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08.28.08Apple drops the MobileMe hubrisA new post on my Telegraph blog here Related posts:Blogs are journalism in its purest form In a defence of the subs desk, Diary of a...The era of the self-approving reporter Big publishers are taking their first tentative steps into the... Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
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07.30.08The iPhone 3G … an apology (sort of)I will be forced to recant my post about the Nokia N95 8GB being a superior journalistic device to the iPhone 3G - but not just yet. It's still too soon for such a climbdown. For now I'd just like to say that after using the iPhone for four days, I now recognise that this device is way, way more powerful than I originally gave it credit for. It is also clear to me now that Steve Jobs is a genius. I recognise also that an iPhone, a MacBook and a MacBook Pro are not enough and that I will have ...
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07.27.08Why the Nokia N95 8gb still kicks the shit out of the iPhoneIn mobile terms, the Nokia N95 8GB is starting to get a bit long in the tooth and the arrival of the Apple iPhone 3G has made it look decidedly old fashioned. But if you're a journalist, which is the better device? [caption id="attachment_89" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="The iPhone 3G and the N95 8GB - which is best for today's journalists"][/caption] In the last two years I've changed mobile phone 12 times - Nokia N73, HTC TyTn, Samsung D840, LG Viewty, Sony Ericsson W880... you name it and I've had one of them. Then in December I signed a contract with Vodafone and ...
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07.23.08Mobile broadband? Not on Vodafone[caption id="attachment_33" align="aligncenter" width="490" caption="Vodafone's HSDPA/3.5g stick"][/caption] I'm becoming increasingly pissed off with this thing. Vodafone advertises it as a 7.2mps USB modem giving you broadband speeds anywhere that there is an HSDPA/3.5G signal. The reality is somewhat different. Sure, when I first started using it a month or two ago when the big V was really hawking the thing around, the speeds in 3.5G areas were spectacular - easily beating the 1.1mps I get on fixed-line broadband out in the country. But now, as more and more people sign up for the expensive service, it's all slowing to a crawl. I normally expect ...
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