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Music
1000 Mobile Phones And 2000 Text Messages Playing Tchaikovsky
9:20AM Jesus Diaz | I don’t know what is crazier: This video of Tchaikovsky’s 1812 overture played with 1000 mobile phones and 2000 messages, or the videos showing how the whole thing was made. More »
Networks
1:08PM Chris Oaten | Over at The ByteBlog, Seamus Byrne and Co have been busy hauling a bunch of iPhones around the greater Sydney area using speedtest to chart their results, which are not too surprising, though there’s some devil in the detail. More »
Sydney Network Speeds. And The Winner is…
1:08PM Chris Oaten | Over at The ByteBlog, Seamus Byrne and Co have been busy hauling a bunch of iPhones around the greater Sydney area using speedtest to chart their results, which are not too surprising, though there’s some devil in the detail. More »
Networks
11:54AM Nick Broughall | Voda’s flicked the switch on their regional 3G network today, bringing the joys of faster mobile to thousands more Australians. More »
Vodafone Extends 3G Network To Most Of The Country Today
11:54AM Nick Broughall | Voda’s flicked the switch on their regional 3G network today, bringing the joys of faster mobile to thousands more Australians. More »
Networks
5:04PM Nick Broughall | I must have slept through the Vodafone announcement that as part of their ongoing 3G upgrade, which should finish by the end of this month and brings 3G service to 94 per cent of the population, they were also boosting their 2G network. But boosting it they are! More »
Vodafone’s Boosting Their 2G Network To EDGE
5:04PM Nick Broughall | I must have slept through the Vodafone announcement that as part of their ongoing 3G upgrade, which should finish by the end of this month and brings 3G service to 94 per cent of the population, they were also boosting their 2G network. But boosting it they are! More »
Deals
1:34PM Nick Broughall | If you wanted to get a better idea of which netbook plus 3G data plan combo was the best value for money, Gus over at Lifehacker has put them up against eachother in a battle royale of smallish computers, inbuilt 3G antennae and mobile data packets. More »
Best Netbook + Data Bundles Analysed At Lifehacker
1:34PM Nick Broughall | If you wanted to get a better idea of which netbook plus 3G data plan combo was the best value for money, Gus over at Lifehacker has put them up against eachother in a battle royale of smallish computers, inbuilt 3G antennae and mobile data packets. More »
Phones
BlackBerry Storm 2 Wi-Fi Update: Possible, But Will Verizon Allow It?
2:45PM Dan Nosowitz | We’ve just gotten a shot of the BlackBerry Storm 2 with a clearly-visible Wi-Fi option. It’s a European Vodafone version. Fingers crossed it’s enabled worldwide! [CrackBerry] More »
Phones
11:00AM Nick Broughall | Despite all the negative press the iPhone, iTunes and the App store has been getting in the past week or so, it doesn’t seem to have slowed demand. Jen Dudley-Nicholson at the Courier Mail is reporting that all the Telcos have sold out of the new iPhone 3GS across the country. More »
Oh Noes! Australia Has An iPhone Shortage
11:00AM Nick Broughall | Despite all the negative press the iPhone, iTunes and the App store has been getting in the past week or so, it doesn’t seem to have slowed demand. Jen Dudley-Nicholson at the Courier Mail is reporting that all the Telcos have sold out of the new iPhone 3GS across the country. More »
Deals
2:58PM Nick Broughall | On top of checking out Lifehacker’s guide to mobile broadband, if you’re in the market for a mobile broadband plan, you should know that Vodafone’s just dropped the price of their prepaid starter pack to $129. That gets you a USB modem plus 2GB of data if you pick it up before the end of September (after that you’ll just get 500MB). More »
Vodafone Drops Price Of Prepaid Mobile Internet
2:58PM Nick Broughall | On top of checking out Lifehacker’s guide to mobile broadband, if you’re in the market for a mobile broadband plan, you should know that Vodafone’s just dropped the price of their prepaid starter pack to $129. That gets you a USB modem plus 2GB of data if you pick it up before the end of September (after that you’ll just get 500MB). More »
Networks
10:56AM Nick Broughall | A mobile broadband connection is like the Batarang in every good gadget hero’s belt – you don’t need it every time you head out to fight crime, but it comes in handy more often than not. If you’re wondering which mobile broadband solution is the best for you, make sure you head over to Gus’s Road Worrier column on Lifehacker this week, as he runs through all the Aussie 3G networks and rates them accordingly.
[Lifehacker]
Best 3G Modem Deals Rated By Lifehacker
10:56AM Nick Broughall | A mobile broadband connection is like the Batarang in every good gadget hero’s belt – you don’t need it every time you head out to fight crime, but it comes in handy more often than not. If you’re wondering which mobile broadband solution is the best for you, make sure you head over to Gus’s Road Worrier column on Lifehacker this week, as he runs through all the Aussie 3G networks and rates them accordingly.
[Lifehacker]
Software
2:47PM Nick Broughall | After yesterday’s post on the iPhone 3.0 group SMS bug, we’ve received a few reports from Optus customers that the bug has been fixed. All you have to do is sync your iPhone with iTunes, press the update button and download the updated carrier settings file. Bam – group SMS is back. Anyone on Voda or Telstra wanna let us know if this works for them?
iPhone Group SMS Bug Seems To Be Fixed
2:47PM Nick Broughall | After yesterday’s post on the iPhone 3.0 group SMS bug, we’ve received a few reports from Optus customers that the bug has been fixed. All you have to do is sync your iPhone with iTunes, press the update button and download the updated carrier settings file. Bam – group SMS is back. Anyone on Voda or Telstra wanna let us know if this works for them? 
