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A few days ago a British woman claimed that she was the world’s fastest texter on a Samsung Galaxy S with the Swype keyboard. She spelled “the razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human” in 25.94 seconds.

In the video above, you can see someone (Gumballtech?) write the same text in under 22 seconds on an iPhone, with a standard QWERTY-keyboard. Can you see the speed of those fingers!?


Pretty cool tech preview of what actually can be achieved on the iPhone 4.

The tech preview is made by id Software’s John Carmack. This is the same guy who is behind Doom and Quake, and has for long been the behind  innovation in 3D game graphics. Remember when Doom was THE best looking game available?


Anyone of you attending Assembly 2010 in Helsinki, Finland? I’ll be at the Microsoft stand today, so if you’re at Assembly, please come to the stand and say hello!

Read more: Assembly


Check out this screen comparison pic from Cnet Asia. On left we have a Desire with Sony’s new Super LCD screen, and on right a Desire with the ‘old’ AMOLED screen. In this test I’d say the AMOLED is better.

Hit view post for a direct sunlight comparison.


Sonera Micro SIM DIY

The iPhone 4 went on sale in an addition 17 countries today, and thankfully Finland was included. I was the 8th person to get the iPhone 4 here in Vaasa :) But, since I didn’t want to lock myself up for a few years on a contract, I needed to cut my old SIM (regular) to make it fit inside the iPhone 4.

This was actually quite easy, and I only used a pen, ruler and a pair of scissors. Actually, you don’t even need the ruler and a pen, just a pair of scissors. In the image above, you can the new Micro SIM card, and then my old regular SIM card cut so that it fits the iPhone 4. It’s very easy when you have a template around your new Micro SIM card itself! You just place the old SIM underneath this new Micro SIM and mark out what you need to cut, and then just use whatever tool you like to do the hard work. My choice of weapon is the scissors on the right.

Good luck and hit View Post to see the result!


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I’m currently in the iPhone 4 queue in Vaasa, Finland. I’m the 8th person to arrive here. The local time is now 3:20, and they’ll start selling at 9:00.

Good timing since only the first 10 persons will get their beloved phone immediately, the rest will be delivered sometime in the future.
Happy queuing! :)


What would you say if you could get a Nokia 5230 or a Nokia X6 with a Android on board? Someone in the marketing department of Three Mobile UK thinks that it is possible.

The ad above appeared earlier today on Oxford Street in London, UK. Pretty good marketing snafu from Three, since Nokia has previously told that there will not be a Nokia phone running Android in the near future.