It’s here! I’m writing this post on the device, in fact. When the FedEx driver finally arrived, about 3:45p.m., she said “Everyone has been home today to receive these.” Well, duh! Naturally, it is going to take some time before I can explore all the features of all the apps as well as the gadget [...]

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Well, I did it. I stayed up all night reading techie news and following the iPad chatter on Twitter, then promptly at 7:30 a.m. local time (we’re in Central Time zone at the moment), I pulled up the Apple Store website and placed my order for a 32GB iPad + 3G. So now the wait [...]

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After watching the live feeds of today’s Apple iPad announcement, audio/video from Leo Leporte’s Twit, and live blogging by Gizmodo and Engadget (both of which crashed their servers from time to time), I have to have one! As expected, Apple blew away the competition. My KindleDX is now obsolete (not that I was ever really [...]

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See update at the end of this post. A mentioned here earlier, my new iPhone 3GS was activated with only minor problems. Now we have another data point to add to the history. My husband’s new iPhone arrived yesterday, days earlier than promised by AT&T, thank you very much! So, I set about putting to [...]

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I should have done this hours ago. Following my instincts, I went ahead and switched the SIM cards between my old and new iPhones, and when I turned it back on the new one was activated! In business!! Why AT&T and Apple couldn’t have just come out and said to do that in the first [...]

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It has been roughly six hours since I first powered up my iPhone 3G S, but I am still waiting for the magical activation to happen. A little while ago it occured to me to look up my blog posts from June, 2007, to remind myself of how long it took to get the original [...]

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It’s here at last. Now, I’m not going to do the “unboxing” schtick — that’s been done. But as I recall from 2007 when we bought our original iPhones, getting the shrinkwrap off was the hard part. Connecting to iTunes and restoring from the backup I made from my old phone has gone well, but [...]

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Tomorrow is the day the iPhone 3G S arrives, finally. A couple of hours ago I checked on my order with AT&T, and saw that it has been shipped via FedEx, but there is still no tracking number posted there, so I will just have to be patient and trust. But one unexpected side effect [...]

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This afternoon I had a call from Verizon‘s sales, following up on our recent purchase of one of their AirCards and data plan. I told the rep that while we had no technical problems with the setup, and were actually pretty happy with it, their 5 GB cap is completely inadequate. In fact, four days [...]

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We are on the road between Vernon and Amarillo, Texas, a few miles east of Childress, and while the road (US 287) is pretty good, 4-lane and pretty smooth, with not much traffic, the AT&T cellphone reception on our iPhones is pretty nearly non-existent, and it took several minutes for the Verizon data card to [...]

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