Ben's Talk3G Blog

I know a thing or two about text messages.

There are two core 'types' of text. Person to person, and bulk.

In p2p I'm putting all those texts we send each other. Bulk is everything else for the purpose of this post - marketing, alerts, etc.

Apple just lobbed a whopping great stone at p2p text messaging, and that stone is called iMessage.

No biggie, you might think; mobile operators give generous SMS allowances with their iPhone tariffs, ...

Eleven long months have passed by since Steve Jobs announced iPhone 4 at WWDC. In past years we would now be feverishly awaiting Apple's next incarnation of the popularly-dubbed "Jesus phone", and yet curiously, despite far-intensified competition, all appears quiet from Cupertino, California at this familiar time of rumour and speculation.

To find out why, we have to remind ourselves what, exactly, Apple unleashed upon the world last year.

iPhone 4 was a ...

Here's a new one.

Often times Apple upgrades come around and there's that question: is it enough of an upgrade for me to justify shelling out for a new one, or do I wait until next time?

Apple have outdone themselves this time.

By releasing a white version of the iPhone 4 just a few months before the annual update cycle, many iPhone 4 users (who are, by and large, extremely happy with the device, which is still considered at the forefront of smartphones ...

I saw a FT headline earlier saying that George Osborne was sticking to Plan A despite warning lights in the economy.

I'm sorry, but what is it that critics would like the government to do, exactly? Continue running a huge deficit? For what purpose? To finance our current lifestyles? To what end? A bankrupt nation for our children to inherit?

We're already spending more every day on interest repayments for our national debt than we are on schools.

Governments ...

I've been away for a while. A holiday, if you will.

Some of us don't have the luxury of being able to escape work entirely, but avoiding the computer as much as possible is a start. It will come as no surprise, then, that I've been using the iPad a lot. Even my iPhone has been left in the safe.

Now there's a great deal that the iPad can't do. I haven't exactly done a great deal of work on it. But for reading, both books and websites, and email it's fantastic. That's ...