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According to recent reports, Apple iPhone has serious connection problems on the British O2 wireless network.

The carrier received complains from its customers that most of the time they see a "No service" sign of the screen. There was a suggestion on Apple’s Support Forums to fully restore the phone's firmware to avoid any more issues, but frankly speaking the problem must be in the network itself, especially when knowing that the indoor reception turns out to be even worse.

British carrier O2 came up with the idea of using NFC-enabled cell phones as mobile wallets.

Users will be able to make purchases, access events and even use public transport by touching the phone to a reader. The company announced it will hold a 6 month trial starting November 28, 2007, where 500 participants will each be given a Nokia 6131 NFC handset bundled with O2 Wallet including virtual cards (Oyster and Barclaycard) with NFC functionality.

According to O2, they have activated 8,000 iPhones on Friday, which is 3 times more than the company expected previously.

Anyway, in comparison with the U.S. release in summer, 8,000 handsets seem pretty much nothing.

Here are some leaked photos of the O2 XDA Denim smartphone (formerly known as the O2 Helen) made by the FCC.

 Manufactured by Taiwanese Gigabyte, this 3.5G WM6-based handset comes with a really nice feature set, which includes:

• Networks: tri-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE and single-band UMTS/HSDPA
• Connectivity: Wi-Fi (b/g) and Bluetooth 2.