iPhone in Canada

Finally the iPhone will touchdown in Canada on July 11th. After scanning most speculation and chatter on the internet about the reason for the delay, I could only think this was a massive political stunt on behalf of Canada’s parasitic wireless telecoms network Rogers Communications. Rogers is Canada’s only GSM cell carrier.

GSM is a section of the wireless telecoms market where the cell phone contains a SIM card which can be removed and placed in another GSM phone. GSM is better technology for world travelers and people that like to change their phones without notifying the network. Today in Canada there are two CDMA carriers (Bell and Telus koodo = Telus by the way)

Parasitic, you might say I’m being harsh but I strongly feel that Canada is long overdue for healthy competition in the GSM market or some decent governing body to stop Canadians getting ripped off for any moderately up-to-date technology. In the UK there is a company called Ofcom (http://www.ofcom.org.uk) which watches over the telecoms network and one of the duties is to ensure a wide range of telecoms services is available to everyone in the UK. This is great as it looks at the big picture and governs the service as a whole … not just on their by own bottom line.

Google Documents

One of my favourite Google applications is Google Docs. Its still in beta but it works just fine and haven’t had any  bad experiences with it.

I use it to share documents and collaborate information. Great for To Do lists, Planning Projects/Vacations, Organisations and general business use.

The best thing about it is you can create documents online and work on the document at the same time with any user with an internet connection. If both people update the same data it prompt you to resolve the conflict with no data loss. You can create Spreadsheets, Documents and Presentations. (I was deliberate not to mention any of the Microsoft office products as these work quite differently!!).

TomTom GO 730 Review

So after loads of research and numerous returnage to find the GPS thats right for me I ended up waiting 2 months to purchase the TomTom 730. I found it a week after it released in the US at www.gpscentral.ca, I was expecting it to take longer to come up to Canada as with everything else but I snapped it up as soon as I saw it on shopbot.ca.

I bet you’re thinking “why wait when there is so much choice on the market?” well reason is that the new features of the 730 are very significant to the previous models and when you compare to other brands for the price you do get alot of features crammed in there.

There is no differences between the 730 and 930 that I found except the 930 came with European, US and Canadian maps however the 730 model only comes with US and Canadian maps.

So let me break down the features I found useful and what it all means to us