Jonathan's blog

Seems like O2 is down this evening. It must be a fairly widespread problem since loads of people have posted about it on Facebook and Twitter.

I searched for information online but there was nothing on O2′s website, which is pretty poor.

Some forums discussed the outage, although there were no facts – only speculation that building work at a data centre had damaged the power supply to the building.

Anyway, I don’t care. I don’t like being phoned, and I also have a Vodafone handset if I particularly feel like calling someone.

As for data service to my iPhone, this is being supplied by my WLAN deathnet. My ADSL is almost as fast as a 3G connection(!)

Perhaps the service I will miss most is SMS – although most of the people I care about will know that I’m also contactable by other text-based protocols.

That said, I’m off to sleep now and will not be contactable by any means for several hours. Goodnight!

I dropped my iPhone 3GS this week. It fell perfectly face down on the pavement, and the glass front shattered.

The screen still works perfectly, and so does the touch-screen. Unfortunately some of the shards of glass are loose and they have an unpleasant tendency to stick in your thumb when you swipe to unlock the phone.

I will almost certainly have to pay for the repair out of my own pocket – and maybe even buy a whole new handset. Currently all of the iPhone handsets retail for over £400.

Broken iPhone

Broken iPhone

I just received my phone bill from O2 by email. See if you can spot the deliberate mistakes. Click for a bigger version.

O2 phone bill