Comments on: New phone

By: Pete Ashton

Pete Ashton — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:47:30 +0000

Darren, I have no worries. As long as you’ve got a firewall running and a password to log in you should be safe. Of course anyone with hardcore skillz and patience can hack anything but that’s not likely to be happening within 100 yards of a cafe.

It’s a bit like saying you won’t walk through the city centre because someone was mugged there once.

By: darren

darren — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:56:23 +0000

Pete – are these public places safe to use Wi-Fi? I always thought anyone could gain access to my PDA / Laptop and that’s obviously worried me in the past.

By: Pete Ashton

Pete Ashton — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:48:22 +0000

That was over on the Brumblog-that-was but thanks for this. Very handy news.

Weatherspoons pubs tend to be nice and large too so you should be able to find a cosy corner away from the alcoholic pensioner…

By: dp

dp — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:39:53 +0000

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By: Jenni

Jenni — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:00:42 +0000

A 3 month trial? Mine is a one month trial.

I’m not that impressed personally, but then I really like my Treo, which does a whole lot more than a phone anyway.

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:56:19 +0000

The one and only thing I’ll miss about 3 and the Nokia N95 I had pre-my-lovely-iPhone is Skype.

It works as a comunication tool when you’ve always got it on (it was always free under the £5 a month interweb package I had with them), much as I like Skype I hate making calls on an actual PC.