• How was your iPhone buying experience?

    Existing iPhone owners are now queuing to update their software, but some prospective iPhone buyers  are unhappy they haven’t got the device yet. Mitchell Bingemann at AustralianIT reports that several Optus customers are unhappy they were persuaded to sign up for a plan even though phones weren’t delivered, and now face getting a monthly bill…


  • Apple Pulls iPhone Tethering App

    A $YS9.99 iPhone tethering application called NetShare made a brief appearance in the App Store, but now it’s no longer available. The app purportedly let you use your iPhone’s data connection on your laptop by using it as a proxy server. Of course, you can tether your iPhone 2.0 for free by jailbreaking it.


  • Virgin Mobile enters iPhone fray: where’s the best deal now?

    As expected, Virgin Mobile has officially launched its iPhone plans in Australia — and they look like a relative bargain. With 3 also launching iPhone data plans (even though it can’t sell the phones), Optus updating its plans soon after launch and Telstra dropping its data charges yesterday, the plan landscape is now looking rather…