Posts by Sean Donnellan 13 publicly visible posts • joined 11 May 2007
The 3GS iPhone looks nice, has flashy adverts with a very populated app store ("Need to divide a restaurant bill by 2, there's an App for that").
I fail to understand the hype for a new device that offers what Windows mobile has had available for over 3 years. It’s as if the main stream media can’t be bothered to read the manual……
HTC/WinMo handsets have had tethering, MMS, sync with Outlook, emails, web browsing, YouTube, and multi codecs for audio & video, but get so minimal mainstream press coverage by comparison. (New iPhone on all National papers' websites front pages) My TyTn II is still running strong, and still gets mistaken for an iPhone (until the keyboard slides out).
Apple launch a v3 OS, and don’t/can’t make features like MMS, video & tethering backwards compatible. And still no multi-tasking - come on - no wonder the device is fast, it’s not having to do any work!
On the carrier front, T-Mobile Web’n’walk offers virtually unlimited browsing, and their £1 a day limit option for non WnW use is excellent for regular tethering away from home (One month I used £150 "worth" of data - Actual charge £27.50)
My wife’s BB Bold has MMS, video and multi tasking and tethering - again included, no tariff surplus. (Currently in use, Thanks Virgin Media).
How O2 cannot offer MMS immediately, and charge so much for tethering - I’ll never understand. I’m quite amazed how both O2 and Apple can get away with it !
I've had this problem since Tuesday/Wednesday last week, and a power reset seems to work for about 12-14 hours.
On Saturday night we were unable to access any menu, the on screen EPG or even change channel. Again a power reset fixed this.
Hadn't called Sky, as a) It's out of warranty, b) It has a 250gb Non-Sky HDD.
Nice to know it may be their fault !
Long live 4oD and the iPlayer to catch-up in such circumstances.
FM and AM are both appauling.
At Home, Radio 4 is constantly intercepted by a cr*p pirate station - so bad I even called the mobile number and told them to shut up (in my best middle class RP voice).
In the car in London Radio 5 is impossible to listen to, and while driving north, around the Midlands there's a section where neither the 909 or 693 frequencies will work.
So I bought a freeview TV for the kitchen, for the same price as a DAB radio, and have TV and all the digital radio I want, and a DAB head unit for the car - the talk and sports reception (Radio 4&5) is reception is excellent and interrupted, and while an audiophile would contest the true quality of the music, they wouldn't have the sunroof open and the the wind in their hair while singing along....
Nice looking device though.
My wife had a 2 phone taken out in her name at an unnamed Carphone Warehouse, and a credit check was done.
They submitted the wrong DOB, (I on my Experion file) but were still issued with TWO new Samsung G600 handsets on a large volume tarrif (which they exceeded by £120 in 10 days)
They were blocked and reported - no info from the Fraud department (We'll be back to you in 10 days") - 2½ months and waiting.
My wife however, is claiming she's much younger than me now, as she has a *new* DOB, which has reduced her age by 12½ years......
Andy S - ".....i actually keep Scottish notes specifically because they aren't legal tender...."
I think you'll find they are, as they are issued Sterling.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banknotes_of_the_pound_sterling
However it's amazing how often you can get a fiver's worth of change when paying with a Scottish £1 note.....
If Ferry Boat's turkey is a "dry, old-socks tasting, cardboard textured bird", I'd suggest ie's buying from the economy range of birds, not dressing it properly, and then overcooking it.
Open your eyes and a cookbook, it's not that hard. (RTFM - - > RTFCB)
Lentils in cabbage - you wimp.
As a 39yr old on his second pacemaker (wired since 1989), I have always been aware of the need to keep a reasonable from mobile telephones, pagers, microwaves and libraries.
The small print in all mobile handbooks (you kow,the small glossy thing you never open) warns not to use within 18" - limiting you to one side, and not to use any breast pockets.
I've often flouted these 'rules', so far to no ill effect - but then I'm not pacemaker dependent, so a disruption isn't critical for me.
The human body is an electrical system, the pacemaker another. Any third system nearby could cause an effect, and if it does the effect will be different for every person.
Love the fact this student research it made El Reg, perhaps you're all down the pub (It's Friday after all), and the Work Experience has posted his school friend's thesis - or it's just a slow news day....
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