To request an SMS delivery report in the UK (O2) simply add *0# to the beginning of the text message and continue the message as normal. When the SMS is received a delivery report (delivery receipt) will appear as another iChat bubble on your iPhone; below your original message (you get a text message back).

SMS delivery report codes are different for each mobile network and each country. Some mobile networks do not offer SMS delivery report codes. These codes will work on other phones as well as iPhones. Here are some codes for other networks. You need to type the code before your text message, and its probably best to leave a space as some providers require this. They are also case sensitive:

UK Mobile Networks
O2 prefix *0#
Orange prefix RCT
T Mobile prefix *0#
Virgin prefix *0#
Vodafone – No code exists for Vodafone
Channel Islands; Jersey Telecom *0#

US and Australia Cell Networks
US T–Mobile prefix *noti#
Australia Three *not#

European Mobile Networks
Belgium Base prefix *N#
Belgium Proximus prefix *R*
Czechoslovakia o2 prefix YYYY
Denmark prefix *0#
Denmark Bibob prefix *KV#
Denmark Three prefix *NM#
Finland Sonera prefix *0#
Germany T-Mobile *T#
Germany Vodafone D2 prefix *N#
Germany O2 prefix *N#
Germany e-plus prefix *N#
Greece Vodafone GR prefix *#
Greece Wind prefix *0#
Greece Cosmote *0#
Holland T-mobile prefix NM#
Hungary T-mobile prefix *KV# or
Ireland O2 prefix *R*
Ireland meteor prefix *R*
Italy Wind prefix *n#
Luxembourg Tango prefix *0#
Norway Telenor k#
Poland PlusGSM prefix XYZ
Portugal Vodafone prefix *NOT#
Romania Orange prefix *NOT# or *NM#
Slovakia Orange prefix *?#
Spain Movistar prefix *N#
Spain Yoigo prefix *N#
Sweden Telia prefix *KV#
Sweden Comviq prefix KV#
Sweden Telenor prefix ##
Switzerland Swisscom prefix *NOT#

Other Mobile Networks
Vodacom / Mtn prefix  rrr
Singapore SINGTEL prefix #R#
Brasil Oi prefix *N#
Brasil Clario prefix *N#
Israel Orange prefix NM#
India Vodafone prefix *NOT#
Qatar Qtel prefix *N#
Maxis Malaysia *N#
Egypt vodafone prefix *VF#
Egypt Mobinil prefix *NM
India Ideal prefix YYYY
India Vodafone prefix *NOT# or *N#
Lebanon MTC Touch prefix *N#
Angola Unitel prefix *N#
Algeria Djezzy prefix *N#
Indonesia telkomsel prefix *N#
Indonesia Satelindo prefix R#
Serbia Telenor prefix *!#
Serbia MTS prefix *!#
Croatia T-Mobile prefix *r* or *r#
Croatia VIP prefix !
Turkey Turkcell prefix *N#
Bangladesh Grameenphone prefix YYYY
Bangadesh banglalink prefix *n#

If you have other codes, please post them in the comments and I will add them. Thanks!

“ Monday July 7th, 8am. New email; O2 now accepting preorders. 8:34am my order is placed, I have a confirmation email. iPhone 3G will be delivered on Friday before 10am.” …was that too easy?…..

Monday

O2’s website worked flawlessly when I used it, but for many it just collapsed. Users were left wondering whether their order had gone through, and were pulling their hair out. By the afternoon the website was closed to pre-orders. iPhone 3G sold out.

Tuesday & Wednesday
Tuesday and Wednesday saw fever pitch speculation over on the O2 forums. Many users had orders in-progress, some [seemingly] failed orders were suddenly appearing, and others were having orders randomly cancelled. We weren’t happy lambs.

The mood was lifted when orders started to change from “in-progress“ to “complete”. I had a sudden addiction to the O2’s order status page and the refresh button.

Thursday
By Thursday we were flapping, many orders were still “in-progress”. Speculation was growing. Why hadn’t our order status changed? did O2 actually have enough stock to fulfill it’s preorders?

I spoke to O2 customer services on three separate occasions during the week and their staff were always polite and helpful. They reassured me the iPhone would arrive on launch day and I wouldn’t be disappointed.

