I really enjoy listening to Jason Calacanis when he’s on TWiT, and I think he generally makes a lot of sense (and considering his success, he clearly knows more than me). However, his anti-Apple rant (like so many others) is really off-base (I’m not the only one that thinks so). There is no technical reason [...]
Posts Tagged ‘iphone’
3 Aug
My 2GB, 4 day 0.0.1 iPhone update
A few days ago, Apple released version 3.0.1 of the iPhone OS, which addressed a pretty major SMS vulnerability. When Olyvia tried updating her 3GS to 3.0.1, something went wrong. The iPhone entered “Recovery Mode”, which means that it displays an image indicating that you need to connect it to iTunes, and you can’t do [...]
27 Oct
iTunes applications restricted to US store
What possible reason can developers (Apple?) have for restricting an application like Grocery IQ to the US store? I would have purchased this, but it’s not available in the NZ store. I can’t see any reason that it wouldn’t work just as well here. (I can understand that annoying legalities prevent applications like Puzzlotto being [...]
22 Aug
iPhone works fine on prepay
The Vodafone NZ website clearly states that the iPhone (3G) will not be “available” on Prepay. For various reasons, I swapped the SIMs in my prepay Vodafone phone and our on-contract 3G iPhone last night. The iPhone worked without any problems at all with the Prepay SIM. Phone calls and SMS worked fine, as did [...]
8 Jul
Hardly news, but: Vodafone NZ sucks
They finally (hard to believe they waited this long) released their iPhone plans (the website is barely up at the moment – they own the second largest ISP in NZ, and can’t handle a bit of load!). I knew that the data would be expensive here, although I had a little hope when I saw [...]
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