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by Stephen Withers
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When Apple released the 2.0.2 software for its iPhone 3G, a proportion of users found it improved connectivity and reduced the number of dropped calls. Others reported no difference. What's going on?
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by Stephen Withers
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When Swedish publication Göteborgs-Posten had a correctly working iPhone 3G's antenna tested, it was no surprise that it passed. So what happened when they put iPhones giving poor reception into the test chamber?
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by Stephen Withers
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Did you think putting a passcode lock on your iPhone would help keep your personal information safe as well as stopping people from using the phone without permission? Well think again because it turns out that the iPhone is as easy to crack as a soft shelled peanut.
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by Davey Winder
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If yesterday was happy update day, as the iPhone Dev Team proclaimed, then today must be happy updated update day as PwnageTool 2.0.3.1 not only appears but also appears to work...
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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Oops - the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority has banned an Apple
iPhone 3G ad claiming that “all the parts of the Internet are on the
iPhone” after two complainants pointed out the iPhone lacks Flash and
Java. Good decision or bureaucracy gone mad?
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by Stephen Withers
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Orange - Apple's appropriately named iPhone carrier partner in France - has admitted artificially limiting the data speed to a fraction of the 3G handset's potential.
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by Stephen Withers
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Apple-sanctioned telcos are being fingered in the case of the iPhone 3G performance problems, with faster speeds and better voice calls in one country but not another. Does this mean Apple's off the hook?
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by Stephen Withers
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There's a lot of noise about the iPhone 3G and how well it does - or doesn't - connect to 3G networks. But if you wanted to shed light on what's going on, would you test a handset that was working well, or one that was working badly?
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by Stephen Withers
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Apple's latest iPhone software may provide a fix for one or more of the underlying issues affecting 3G reception, but it has proved far from the comprehensive cure that users were hoping for. The software update has done little to curb calls for Apple to address perceived hardware issues with the latest version of the popular phone.
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by Stephen Withers
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Microsoft has relaxed its licensing restrictions on datacentre software to allow for the growing use of virtualisation. Significantly, Microsoft has chosen to drop its previous 90-day reassignment rule, allowing server software to be moved around a server farm as often as necessary. The change is especially significant for customers running virtualised environments.
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by Stephen Withers
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Qantas has launched a version of its web site that has been tailored to suit iPhone 3G, even though Apple's mobile phone features a full browser. Versions for other handsets such as BlackBerry have been foreshadowed.
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by Davey Winder
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We all knew it was coming, but the speed with which Apple has released the latest iPhone firmware update was a little surprising. Could this be the much anticipated 3G reception problem fix?
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by Stephen Withers
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Turkey is set to join the iPhone club with the announcement that wireless carrier Turkcell will start carrying Apple's 3G handset later this year. Hopefully by the time it gets the new iPhone, the reported reception problems with Apple's first phone will be solved.
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by Davey Winder
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As the Apple iPhone 3G gets set to launch later this week in India there remains just one small problem: India has not got an operational 3G mobile network yet...
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by Stephen Withers
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An embarrassing blunder has forced VMware to issue a second version of ESX 3.5 Update 2 and ESXi 3.5 Update 2 to fix a bug that caused licences to incorrectly expire. The problem arose because a time limitation from a beta version of the virtualisation software was incorrectly left in the code that was shipped.
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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Theoretically coming September is Apple’s iPhone (and iPod Touch) OS
2.1, which is supposed to have “Core Location” GPS services, more bug
fixes (which OS 2.0.1 didn’t really fix) and the “push notification”
services that are a substitute for programs running in the background –
but this has just been taken out OS 2.1 beta 4. Will 2.1 be a panacea
for suffering OS 2.0 users – or just more purgatory?
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by Davey Winder
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The iPhone Firmware saga continues as Apple seeds 2.1 Beta 4 to developers. This time the big talking point would seem to be not what has been added but what Apple has taken away...
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by Davey Winder
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There was a big enough fuss when Rogers announced the pricing of the iPhone 3G. Just watch as the fan turns brown as the cost of the BlackBerry Bold leaks out...
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