By 5pm on Thursday it was clear it wasn’t going to happen. A final call to O2 confirmed it; they couldn’t fulfill my order and weren’t sure when they would be able to. Their website was talking about availability “by the end of the summer”.

Carphone Warehouse To The Rescue: At 5:15pm I phoned Carphone warehouse and explained my plight. It was a long shot. Their reply? “No Problem”, they would have an iPhone 3G delivered tomorrow …… and do you know what?…… They weren’t joking. I placed an order at 5:15pm on Thursday and received it at 8:30am Friday.

Thoughts
It’s been a difficult week for O2. Nobody is entirely clear how many preorders they took, but there were a lot. Many have criticised O2 for raising expectations and dashing them. It was always going to be hard for O2 to cope, but IMHO their order system should have been capped. They should only have accepted pre-orders for phones they could deliver. But could anyone really have coped with the insatiable demand? probably not.

“Was the iPhone 3G worth it?” don’t ask silly questions!

UPDATE: I’m disappointed to hear that my Carphone Warehouse order may have been fulfilled at the expense of other CPW users who ordered on Monday! in the same way that my 8:30am order with O2 on Monday was passed over for later orders placed at 1PM. Come on guys its not that difficult!

According to MacRumors the second generation iPhone is expected to adopt 3G for faster internet access, along with a number of ground breaking features. These could include a forward facing camera for video calls and a GPS receiver for satellite navigation. As always there has been much speculation as to the design of the new iPhone, with a number of ‘leaked’ photos circulating the Internet.
With the actual launch expected to be sometime in late June or July in the US, UK users are left wondering about possible launch dates in the UK and whether it will be long after the US launch. Many have speculated that it’s likely to be soon after the US because of its predecessors popularity.

On a personal level the first iPhone has been such an amazing buy (despite the critics views) that I can’t wait to get my hands on the iPhone 2.0. I may even consider switching to O2 and signing up on a contract (I currently use an unlocked iPhone on Vodafone). My only gripe is the duration of the existing O2 contracts, which appear to be around 18 months (far too long). Either way it seems extremely unlikely that second iPhone will be made available on any other network, at least to being with.

The idea is to plug the pocket drive into the macbook pro, clone the existing hard disk to the attached usb disk, verify the usb disk by booting off of it and finally physically install the Scorpio Hard disk into the laptop. This takes all of the data and the operating system from your old hard drive, and puts it all on to a new bigger drive. Buying the WD3200BEVT as part of the WD Pocket drive is about £20 more than buying the disk alone, but it gives you an easy method of transferring your system to a new disk without reinstalling everything.

First Step: Make sure you repartition the Pocket drive first so that it has one partition and the GUID option is chosen (under options). Using disk utility I performed a restore of my current hard disk to the attached pocket drive. This clones the internal hdd to the external usb drive. The process took about two hours. I then booted off of the USB drive (system preferences -> startup disk) to check that the drive was working and held all of my data. Next I disconnected and disassembled the pocket drive, removed the WD3200BEVT hard disk and began taking apart my macbook pro with the help of the ifix-it guide and some YouTube videos.

I found it useful to print out the ifix-it guide and whilst following the step-by-step instructions I taped the screws to corresponding section (in the instructions) using masking tape. Using this method I was able to make sure that none of the screws were muddled up or lost, and I knew where to fit them during reassembly, simply by following the instructions in reverse.

The hard disk upgrade has been completely successful and I also took the opportunity to install 4gb of RAM.

Now any time that you press the voicemail button on your iPhone it will automatically dial your voicemail and you can pickup your messages!

When I tried to fire up Safari on the iPhone I got the error “Could not activate EDGE: you are not subscribed to EDGE”. The EDGE settings (GPRS) that are posted on some of the forums for Vodafone UK are incorrect. You need the following settings to use the web (when not in range of wi-fi) on the UK vodafone network. These settings are correct for my contract with vodafone, not sure about pay as you go.

These are the iPhone EDGE APN settings. In your iphone go to:

> Settings > General -> Network ->EDGE

Enter the following:

APN: internet
Username: web
Password: web

Now go back to safari and try and load a page. Should work!

Update: One user was having problems with these settings and it was because EDGE had been disabled. You need to check it is enabled before using these settings. Some Pay As You Go (PAYG) customers have said that these Vodafone EDGE APN settings work on the PAYG platform as well.