Ed Andersen

Software Developer and Architect in Japan

Category: Apple

  • iPhone 3G O2 finally unlocked

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    O2 in the UK have finally properly unlocked my iPhone – no more software unlock needed to run it on Softbank. Hurrah!

  • Mail.app and iPhone encode Japanese as Korean

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    The latest of ridiculous bugs I have found after my switchover to Mac is that Korean takes precedence over Japanese when “Automatic” is selected as the encoding on Mail.app. It literally sees Japanese text as Korean and encodes emails as ISO-2022-KR (Korean) if both Japanese and Korean are selected under Languages. Try it yourself: make…

  • iPhone O2 – how to fix the image compression

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    O2 in the UK butcher images while using GPRS/3G/EDGE – seriously effecting the iPhone. Images are recompressed to horrendous levels – look at the App Store here: As you can see, the Facebook and Super Monkey Ball banners have been recompressed. This effects webpages aswell – meaning downloading new wallpapers or browsing Flickr is a…

  • iPhone improvements for the UK and Japan

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    El Reg is reporting that O2 has been told by Apple not to release sales figures until Apple say so. UK carrier O2 has confirmed that Apple has placed it under a gagging order to prevent it from publicly revealing how many iPhone handsets it’s sold to date. The company’s head of media relations, Simon…