Success! My iphone is an import which I brought from Italy because I wanted to use it with my existing provider. I had a phenomonally bad experience with British Telecom a few years back which has left me sure in the knowledge that they are the most incompetent bunch of retards that should be avoided at any cost and so although icraved an iphone I knew I had to find a way of using it on my own network rather than that excuse for a network known as O2.
So having brought it I synced it with itunes which promptly told me there was a update to the latest operating system 2.2. I’ve hung off upgrading for a while because I’ve heard stories of people upgrading and essentially bricking their phone which makes it of no more use than a paperweight. Apparently the iphone has two operating systems, one for the software which makes the iphone such a pleasure to own and use and one called baseband which is the software for the phone elements on the device. If you have a UK iphone and you upgrade it I understand that the baseband change prevent the phone from working on any network but O2, however, because my phone is an import the baseband upgrade does not stop it working on other networks.
Today I called into the Mac shop in Solihull; a truely fabulous place for anyone with the slightest bit of geek in them; and spoke to an iphone genius – that’s what they call them :-0 – who said I should be fine to go ahead with the upgrade. So today I did and it works fine. It’s a bit of a relief becaue having spent over £500 on the phone it would have been a bit gutting to have turned it into a pretty paperweight!
Now that I’ve upgraded I have been able to download the rememberthemilk application which is a task manager I highly recommend and which I’ve been aching to use on the iphone since I became a pro account user. I’ll let you know more about that in due course.
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