This past weekend saw the penultimate episode of the Dr Who series which drew in an audience of about 9.8 million viewers in the UK (how do they know I was one of those viewers???). On the show a mobile phone number was displayed several time as 07700900461 which was the Doctors number through out the episode. Continue reading
Pocket Now did a great review of the Toshiba Portege G810 which runs Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional. The Portege G810 is built from a collaboration between Toshiba and Spb software and they attempt to deliver “the ultimate mobile experience”. The phone comes with some fairly cool specs such as a 400MHz processor, 256MB ROM, 128MB RAM with a microSD/HC expansion slot which allows you to seriously bump up that standard RAM amount. Continue reading
PowerPoint presentations have become more popular with companies around the country. The two common methods I have seen for controlling these presentations is either using an infrared remote control to flick through the slides, which works well, or by having a monkey sit next to the laptop and hit the next key at your request. Continue reading
It’s not breaking news that Apple is slashing the cost of it’s iPhone by an average of $200 when it is launched next week. But did you realise that Apple is not loosing out by doing this? Apple has managed to make deals with AT&T so that they will be paid more money for each iPhone sold. No official comment has been made about the financials, but observers believe that Apple are making an extra $100 on each iPhone sold. Continue reading
If you have ever taken your mobile phone out of your country then network roaming begins. Should you use your phone while abroad then you will be sometimes in for a nasty shock when the bill arrives back at home. Most contract phones are locked to a single network such as Orange, Vodafone, T-Mobile, O2 and when manually trying to hop on to another network you get a message saying that the network cannot be accessed. Take your phone abroad to France for example, you then have a plethora of networks you can connect to. Great… you can use your mobile in most places around the world because of this. Continue reading