Nixta Rolls

3 weeks ago, I posted about the last iPhone update, and how it sucked. As usual with Apple they didn’t give their end users the slightest clue what was included, but being a nerdtard I upgraded immediately. Nerd. Tard.

The last 3 weeks have been the worst cell phone service I’ve had since I lived in Cambridge and had, I think, one of the first round of GSM mobiles back when Cambridge had perhaps 1 or 2 towers in 1993. I realised Cambridge wasn’t flat, and that the center of town was in a bowl that cell phones couldn’t reach. Not downstairs anyway.

Simon Barber even proposed that he and I (I don’t know why he picked me - maybe we were the only two people he knew with cellphones) create and run a mini-cellphone network for students - cheap service since we only had a small area to run. This was back before Rabbit tried to do a similar thing in the tube and before the cellphone market models had really fully established themselves. Of course now it seems like a ridiculous plan, unlike the online casino I let him talk me out of starting.

Today Apple released iPhone software 2.1. Uncharacteristically they even tell you what it’s supposed to fix. I suppose that the problems with the 2.0 software were so utterly evident and largely universal that it would have been foolish to pretend they didn’t exist.

So far so good. Much better reception, usable contacts list. Those are the two things that really didn’t work for me. If the rest of the list of fixes is accurate, it’s about time (and just in time).

But why no Nike+? Nike+ uses Bluetooth. The new iPod Touch has Bluetooth so it can do the Nike+ (what’s the point, really?). Where’s my Nike+ iPhone 3G integration?