Apple, What the hell are you doing???

Apple has been in the headlines lately, because of iPhone 4. This time the news is not good, it seems to be that there is a problem with the antenna of the phone. Apple is usually known from their very high quality in their devices. A phone this expensive should not have this kind of problem. Apple also gave some guidelines on how to use the new iPhone, " Do not cover the left bottom corner of the phone." I mean what the fuck is this now. My opinion is that if there is this kind of problem, they need to recall all the iPhones and fix the issue. If they can't provide a real working solution for this issue, otherwise this might hurt Apple's reputation…I just know that i'm not getting one before it is 100% functional.


check out the video made while the new iPhone 4G was in finnish operator (sonera) network
check out the video here

Finland has become the first country in the world to make broadband a legal right for every citizen

Finland is in international headlines again, this time it is positive news. As most of you already know or may not know, Finland is now the first country in the world that has made broadband a legal right for every citizen. This is a huge step-up for finland's digital age. Also Finland is once again pulling the technology train forward.

I found an article from BBC concerning this matter and here it is:

Finland has become the first country in the world to make broadband a legal right for every citizen.

From 1 July every Finn will have the right to access to a 1Mbps (megabit per second) broadband connection.

Finland has vowed to connect everyone to a 100Mbps connection by 2015.

In the UK the government has promised a minimum connection of at least 2Mbps to all homes by 2012 but has stopped short of enshrining this as a right in law.

The Finnish deal means that from 1 July all telecommunications companies will be obliged to provide all residents with broadband lines that can run at a minimum 1Mbps speed.

Broadband commitment

Speaking to the BBC, Finland's communication minister Suvi Linden explained the thinking behind the legislation: "We considered the role of the internet in Finns everyday life. Internet services are no longer just for entertainment.

"Finland has worked hard to develop an information society and a couple of years ago we realised not everyone had access," she said.

It is believed up to 96% of the population are already online and that only about 4,000 homes still need connecting to comply with the law.

In the UK internet penetration stands at 73%.

The British government has agreed to provide everyone with a minimum 2Mbps broadband connection by 2012 but it is a commitment rather than a legally binding ruling.

"The UK has a universal service obligation which means virtually all communit

Making broadband a legal right could have implications for countries that plan tough action on illegal file-sharing.

Both the UK and France have said they may cut off or limit the internet connections of people who persistently download music or films for free.

The Finnish government has adopted a more gentle approach.

"We will have a policy where operators will send letters to illegal file-sharers but we are not planning on cutting off access," said Ms Linden.

A poll conducted for the BBC World Service earlier this year found that almost four in five people around the world believed that access to the internet is a fundamental right.

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10461048.stm)

Apple's history in 2 minutes…

Google to compete against Facebook in social media with Google Me…

I found this from the internet and i thought to post it here because i think that many people might be interested to read this…

Yesterday, Digg CEO Kevin Rose tweeted that he’d heard a “huge rumor” that Google was planning to launch a Facebook competitor called “Google Me”, sparking off a wave of speculative reports (Rose has since removed the tweet). NowAdam D’Angelo, who was Facebook’s CTO for years and is now founder of hot Q&A service Quora, is weighing in with more details. And from what he’s hearing, Google Me is indeed very real, and it’s gunning for Facebook.

D’Angelo shared his thoughts as an answer to one of the questions on Quora. Here’s his response:

Here is what I’ve pieced together from some reliable sources:
• This is not a rumor. This is a real project. There are a large number of people working on it. I am completely confident about this.
• They realized that Buzz wasn’t enough and that they need to build out a full, first-class social network. They are modeling it off of Facebook.
• Unlike previous attempts (before Buzz at least), this is a high-priority project within Google.
• They had assumed that Facebook’s growth would slow as it grew, and that Facebook wouldn’t be able to have too much leverage over them, but then it just didn’t stop, and now they are really scared.

You can read more responses to the question on the Quora thread here.

This obviously has the potential to be huge, and Facebook needs a strong competitor. But even if Google has an amazing site in the pipeline, creating the next Facebook is going to be easier said than done — nearly 500 million people already have their content stored on Facebook, and despite what Facebook has claimed about being open, I doubt they’ll make it easy for anyone to jump into the arms of a competitor. Not to mention the fact that Google has had shortcomings with its social sites like Buzz, Wave, and Orkut. This could be a very interesting battle.

The new Nokia N9 leaked…

From the video above you can see the assumed new Nokia N9 flagship phone...It is not 100% sure that this really is the actual phone, but this matter has been on finnish media lately. From the video you can also see some of the technical features of the phone, for example that it has 8mp camera and hdmi-port....

NOKIA gives up SYMBIAN on the N-series

Nokia has just announced that they are giving up the symbian operating system on their N-series phones, in the future the N-series will come with Meego. Meego is a joint project that Nokia has been conducting with Intel.

I have to say that this is a good news from Nokia, users of Nokia has for a long time now demanded that Nokia changes their Operating system to something more advanced and stable. Maybe now we can stop pulling the batteries from our Nokia phones to make it work.

Here is some info of Meego for all of you who are interested…

"MeeGo is a Linux-based open source mobile operating system project which was announced at Mobile World Congress in February 2010 by Intel and Nokia in a joint press conference. Its aim is to merge the efforts of Intel on Moblin and of Nokia on Maemo into one project. It is hosted by the Linux Foundation. According to Intel, MeeGo was developed because Microsoft did not offer comprehensive Windows 7 support for the Atom processor.

Harmattan, originally slated to become Maemo 6, is now considered to be a MeeGo instance (though not a MeeGo product), and Nokia is giving up the Maemo branding for Harmattan and beyond (Fremantle and previous will still be referred to as Maemo instances).

MeeGo is intended to run on a variety of hardware platforms including handhelds, in-car devices, netbooks and televisions. All platforms share the MeeGo core, with different UX (User eXperience) layers for each type of device.

MeeGo provides support for both ARM and Intel x86 processors with SSSE3 enabled  and uses btrfs as the default file system." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeeGo)
(http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLDE65N14720100624)

Apple iPhone 4G or Motorola Droid X???

Lately i've been thinking that what will be my next phone, i basically have 2 choices iPhone 4G and Droid X. Both of the phones are very good and the choosing the right phone will be difficult. Currently i have iPhone 3G and it is currently the best phone i ever had.

To be honest i am getting more interested of the Droid X, it has a better camera, bigger screen and it has Android 2.1 with Motoblur.
So technically Droid X is more advanced than iPhone 4 but iPhone is always iPhone.

Getting Droid X in finland will not be easy because this is Nokia land. Well i can always get it from Sweden or from middle europe.

Which one would you buy?