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I’m going to buy an iPhone 4S: What network should I buy with?

By Ewan on October 24, 2011 in Devices, Operators

Right then, following on from my rather lukewarm experience at the Three store this morning, I am looking to buy an iPhone 4S — on contract. Half of me thinks, ‘wait and buy it outright in November,’ — the other half says do it, do it, do it today. Normally Three is my default provider [...]

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Will enterprises embrace or restrict iCloud?

By Ewan on October 14, 2011 in Services

As far as most enterprise security officers are concerned, corporate data must be stored on company managed/controlled systems, eg the internal network. That’s the most basic interpretation of most policies. The definition of “systems” has widened recently to extend trust to the likes of Salesforce, Office365 or Google Apps. Indeed each of those services has [...]

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Wait, you can’t DELETE photos from the iOS photostream?

By Ewan on October 14, 2011 in Devices, Services

I do have to wonder at Apple, sometimes. When the company introduced the reverse scroll in OS X Lion, so that all of a sudden I had to drag downwards instead of up (or whatever), I did have to think twice about the validity of it. I eventually trained myself, but I know quite a [...]

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How useful are you finding iOS 5′s notifications screen?

By Ewan on October 14, 2011 in Devices

I’ve had a day with the iOS 5 notifications bar now and I’m split. Half the time I’m delighted that it fixes one of the stupidest issues with the iPhone by putting notifications all in one place. The other half of the time, I’m furious that, in order to find anything out, I have to [...]

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This iOS 5 update will delete all of your apps, media and purchases… thanks

By Ewan on October 12, 2011 in News

This is not quite the message I wanted to receive when I clicked ‘update’ on iTunes here in Houston this afternoon: Apparently it’s going to kill everything on the phone apart from the contacts and email messages. Joy. Hardly useful when I’m thousands of miles away from my main computer. I think I’ll need to [...]

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iTunes with iCloud: Finally the ‘frustration’ ends

By Ewan on October 5, 2011 in Services

For years I’ve been rather frustrated every time I think about iTunes. I’ve got 40GB free on my 1,000GB drive. Yes, I’ve got a *dedicated* iTunes hard disk in my main Mac Pro. It’s flipping ridiculous. Buy a 2GB movie for £9 and unfortunately it’s now your problem to manage the file. I want to [...]

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iCloud Photo Sync: Yup, this is very smart

By Ewan on October 5, 2011 in Services

After the disappointment of no additional new hardware beyond what man consider to be the bare minimum for the next generation, I think it’s right to point out that Apple certainly haven’t been staring at the wall for the last few months. It’s far too easy to forget that the glue that makes the iPhone [...]

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What does $76 billion buy? A weak hardware update, nice services

By Ewan on October 4, 2011 in Devices, Opinion

Well that was underwhelming. I’m rather surprised by the total mismatch between expectation and reality with today’s iPhone launch event. When you’ve got billions upon billions of dollars sitting there at your disposal, expectations naturally run high. As I’ve written before, the company does need to occasionally justify it’s huge valuation. Justification is delivered through [...]

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iPhone Day is finally upon us, the rumours will shortly be over!

By Ewan on October 3, 2011 in Opinion

Have you been sick of the sodding iPhone rumours? They’ve been never-ending, they really have. Tomorrow at 6pm London, the industry will take a collective deep breath and hold it for 90-odd minutes. Well, I presume something like 90 minutes. I haven’t actually looked at any timings. I can’t be bothered. I’ve had enough [...]

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Replacing my cracked iPhone 4 screen…

By Ewan on October 3, 2011 in Devices

On Sunday I was in Budgens (supermarket) in Ascot stocking up on rather boring salad materials, given the fact I am routinely being healthy. I had the wee man (“Archie”) with me — he was sat in the trolley — and I was shopping from the Evernote list that my wife compiled earlier. And then [...]

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We can’t be very far away from iPhone 5 madness…

By Ewan on September 19, 2011 in Devices

Can you feel it in the air? After the initial hive of activity back in August, it’s gone all quiet on the iPhone 5 front. There’s been the odd story now-and-again, but I think it’s fair to say that all the ‘it’ll be September 15th’ (or whenever) speculators have quietly looked the other way as [...]

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HTC executive: “iPhones are for old people”

By Ewan on September 15, 2011 in Devices

Martin Fichter, acting president or HTC America makes a stimulating market observation as Chris Taylor at Mashable points out: Speaking at the Mobile Future Forward conference in Seattle, Fichter related a story about taking his daughter to Reed College in Portland, where he took an informal survey of her dormitory buddies. “None of them [...]

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