What sort of unlock? Freeing it from Orange, you mean? A quick Google will show you lots of sites...

has anyones had any joy in unlockin there spv c500 phone? if so how did u go about it?

I have great hopes for organic LED technology. But we really are some way away from seeing cheap, reliable devices on the market, it would seem...

Strange, though, that it's the blue that fades fastest. On normal print, of course, it lasts longest...

Interesting! I should do a survey of extended batteries - third party addons, preferably. Boy! they do charge (and I don't mean electrically) like a wounded rhino for those items.

Anybody found a good battery for the ThinkPad X31 notebook? I just happen to have one of those...

/m44 There's an extended life battery for the UX50 at http://shop.brando.com.hk/pegaeb40.php if you're feeling rich.. Brando claim "Operating time of the standard battery is expanded in approximately 1.5 - 2.5 times". It's a problem though, especially if you don't leave yourself enough battery capacity to log off from BTOpenZone !

Sushi Sticks Yuck ! Really wouldn't fancy a block of raw (plastic) fish sticking out of my PC, but if they made some for the UK market.. I'd look forward to a 128Mb sausage, or maybe even a Mars Bar :-)

Described as "an idiot" by ex-colleagues at Symbian and "a genius" by Dr David Potter, who founded the company, and "who?" by Arnie movie fans, Juha Christensen now works for Macromedia.

He'll be in London in a fortnight.

The newest, but the best? It's just a Microsoft smartphone, kids...

A four megapixel still camera, and a two-hour high-res digital camcorder from Pretec - and the world's fastest Flash!

Of course, that will be the definition of a standard phone in 2006...

An odd one, this. You want GPS (or something else) on a phone. You don't want to flatten your phone battery. Most people have traditionally said: "OK, link to a dedicated GPS device via Bluetooth - a device with its own battery!"

Logical enough. But what if you could find a way of doing it without flattening the battery?

It's not going to happen any day soon with WiFi. But with GPS, well...

Thanks for that! - I'll ask PalmSource what they plan to do about it at the developer conf next week, in Munich.

I've got WiFi on my Sony UX50 and yes, it eats battery in a fairly alarming fashion when its on.

And I have to say, Skype on a Palm would be good.

I'm not so sure it would be good for the battery life, though... Any people with experience of WiFi on Palm?

I haven't had a chance to ask Orange what it thinks about unlocking codes. But that's the story - someone has provided it...

Personal Securer, mainly a Security device, but also a GSM mobile phone with restricted functions. Attached to the PC, it becomes a GSM/GPRS modem and GPS receiver.
http://www.securer.info

Here we are, something old which I meant to publish three weeks ago, and lost track of.

Interesting, though...

"Just another seminar" really: here are some details and a pointer.

Convergence. Still a hot topic?

Wonder who "register taker" is? Never mind, here's a press release about a new portable projector from HP.

Five colour wheels! Wheee! (l)

Orange has announced its 3G network; it's now going ahead with a data card. We haven't had a chance to test it yet... but it's announced for this month as a shipping product. More when we get more!

Does anybody know a device called the Peercall?
www.peercall.com
peer to peer communication over the internet.

So Steve Jobs did come to London to launch iTunes Europe.

Pay one Euro per song. Get Classics too.

Well, it's all on iPods, and it's all mobile, right?

Coming to VON Europe? - we'll be there.

Let's swap cards...

Symbol is doing more and more in infrastructure - but the news that it is moving into cellular phone management surprised me...

A September mobile device show at the Kensington Hilton first week of the month.

Hmmmm! Ought the VoIP story not be filed under the 'GOSSIP' heading.......

Another VoIP provider (yawn) - how boring, right?

Not at all. Watch this space closely...

And nobody invited me to the Glyndebourne WiFi Festival.

What a stupid mistake...

So it's just a USB memory chip. In a pen. With a flashy James Bond blurb.

If you don't like it, don't buy it!

Peter,
 You thought /m24 - that "After the Madrid bombs, I think mobile phone services will be removed from all underground stations, worldwide" - a response about as useful as getting rid of all the dustbins in London after an IRA bomb in one!

The IRA bombing was brought under control by diplomacy and espionage, not by banning dustbins. If someone wants to set off a bomb in the underground, the lack of a mobile phone trigger won't bother them. There are dozens of ways of setting timers, wireless triggers, and so on, and terrorists have used them all.

You ask how to tackle London Underground - would shame work? I often go to Brussels and the mobile phone works fine in stations and through the tunnels. That is in a country which by our ususal stereotypical image never finished anything!

On the way back from the Wireless LAN show I travelled in the same tube train carriage as a group of 5 Police Officers. Their radios kept chattering intermittently and it was disconcerting to see them straining to try and hear what was being said. Still it's good to know that they have the manpower to spare even if they don't have a clue what's going on outside :-)

After the Madrid bombs, I think mobile phone services will be removed from all underground stations, worldwide. Explosives are TEN times as effective inside a building than outside. 10kg of dynamite inside a tunnel would cause massive damage.

