I’m on to my thirteenth upgrade code from O2 and still no closer to knowing if I have an iPhone3G. A little frustrating to say the least.

The system for sending out upgrade codes seems to work, even if it is a little temperamental. It’s a shame their IT bods didn’t think of the demand required to process everyone’s upgrade. Their upgrade website is up and down more times than a yo-yo at the moment!

Update
I managed to get mine. Adrian blames me for not being able to get his. Haha!

As much as I like my iPhone, there are some things about it that annoy me. Here’s what I can come up with so far.

1. I can’t send a group text message. Annoying when trying to arrange things with multiple people at once.
2. I have to email pictures, I can’t MMS them to anyone. Slightly irritating as a lot of people don’t have email on their phones.
3. After receiving a call, I’m transferred to the Phone menu with a list of my contacts. Why that’s Apple?! I was writing a text message, why can’t you put me back on that screen?
4. When in the Mail screen viewing an email, it’s not possible to turn the iPhone and get a landscape view of the email (good for long sentences, etc)
5. Why when docked does the phone still vibrate?
6. It’s not particularly easy to sync photos OFF the phone.
7. I love the dashboard, but not everyone is a stock market wizard. Let me move things around and take icons out.
8. When EDGE data is not present the internet/email is slow. Very very slow.

Feel free to add your own in the comments.

Yep. It’s a sad fact that I’m a major Apple fan and had to buy an iPhone on the day it came out.

Adrian and I were originally going to be sensible and turn up around 5pm. That was before subconsciously I decided I wasn’t going to go into college and overslept, thus giving us an excuse to go Wimbledon early. We got to the O2 store around 3.40pm and were the first loosers fans on site.

Ray, our concierge for the evening, was good at his job. He kept us informed and made sure we knew what the iPhone was about. He also got us free swag. Swag is good when it’s free. We very sadly wore our iPhone t-shirts with pride whilst unpacking and activating said iPhones.

I’ve now just got to wait whilst my number transfers over and then I’ll b completley applised!

The company had been planning to advertise data usage on the iPhone as ”unlimited”, while insisting on a ”fair usage” policy, whereby it could cap use at 200 megabits of data per month. Fair-usage policies are a standard approach across the sector.

”So we’ve taken the decision to remove the fair usage cap so that ‘unlimited’ really does mean ‘unlimited’ – this is a market first.” Telegraph article.

Fine by me!

There’s plenty of sources today rumouring the iPhone release on O2.