Vodafone is offering customers the chance to win a Flip Video Ultra as an incentive to register their interest in snapping up an iPhone when it launches on the network next year. Read on for details on how to get your mitts on a Flip.

The latest snippets of iPhone news from the network revealed that it was working on personalised app recommendations for the handset and wanted to hear just what apps its customers wanted to see being recommended directly. By taking the trouble to fill in a few tickboxes, interested parties are entered into a draw to win one of five Flip Video Ultra pocket camcorders.

Vodafone is claiming 98 per cent mobile internet coverage across the UK, an important point given recent news that the iPhone is responsible for three quarters of the UK’s mobile internet use all on its own.

But our eager scanning of Vodafone’s latest iPhone anticipation-building news piece revealed nothing new on the two things we really want to know: when the iPhone will be available, and what it will cost. Bah.