Leicester (UK) Apple Store to open Thursday
After several years of planning and waiting, the Highcross shopping center in Leicester (UK) is finally ready to go and with it the Highcross Apple Store.
Apple Store Highcross will open on Thursday, September 4th at 10:00 AM. The store is located at the Upper Mall. You can get full travel directions here.
As usual, we’re asking any Apple@CooOne operatives who visit this weekend to send us stories and photos. Good luck, have fun and we’re hoping you score a T-shirt! [Read]
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O2 iPhone paygo plans coming Sept. 16
In June, O2 kind of announced that there would be a pay-as-you-go plan for the iPhone, and now they’ve finally set September 16 as its launch.
UK customers can buy an 8GB iPhone for £350, and a 16GB handset for £400. Both plans come with free web browsing for the first year. (After the first year, it’s £10 per month for unlimited data.) Pricey. Less pricey than, say, Greece, but still pretty steep.
Tariffs will be based on the “Favourite Place” scheme. A £10 – £14 top-up gets you 500 minutes to any UK landline, £15 – £29 gets you 1000 minutes, and £30 or more gets you unlimited minutes. Texts are 10p each.
Taking your iPhone abroad could get spendy, though: downloading 1MB of data in any EU country will cost three quid — six outside Europe — though this is no different than other O2 plans.
O2 also said they will give customers 10 percent of the value of their top-ups over the last 18 months as call time worth up to £200.
[o2.co Via iPhonesTalk and Total Telecom.]
Thanks Ash and William for the heads-up!
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Fixtures and more from iFooty
With 237 (and counting) almost universally glowing reviews, iFooty is one app that’s scoring well on the UK iPhone App Store, riding high on the Top 25 Free apps list.
What it does it pretty simple — aggregating football league data and news articles from a variety of BBC sources — but it does it very well and with great style. As many of the user reviews [App Store link] point out, it’s one of those apps that’s really, genuinely, use-it-six-times-a-day useful.
I should point out, for the vast American majority of readers on this site, that when I say “football,” I mean it in the UK sense of the word. I suspect you know it better as soccer. But over here it’s football, or just footy, and iFooty’s comprehensive coverage of the uppermost football leagues in England (Premier League, Championship, League One, League Two) and Scotland (Premier League) offers something for many millions of fans. And, better yet, it does so for free.
The official iFooty web site doesn’t tell you much; you’re better off going to the App Store for more info.
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Down with this sort of thing
Look Dougal, we’ve done it!
Done what, Ted?
We’re on iTunes, Dougal! In the UK store! Look at all the happy people waving at us! Wave back!
What people are you talking about, Ted?
The people out there with their Apple Macs.
It’s not even raining, Ted.
Just shut up and wave, Dougal!
Are you imagining things again, Ted?
What do you mean, Dougal? When have I ever imagined things? I’m very rational, you know.
Well there was that time with that money…
It was just resting in my account, Dougal, I’ve told you before…
(Addendum, for the mystified: Father Ted was a hugely successful 1990s sitcom, broadcast by the UK’s Channel 4, about three mad Catholic priests and their equally insane housekeeper, all living in peaceful chaos on a remote Irish island. If you’ve never heard of it before, just move on to the next TUAW post and pretend this one never happened. Any further questions will be answered by Father Jack: “That would be an ecumenical matter!”) [Apple]
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Tate Liverpool launches first UK iPhone art exhibition tour
Tate Liverpool, one of the Tate art galleries scattered around the UK (the two main galleries are in London, another is in St Ives) has opened an experimental online exhibition tour for iPhone and iPod Touch owners, which it says is the first of its kind in the country.
From now until the end of August, visitors to the Gustav Klimt exhibition will be able to browse the free guide content to their iPhones over the gallery’s wifi network, or download it beforehand as a podcast. Spare iPod touches with the content pre-loaded will be available for hire for just $6 (£3).
According to an article about the experiment in Design Week magazine, the guide has been very popular and upped average visit times from 45 minutes to three hours.
If you want to try the tour for yourself without making the trip to Liverpool, you can enjoy it in full on the web. Thanks to Jonathan for the tip.
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