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Can anyone hook me up with a Blyk invite - need to get hold of one so I can get a Blyk SIm and review the service.

Anyone with a spare that can send it my way will win my eternal thanks and a namecheck on IT PRO.

With the news that the ‘Special One’ is out of a job at Chelsea and thus available for management work, funerals and Bar Mitzvahs - given that Spurs chairman Daniel Levy’s assurances about Jol’s tenure as manager have been about as convincing as OJ Simpson denying murder, one has to wonder how long it will be before Jose Mourinho is unveiled as the new Tottenham messiah?

Users in the UK keen to get their hands on an iPhone will have to wait a little bit longer, as Apple confirmed the highly-anticipated smartphone will go on sale in Britain on 9 November. Phone will sell for £269 inc VAT for the 8GB model.

O2 has also released limited details of the three price plans, and confirmed that the unlimited data service will have a fair use cap.

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For many, the day is finally upon us. at 10am this morning Apple is holding a small press event at its Regent Street store to mark the UK launch of the iPhone.

Whether the device will actually go on sale today remains unclear, but whatever happens we will know the following information just after 10am:

• UK pricing
• Exclusive UK network carrier (sadly, this is 99.9 per cent certain to be O2, the Tub of Lard of mobile phone networks)
• Airtime pricing
• On-sale date

Also, a Chris Green prediction - I expect to see Apple also announce a 16GB iPhone today. The launch of the iPod Touch, which is basically an iPhone minus the mobile phone circuitry, in 8GB and 16GB varieties, coupled with Apple ditching the 4GB iPhone and cutting the price on the 8GB model suggests that a 16GB capacity bump was planned, but held back from the recent iPod Special Event in order to give the company something new to announce alongside the UK iPhone launch.

Holding back a 16GB version of the iPhone means the company has a genuine new product skew to underpin  today’s announcement, rather than coming to market and just saying: “The same old iPhone product that has already been on sale since June is now available in another territory.

The one certainty about the iPhone announcement - IT WILL NOT BE 3G. There is no need, no point and most importantly, Apple has not submitted a 3G device for radio-communications approval by Ofcom.

Speaking personally, I would not want a 3G iPhone at this stage, as using 3G would crucify the already borderline battery life of the device.