The Finnish iPhone 3G provider Sonera has announced it’s pricing for iPhone’s monthly voice, sms and data plans.
Good news: the monthly fees (there’s three main choices) start from 31,69 euros (that’s currently $50,03 dollars). I feared it would be closer to 50 euros, so I’m happy it’s not. Still, 31,69 euros is way more than I’m paying now for my non-3G phone bill.
Bad news: the monthly fees don’t include limitless data. With 31,69 euros you’ll get only 100 Mb per month, with the overflowing traffic costing an arm and a leg (1,49 euros per Mb). In practice you’ll have to keep constantly guessing how many websites you can visit per month. Sonera is including their Home Run wi-fi service with every plan, but the placement of these hotspots are quite limited.
Surprise: the cost of iPhone 3G depends on the monthly plan. 159 euros ($251) for the 8 Gb model in the 31,69 euros per month plan.
Categories: Gadgets
Tagged: Apple, iPhone, pricing, Sonera
Thursday, June 19, 2008 · 1 Comment
It’s official: to promote the theatrical release of the 22nd (by official counting) James Bond film Quantum of Solace, MGM and Fox are bringing the early adventures of the secret agent on Blu-ray worldwide on October 20th.
In this batch, six Bond films are getting the high definition treatment: Dr No (1962), From Russia with Love (1963), Thunderball (1965), Live and Let Die (1973), For Your Eyes Only (1981) and Die Another Day (2002). That’s three from Sean Connery era, two from Roger Moore and one from Pierce Brosnan.
You’ve got to admire their press release, which makes it sound like this high definition re-mastering and restoration process they did was just for this Blu-ray release:
Recently restored and re-mastered for the highest quality picture and sound quality via the state-of-the-art Lowry process digital frame-by-frame restoration and featuring special features galore, Bond is primed for Blu-ray Disc with a selection of 007 adventures spanning the storied career of cinema’s most recognisable spy.
I’m betting though that the restoration they’re referring to is the one they made when they released the Ultimate Edition dvds in 2006. Here’s what Macworld.co.uk wrote about the restoration process back then:
The project team also worked to a higher resolution than DVDs support, offering a route forward to release the digitised classics on other formats in future. The film was scanned at a resolution of 4,000 x 3,000 pixels, in contrast with the 720 x 576 pixel resolution of DVDs. This meant that each frame of each movie weighed in at 45MB.
That would mean that essentially all they’ve done now compared to the Ultimate Edition dvds is that they’ve upped the pixel count on the image from dvd quality (576i) to high definition quality (1080p). That’s certainly something, of course, if you’ve got a Blu-ray player and a large screen, but those who already own the Ultimate Edition dvds and don’t have big television sets are propably not missing anything too essential when the new high definition discs arrive.
Unless they decide to release the discs with new extra features.
Categories: Films
Tagged: 007, blu-ray, dvd, Fox, James Bond, MGM, pierce brosnan, roger moore, sean connery
I’ve previously had problems with my earphones, because those small foam and rubber things that surround the earphone part always come off and go missing.
So, come to think of it, it was not propably very wise to buy Sennheiser’s MX 55 VC Street earphones. They have not only one, but two pieces of rubber that can come easily off, I today realized. Yes, the smaller rubber thing above the actual earphone secure the earphones very snugly into my ears, but the whole thing is going to be pretty useless, if they go missing.
Fortunately the box came with lots of spare parts. They might actually last a few weeks (and then I’ll have to go buy another pair of headphones).
Categories: Gadgets
Tagged: earphones, sennheiser
