3g

I could've sworn blind that by now almost every laptop rolling off of the production lines would have a SIM slot as standard. Like WiFi, 3G connectivity would become the norm, and new tariff structures from mobile operators would have made connectivity accessible to all.

That hasn't happened. Is it because people don't want or need a continuous Internet connection when they're mobile? No, I don't think that's true - if 3G were ubiquitous then we'd all just connect and make the most ...

Regent Street Apple Store on Saturday was a disaster.*

The queue, for iPhone 4 I presume, looped around the store and back out the door. The shop floor was heaving. Upstairs, very stressed looking Genius's battled to attend to their appointments and squeeze in the drop-ins.*

They flatly declined to help me with my shattered iPhone. Friendly concierge Daniel (X-Factor lookalike) approached a couple of staff for me, but if I'm honest he knew they'd say no before he asked ...

My iPhone 4 was the best phone I've ever owned.

Emphasis on the was.

Tonight it slipped less than a metre from my pocket. As it hit the tarmac it caught one of the edges of the protruding glass screen, marking the thin plastic surround and shattering the glass into hundreds of fragments. These readily fall off, and while the screen is still surprisingly usable one does have to pull shards of glass out of one's fingertips afterwards.

The extent of the ...

After years of discounting Three as a bit-player in the UK mobile industry, with a network consisting of masts held up by twine and tent pegs supported by outsourced customer services located in the far-flung corners of the globe, something funny seems to have happened while i wasn't looking.

I discovered this shift thanks to Three's pushing of Huawei's MiFi product. Anyone considering MiFi needs to go for it. Having usable WiFi on the move is infinitely more useful than a restrictive ...

Well, it's likely that folk who don't even own a computer know all about the 4th generation iPhone by now, courtesy of Gizmodo. The more I look at the pictures and videos the more I can appreciate the subtle design cues in this device, which is a marked departure from the current design ethos seen in the iPhone 3GS, iPad, iPod Touch, iMac, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and MacBook. You get the idea; the removal of 'complex' curves from this prototype makes it stick out like a sore thumb in Apple's currently ...