Archive for the ‘iPhone’Category

Is Rdio Worth Subscribing to?

RdioWhile the USA and the UK have been swanning it up with music subscription services like Spotify, Pandora and Mog, we Australians have lived it up with iTunes and record stores. We’ve been teased with the promise of all you can eat music for a monthly subscription and that’s the way it still stands except for one of the big overseas players. Rdio. I’ve had a peak and, for the most part, I like what I hear. Read the rest of this entry →

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03 2012

Telstra Speed Test

Speed TestAs a bit of a follow up to my ongoing drama with Australia’s premium mobile communications provider, Telstra, I’ve done a couple of tests.

I’d said that we’d moved from another carrier to Telstra to fix the issues that we’d had with poor coverage – but alas the issues have continued – only this time we’re paying a premium for it. At this point I may be acting like a dog with a bone but the solutions offered have been both less than appealing as well as seriously insulting. Read the rest of this entry →

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12 2011

Could Buying That New Smartphone Maim Your Kids?

Angry Cat

Buy Zee Phone

Oh God, here he goes again. Ranting. Exclaiming. Off on a tirade of expletive filled, self-referential, self-important drivel. But really all I want to do is stop the little voice gnawing away in my head. “Get a new mobile, get the latest, the greatest, your phone is old, outdated. Think of all of the ace things you’ll be able to do with your new one”.

“Stop it!”

You know we all do it. Suckered by the shininess, the speed, the touchy feely. This upgrading of mobile phones has become such a part of our lives. The thing I’d love to know is why? Read the rest of this entry →

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11 2011

Is The iPhone 4S A Cynical Beastie?

Call me cynical if you will, but by my reckoning the new fandango iPhone 4S from that mob at Apple strikes me as a fearful and cynical beastie. Why?

Here’s the thing. It’s safe. But disappointingly so. Perhaps it was the waiting. The months of conjecture. The “holding out”.

But at the end of the day it’s no Samsung Galaxy S2 which upped the ante. Bumped up screen real estate. Got skinny. Changed the game.

Where the iPhone 4 appeared to smash you in the face with amazing graphics, a beautiful camera, speed, design to drool over – instead the latest iteration is just that. An iteration. The same, just bumped up a notch.

Let us know what you think.

iOS 5 on the other hand…

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10 2011
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