UK iPhone Sporting Firmware 1.1.2 November 05, 2007
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National iPhone Day in The UK is this Friday, November 9, when punters get a chance to go mad spend an exorbitant amount of money on a phone.
Early hands-on information from T3 says the iPhone will come packing the brand spanking new, 1.1.2 firmware. I’m pretty sure a large chunk of potential UK iPhone users – the Style Set - have absolutely no idea what the hell firmware is but for those that do, it’s a big deal.
Unlike the 1.1.1 firmware, 1.1.2 closes the door on the TIFF exploit that allowed the iPhone to be hacked for use with third party applications. At least it will give the hand-rubbing hackers something new to tackle.
The new firmware does add support for dozens of languages, including full German and French. As already announced, there is also free – yes, free – access to The Cloud WiFi hotspots in the UK – just like the iPod Touch.
Just as well since the cheapest iPhone package will set you back £899.-Martin Lynch
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Why is it only when talking about the iPhone that people have suddenly started to include the monthly line rental in the cost? Right now, on O2's website, the Nokia E90 costs between £650 and £900 by that method of calculation (the cheaper of which is a worse tariff than the iPhone one). But when you reviewed that all you had to say about the price was "the unsubsidised price is around £500 but I can’t see too many people buying this without a contract". That'd be a similarly exorbitantly expensive contract then?
I wonder if the firmware downgrade method will work to lower the firmware to 1.1.1 or even 1.0.2 so it can then be flashed? I doubt 1.1.2 actually adds very much more than patching that Tiff exploit and maybe some O2 specific stuff.
The iPod Touch doesn't come with free Cloud access. (Instead, it's the quite reasonable £3.99 a month, instead of the not-quite-as-reasonable £6.99 an hour that most people pay).