Today on my way home, just as I got to Baker Street tube, around 6pm, I looked at my Blackberry 8800 to check for tube news. I noticed my GPRS connection had changed to EDGE. I had never seen this before. I had a second look and it definitely said EDGE. The next minute it had gone.

My Blackberry runs on the o2 network. With all the speculation around o2 and the iPhone, was o2 doing some sort of test? I have never heard o2 talk about having an EDGE network before. Time will tell, but it seemed odd to me.

Tags: o2, edge, gadgets, iphone

Last week we had a guest speaker come to the office to talk about virtual worlds and Second Life in particular. He mentioned he had an iPhone. He was very kind, and let me add it to our Wi-Fi network and have a play. It joined easier than some of our laptops do. It worked just as well as promised. Safari was amazing. I didn't get a chance to play with it for long, but flicking through pictures with my finder was great fun.

Whatever the success of the iPhone might be, I think we will all be grateful to Apple. The iPhone will force other phone makers to think about what they are making and we will all get better phones because of it. Hopefully Apple can break the networks control over the phones, and we can have the devices that we want and the manufactures would want us to have.

Tags: iphone, phone, gadgets, mobile

Every other blog had something on the iPhone, so I thought I had better not be left out!

Tags: phone, gadgets, iphone, mobile