Category Archives: Computers and IT

Phones and mobile phones

After quite a few good years with my broadband service provider (Hansenet), they finally started bitching around in the last few weeks holding back my mobile numbers as long as they could, ruining the good image. Meh … now they are history. If anybody needs a cheap prepaid mobile carrier in Germany I could recommend Simyo these days …

Besides that, and after the apartment is coming slowly together, I also managed to set up the phone connection there and both of us got mobile numbers by now.
Which reminds me … it’s really amazing, a normal SMS within Denmark costs about 1 Cent and a minute talking is about 8 Cents. Please let me know if you have a good explanation why SMS should be significantly more expensive in Germany!?

 

Google revived my Lantra

Today Google started Streetview in Germany and … taadaa, my good old Lantra is back!
Which means the pictures are more than two years old already. But still it’s nice to have it now in Germany as well, even though there has been a bit of a controversy about it …

Finally Froyo’ed

While touring through Vietnam I finally got my Android update (codename: Froyo), which was held back by Vodafone for whatever reason. Due to the limited network access (and spare time) I could only notice the increased speed and test the flash plugin yet. So there’s more to come…