This week on News 1130 radio in Vancouver, I spoke about these tech topics for Wired Wednesday with Ben Wilson:
Tonight is DemoCamp at WorkSpace in Gastown. This is the second DemoCamp this year and my first one so hopefully they’ll be gentle. Doesn’t look like they are fully booked so if you’re around, come by and check it out…there will be a gong! UPDATE: just got back from DemoCamp….it was pretty fun, albeit hot…
The inner fanboy won out and I acquired an iPhone this week. After getting to play with one last week at DemoCamp, I couldn’t resist any longer. So yes, I have an iPhone that I can’t use as a phone (yet)…in Canada at least. I’ll be using it fully as intended when I visit a…
Last week a new method of ‘unlocking’ the iPhone to use it with any mobile carrier emerged. Using something called a Turbo SIM (which costs $80US), it tricks the iPhone into thinking it’s using an AT&T sim card while actually using your sim card of choice. How does it do this? You need to trim…
Engadget broke the story early this morning that iphonesimfree.com had managed to develop a software only unlock method to allow you to use any carrier’s SIM card with the iPhone. Hopefully, it’s obvious that this is a big deal for a number of reasons: it will work with Roger’s or Fido in Canada you don’t…
Still kinda sketchy and hard to tell since it was shot with a Nokia N95. Not exactly definitive proof but promising nonetheless. Check out the blog post from iphoneunlocking.com. Now if someone would just release/offer for sale the unlock….
Wow…what a bombshell this morning! The new ‘iDevices’ are pretty impressive….and the implications are pretty far reaching. The biggest thing for me was the price cut of the iPhone from $599 to $399 (USD) for the 8gb iPhone. This has to be one of the fastest price cuts in Apple history for a new product…