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Skype changes its mind – drops 3G call charges — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:23:23 +0000

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Comment on Updated: Japan iPad 3G is NOT “not exactly” SIM-locked – Jobs says so by yukster

yukster — Thu, 20 May 2010 01:11:11 +0000

Actually, GPS isn’t required for location services. I believe they can do that with cell tower triangulation, which would give away the fact you are in Japan…

BTW, am I missing something? From my understanding, Emobile is a pure 1700 MHz carrier, and their sim would not work in any 2100 MHz phone whether its an iPad/iPhone or some other 3G phone.

Comment on Updated: Japan iPad 3G is NOT “not exactly” SIM-locked – Jobs says so by Steve Jobs Says Apple and Softbank are Wrong: the iPad SIM Lock Situation in Japan « Mobile in Japan

Tue, 18 May 2010 09:20:44 +0000

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Comment on Updated: Japan iPad 3G is NOT “not exactly” SIM-locked – Jobs says so by Ewok

Ewok — Mon, 17 May 2010 04:52:22 +0000

Apple have created the ultimate in hardware locking – GPS based country detect, coupled with restriction lists for carriers!

Sounds like something fishy is happening….

Comment on Updated: Japan iPad 3G is NOT “not exactly” SIM-locked – Jobs says so by Chris

Chris — Mon, 17 May 2010 02:16:35 +0000

GPS enabled SIM lock is an interesting concept….until you go into settings and turn off Location Services – then what?
It’s weird that they are being elusive surrounding it though, like you say, it’s a case that they are either locked or not, there isn’t much of a middle ground on the matter.

It’ll be interesting to see what will happen in the coming months when Japanese phones are starting to become unlocked, I don’t know how much that will affect the ipad (if at all?) but we shall see.

the 3G iPad plans in Japan are such a shame, it could have been amazingly useful, but they’ve just kept it the same as before.

Comment on Updated: Japan iPad 3G is NOT “not exactly” SIM-locked – Jobs says so by softbanksucks

softbanksucks — Mon, 17 May 2010 00:01:13 +0000

Here is my interpretation of the information available:

APN details include MMC (mobile country code) and MNC (mobile network code). For example, in setting up an APN to use docomo’s bizhoudai unlimited data plan, two of the pieces of information needed are Japan’s MMC (440) and Docomo’s MNC (10 is what I am using).

I think it would be pretty simple to include a line of code in the base band that deny APN connections to any MNC other that is not softbank if the country code is 440.

Comment on iPhone O2 – how to fix the image compression by squashboy

squashboy — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:08:44 +0000

great tip – however this breaks tethering.

Does anyone know a way to disable image compression and keep tethering working.

Comment on “Native” HD MKV playback in Windows 7 by Rasmus

Rasmus — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:32:01 +0000

Hi Ed

Do you know if this is only possible in the final version of windows 7.
I have made a clean install of windows7, and converted some of my files using the tsmuxer.
Windows7 MCE does show the file, but when i select it, my mediacenter stops responing.

Comment on Taskbar invisible over Remote Desktop by MB

MB — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:16:51 +0000

Happens to be with Vista and a Radeon 3450 card. Anyone find a solid fix for this?

Comment on iPhone O2 – how to fix the image compression by Alastair

Alastair — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:22:38 +0000

reply to james’ post. the reason why you get the image compression after you’ve reconnected to wifi is that safari (and every other browser) has cached the images and loads them out of cache rather than re-downloading them.

Usually hitting the reload button will completely download all images anew. Worst case scenario you need to clear you cache and then reload.

dull, i know.