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Monthly Archives: November 2007

iPhone - after a week and a bit

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

It’s been about 10 days now, and am still very happy with the iPhone.
A couple of days ago, I needed to do something with my old Sony Ericsson w850i, and found it almost painful to use. Amazing that 6 months ago, I found the w850i’s display to be large and bright, and the interface fast [...]

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iPhone day 3

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Still much joy!
Yesterday, I went for lunch in Jubilee Place shopping centre (Canary Wharf) with a friend who also has an iPhone.
Yes, a bit sad, but the purpose was to test the iPhone with The Cloud, the WiFi hotspot network that’s free for iPhones.
It was very good, very fast. Certainly as fast as my home [...]

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iPhone day 2

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Yesterday, I took the shiny new toy to work. There is WiFi in the office, but I don’t have access yet, so most of play was over GPRS/EDGE.
Again, some notes, in no particular order:

Everyone wanted to have a look.
I wasn’t the only one in the office with one (remember this is the first working day [...]

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iPhone day 1

Sunday, November 11, 2007

Just some thoughts on the the iPhone after one day. For the record, I’ve not tried to ‘unlock’ it or otherwise tamper with it, nor do I intend to.
Very pleased with it, but here are a few bullet points in no particular order:

It’s slightly heavier than I expected
The virtual keyboard and general multi-touch goodness works [...]

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First blog entry from iPhone

Saturday, November 10, 2007

Quite impressed so far, though the typing is going to require some getting used to.
Will need some more play time before making any real opinions.

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Java 6 on Leopard Meme

Saturday, November 3, 2007

Actually, I’m not that bothered about a lack of Java 6 on the current build of Leopard, but will probably start to lose faith if it’s still not there by Christmas…
Anyway, I’m not going to write loads, suffice it to say that the Apple java-dev mailing list folk suggesting using 0xCAFEBABE in decimal + a [...]

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