The iPhone has a removable SIM card

Remember how Walt Mossberg claimed that the iPhone does "not support SIM cards"? I even spent an entire post on this subject. It turns out that Walt was wrong. CNN:

Contrary to earlier reports, the SIM card is removable via a small drawer on the top of the iPhone.

Maybe Walt's quote meant that it cannot use T-Mobile's cards? Which is true, as the iPhone is SIM locked to AT&T in the states.

iPhone: European model and SIM card slot

Walt Mossberg:

[The iPhone] can't use the digital cards (called
SIM cards) that would allow it to run on T-Mobile's network.

All mobile phones in Europe operate on the GSM and/or UMTS network standard, both of which rely on SIM cards. To my knowledge, there is not a single mobile Phone on the European market that does not have a SIM card slot (although some phones are locked for exclusive operation with certain provider SIM-cards ("SIM lock")). Thus, the European version of the iPhone, announced later this year, will have to feature a SIM card slot, most probably with SIM-lock, as the iPhone will be exclusive to one operator in Germany: There was a story on Germany's biggest online news mag, Spiegel Online, on the fight among operators for the iPhone contract. Translation of the title and intro:

Monopoly business: German mobile network operators brawl over the iPhone

One player gets it all: Like in the USA, Apple seems to plan granting only one mobile network operator in Germany the exclusive right to sell the iPhone. A grim fight over the cult device has erupted among the industry.

What happens if you drive over a MacBook Pro

The guy forgot his MacBook Pro on the trunk of his car and drove off. When he realized, it had already fallen off and had been run over a few times by snow trucks and SUVs... So the guy dries it, tries to boot it and guess what: it doesn't start. My favorite: He's on apple care and will call them on monday to see if the can help him. Check out the pictures of the autopsy.

How to burn 4 billion dollars with a blog entry

Whoa. My favorite tech blog, engadget.com, reported yesterday that the iPhone will be delayed until October 07 and that Leopard will only ship in January 08. They got this from an internal memo being circulated inside apple's corporate e-mail. That turned out to be a fake, but engadget's report caused the apple stock to drop from $108.83 to $103.42. Within minutes. The power of blogging.

Get a mac ad on the myriad of vista options

I am particularly annoyed by the myriad of different editions of Windows Vista. So is poor PC in Apple's new Get a Mac Ad.

Once you decide to upgrade your PC to Vista, that's when the real fun begins. Because there isn't just one Vista, there are many. Contrast that to MAC OS X - a single, full featured OS that runs on evry Mac.

New Homepage

What I totally forgot to mention: I have a new homepage! Yeah I know, what a lime thing to have in times of blogs,but its still the best way to bloat with your publication list. So there it goes. I created it with iWeb on my new MacBook and it was real easy. Making things that look nice involves really very little effort on a Mac. Its probabely not as cool as handcoding it in HTML and CSS line by line, but it just takes up less time. So if you read this, check it out and tell me what you think. Feedback is greatly appreciated.