TECHMUNDO 2.0

The guys over at philmug have come up with this nice little fix.  I couldn’t get my sennheiser cx300 in ears to work with the iPhone because the L type jack interferes with the recessed jack.

A cheap solution is said to buy one of these.  An original apple product for the very ancient shuffle.  If luck is on your side, you might be able to find one of these at the bargain bin of some electronics shop; and like most of the products that gets churned out of the Apple factory, it’s in tasty white.

The Shuffle Sport Case has a headphone adapter packaged with it.

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This has been my favorite theme so far.

Presenting Litho.

Litho Calculator Skin

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The price of iPhones in Philippines is ridiculously high. Considering that it’s being sold for USD$399 (roughly $430 including sales tax), importers are having an early Christmas retail high by selling unlocked iPhones ranging from $550 to 600.

Fortunately I was able to get one for much lower. The story behind it was that some guy bought an iPhone for $550 and wanted to sell it that same day for 60 bucks less. SMS/Texting is such a big thing in the Philippines that texting difficulties of the iPhone was enough of a deal breaker for anonymous guy (I forgot to ask for his name. I was so excited that I didn’t even bother to ask. Sorry, I forgot about common courtesy.) to not even give it a whole day to get used to the iPhone’s quirks.

So there I was with an iPhone in my hand. The very next day, I went to Digital Walker and got myself a Capdase screen protector. I am a voracious researcher when it comes to my brand new electronics, and I did see the youtube video of the iPhone stress test, but I wanted to make sure. My keys and spare change usually find themselves spin drying along with my mobile phone in my pocket, and the iPhone is just too pretty to get dings and scratches.

Next stop was a silicone case. Again stating the obvious, that the iPhone hasn’t been officially released in South East Asia, getting nice accessories for the iPhone can be a chore. Either the electronics or mobile phone stores haven’t yet stocked up on iPhone accessories, or they’ve purchased too little and the rabid iPhone fanboys (me included) buzz about in local forums pointing an enthusiastic finger at those stores that carry the much coveted accessories. I went to 3 different stores mentioned in those forums and alas, they were sold out. My only option was to get a cheapo silicone case at a mobile phone kiosk. I only paid USD$2 for it, and I am really loving it.

Photos to come soon.

I would have wanted the Speck iPhone ToughSkin, but it’s nowhere to be found.

Ok, back to the original point of this post — The Cost of Buying an iPhone. I paid $490 for my iPhone, add to that 10 bucks for the silicone case and screen protector to keep it scratch free, gets me to a nice round figure of 500 bucks. However, for the past couple of weeks I have been diligently selling all my iPods. I dusted off my 1st gen 4 gig nano whitey from the closet and I was able to sell it for 80 bucks. My orange shuffle is also up for sale, and I’m hoping I’d get 50 or 60 bucks for it; add to that the 200 bucks I got for my e61 (which is no longer mine).

All in all, I paid $160 for the iPhone.

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After more than 1 year of E61 bliss, I’ve finally retired my trusty phone.  I was getting seriously concerned that the joystick/thumbstick is getting loose and might  die on me pretty soon.  So I just shut my eyes and jumped.

I was never really a big fan of apple products.  I was pretty late getting into the iPod bandwagon (my first HDD based music player was an iRiver ihp120), but I couldn’t resist anymore.  The huge sexy widescreen touchscreen display was just too much to be ignored.  So with a heavy heart, I went to Greenhills (our electronics hub in the Philippines) and sold my E61.  I’ve also been disposing of my old iPods — the orange shuffle and the first gen Nano whitey.

As of this writing, I am happily synching 6 gigs worth of music to the iPhone.  I’m also converting some of my dvds to test drive the iPhone’s movie capabilities.  First ones on the list are 300, Evil Dead and Hot Fuzz.

So I guess my blog is out of retirement.  I will be posting some info on how I managed to upgrade my 1.02 firmware and jailbreak it to allow usage of my globe sim card.

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Antony has tagged me, so I guess, It’s my turn. Tsk tsk tsk . . .viral posts . . could be fun .. so here goes. ..

