UPDATE: 12th May 2008
Sorry if you have experienced ’spam’ or URL redirections from this page. This has been caused by someone hacking my Blog (again!) – Let me know if you spot any more dodgy pop-ups going on. Cheers, Paul
Hi All,
We can you believe it? Finally we get WM6 (for Free!) from Samsung for our sexy little Euro-Blackjacks!
The link is: http://www.samsungmobile.com/promotion/i600/index.jsp
Countries now supported; Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and Ukraine – Austria still greyed-out….
OK, here are the steps required:-
- Visit the link above and click on UK
- Enter your version number, this should look something like i600???? to get this information, simply dial *#1546792*# on your phone, select 1 (Version), 2 (Software Version) and then make a note of what is detailed next to PDA Version
- Complete the contact details, along with the serial number on the back of your phone (under the battery). The Serial should be under the bar code and look something like R7WP44????? (*last 5 digits hidden for obvious reasons!)
- You should now see a screen that looks like this
- Install ActiveSync 4.5
- Right-Click save the Samsung Driver and then unzip into a folder somewhere and install using the “Setup.exe”
- Connect your i600 (It will re-detect the drivers for the phone at this point)
- You may be asked to ‘delete’ a profile (e.g. Windows PC 1) as it the Samsung only holds 2 profiles… just delete both as it makes no difference…
- BACKUP EVERYTHING!!!!! using ActiveSync… Well… Sync everything anyway. The Samsung FAQ’s state “During the update, all of your data, including your applications, contacts and games, will be erased Please note that it is possible to re-sync your outlook data once your new Firmware is installed, but this depends on your Active Sync settings and saved PC data before you upgrade.” – Browse to the phone and backup all your pictures, sounds etc.
- Download the Firmware Updater (I suggest using something like “GetRight” as its 90Mb!!!)
- Run the Updater…. wait a looooonnnnnggggg time
- Let the phone reboot as required, and there you have it…. Windows Mobile 6
Of course… all you need to do now is restore all your files and applications back again 
NOTE: i600XXGD1 firmware (i.e. “De branded” WM5 as detailed in my other listings) seems to come up with “Invalid Version Number” when you run the Updater…. I will post more as and when I solve this….
Well… it had to happen sooner or later – someone has come up with a WiFi aggregator that will allow you to ‘borrow’ bandwidth from your neighbours unsecured networks. Whilst WEP cracking is not in the unit at the moment, its probably going to happen…
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On June 1, 2007 Mark Hoekstra (geektechnique.org
) will preview The Slurpr at The Next Web Conference in Amsterdam. The Slurpr is a high speed Wi-Fi broadband router that takes up to six available Wi-Fi channels and combines them into one free and ultra broadband connection. Fast and Free Internet Access with just one box! Now you can enjoy the great advantages and comfort that come with a high speed internet connection, all for free.
The Slurpr automatically connects to the 6 strongest available Wi-Fi channels in your neighborhood to give you unparalleled connectivity. To make this happen, 6 Wi-Fi adapters are combined in one small package. The six extra sensitive antennae give you an even wider range of connectivity.
The Slurpr will be on display and available for pre-ordering at The Next Web Conference.
Technical specs:
The Slurpr consists of a Six-channel wardrive-box broadbandrouter with 6 11/54Mbit fully configurable Wi-Fi connections bundled and redistributed to 9 wired ethernet connections. A 266MHz MIPS CPU with 64MB RAM with Linux installed on a 1GB Compact Flash card powers this extraordinary set-up.
Both the hardware and software of The Slurpr will be released under a Creative Commons license making it easy for users to build their own Slurprs and using and enhancing the software.
More information on:
http://geektechnique.org
http://www.slurpr.com
http://2007.thenextweb.org
How it all started:
http://www.bomega.com/2006/07/31/who-will-build-me-a-wi-fi-canalizer/
Read about it on:
http://www.bomega.com/2007/05/29/the-slurpr-mother-of-all-wi-fi-access-points/
Google launched the Street View feature in Google Maps at the Where 2.0 conference. You can now view street-level panoramic photography as you browse around a map location (for certain cities). It’s like being able to take a virtual driving tour of a city, right from your desk.There is a little minifig that you can drag around the map. When you release it, a small flash application is overlayed above the map which displays the panoramic photo for that location.
Fabian K. notes that Google has been using GeoIP lookups quite frequently to restrict beta features to specific locales and the street view feature is no exception. If you are outside the US, you can enable street view by adding a &gl=us to the end of the maps.google.com url. You’ll still only be able to view the handful of cities that have pano-image data, but you can at least get a glipse for what’s coming.
The cities that are currently included are; Denver, Las Vegas, Miami, New York and San Francisco.
Via Hackszine [link]
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