Optus has just announced iPhone plans including pre-paid and post-paid plans for those who registered on their iPhone site.
To summarise these:
$79 a month gets you an iPhone for free
Include 800MB of data per month.
Unlimited data usage in the first month applies.
Prepaid the phone costs $729 for 8GB and $849 for 16GB phone
These are pretty good, [...]
Applesource has reported that the iPhone will be on its way to Australia in Late June - and that the model will be the next generation iphone!
I say bring it on! Have a look at the complete story here at applesource.com.au.
Skype today released the first Beta of Skype for Mobile, which allows users of most new mobile phones to run a version of Skype on their phone. The Beta allows you to:
Send messages to your contacts
Receive calls from Skype contacts (charged at SkypeOut rates)
Make calls to Skype contacts if you live in Brazil, Denmark, Estonia, [...]
I use MSN, Skype and GTalk to keep in touch with work colleagues all day everyday. I’ve always wanted to be able to do it on my mobile phone, however you usually have to pay a monthly fee to do this, and you have to run a different client for each protocol.
Now, there is [...]
Opera released Opera Mini 4.1 yesterday, which is an update to their very handy free mobile phone browser service. As previously noted, Opera Mini is much faster than regular browsers on your mobile, as it actually redirects your requests to Opera’s servers which then compress the pages so they display better on your phone.
This latest [...]
I am an avid mobile phone user, however I don’t yet have the joy of owning an iPhone as they haven’t been released yet in Australia (and I can’t be bothered imported a cracked one from the US). So i’ve been putting up with the usable, however limited, built-in browser on my Sony Ericsson.
Enter [...]
I use Gmail for all my email and love it. I’ve gotten used to using the conversation based layout of Gmail and have recently moved all my email across to Google Apps, which allows me to use Gmail for my own domain.
After doing this however, I was unable to access my Gmail from my mobile [...]