s some of you who’ll be interested to hear that OSOYOU, the sparkly new social networking site we happen to share an office with here at Shiny Towers, just launched in beta yesterday.
Allowing you to create user profiles, drag and drop items to your wishlist using their super-cool clothes hanger, bookmark…
Video: the Yamaha Tenori-On music sequencer in action
Yesterday night, Yamaha held the world launch of its Tenori-On music sequencer, so despite the tube strike, I schlepped into Soho to hipster-joint Vinyl Records to see what the fuss was about. Tenori-On designer Toshio Iwai was demonstrating the device, as you can see from the video below.
The Digital Video Rocket – for your own Google Maps service
The Digital Video Rocket is a little home rocket, for amateur enthusiasts to fire off and, hopefully, avoid hospitalising themselves with severe burns.
The beauty of this potentially dangerous thing is its shock-resistant nose cone, which houses a little digital camera…
10 things we learned from the US iPhone launch
It’s 1am here in the UK, and at the time of writing, there’s a bunch of happy iPhone owners in New York, and thousands of people still queuing in San Francisco. I’ve been liveblogging the iPhone’s launch night for several hours, so what have we learned?
Liveblog of the Apple iPhone launch: Part Two
I've been liveblogging the iPhone launch all night, but much as I love everyone on the West Coast of America, I can't prop my eyelids up with matchsticks any more to cover the launch there too. There's a few posts…
iPhone Launch Live Blog: Events as they happen
Tech Digest’s liveblog of iPhone launch day, with news, analysis and live on-the-spot reportage from New York’s Apple Store. Well, Susi badgering people in the queue, anyway… We’re in the UK, so all times are GMT.
Five ways London can improve on the US Apple iPhone launch
Ok, so that bloke might have queued for five days in New York. But it was in June. I’d like to see him pull of the same trick in freezing wintry London when we get our iPhone launch. So come…
Techdigest liveblogs the London Apple iPhone launch
11.41 – Incredible. With just five months left before launch, no Apple die-hards have formed a queue outside the London store. Bloody lightweights. Don't they realise what a great media opp is passing them by. 11.44 Oh hang on…
