The basics are predictable enough, but there’s more than meets the eye with the first of the EU iPhones. The landscape is subtly (and not so subtly) different there, and the first reports from across the pond paint an interesting picture.

• The British iPhone is claimed to have bronze, not silver trim.
• O2 has implemented user-interface changes. There is a menu for “SIM applications.”
• As suggested in the earlier reports, the new firmware, 1.1.2, bricks unlocked iPhones.

Epicenter’s Bryan Gardiner takes an in-depth look at what it means for Stateside users, especially the expected “rebricking” coming the way of modded and hacked handsets.

“Apple could see significantly less backlash due to the fact it has pre-announced an iPhone SDK in February. In fact, if anyone was still wondering about why Jobs bothered announcing the SDK four months before its release, we may finally have our answer.”

Posted on November 8th, 2007 by admin
Filed under: iPhone News