On boing boing, this post mentions a new scheme to allow people to order movies at home for $1 using their mobile phone. Once ordered a gadget attached to the TV descrambles the signal, with the money being billed to the user’s mobile account.
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So I installed the WordPress Mobile Edition plugin. I tested it on my iPhone and it seems to work rather well. Not sure about how good the default user agent matches are though.
I’m disappointed that this plugin uses yet another theme engine (Carrington as opposed to K2).
Let me know in the comments if your phone doesn’t render nicely or you experience other issues.
Over on planet gnome , I read this article about how Orange in Poland downgrades all images over http on it’s network.
Note that the artifacts of the image compression are less visible here than after the jump, as I had to resize the image to make it display properly in WordPress.
This is rotten on so many levels, the most extreme of which is a gross abuse of net neutrality. Data providers are providing just that, a transport for data, and should not be messing with it on its way to my handset.
What would make this even worse, is if they actually charged you for the full quality image.
This mobile news comes from the guys over at boing boing (and not mobile crunch as would be expected). Personally I think it’s absolutely ridiculous that I have in excess of 20 charging adapters lying around the house, each one incompatible with the next one, and then when one breaks I have to go out and buy another one at a stupid mark up.
Go EC
Again, some-what belatedly, the iphone-dev guys have cracked the iphone-3G sim lock, calling the application yellosn0w. At this stage even the latest iphone firmware (2.2) is crackable, and the’ve even made it as easy as running QuickPwn on an upgraded iPhone and then selecting the yellowsn0w application from cydia.
Great work from the iphone-dev guys I say:
http://blog.iphone-dev.org/post/67797811/dont-eat-yellowsn0w
Again, some-what belatedly, the iphone-dev guys have cracked the iphone-3G sim lock, calling the application yellosn0w. At this stage even the latest iphone firmware (2.2) is crackable, and the’ve even made it as easy as running QuickPwn on an upgraded iPhone and then selecting the yellowsn0W application from cydia.
Great work from the iphone-dev guys I say:
http://blog.iphone-dev.org/post/67797811/dont-eat-yellowsn0w
So I had been patiently waiting for fring to come to iPhone 3G through cydia a while back and then sorta forgot about it. Now I find out fring has come to the iPhone through the App Store. This is fantastic news and I’ve already installed it on my iPhone.
I was a little hesitant as I’m really only looking for MSN IM capability without having to hand over my IM credentials to a third party, and unfortunately, just like all the other players fring requires you register an account with them and hand over all your other IM credentials.
In this instance though, i caved and provided my MSN IM details, mainly because being able to make VOIP calls of MSN’s protocol is such a usefull feature. Lucky for me I mainly use my MSN IM account for work, so have nothing sensitive stored with the associated passport account.
So the phone previously known as the Nokia Tube, the Nokia 5800 has made a public appearance and from the look of the specs is sexy as hell.
Some reports seem to indicate that the touchy-ness of the phone is not the best though, which will be a hell-of-a disappointment if that turns out to be true on release.
Having used the iPhone for over a month now I’m getting very, very fed up with the phone (lack of) functionality. Between the poor reception, the dropped calls, the inability to make calls for minutes at a time and a percurliar bug where hanging up will take over 5 minutes (unless you reboot the bastard), I’m starting to wonder if the application goodness and large touch screen is worth it.
And to have all the goodness of a reliable phone OS, including video calls and MMS in a complete package has me drooling.
/me hopes that they fix the touch issue before it launches
Slightly belated, but one of the teams I head up the dev team for at work, 5th Finger, picked up an award at the MMA’s last week for the Live Earth Commitment Campaign back in 07.
Update: It’s worth noting, for accuracy’s sake that I wasn’t actually heading up the team back in 07 when we we won said award.
First spotted (for me anyhow) over on mobile crunch, Google Android 1.0 SDK has been released.
Those of you that have been following this blog (are there really any out there?) will know that I’ve not generally been happy with the experience on the iPhone. About the only saving graces of the phone are the large screen, coupled with the calendar coupled with the ocasionally useful app in the App Store. I don’t personally own a mac so can’t really roll my own apps.
I can’t wait to get a decent spec’ed large screen phone working on android as this will be a far more accessible hacking device for me than the current iPhone (it’s too hard to get the Neo phone’s in the .au at the moment). And who knows, maybe an android phone will actually be able to make and receive phone calls without locking the machine half the time.
Update: video goodness
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