Taking my iPhone for the first time oversea, travelling Europe.
Landing in Frankfurt, Germany I switched the iPhone on and it connected without any problems tow carrier. In my case Vodaphone.
I made my first call without any problems, as easy as home. Since I really don’t need my iPhone for calls, but rather for Internet I decided to leave the iPhone 3G in airplaine mode with WiFi connection on. For making calls I just have to switch airport mode off, connect with a carrier and place the call. When done I switch back to airplaine mode.
To get mail I only need WiFi and the mail app. I update manuel my mail and writing mail is also very convient, like home.

All over I am very happy right now. I only wished to have tested the mail app and my mail accounts before leaving. It turns out I miss a password and to recover it proves difficult.
Against this problem you are smart to use 1password app. More about it in my next post.

I just connected my iPhone to my PC and I was told there is the new a new Apple iPhone 3G firmware available and what shall I say. After reading what is all new in version 2.2 I had to update.

As I write this post to iTunes is downloading the new iPhone 2.2 firmware. Since my computer is not the news one it will take a while but you can expect to have the download done in 5 minutes or less if you got an intel duo 2.x computer. 

For me the most exciting update is to Click to continue »

Softbank Japan is given hope to the growing number of iPhone users in Japan who are missing the emotion icons in SMS as it is used and known on all mobile phones in Japan.

“Email without emoticons can’t be email in Japan,” said SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son. “We persuaded Apple Computer (to localize iPhones for the Japanese market).” Softbank Mobile will add the emoticon function to Apple iPhones within the year through an update program.

If the company is providing the update on time for the Christmas/ year end sale season, it has a good chance to increase the number of its iphone users in this important year end sale.

Yahoo!BB will provide free WiFi connection for its iPhone customers in Japan using its own hotspots all over Japan as Mobile carrier Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son said on Thursday during a presentation of the winter season handset collection.

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Softbank will bring 1seg TV to the iPhone in Japan. Not many details have been revealed at this point. It is expected that the device will not only bring digital TV to the iPhone 3G, but also will be an extra battery to enhence the limited life of the current 4-hour the iPhone has.

As Masayoshi Son presented the device on Thursday to Click to continue »