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Tuesday, July 16th, 2013Barclaycard! What is this PayTag crap?
Friday, May 3rd, 2013It’s Friday, the end of the week, Bank Holiday Weekend, and I’m going to have a RANT!
In the post the other day I received this item from Barclaycard, it’s called a PayTag.
It’s a contact-less payment system,
the instructions state “Just snap off your PayTag sticker and remove the protection backing. Then, just stick it onto the back of your mobile”.
Hang on, lets just rewind there…..Then, just stick it onto the back of your mobile..
WHAT, Why would I stick this crap, on the back of my nice new shiny Nexus 4!
I do wonder if Barclaycard had surveyed it’s customer asking them if they wanted to stick this crap, on their new shiny “eye-candy” expensive mobile phone!
A comment from one colleague “why would I stick that on my phone worth a couple of hundred quid!”
Not very scientific, but I surveyed 6 colleagues in my department, ALL of which have just purchased new shiny mobile phones
- Google Nexus 4 (4)
- iPhone 5 (1)
- White Nokia Lumia 920 (1)
- HTC (something) (1)
Not one of the above people, after showing them the PayTag, wanted to stick this crap on their shiny new mobile phone!
My phone shares the same pocket as my wallet, so why would I not just get my wallet out with my Barclaycard!
Barclaycard, here’s a thought, why not just Develop an iPhone or Android App!
Andy’s Google Nexus 4
Tuesday, February 19th, 2013time to move on…and enter the 21st Century
I already have an iPad1, Amazon Kindle Fire (which has a customized version of “Amazon Android”), I wanted something different, rather than a common iOS based iPhone 4 or iPhone 5.
enter the Google Nexus 4
So, I’ve recently purchased a Google Nexus 4.
(it’s also got the same name as the off-world Replicants in my favourite film!)
and the Nexus 4 is brilliant, time to cash in Apple shares!
I’m currently testing GiffGaff network based on O2, which at present (18 Feb 13), is the cheapest mobile network for truly Unlimited Data.
I usualy use Three (3) for my iPad, MiFi and laptops, but Three (3) is getting expensive.
Andy’s Mobile Phone Collection and History (1992 – Almost Present!)
Monday, February 18th, 2013
This has been a blog, I’ve been working on for the last month, that has been marked as Draft, and I could not publish until now, because Lindsey also reads my blog, and this topic conceals a little secret!
These are most of the mobile phones I’ve owned and used. It’s a very modest collection of mobile phones compared to some mobile phone owners, that change phones every few months or years. – well I think so! (for a gadget minded, nerdy, IT Consultant!)
I first owned a Nokia 101, followed by a NEC P4, in 1992, (not displayed, they must be in a box somewhere), and then in 1994, purchased a Nokia 232 (far left in picture) from People’s Phone on the High Street. These were all GSM Analog phones.
In 1998, I upgraded to my first Digital phone which was a Nokia 5110, on Vodafone (not displayed, in another box!), later in 1999, I switched to Orange and purchased a Nokia 7110e (almost the Matrix phone!), one of the first WAP (Internet phones) using GPRS. Used Windows CE based Smartphones on O2 in 2004, with the XDA IIs and Windows Mobile 5 and 6 on the XDA Mini S, these were slow, small screens, had memory leaks, required daily reboots, and so I carried on using my faithful Nokia 7110e, in 2004, the students at a local school, use to mock me about the “brick of a phone I had”. In 2006, I needed a tri-band phone for holiday in Mexico/Cuba, so purchased a Nokia 6230i. I also acquired and tested a 3G phone, on Three’s Network, a LG U8120, and emergency phones I keep in the car the VX1.
So my current daily mobile phone is still a Nokia 6230i. (phone on the far right of picture)….until now…See Part II tomorrow.
Andy’s new gadget courtesy of VMware – A Kindle Fire
Monday, April 9th, 2012On April 2nd, I blogged here about a mysterious parcel from VMware that arrived by FedEx.
The parcel contained an Amazon Kindle Fire, not available in the UK. To be released later this year. I’ve not done the Android experience, being strictly an Apple iOS, Microsoft Windows CE/Mobile, and Nokia nerd. So it will be interesting to checkout what Android 2.3 ‘Gingerbread’ has to offer, compared to Apple iOS 5.1.
The Amazon Kindle Fire is a Full Colour 7 inch, multi-touch display, tablet, with WiFi, web, movies, music, apps, games, reading & more, and it runs Android 2.3 ‘Gingerbread’.
VMware sent me the gift, as a Thank You for providing feedback in the My VMware Beta program.
Thank You VMware!
Andy’s iPad Upgrade from iOS 4.3.3 to iOS 5.0.1 – Restored! – Only took 6 hours!
Thursday, March 1st, 2012
Finally, the upgrade and restore has completed, I started the upgrade at 23:00, and it finished at 5.00am. 6 Hours to complete an iOS 5.0.1 upgrade, and I also upgraded and moved to iCLOUD as well.
not checked my iPad fully yet, but I knew something would be weird….
The upgrade has reduced the overall capacity by approx 1GB, compared to iOS 4.3.3, and now I have something strange going on because it thinks it’s Over Capacity by 30.1GB.
Andy’s iPad Upgrade from iOS 4.3.3 to iOS 5.0.1 – Restoring Apps!
Thursday, March 1st, 2012Maybe there’s hope!
Andy’s iPad Upgrade from iOS 4.3.3 to iOS 5.0.1 – Crapped Out!
Thursday, March 1st, 2012Andy’s iPad Upgrade from iOS 4.3.3 to iOS 5.0.1 – Crapped Out!
What does Error No.2 mean?
I need to take a shit!
and this is the help from the Link:-
it might as well also read
6. Check Under Crackers
7. Get Credit Card
8. Place order for iPad 3
oh sh1t!
It will never be the same again……
Lets see if Restore Works!
Andy’s iPad Upgrade from iOS 4.3.3 to iOS 5.0.1 – is this any good?
Thursday, March 1st, 2012Because of this:-
The time has come to upgrade my iPad to iOS 5.0.1, I’m not happy about this, I would much rather stay on iOS 4.3.3 Jailbroken, but in June 2012, Apple are migrating from Apple MobileMe to iCLOUD, and I will no longer be able to use the features of Mobile Me, with my iPad.
I’ve read many reports that the iOS 5.0.1 upgrade makes the iPAD1 slower, so I’ve saved my SHSH blobs, so I can rollback to 4.3.3, if it’s a pile of doodoo! To save my SHSH blobs I use TinyUmbrella for Windows, download here
So Goodbye iPad iOS 4.3.3…………….
Okay, I’ve download the 716.6MB Upgrade and Hit Update
Waiting…………………..
25 Billion App Download Day approaches
Wednesday, February 29th, 2012
Download the 25 billionth app and you could win a US$10,000 App Store Gift Card.
Apple have setup a counter here
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