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iPhone poor 3G performance isn’t in the hardware

August 27th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Well, there is nothing like real world testing. It looks like all these complaints about the iPhone are because this is wireless, so you can have deadspots close together and because networks are being overwhelmed and in the US the network is spotty.
AppleInsider | Repeat tests show iPhone 3G doesn’t suffer from faulty hardware
Wieselgren reported [...]

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PC Worlds says battery is short but so is everyone else

July 14th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Well, PC World says it is just 5 hours on 3G, but that’s as good as everyone else, so here is to recharging by noon every day!

AppleInsider | iPhone 3G clarifications: battery life, GPS, office apps
Apple’s call time on 3G is much shorter than the 10 hours promised on normal GSM phone networks but has [...]

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128GB SSDs

July 8th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Paradise awaits as 64GB Solid-state disks are falling. The MacBook Air SSD version just came down from $3100 to $2600 last week. Now Samsung has a cheaper technology called multi-cell so 128GB are coming this year and 256GB sometime later. This is going to be a real boon for laptop users, so hang on!
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Solid State Drives

May 15th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Drool, drool, solid state drives are on the way. They are as fast as traditional hard disks. They are about $1,000 per 64GB drive which is still expensive but coming down fast. Think about it as the logical upgrade for your current notebook.

AnandTech: 64GB SSD on the Desktop: Samsung and OCZ go mainstream new [...]

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Twitter Updates for 2008-04-25

April 25th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Need simple phones. T-mobile guy recommends the samsung lgh-605. HUGH numbers on screen. #
Made wiki, that was fun! Lala.com is going to be very cool Can’t get Norton Ghost to work. Arrghh! #

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