Yes it’s Sunday, but I have been trying to get this post out of my head this week, so I’ll make it short and simple. The following phones listed below have been confirmed to soon be arriving shops in the UK by the date shown:
Sony Ericsson K770i – Expected to launch by October this year (2007)
Sony Ericsson K850i – Expected to launch by October this year (2007)
Sony Ericsson W910i – Expected to launch by October this year (2007)
Sony Ericsson W960i – Expected to launch by December this year (2007)
Here’s a ‘charitable’ excuse for getting yourself a limited edition pink Apple iPod Shuffle 2nd generation… If you’re interested in supporting the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, you should head down to your local Target retail store and get your hands on this great offer!
If you have been reading our post from yesterday regarding the latest Apple iPhone firmware v1.1.1 update you will know that there has been an ongoing debate about whether iPhones which had been unlocked for use with non-AT&T sims will still work after this recent software update.
Well, up til this moment, after lots of testing with various sims and many attempts to re-activate, many iPhone readers and experts now believe that Apple has managed to create a software update that is AnySim and iPhone Sim Free proof!? There is now also a video uploaded in Gizmodo, this video demonstrates the whole process of updating the software on an iPhone Sim Free unlocked iPhone. The verdict is… after software update, the activate iphone screen crops up and unless you have a valid AT&T sim & contract, it won’t be possible to activate it.
Have you got some extra time in your hands? Here is a site I found today called FlashZoneGames.com, its got over 2300 games all in flash format so there is no need for any download, everything is completely free and all you need to do is have the latest web browser installed equipped with flash compatibility.
FlashZoneGames.com currently has flash games from a wide range of different categories, like action, adventure, arcade, puzzle, shooting, sports, strategy, etc…
This update includes the iTunes Wireless Store, but if you have an unlocked iPhone, this may really affect your phone. According to Gizmodo, the software update will work fine on simlocked iPhones, however, if your iPhone is unlocked this software brings your phone back to activation screen which eventually fails to be activated! So unlocked iPhones don’t go for this update (this is currently the safest recommendation)! Gizmodo has confirmed this fact with iPhones which have been unlocked using hacks provided by anySIM and iPhone Sim Free, whilst at the same time, third party applications also won’t work after this update is installed.
Well there’s already been alot of speculation around this issue recently, like we said in our post on some potential ways Steve Jobs might tackle the iPhone hacking problem. It seems Apple will decide to prevent further iPhone hacks simply by disabling those hacked iPhones from being able to be updated in the future. This is actually quite similar to what we thought would happen… indeed we felt acting through future service packs and firmware updates would be the most efficient way to handle it, however it didn’t come to our minds that Apple would attempt to ‘abandon’ those unlocked iPhones by forcing them to opt out of future updates. Certainly this sounds quite harsh, but again this has been the exact same way that Microsoft has handled it against users with unvalid Windows keys…
Completely left this out in our Nokia N95 8Gb and Nokia N81 review yesterday, these are both quality videos, enjoy!
Nokia commercial video:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6HnsU3o0ew[/youtube]
