Ed Andersen

Software Developer and Architect in Japan

Category: Mobiles

  • Skype trying to charge for Mobile

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    I got an interesting invitation to fill in a survey about Skype Mobile. Skype on iPhone is an application that is deliberately ignored by Skype while they try and figure out how to make money from it. Their recent spat with Fring, who have implemented 3G Skype, background multitasking and video chat on iPhone 4…

  • Updated: Japan iPad 3G is NOT “not exactly” SIM-locked – Jobs says so

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    There is a massive hullabaloo about Softbank’s exclusive deal with Apple for the 3G iPads here. Currently, you cannot get a 3G iPad without going through Softbank and signing up for a data plan (either 2 years or some terrible 4,000 yen per 1GB “offer”). This is in stark contrast to the fantastic deal Americans…

  • No native Japanese text in Windows Phone 7 … yet

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    The first preview version of the Windows Phone 7 SDK is out and it doesn’t support Japanese (or non-Latin) text in the English ROM. This is a huge disappointment. One of the major advantages the iPhone has over almost every other smartphone platform (and the major reason I bought mine in the first place –…

  • 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!

  • XNA QR Codes

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    I’ve just pieced together a renderer for QR codes that outputs a texture instead of System.Drawing.Image objects (the Xbox .Net Framework version does not have access to the Drawing namespace). I’ll be using this as a way of uploading times on Avatar Kart to my server instead of copying a code which you had to…