Mobile

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 ...

Let me open by saying I'm writing this on my iPad.

I don't often write at any length on here. This, I believe, is more to do with my situation rather than the tablet itself. Right now I'm on the sofa, definitely tablet territory of the future, but most of the time I'm sat at a desk or table and in such scenarios the benefits of a tablet are deminished in the face of a sleek, modern, flash based laptop like the MacBook Air.

The tablet, then, frees us from the desk. ...

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 ...

The iPad doesn't have enough RAM.

What's the damage, 256MB? Damage being the operative word. My Safari on the Mac will happily chunk off a gig given a few tabs, clearly such a paltry amount of RAM for the whole device isn't going to cut it.

The result? When you've got multiple pages open and you're switching between them they keep refreshing. Now, all you hateful creatures on your 20mbps ADSL or even faster noodle optics from Virgin probably care very little about ...

When I got my replacement iPhone 4 I was a little anxious about, well, using it. Perhaps it was just a reflex learned through having shards of glass stuck in my thumbs, but for a good five days the thing barely came out of my pocket compared to before the tarmac 'incident', and when it did it was in its bumper.

Since then things have rapidly reverted back to normal, and now I seem to be over-compensating. I don't even bother waking it from sleep half the time, I'll just take it out, ...