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Having got hold of an iphone and lived with it for a few days, I have to admit that I am very pleasantly surprised. When I bought the phone I kept my nokia because, quite frankly, I thought I would be swapping back to it. But the iphone is a breeze to use (and the sim card a nightmare to swap) so I guess I will be chucking the nokia.
To be honest some of the 'drawbacks' of the iphone arent really drawbacks at all. I dont find it difficult to use for sms and it is 'ok' to use as a basic phone.
Some of the additional functions are pretty neat. Its web browser is definitely better than any other phone but still a bit of a toy. The email app is passable for checking mail and as good as most. It manages photos extremely well with a large screen and synching with your albums from photoshop/photoshop elements. Wifi with an auto-logon works really well.
The killer app for me is the ipod function. With the large screen this was always going to be better than say your bog standard ipod nano but actually it works better on the iphone than even the itouch. For a start you have the built in speakers - then there is a nice third party app that enables you to set any itunes song as your ringtone as well as email any song to anyone.
Oh and the battery life is pretty impressive for a multimedia device with such a large screen. The guy who unlocked my phone told me the nokia e95 is better - I am not convinced. I even bought a few thousand Apple shares - that should keep Daffy happy.
Only complaint - it keeps on rebooting - at least it does it fast. What do you expect from a computer manufacturer making a phone?
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 2:47 am on Sep. 24, 2007
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DaffyDuck
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> Only complaint - it keeps on rebooting - at least it does it fast. What
> do you expect from a computer manufacturer making a phone?
This may be related to the type of unlock that was performed on your system - does YouTube work on your phone? Mine never reboots, and I use it a lot (Safari sometimes quits on me, though)
Nice to read about your impressions - glad you like it, so far. Feel free to buzz me if you have any questions or issues with it.
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Bangkok Women : Meet Sensual Bangkok Women
Posted on: 10:34 am on Sep. 24, 2007
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DaffyDuck
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The current state of iPhone / iPod unlock and jailbreak hacks.
'Jailbreak' is the term used to designate 'opening up an iPhone, to start hacking it, or adding additional applications to it -- essentially, you break the iPhone out of the Apple imposed jail using various utilities.
The first iPhone revision took 3 month to break out of jail, discover the root password, and have a veritable cottage industry of applications sprout up around these hacking efforts. The culmination of it all was the free unlock utility recently released.
Apple recently released the iPod Touch, which was variously coined as 'the iPhone without a phone' - and in many ways it is, sharing similar architecture, and operating system -- albeit the iPod Touch lacks many of the commodity apps the iPhone ships with. There is no e-Mail, no stocks application, not even the ability to locally update the calendar (WTF about that?).
So, needless to say, hackers are trying to jailbreak the iPod Touch - not just to bring feature parity by copying over iPhone apps to it, but also to gain better understandings of the next revision of the iPhone software.
You see, iPod Touch is locked down a bit tighter than iPhone, or so it appears at this time - obviously the root password has changed, and existing methods to jailbreak the iPhone do not work anymore. I suspect what we currently see on iPod Touch, is the future of the iPhone, including being tougher to jailbreak.
This, in and of itself, is not bad news -- I *WANT* Apple to keep the iPhone secure, and so do you, lest you cherish the security mess that Nokia's Symbian platform has devolved into. It just means that mothers worldwide will be stocking up up on twinkies, and pizza for heir kids' all-nighters... 
Currently, the hardware (chips and code) of the iPod Touch is being ripped apart and analized, and we should know a lot more within 1-3 days - all that iPod Touch knowledge will come in handy when the very next (beyond this week's) firmware update will be released. I don't care about iTunes WiFi, or Starbucks (particularly since the West Coast Starbucks' don't support it yet), but once the *massive* functionality update around December will happen, you can bet that I'll want to upgrade.
Oh, and that one will break hacks, again, as well, and it will be broken, again, as well.
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 6:23 pm on Sep. 24, 2007
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DaffyDuck
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9/25 Statement from the iPhone unlockers
Based on download numbers, the iPhone Dev Team believes that, worldwide, several hundred thousand people have unlocked their iPhones. That number continues growing every day. The removal of the lock, a bug, was a major step forward in the iPhone development. It made the iPhone free and useful to anyone, not only to those in certain countries.
Apple now announces that the next firmware update, expected later this week, will possibly break the handset of all of us free users in the World. It speaks of "damage" done to the firmware and "unauthorized access" to our own property, The removal of those firmware problems, which were built in in favor for AT&T, does not cause "damage" as they want to make us believe.
We will provide you with a tool in the next week which will be able to recover your nck counter and seczones and even enables you to restore your phone to a Factory-like state.
In the meantime we advise you not to update your free iPhone with the upcoming firmware. Wait for the next version to be fixed to work properly with your carrier and not break your phone.
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Sexy Bangkok Girls
Posted on: 9:53 am on Sep. 25, 2007
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DaffyDuck
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http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/07/09/25/1136228.shtml
http://www.phonenews.com/content/view/2386/9/
"Apple's recent decision to void warranties for folks that unlocked their iPhones may wind them up in legal hot water. The site Phone News points out that Apple appears to have broken a key warranty law relevant to SIM unlocks. The Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, a law decades old, would seem to prevent Apple from voiding warranties in the way it is threatening to do with the iPhone, or so the site argues. 'The Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act states that Apple cannot void a warranty for a product with third-party enhancements or modifications to their product. The only exception to this rule is if Apple can determine that the modification or enhancement is responsible [for] damaging the product in question... The legal [questions are]: Is the SIM Unlock process that has become mainstream doing damage to iPhone? And, also, is Apple designing future software updates to do damage to iPhone when said SIM Unlock code is present?'"
