Just last week we launched our new laptop etching/engraving service for owners of anodised metal notebook computers such as the MacBook Pro and also for gadgets such as iPods and the metal backed 2G iPhone. But what to do for the owners of plastic products such as the MacBook and the new 3G iPhone?
The solution is one of our full colour wraps! These are self-adhesive, fully custom printed and custom sized skins. They peel off if you fancy a change and while in situ offer great scratch protection for your precious laptop or phone.
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If you upgraded to the iPhone 3G via Carphone Warehouse (or possibly an O2 store I suppose) check your O2 online billing to see what tariff they put you on.
I upgraded from the £35 iPhone tariff to the £45 tariff at the same time as buying the iPhone 3G, and the numpty at Carphone Warehouse moved me to a £45 tariff indeed giving the correct number of free minutes (1200), but it was not an iPhone tariff. I only noticed when I tried to access my Visual Voicemail today at it refused to work, instead insisting on calling 901 the old fashioned way. When I couldn’t get it to work I figured something was up and checked my tariff via the O2 website and noticed it said “Online 45″, not “iPhone 45″.
A quick call to O2 confirmed it. I was on the wrong tariff which meant I was only getting 500 texts instead of 1000 txts but more importantly, no inclusive data. O2 tell me that the excess data charges will automatically be credited off my bill but I’ve heard that line before! I’ll have to check it carefully next month.
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The WiFi which was working fine yesterday refuses to find any access points today. Tried switching it off and on, resetting network settings, restoring the whole phone, everything. Won’t find a thing.
So I booked it into the Genius Bar at the Apple Store in Regent Street, London and jumped on the tube.
I then noticed that the phone would not find a 3G signal, that seemed to have packed up in sympathy (at this rate I’m going to end up with an expensive contract iPod Touch!).
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Up to and including your old iSight webcam…
Basically it ended up as 1-0 to the iSight camera. It was a foregone conclusion I suppose what with it being made from metal and the keyboard being plastic…
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My MacBook Pro is a great machine, it’s the best notebook computer I’ve ever owned. In fact it’s the best computer I’ve ever owned. Period.
But since the day I bought it, in February 2007, it’s had an appetite for batteries. The battery life is very short. And by that I don’t mean the time between charges, I mean the battery has a short lifespan.
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As I already have a 16GB 2G iPhone I’m eligible for an upgrade to the 3G model for £59 (on the £45 per month tariff) so I decided to take advantage.
I popped to Lakeside mall in Essex at 9:30AM and was told by both O2 stores that there were no 16GB models left. So I headed over to a branch of Carphone Warehouse and grabbed one of their last ones.
I was told the wait would be considerable as the O2 servers were struggling to cope with the demand so they took my number, reserved me phone and told me they’d call me when it went through.
I nipped over to Starbucks and an hour later I had my 3G iPhone.
Not a bad experience.
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Some enterprising individual has figured out the url for the iPhone’s 2.0 firmware update file. So even though iTunes tells you there are no updates available, you can manually download it and force iTunes to install it.
Simply download the file, rename it to remove the .zip file extension (if Safari unzips it for you and unhelpfully trashes the original file, retrieve it from the trash and rename it), option-click “check for update” in iTunes and point it to the file (it will give you a file selector box). Then 15 minutes later you’ll be on 2.0 and can install all those tasty new apps!
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EDIT: We now also offer full colour wraps!
Thanks to a rather expensive laser marking machine we can now laser engrave laptop computer lids! The only stipulation is that the laptop lid needs to be anodised metal. Apple Powerbooks or MacBook Pro’s fall into this category, as do some Sony Vaio’s and others. The fully computer controlled machine etches your image onto the lid by using a highly accurate 75W C02 laser to burn the anodising layer off at a super fine 1000dpi (dots per inch).
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