Things to come

Hello all and welcome to my tech blog. Here I will post info about the tech I encounter and find out about on the web. I fully suspect one of the first items of interest will be the iPhone 4, as we're soon to get these at work. I'm currently not sure what my opinion of the whole iPhone phenomenon is. Initially in my opinion it was an overpriced, underspecced mobile phone handset clagged onto an iPod. But it was the first proper touch screen interface. And it was a real game changer as all the other companies rushed out their attempts at the now ubiqutous design. Even the app menu layout has been shamelesly copied by virtually every other mobile phone manufacturer. I have avoided the iPhone up till now, and it's main purpose for me is to be as a business tool. It perhaps hasn't got the headline specs of some other mobile phone handsets with only a 5MP camera and tied down to the apple interface with very restrictive customisation options. But what it does do, it does very well with Apple vetting the quality of every application developed before they allow it onto iTunes. I have had mixed experiences with my Symbian based phone when struggling to install and run Symbian apps that have been developed by open source developers. While I appreciate the benefit of an open architecture. The reliability of a closed architecture can't be denied.

I'll keep posting here with bits and pieces as I encounter them so keep this on your blogroll!