Well, it had to happen really, didn’t it? Apple jumped in with the prices for its new seemingly highly sought after device, the iPhone 4 – or should it be named the iBone? Well, whatever… The prices are as follows…
And, now that they’re available for pre-order, I’ve only gone and done it…
O2 has destroyed its policy of letting customers use unlimited amounts of data [porn] on their mobile devices, in response to a rapid [who are you kidding!] increase in data consumption on its network.
So, If you were the executives at o2 and you watched Stevie Jobs (as opposed to Stevie Nicks
Let’s assume for a second that o2 buy bandwidth from Level3 at say.. 0.04p per GB? How many users do o2 have? No idea… How much bandwidth is that? no idea – a LOT… but it’s still VERY cheap
From that date, new and upgrading customers will get up to 500MB of data on tariffs of £25-£35 a month; or 750MB on £40-£45 a month; or 1GB on £60 a month. Anyone who signs up or upgrades before 24 June will have no cap on their data. Those starting a new contract on or after that date will get unlimited data until 1 October, after which the caps will kick in.
The server room overheated, he died...
And, further to the iPhone, those peeps that get their dirty Apple fan-boy mits on the iPad 3G are going to gobble up more bandwidth than a porn spammed grannies computer… So, whilst I think o2 are missing a trick here, I also see their point…
My question is, what will happen wo the data plans of the other networks when the o2 plans kick in, will they follow suit? Three? Will you cap my data? Vodafone… What will you do? T-Mobile, I won’t mention you as you’re nasty…
What are your thoughts on o2 squishing their dirty hands around the bandwidth pipe?
A CCNA student we know called Chris Rose has taken it upon himself to enter the 3 city triathlon. To do this he needs people to vote for him. Only the 50 entries with the most public votes get considered, so he can’t do it without our help!!
Apparently he will go for a very long swim in Paris, an extra-long bike ride in Brussels and then run around in London, sounds like a normal day at the office to me!
Chris is a top guy, likes chips and burgers and we are all amazed that he is doing it, but hey! who are we to deny the man the opportunity to knacker himself! Just look at his photos… Does this look like a sane decision?
You need to log in to vote, but you can do so with Facebook, please do visit the link below and show your support for Chris!! Well done Chris, you’re a better man than I!
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Well then, Jobs has finished his chat, Apple fanboys everywhere are drooling over the new 9.3mm thick piece of sheer love, and, I have to say that I think I am too… Not because I think it’s the “best” device I’ve ever seen, but because it has everything that I want in a phone…
It’s thin, though that doesn’t excite me.. it’s very sexy… it does video calling (yeah, so does my BluRay player) if your mate has the same phone and you’re on wireless… sorta cool… where it does get my “techytype” juices flowing is when you start to talk about multi-tasking, which I realise isn’t new – my iNQ Chat 3G does it (badly) but with the new A4 processor, the multi-tasking in the iPhone 4 may actually be seriously useable!… Being able to Skype and get something from your email at the same time? Yes please… What else floats my boat? The camera… It’s been called “class leading” and I tend to agree that the iPhone 3Gs already had a semi-decent “camera phone” camera, so the new version is going to be better… I’ve not seen an actual still from it, but there you go… Also, 720p HD (30fps) editable on device video… You’re serious? Yeah, that’s RAD… video your kid doing something amazing, edit it, upload it, watch it… call your mum about it, tweet someone, facebook it… all right there… 
So, will I be lining up to get my hands on one of these? actually… I probably will
If you’re in the UK, get notified here If you’re in the USA, you can click here if you’re anywhere else, go play football…
Oh yeah, you can watch the keynote chat with Steve and Co here if you like.
It’s Friday, and you know what that means!! …well, actually, no, you don’t… But anyway, let’s pretend you (and I) do.
gotta live in sh*t town
I’ve not listened to “Throwing Copper
So, it’s Friday as I mentioned, and I want to touch on a couple of news stories from this week…
Inspired by the blog of someone else, I’ve decided to take a bit more interest in what BP are doing to the planet with their “little spill” and whilst I understand it’s quite difficult to just swim down and stick a cap on its leaky protrusion, as it’s more than 1 Mile under water, I wonder if there’s more they could have done? What would the Stig do?
Let’s look at the current oil spill, it’s pretty darn big.. infact, let’s imagine you’ve spilled the chip oil in your kitchen and it just kept flowing until your country looked like this… (check yours out here)
One hell of a chip oil spill!
So that’s out the end of the bay, up to Shep, across into the Alpine National Park and out as far as Hamilton! (Look out South Australia, here we come!) I popped across onto the BP website and this is the latest statement…
Update on Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill – 02 June. BP today announced that it supports the U.S. government’s decision to proceed with the construction of six sections of the Louisiana barrier islands proposal. The company will fund the estimated $360 million it will cost to construct the six sections.
360 Million dollars!! What would you do with that?
So, what can we do to help? Raise awareness? Stop filling up at BP? Burn our cars and dress in grass skirts?
(all images from flickr are cc and link to their respective owners)
Comments please…
Much interweb chatter about the whole “Steve Jobs gave Adobe the bird” “Flash is heavy and slow” …blah blah blah! Well, Let’s take a look at how NOT having flash on your iPod / iPhone / iPad is going to screw your life.
Suddenly the top began moving, rotating, unscrewing...
So, when I say FLASH you say VIDEO when I say FLASH… oh, you get it, yeah… So, flash and video hold hands and skip, that means that you can’t watch.. well, YouTube are letting you watch their stuff, and many other commercial video sites are jumping on the wagon as well… So, what video can’t you watch? That’s right – PORN! don’t deny it, you sneak a little bit of the Swedish goodness in from time to time… “everyone” does it… you’re just cut that you can’t go straight to redtube and… oh, wait, you can… (blushing now) how ruuuude!… So, there you go, you can watch video…
What else? Games? Suck it up game boy, do some work!! Plus, there’s a gazillion games you CAN play – let me introduce you to the App Store!
iPad in a Flashless world
This image came from Cult of Mac and I’m not sure if it is theirs or Adobes, if it is, sorry
OK, so you’ve got games, porn.. oh, err.. I mean video… you can view pictures, you can listen to music, you can tell the time, check the weather… learn about first aid, check the footy scores, tweet, read the news, call your mum… What’s missing? What can’t you do on the iPhone / iPad / iPod without flash?
That’s right – You can’t view FLASH WEB SITES… Well, maybe it’s time for some smart cooky to build “an app for that” …something that, when you go to a flash website, it springs out onto the website, grabs all the flash in its teeth, munches it into html5 on the fly and spits it back onto your poxy little screen in all its ex-flash glory… there’s not a flamin’ APP FOR THAT yet… (Dave? Get busy)
I managed to end up on the Telegraph website watching, literally, train crash videos… Somehow a related video came up that was a HTC Desire v iPhone 3Gs “Speed Test” Where the presenters place the devices side by side and click a link – whichever loads first wins…The opening line is “Now, one of the key selling points of the HTC Desire is the speed of its processor” ….Errr, and that, once the browser is running, effects the page load time how? Network / GPU / so many factors…
They close the piece with the guy saying “Apple fanboys you can rejoice…blah blah” …Well, I just wanted to share this as the least conclusive bit of tripe I’ve ever watched #FAIL
So, most of you will know, from my tweetness yesterday, that I have become a father again!! Father to a sweet little iPad… That’s right, that sweet looking device that everyone in England wants, but doesn’t have… YET
Don’t fret! There is still time for you, dear reader, to win your own damn iPad!!
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My boss posted this across to break up the afternoon rush – I stood, mouth open, muttering “this isn’t real”
Can you do that?
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