iParadise Lost

I know this is just not me. There is so much wrong with all of these pricey modem sticks. For starters they stick out from the USB port on a laptop. But the real and utter mess is the software.

Last month I felt like I was battling with Vodafone on a weekly basis as no one seemed to have any idea how the software worked on a mac. The software on the modem crashed leopard the software ( and get this its priceless) on their website software could only be downloaded to a PC, and then I shot myself in the foot by upgrading to Snow leopard and boom it all stopped working again.

After a little research a found a German company novamedia who write lots of great little USB modem software packages and have unlocked SIM modems. I am going to be testing one in Portugal, Sweden and the UK this month. But any user experiences MAC and PC with these little sticks would be great to hear about..

Here are the specs for the new iPhone, given the Palm Pre release in June I see most, if not all of these features being present - most of these come from an iphoneapps.com post of 19/5

32GB and 16GB to replace current capacities
$199 and $299 price-points to be maintained
3.2 Megapixel camera
Video recording & editing capabilities
Ability to send a picture & video via MMS
Discontinuation of the metal band surrounding the edge of the device
OLED screen
1.5X The battery life
Double the RAM and processing power
Built-in FM transmitter
Apple logo on the back to light up
Rubber-tread backing
Sleeker design
Built-in compass
Revolutionary combination of the camera, GPS, compass, and Google maps to identify photo and inform about photo locations.

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Apple have never bought into the idea that laptop can have anything but a 13 inch physical keyboard. But enter into the touch world and the possibility of a larger touch pad machine seems obvious and something I am sure we will see by the end of this year.

Priced mid way between a iphone and a Macbook the MacPad will have mutitouch and hand gestures built into to its interface. Kinda like a Newton message pad but with much more cool thinking and development put inside.

How much do want to bet with me ? £50 ?

PS What happened to the Palm Pre did they cancel that too ?

With Apple opening channels to no contract iPhones in the US and the same with Play.com selling them here in the UK we must be on for the 3rd generation iPhone and iPhone Pro on June 8th when the Apple developers conference opens and we presume the iPhone OS 3.0 comes out. What with the Palm Pre joining the party around this time expect an iPhone with the following for sure:

Faster processor
Larger storage
Better camera
Video calls
Better screen resolution
Better battery

Also we may see whether Mr Jobs is back in the hot seat by the then, should be quite a show don't you think, and we have even touched on Snow Leopard......

There we were at CES all excited, but now with the buds of spring already out how come there is no summer launch date for the Pam Pre. Palm has to get this out to have a chance in hell of survival and unless they are going to upgrade some features pretty soon the Pre might be challenged as soon as it released. I did e-mail Palm PR reps about why the Pre was not a tri band phone, didn't they think most smart phone users travelled ? Their answer back was silence.

With apple on 3.0 by this summer perhaps Palm with launch their new WebOS straight to version 2 ?