So I have an iPhone in my possession with a 3G O2 Simplicity sim card all ready to go. Put the sim card in, having restored the phone, open iTunes. Now I am confronted with a message saying 'Waiting for activation. This may take some time'. Earlier I must have waited for about 4 hours. How long is this going to take??!! Is something wrong? The phone I have is second hand, might that be the issue?

could be anything up to 24 hours....

who is using twitter on the Iphone?

still not done, been well over 24 now. did it have to be connected to iTunes the entire time? Its pissing me off majorly. O2 customer services i suppose...

reset it again

ok done that, will wait and see. you didn't mean restore it did you? I went through the general menu on the settings. what am i actually waiting to happen? a text?

You have connected it to iTunes - right?

yeah its connected. sim card installed and left with 'No service' where the reception should be. I definitely have a 3G sim and that, so should be working. What else to do?

Call 02

Will do at some point, maybe take it in. Cheers Dave.

My Jesus phone is the first casualty of this trip to Ireland. :( The screen lost a battle with the local granite and is smashed to fek.

She still works mind, just a very sad sight to behold.

:(

Skype Lite on the Iphone?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/09/skype_lite/

I won't bother to get that.

FRING allows you to use Skype (including Skype out) when you have a WiFi connection - and the Skype messenger service works fine over 3g and edge. That's good enough for me - with Skype Lite, it seems as if you would have to pay for a local call using the service. What's the point of that, unless you make loads of International Call? As the reviewer points out:

No thanks.

Fring doesn't actually allow you to text chat with other skype users unless they are logged into fring, does it?

And there is the whole issue of giving a third party your Skype login

What is twitter ?

I seem to be able to text chat with my colleagues who are using normal skype on their desktops/laptops from Fring ok.

Of course it does!

My sister lives in Bangkok and uses Skype on her PC. She has never heard of Fring. I am able to talk to her (voice when using my wireless home network - text by Edge/3g) when she is logged into Skype.

Why don't you try it and see?

My new baby turned up this morning and I am pleased to confirm that restoring all my old data and setting transferred across as smoothly as you could possibly hope for.

Interestingly the battery life appears infinately better than my old handset (on it since it arrived and still a full green bar) my sticky text delete key problem also appears to have gone away.

Happy me. :)