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Orange avoids iPhone price war

Orange will provide the 3G iPhone free on a two-year contract but the new 3GS model will remain an expensive option

Orange, the mobile phone operator, has resisted the temptation to spark an iPhone price war when it starts to sell the Apple device next week.

Orange will provide a standard 3G iPhone free to customers taking a two-year contract at £30 a month, slightly less than O2’s £35 a month.

However, the 3GS, the latest iPhone model, remains expensive. It will be free for customers signing up to a long-term deal at £45 a month, or £175 for those paying £34.26 a month over two years. That compares with O2’s £175.19 upfront payment on the same price plan.

The mere 19p saving will frustrate those customers who had hoped that Orange would spark a price war after it won the right to sell the iPhone alongside O2.

James Parker, mobiles manager at moneysupermarket.com, said: “There is still the prospect of Vodafone offering the iPhone in the new year, which may really get the competition going.”
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Major, minor iPhone 3.1 upgrade problems and how to fix them

A number of iPhone Atlas readers, and numerous more on Apple’s Discussion boards, have reported a bevy of problems–some large, some small–after upgrading to iPhone OS 3.1.

The following two procedures work to solve a number of the reported problems:

• Reset your iPhone by holding down the sleep and home buttons until the Apple logo appears.
• Restore your iPhone: In iTunes, click the Restore button under the Summary tab. Restoring the phone will erase contacts, calendars, photos, and other data on the phone, but will restore automatically backed-up information including text messages, notes, call history, contact favorites, sound settings, widget settings, etc. Of course, make sure that you back up your phone before restoring.

However, some issues–chronicled below–persist:
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