Hmm
It was fairly temperamental late this morning, but I've had no problems since with email or web surfing over 3G or EDGE on an iPhone in London.
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There are a couple of decent, different iPhone games - Zen Bound and Sway spring to mind - but the majority are just mediocre ports (with added touch, as the article suggests).
However, the setup of the iTunes store really doesn't help. It's very difficult to filter out the dross and see what apps are really new or different. iTMS really needs some quality control barriers.
Having said that, I'll still leap at the first iPhone port of Football/Championship Manager...
There's a lot of bet-hedging going on in that Karpinski study. If all that can reasonably be concluded is that there's some correlation between using social networking sites and not scoring highly academically - well, duh.
As the linked article says, there could be a whole host of other reasons why those students aren't doing as well, and cutting out social networking sites may make no difference at all to their future performance.
I'm no shill for O2 (God forbid) but isn't half of the attraction of the iPhone deal the unlimited data? Why would anyone pay £550 and then fork out for data usage on top?
(I can understand why someone wouldn't want to be tied to an O2 contract, but not why they would splash out this much and then pay for calls, texts and data on top. I mean, I like my iPhone, but I'd happily switch back to my Nokia E51 rather than pay those kind of numbers.)
I love my Shuffle. I don't miss the screen at all - I was raised on cassette walkmen and making your own mixtapes, so not having a display telling me what's next is no loss.
As for the irritating dock, you can buy rather handy connectors for about a fiver - myincipio.com/product/IP-300 (no, I'm not affiliated with this lot - I have something that looks exactly the same but came from a different manufacturer).