AT&T announced that they are now offering true 3G UMTS (WCDMA) wireless in Seattle, San Francisco, Phoenix, and Detroit. Claimed speeds are 220-320 K with bursts to 384K. They are offering two 3G headsets, a Motorola and a Nokia, as well as a UMTS PC card modem by Novatel. This modem doesn’t support OS X […]
How about this for the next PowerBook: Apple replaces the traditional power port with a FireWire port and allows charging of the PowerBook over FireWire. This is not impossible because 6-pin FireWire was designed to carry power in addition to data. In fact, if you’ve got Mac OS 10.3 you can toss that RJ45 cable, […]
Is it just bad luck or has the quality of Apple products is gone down? My last four Apple products all had issues: PowerBook G4 500MHz: Four color lines in the screen, keyboard scratched the screen, bad scratches in the paint PowerBook G4 550MHz: battery lock broke, bad scratches in the paint (like an orange […]
I’m sitting here listening to Vapor Trails and I figure I can hang in there long enough to provide a few details. From high atop the Chicago skyline at the south end of the Magnificent Mile, here are my first impressions of the latest offering. The iPod’s packaging has gone full color, using the images […]