In the anticipation of getting my N73 I’ve been shopping for accessories - and have speculatively purchased a few which are now pending delivery.

I personally find the normal phone keyboard of number keys + t9m, handwriting to be both too awkward and slow to accurately use - you certainally can’t type a long doc on them.

As reported in arstechnica - Upgrade Licenses for Vista now appear not be also to be fresh installed.

In my opinion this is wrong in so many ways - it certainally is making me reconsider my personal Vista upgrade (I was going to buy a new home PC with XP MCE, with an upgrade license to Vista included in the next 3 months.

I don’t think I’m unusal that when I install a new OS, I move all data off the box, install fresh copy, then reinstalled needed SW only. Gnerally I find this gives a significant performance boost. Installing XP, patch, installing Vista will make the whole process nasty and take longer.

Microsoft need to sort their lcensing system - to be fair, I wouldn’t even mind if my license checked to the Internet before it trying an install. All these draconian measures though just alienate me, and make me less likely to use Vista.

On a futher note, the choice between 32 bit and 64 bit Vista doesn’t appear clear to me. In my opionion, all Vista should be made to be a common platform - this 32bit/64 bit devide that exists right now is annoying - and M$ should supply both to all purchasers - as I see it right now, I have a choice.. Fact is, ideally both should be installed with option at boot as to which you want to use. Now Solaris has been able to do this for years (choice of booting 32bit/64bit kernel of OS is quite an easy procedure on Sun boxes that are 10 years old) - why can’t microsoft?

In the like of the iPhone, I thought I may hold off on a new phone… then the inevitable, my old workhorse SE T630 died..

My dilema was get another cheap phone or buy new….

Now background:
I already have a very old Blackberry for mobile email in addition to the T630 for voice, so this isn’t that important, calling, and other features are far more important to me.

Last week I was pariculararly impreseed with the 3 network, as several friends have several N series (N80’s) Nokias on 3.

Apple’s new phone looks nice.

I had an Ericcson P800 which had a pen-driven approach and full mode (you could remove the flip alltogether). The screen tech does appear unique and the interface an improvement over the P800.

What bugs me though is the lack of software support. 3rd party software may crash the phone, but it won’t break the network!

The other thing is its a GPRS phone… too slow.

I’ll wait for iPhone rev:2 which will probably allow 3rd party software and be 3g. In the meantime, I’ll probably end up buying a Windows mobile phone.

I’ve just finished a very large project building a major network then moving a few thousand servers across the atlantic (using all kinds of clever tricks so users dont notice the performance hit - which I will likely blog about later), which is the main computing environment for ~ 10k people.

Issue is the project is now “officially” done, as the top 100 applications have been moved.