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 11:57 am on Sep. 25, 2007
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DaffyDuck
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Regarding Apple's UK availability and pricing of the iPhone, it seems one more myth from Apple critics and their FUD has been exploded:
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/09/27/after-the-storm-iphone-and-the-u-k/
Turns out that cost of ownership of the iPhone on UK plans is actually less than competing phones/plans, and the 3G issue is also being adressed.
Personally, having had a Nokia phone that supports 3G, and having used it (rarely), I found no major benefit to it - furthermore, in my simulations of 3G on the iPhone, again, no major benefits over EDGE impressed me. That's in real-world tests, not the utopian spec fantasies of most critics.
Anyway, seems like it's very much in line of other offerings.
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 10:59 am on Sep. 27, 2007
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IBFarang
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Quote: from DaffyDuck on 1:08 am on Sep. 28, 2007
Turns out that cost of ownership of the iPhone on UK plans is actually less than competing phones/plans, and the 3G issue is also being adressed.
A relatively poor attempt to justify the price of the iphone with O2. Just read thru the comments section to see what a load of bull the comparison is. Who pays for the Nokia? Even with O2 one can get it free. And if you have a 3G phone you don’t need to pay extra for EDGE coverage or wi/fi. Additionally with the iphone one is tied exclusively to O2 (well OK if you unlock it you may be free to go somewhere else, but to date Apple has made it pretty clear they shun those that unlock the phones and that they (Apple) will do everything in their power to make life difficult for those that do unlock the phone), while one can get the Nokia pretty much anywhere (for free). The Nokia buyer is free to shop around for phone/data plans so they can truly get the best deal (most likely including a free phone), the iphone buyer is not (at least not until they poney up the first 269 pounds).
I have read the tuaw.com for quite some time and generally speaking he does a pretty good job and while certainly biased towards Apple, Nick generally is still pretty fair in most of his assessments. But on this one he is so far off the mark. Price – see above; 3G – I don’t want to get back into an EDGE, 3G, wi/fi debate but this article was a very weak attempt to defend the lack of 3G in the iphone.
Much of the talk now, and thru next month related to the iphone in Europe won’t really be of much relevance anyway - wait unit November. Actually a hot selling iphone in Europe would give me a bit of ammunition to prod and poke fun at many of my Euro colleagues and their standard anti-American ranting (which is especially funny to me considering they work for a US company).
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Thai Girls : Meet Active Thai Girls
Posted on: 6:46 pm on Sep. 27, 2007
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DaffyDuck
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Quote: from IBFarang on 8:55 am on Sep. 28, 2007
while one can get the Nokia pretty much anywhere (for free)
Could you point me where I can get the Nokia N95 absolutely free, as I would be interested in picking one up at that price....
Quote: from IBFarang on 8:55 am on Sep. 28, 2007
3G – I don’t want to get back into an EDGE, 3G, wi/fi debate
Well, yeah, especially since you admittedly don't really have any experience, or interest, in 3G capabilities...
As I said, I *do* have the opportunity to get a pretty good simulation of 3G (via Sprint's EVDO) on my iPhone, and for 90% of what I use iPhone for, including web browsing, it does not provide that huge of a benefit.
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 7:30 pm on Sep. 27, 2007
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IBFarang
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Quote: from DaffyDuck on 9:39 am on Sep. 28, 2007
Could you point me where I can get the Nokia N95 absolutely free, as I would be interested in picking one up at that price....
OK free with a service plan – unlike the iphone that requires folks in the UK to shell out for the phone and then they have only a limited number of service plan options and only thru one service plan provider.
Quote: from DaffyDuck on 9:39 am on Sep. 28, 2007
As I said, I *do* have the opportunity to get a pretty good simulation of 3G (via Sprint's EVDO) on my iPhone, and for 90% of what I use iPhone for, including web browsing, it does not provide that huge of a benefit.
Gee DD for 90% of what YOU use the phone for – when did you become the standard by which cell phone service is measured? That's some kind of GOD complex you got going there. And what about the other 10% - might there be a few underlings in the world that really want that 10%?
If 3G was not such an issue one would not run across it in just about every article/discussion related to the iphone and it’s entry into the European market. Dare I say that 3G will be an issue should the iphone want to be a smashing success in Asia? But the point to my earlier statement was that the article hardly offered any real defense in regard to the lack of 3G - and not about rehashing the discussions about 3G/EDGE/wi/fi.
And "not that huge of a benifit" - you mean the iphone does not offer the best of everything? I am crushed. And here I thought 2-megapixel camera was the best one could hope for in a cell phone?
I hear scientists are hard a work attempting to figure out how to fit a flash, and the ability to record video in cell phones now too. Who knows maybe soon after that they will figure out how to implement multimedia messaging service as well. Will wonders never cease?
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 9:24 pm on Sep. 27, 2007
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