Sigurd Høgsbro

I have been travelling a bit since I got my iPhone, and got a nasty shock yesterday when the phone was barred by O2 for having reached a billing-level of £323 above my monthly subscription. Due to a bug in the O2 web portal this level of charges were not apparent to me.

After 3 sets of emails back & forth to their (outsourced) helpdesk that left me frustrated I called the O2 iPhone customer support line. A nice Northern englishman took me through the website navigation to the right page to show me how the charges had arisen. He then surprised me by gently offering to in this instance waive the data-roaming costs incurred; as this was my first bill using the iPhone. Magic!

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Check it out on Foreign Policy

Thanks to Torn for bringing this to my attention - Alston report: AFP behind killings. The full report has more detail (local copy).

Until Apple release the SDK for the iPhone, we are relegated to creating iPhone aware web-apps. I was inspired by the Facebook and Google optimised pages for the iPhone to investigate the details of the Safari browser.

Here are some resources to help you create Safari-savvy pages:

• Web Page Development: Best Practices
• ADC iPhone Dev Center
• ADC Internet & Web: Safari

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As my iPhone sports Safari, I’ve been investigating this browser with more gusto than before. Safari has recently become available for Windows!

I got an iPhone for my birthday!

It’s a very sexy piece of kit; features I especially like are:

• the sleek looks!
• the behaviour of scrolling lists - love the ’springy’ behaviour
• email support for IMAP
• the gyroscopic sensor, which in some applications changes the view orientation
• embedded Google Maps and YouTube applications

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