Some interesting bugs
NatWest doesn’t have a logo
But it also shows my Starling euro account when adding my NatWest account???
Had the same account listed under my starling account, you can’t add both interestingly
At this point, you should move to Android. I think iOS is out to get you! 
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Thanks for the invite. I both appreciate and fear the ever-growing pressure to jump to iOS
Always loved the hardware. Always loathed the software.
I had an iPhone 3G in 2009. Queued up at a nearby O2 store at silly o’clock to get it. Was well proud when I got the last one from the store. Then had to use it. For 10 months. Jeez, how behind. It didn’t even support SMS until it was upgraded after 6 months. My previous Nokia N95 was more advanced. So I fell down the painful Jailbreaking rabbit hole. Until:
The T-Mobile G1 launched - I jumped. The G1 was ‘OK’ and showed potential, but when the Nexus One launched - oh boy… I was sold. Nexus & Pixel ever since.
Nice trip down Memory Lane there, but I’m still an Android bloke 13 years later. Kids have iPhones and I use various Mac’s at work - so I’m not totally alienated from Apple (although my daily driver is the still-outstanding Lenovo X1 Carbon Nano laptop running Win11 Pro)
I’m just not, personally, that keen on the 
software or closed ecosystem. But I get why millions love it for the same reasons. And I do still use an aging Pixel 5… So for my Next:- Pixel Fold or Pixel 8 Pro or iPhone 15 Pro Max 
Footnote: I’d still use my rock-solid rooted Nexus 6 to teardown - even if I jumped over the fence 
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ITYM MMS, not SMS. The very first iPhone supported SMS from the start, but MMS only came with iOS 3.0 in 2009.
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Was it not carrier-related in the UK? - specifically, O2 (launch carrier) didn’t have SMS or Visual Voicemail until later in 2009, with MMS following at the end of 2009
Or it seemed like that for me - I remember thinking “Why is only email supported?, what a backward step”
Regardless, it was enough for me to ditch it. And quite sad. The reason I got into iPhone in the first place was developing HTML iPhone format webpages for our US customers to access in 2007 - wow!
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The O2 tariff page from 2007 mentions SMS and visual voicemail, so presumably was available from launch. It would be kinda nuts for a phone to not be able to do SMS too, I feel like we’d hear that a lot more than “the original iPhone couldn’t even do 3G!!”
As an aside, it’s quite funny they’re bundling public Wi-Fi to claim it had unlimited data
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I have been known to put stuff in the wrong thread before, but shouldn’t this be in the iPhone discussion thread?
No - the original iPhone (on O2) definitely had SMS otherwise I wouldn’t have got it! I was burning through around 500 texts a month at that time and went from a Windows CE device to the OG iPhone. Here’s a screenshot of the activation process (that you had to do in iTunes):
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My obviously failed memory has been exposed here.
However, after a very successful thread derailing, I’ll shut up.
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I apologise Mr. Walton 
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Oops - for some reason I thought we were in the iPhone Nostalgia thread!
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No need for apologies - you were spot on.
It’s me who has derailed it. So - back to Apple Wallet!
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At least it wasn’t me for once!
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This worked super well for HSBC. Only slight gripe (which is not Apple’s fault) is that HSBC only publish the base currency for the global money account which, to me anyway, is dumb.
So, you can’t see other currency amounts but other than that works well and was super easy to setup.
Not sure what the point of it is, must be the enabler for other things
I remember calling Orange up at the time asking them to change my 500 texts to unlimited.
What a life.
Sim bundles were a strange bunch.
Top up £10 and get 300 sms for the month.
Don’t even send 1 now.
But then back even earlier, Orange out here pack 5 free texts a day for £5 a month top up I think it was 
The real way to talk.
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So what’s the census on here for the onboarding with this?
As good as Monzo’s? Because they’re the gold standard for open banking integration in my book.
Honestly super simple (as is connecting anything to HSBC).
Tapped to add the account, it took me right through to HSBC in app, selected the accounts and authed with FaceID first time.
The same with Lumio and Emma. Not to derail all that much, but HSBC are really gunning for it recently.
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I hope they’ll support Chase before they roll any services out otherwise I’ll feel mighty left out.
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Chase might be supported for all we know? Apple hasn’t announced the full list yet, and given the 9to5 article getting updated the info obviously came from someone playing with the feature on the beta.
Perhaps we should start compiling a list?
Chase integration is really what I want too. So long as it has that and my Barclaycard I’ll be a happy camper.
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Someone with Chase please test this and report back?
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