Will I be able to take the SIM from my 3g phone and use it in my 1st gen phone that i paid outright for?

I find it hard to believe that anyone would design a phone that wouldn't sit flat on a table. The rendering points to a phone that would rock itself to sleep if it is correct. Imagine that sitting on your dashboard!

And what do they care, they're in Ireland!

Bollocks, it was never ready, they're just trying to steal thunder from the other unlocking solution!. The other guys advertised their service to media outlets and never got a midnight call...

My hacked iPhone updated fine and the backup was restored. It's a matter of procedure. First, make sure you have a backup of the backup! Library/Application Support/Mobilesync/Backup (just in case), then click restore, confirm the update and restore dialogue and download the file, while it's downloading unplug the iPhone. Once the file is downloaded plug in the iPhone again and hit restore, now you get a "do you want to restore" message instead of update/restore. It will still update the phone but without the error messages, when it's done wait for the phone to activate before you restore the last backup (i think this is the important part, if you try to restore the backup before the phone activates it'll fail the restore), after all this hack the phone again and bob's-ur-uncle...

12. Fossil Wrist PDA

Not a TAG, but what the hell, it's cool either way.