Five things about me you might not have known

• My real name is Richie. I’ve been using the nick agwe23 for the longest time that I’ve gotten phone calls and snail mails addressed to agwe23. There was even a funny story where I had to make a fake ID to claim a package in the local post office for a product sample sent to me, and it was addressed to a certain someone named Mr. Agwe. Go figure.
• My firsts . . . hmmm . . . my very first mobile phone was the Philips Fizz. I’ve owned just about every mobile phone brand there is . . . Ericsson, Samsung, Panasonic, Philips. Oh, no Sagem, Alcatel and Seimens on my list. Nokia only showed up on my radar with the N6110/6150 (that I couldn’t afford, so I had to be happy with the N5110) and the Matrix Phone N7110. My first Symbian phone was the N7650; the N7650 sadly made me say I’ll never buy another Nokia phone again, . . . until the E61 came along.
• I’m a math geek. I love puzzles. I play sudoku on a daily basis on the newspaper and those randomly generated puzzles online. My geekiness also explains why I love doing those math problems on the Nintendo DS’ Brain Age, the copycat Brain Juice (I’ll be terribly sore if I’m not as fast as a cheetah).
• As much as I love computers / tech, I only know of technology on a somewhat superficial level. I never took any programming course (although I think I would in the future, maybe Java or something). I was a student of psychology and finance (double major) in college.
• I used to be a member of Mensa.

Ack, I don’t know who to tag! I tag Tommi, stmcgill, Sanyci, Mark Tesch, and Ueli Dauwalder.

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Ever had those tough to remove themes? Installed them, but after awhile they lose their appeal and when you try to remove them, they aren’t even listed in the list of uninstallables?

S60 3rd’s Echozulu has this trick up his sleve. (The Step by step is a quote from their site, click on the link to see the guide with pics)

1. Connect your device to your PC in ‘Mass storage’ mode - or insert your Mini SD card into a card reader and connect it to your PC.

2. Once your PC recognizes your card a new drive will appear under ‘My Computer’. Open it, and browse to \private\10207114\import.

3. Browse through each of the folders in this directory to find the theme you would like to remove. The MBM, MIF, and SKN files in each folder should each be named after the theme - so if you want to remove a theme called “MyTheme”, look for “MyTheme.mbm” etc.

*Note that you may see some MBM/MIF/SKN files named simply “themepackage.mbm” etc. In this case, simply open the SKN file in Notepad and you will see the actual theme name in the first few lines of text. Here is an example:

In the example you can see that the actual name of the theme is N80 Simplified v2 (created by teddymustupo).

4. Once you’ve found the folder containing the theme files you’d like to remove, simply delete the contents of the folder (don’t delete the folder itself).

Now put your card back in your phone you’ll notice that the theme is no longer listed under themes and you’ve freed up some space on your memory card.

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Version 0.85 of Mobile Divx is out.

Click here to download.  I wonder what they’ve updated.  I told myself I wont upgrade my E61 until I finish SuperMiners.  So I also wont upgrade my Divx until I finish that damn game, last few levels . .. last few levels . . .

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I’ve never been an Apple fanboy. I was late jumping into the iPod bandwagon. I proudly toted around my iRiver ihp-120 (the 20 gig iRiver Jukebox) until it died and was informed that it would cost me more than a brand new unit to repair; which prompted my decision to shun my non-conformist ways and join the hordes of white earphone users. I got myself the 1st gen 4 gig nano and I was quite happy with it, it worked as it should, and when I get problems with it, which is next to nil, I can be assured of quality customer service.

When the rumor mills started churning about the Apple iPhone, honestly, I was skeptical. Most people change their mobile phones (well, at least in the Philippines) on average, once a year. Which made me not want to bundle my iPod into a phone that I would have to sell off in a year to purchase the newer, shinier, techier product. Then I heard Kevin Rose’s leaks, touchscreen, pull-out keyboard, dual battery, . . . and I started getting the itch.

Now it’s official. It runs OSX. Wi-Fi with Edge. Quadband. Dual Battery. Touchscreen. Synchs with iTunes. Widgets compatible. 2 megapixel camera. Widescreen video playback. This is it. This was the touchscreen widescreen iPod video that the industry was waiting for, except it came with mobile telephony functions. I’m really drooling.

The drawback? It comes with a hefty price tag. $599 for the 8 gig version, and $499 for the 4 gigers. Out 1st quarter of 2008 in Asia (mid 2007 in the US, and last quarter 2007 in Europe). Some people would argue that its a justified price, but for me the point of a convergence product is that it should be cheaper since it combines a few technologies in a neat little package. Granted that the iPhone is as pretty and as neat as a convergence product, I don’t get their thinking that the ipod is 200 bucks and the phone is 300, so the total should be 500. It makes no sense.

My fervent wish? It’s that I become a good boy this 2007 and Santa gives me an 8 gig iPod this christmas.

Oh, one last thing, I’m worried that I have fat fingers which would make it hard for me to use the non stylus iPhone.

iWant!

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