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iPhone activation working {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jul 11th 2008 3:37PM It already has been, although it's proving very difficult to get with all the current issues.
ASUS offers UK Eee PC 900 owners £10 battery upgrade {Engadget}
Jun 2nd 2008 11:19AM As I'm from the UK, I fail to see the relevance of Austrailian, French, and Irish comments, in relation to an article about batteries and firmware updates?
Hydromatic debuts "revolutionary" Dryer Miser clothes dryer technology {Engadget}
Feb 15th 2008 4:22AM Newsflash, contributors and readers are from around the world. More intresting news as it happens!
Analyst: Motorola may exit handset business {Engadget}
Jan 29th 2008 10:38AM Doze, nobody mentioned Nokia, we're specifically talking WM touchscreen and non-touchscreen phones.
HTC are still the #1 manufacturer for WM touchscreen, and #2 for non-touchscreen.
Analyst: Motorola may exit handset business {Engadget}
Jan 29th 2008 8:17AM You lose.
They are only ahead of HTC on non-touchscreen WM phones, this does not include non phone PDA, or touchscreen smartphones, which HTC makes roughly 50% of worldwide.
The non-touchscreen market is peanuts.
NEC Flask Phone sports fuel cell, not for human consumption {Engadget}
Jan 28th 2008 12:18PM If it was fuelled by Aftershock, you get the booze, and still keep the funky colours!
iPod touch users: if you bought after Jan 1 the new apps are free -- maybe {Engadget}
Jan 18th 2008 8:56AM OK, so you buy a Macbook with Leopard 10.5.2, and iLife 08, then in September, the new Macbook is released, still running Leopard, but now on 10.5.7 (for example), but the give away iLife 09, which includes extra applications, and start selling iLife 09 as a stand alone product for those that choose to upgrade.
Your OS updates from 10.5.0 to 10.5.whatever, which are your system updates, are free of charge.
Your software packages are not free, it's your choice if you buy software or not, you have the option.
It's possible to run the iPod touch 1.1.3 update and not buy the extra software, so you still get the fixes, and enhancements minus the software pack.
I don't personally wish to pay for it, but I have the choice, as does everyone else. Nobody *has* to buy the extra software, but you're all entitled to the 1.1.3 update itself for free.
Half the whinging seems to be from people that don't understand they are paying for a software licence.
And it's not just Apple. Dell, HP, you name it, they will bundle additional software after the release of a product which new users get free, but early adopters would have to buy.
Hell, my car came with a CD player and JBL speakers as standard, yet 6 months before, it was factory OEM speakers and a cassette player. Are those people entitled to an upgrade to their audio system for free?
If Jobs says "people don't read anymore," does this headline really exist? {Engadget}
Jan 16th 2008 3:27PM I have read 1 paper book in the last 10 years.
I have however read about 2 or 3 books a month on PDA's and more recently on my jailbroken iPod touch, and have been doing so for almost 10 years now.
I would love a Kindle, but I get the functionality I need from pretty much any cheap PDA on the market.
Live from Macworld 2008: Steve Jobs keynote {Engadget}
Jan 15th 2008 11:10AM All I really want is Apple TV with twin DVB cards supported in Frontrow.
iriver 3-inch touchscreen "GSM phone" headed for the States {Engadget}
Jan 9th 2008 9:06AM If I tell you all about a phone, touch screen, can play mp3 and videos, and buy music and videos online, pop and imap email, calendar, contacts, lots of software, GPS based location services for local maps etc, camera, mms, txt, 3g speeds, and all the usual features, you may think this is an iPhone rip off, but actually it was a phone I had 3 years ago now.
Motorola A920
The *dock* icons people go on about so much have been a feature of UIQ phones, and any soft key icon driven phones for ages now. Windows Mobile phones, PocketPC, and Palm devices have all had the grid arrangement of icons for many years now, and do music, maps, email, and so on.
The iPhone broke no new ground with anything other than including the multi-touch interface on a mobile device.
That is all.
Get over yourselves iphone fanboys, nothing to see here, except your ignorance of technology.
(I have 2 macs, and an iPod touch, but the iPhone bullshit makes me seethe)
