Testing Pixelpipe

It arrived, but...

Called Susan to put off lunch as the iPhone was on its way via TNT locally (they give it the PO for Nærsnes), and sure enough the friendly postman delivered it to the door.

Unfortunately, the microSIM from Telenor didn't work. I called Telenor eventually and they couldn't understand it. Nor could my local Mobildata centre at Rortunet.. "it should have worked" he said, but he made me a new one and activated the thing on iTunes too :) YES!

So, off to the coffee shop for a single mocca and a scone (NOK 70!) WOT.. there I found there was another problem to solve. The original SIM no longer made contact with Telenor causing the Magic to keep returning to the SIM unlock page.

The twin SIM still worked in the E61, and in the Magic. This evening I went a step further,and proved that the original also failed in the E61.

Back to Rortunet tomorrow, to fix this and pick up some new tablets which hopefully will fix my sinus trouble until mid-January..

It is on the way...

Susan suggested lunch today Friday, and I was a bit worried Apple's delivery forecast might be conservative as it has been earlier, so I checked the 'sporing' link to find it was 'out for delivery on the 18th (yesterday)'. I called TNT and after quite a wait, learnt they had given the iPhone 4 package to Posten. YES!

So, the big question is will the post van bring it today the 19th, or will it be tomorrow. We changed today's lunch to Saturday and I'm crossing my fingers..

I now have 26 apps waiting to be installed. The latest as a result of a podcast I was listening to yesterday evening about the paperless office question, and an app which used the iPhone to 'scan' whatever, OCR it, convert it into a PDF and send it where you will, rang bells of interest in me. I traced one of the dozen odd apps down to DocScanner, which, it turns out, is on Evernote's list of apps. NOK 36 but it sounded very useful.. I'll attach a jpeg of the iTunes list and see how it appears.

More anon.

 

Surprise order of iPhone 4

I came very close to ordering a Nokia N8, but after talking with Susan ref. her experience with the iPhone 4, I thought again about the opportunities offered by the latter and ordered one on Guy Fawkes day (IIRC).

I have since ordered a number of 'essential' apps from iTunes Store, and look forward to receiving the phone sometime after next 'payday'..

Will update the blog with my experiences as they occur.

Summer 2010 update

My tech interests of late have been for the Android phones, and Netbooks. The latter include an Asus T91MT and a 1008HA, both with Jolicloud installed as a Windows app. I eagerly await the recently released version 1.0, which early beta users have already received. I'm hoping the touch interface will work better than the Windows 7 one on the T91.. these two netbooks might well be given as presents to the grandchildren. Ada was very adept at finding her way round the 1008HA :)

Androids have been of great interest since purchasing my first HTC Magic over a year ago now, however, much as I like it, it is a bit on the small size, i.e. difficult to read with my eyes. I'm also fed up that HTC/google haven't released an update for this phone. Even 1.6 would give me access to a new version of Maps and better location use. My other moan concerns the lack of access to 'paid' apps in Norway/Nordic after all this time. What is most frustrating is the total lack of clarity in plans by Google and HTC. So, I refuse to purchase another phone that isn't up to 2.2 at least.

Android tablets interest me too, but again Google seems to be holding back access to their apps. Market is a must for a tablet.. so I'll keep my eyes on things, and see what Android 3.0 has to offer.

Finally, Apple's iPhone 4 is of interest, but it too is on the small size, and the recent 'antennagate' farce keeps me disliking Mr. Jobs, and the fanboy experts who find all sorts of dumb reasons to explain the iPhone's weaknesses (and the iPad's) - Chuck Joiner is the worst..

That's it for now. I'm saving my money until a real leading edge device turns up. In the meantime, piles of books continue to take over my house.

Just popped in to my Google Dashboard, and ...

Realized its over a month since my last post here. I have Jolicloud installed on both netbooks and the ION330 now. Its pretty useful, and I like it. I use the Chrome browser instead of Firefox, and have set up a Twitter tab, plus a Google Reader tab, instead of web apps for those.

All three are remote controllable from the iMac, and I can even control the iMac using a version of tightvnc on the netbooks.

What else is new. Well, other than the iPad, Apple becoming totalitarian, and about 15 Android devices per month... there is now a fantastic 'phone' called the Incredible from HTC, which even surpasses the Nexus 1.

Lots of things to keep a tech interested individual happy. Back soon...