stevegerrard.org

No Flash support. Come on!! the best browsing experience?????
No multi-tasking..
No camera, so what about video skype??
No OLED screen..
Screen resolution at 1024×768 so does not support HD video..
No video out interface..
No SD card slot..
No USB port..

All in all, still very much a slave device to a Mac (or PC)

It does look very nice through and I’ll problable end up buying one!!

I just need to vent my frustration that the supposed new iMac are still not out yet. I’m ready to go an replace my 4 year old iMac G4 with the latest and greatest from Apple, and there have been reports that it is iminent since the begining of january, but ziltch so far.

Current rumour suggest it will be based on the quad-core “Nehalem” Intel Core i7 processors which should make it a significant upgrade to the current dual core versions, but with Apple you never know so well have to wait and see. Also its not clear whether the appearance or form factor will change.

All I know is that i want it to happen soon!

I, like many others I suspect, are very keen on getting the new iPhone 3G but do not want to sign up to and O2 contract. Previously yhe 2G iPhone has been evry easy to unlock, but the 3G version on 2.0 software is proving to be much tricker to use on non-O2 network. As the PAYG version is available on the 16th September I’m have been keen to find the best solution that will give a me trouble free and future proof way of using it on nay network (in my case Vodafone in particular. This is what I have found to so far:

1. Software unlocking seems to be rather problematic. The main issue seems to be that the current solutions don’t seem to be robust in the event of the iPhone SW updates, which mean each time an update is installed, you have to re-unlock the phone. In fact most of these solutions are in fact jailbreaking the phone, not unlocking it. In reality, with the aplle aps store, there is no need to jailbreak anyway. All you want is for a non-O2 sim to work.
2. HW solutions seem to be the best here, and after doing quite a lot of searching around, the Any-Network.com solution seems to be the best. I’ve seen various reviews from different sources that give approval of this method, a solution that appears to have no drawbacks. One thing to note is that a pre-requisite to this solution is that the iPhone is already activated. This had been a problem in that until now you have to sign up to a 18 month contract in order to activate the phone which kind defeats the object as you’d want to unlock it in order not to sign up! But from the 16th September the PAYG option is available for £399, so now the solution fits well. I plan to use this method!