At last! Guy's found a use for the now-ubiquitous camera phone and MMS messaging. You see someone being mugged a few yards away? You reach for your trusty mobile. You take a snapshot. And when you've emerged back into the daylight, you MMS it to the Evening Standard (having first negotiated an exclusive deal with the photo editor)

I'm fed up with the London Underground and their endless excuses.

How can we tackle this?

Three-Gee? Yes, Vodafone says, "you can buy a card in the shops today."

Twenty quid a month, 100 quid purchase. Broadband speeds, if you get a signal. Ah, yes... if!

Yeah, I saw that programme too - incidently the guy that made that commment about trademark was asked to leave his company a few days after the programme went out. Not sure why, but referring to one of his product as "the 30 second wank" might have had something to do with it.

I'd not smile so readily... About 14 months back BBC4 screened an excellent documentary on G3 in the UK (at midnight on the UK's least-watched channel?) They drew attention to the absurd license costs that the telcos had agreed to pay (and documented the whole story; I've a suspicion that I once dated the daughter of one of the leading players, who was also a friend of the man who went on to become "Mr. Vodaphone". Small world!) But, to return to the point.... the program asked "where are the telcos going to recoup these huge costs?" And one of the answers they got was... Porn. Apparently, in the USA, one of the most profitable web-based companies offers live video... of a bed. Subscribers email in real-time what they want to see. The company admitted that they'd been approached by a UK mobile carrier to see if carrying live, hadcore porn videos over a 3G link was possible. "Of course, we can't tell you WHICH company it was" they said, "But their trademark is a colour". Well... that DOES make it hard to work out which one. The program makers asked an Orange spokesperson for acomment. He rapidly changed the subject - without issuing a categorical denial. Oops. What amazed me was the radical idea of a senior Orange manager coming up with such an original idea.

Are rude text messages really a problem? Or is it just a sensitive subject which actually doesn't bother anybody?

The Comms Channel Expo: discuss here. If you can stay awake...

Don't ever accuse me of not giving you tips for bargains...

All the public wifi you can eat. Probably six months. Read all about it!

Edited by author 02-26-2004 07:18 AM
So, Cambridge Silicon Radio has gone public. Well, is going. But why is it supposed to be a secret in Australia?

Why do people not want the Internet on the Underground in London?

IBC's call for papers. We've <a href="http://www.newswireless.net/articles/031223-ibc.html"> published their proposed programme.

Any comments?

Blame this one on Hank Maus, the network sniffer. "This is really bloody fascinating," he said.

So we gave the story to the Pimply Faced Youth, and this is what we got...

Edited by author 11-29-2003 10:01 AM
I looked at this tiny GPS receiver, and thought: "what, another boring PCMCIA plug-in?" and then suddenly twigged. It's not PCMCIA PC Card. It's SD IO. Amazing...

And for more detail note....

http://www.umtsworld.com/technology/wcdma.htm

Maximum user data rate (Physical channel): ~ 2.3Mbps (spreading factor 4, parallel codes (3 DL / 6 UL), 1/2 rate coding), but interference limited.

Maximum user data rate (Offered): 384 kbps (year 2002), higher rates ( ~ 2 Mbps) in the near future. HSPDA will offer data speeds up to 8-10 Mbps (and 20 Mbps for MIMO systems)

2MBps for 3G is the targetted rate for *stationary* 3G systems, not moving ones as per mobile phones, which go between 144 and 384Kbps depending on how fast you are going.

http://www.3gnewsroom.com/html/about_3g/intro_3g.shtml

Do we really believe that there are 3G phones doing 3 megabits per second data? And if that's wrong, is this "100 megabit phone" also a misprint?

Is it really unfair of Oftel to describe "3" as having the worst customer reputation? Only five hundred complaints... isn't that really rather few?

You may remember that a couple of weeks back, columnist Wendy M Grossman was accused of theft when she accidentally picked up a neighbour's WiFi connection.

This week, Canadian police found a kiddie-porn user driving and wanking simultaneously - having used a WiFi zone to acquire his pr0n.

Amongst his charges: theft of communications. I guess, he won't contest that. Does it set a precedent in Canada, I wonder, if he gets convicted?

Most online maps are crap. Streetmap's maps really look good. So I was really excited by the Pocket Streetmap; and I'm really excited about seeing it on a Pocket PC soon...

So, D-Link has launched its first 11g range of WiFi devices - first based on the TI chip set. They also do Atheros ones; but the TI ones can (says TI) go twice as fast. So why hasn't DLink announced turbo mode?

Ban houses! Paedophiles live in them!

Or maybe some of these people could just... take a breath! Jerking one's knee that hard that fast can induce injury.

http://www.rant-central.com

Edited by author 11-19-2003 01:07 PM
Ban camera phones! Not just from work, but everywhere. After all they could be used by paedophiles.

Should we ban roads, too? and swimming pools?

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