iPod Touch upgrade #2

OK! After I played around with that new paid firmware upgrade from Apple the last couple days, I come to believe that it is very elegant yet... Yes, there is this yet part. 1) Only a virtual keyboard that is quite small. Definitely non fat-finger friendly. 2) The old firmware allowed me to view the Flash files on websites, like New York Times online; now, I cannot! This new version does not provide any rendering; so I got a big gray box here and there! Very annoying! And according to Apple, there is no plan to support Flash in this new firmware updates. 3) There is a kill switch built into the firmware. Not like or approved by Apples, your downloaded application does a disappearing act. I have not experienced this myself. But there were numerous of reports about the disappearance.

So what does these problems leave me? I have a very elegant MP3 players with PDA. Web access, yes via Wi-Fi on the iPod Touch; but 90% plus websites have Flash contents here and there. I cannot view like I used to. Maybe I'll try downloading some movies and watch.

Forward my time couple more months down the road, I still want to have one device for all my stuff. iPhone 3G. Ummm.... The 3G standard in China is not the same as the 'rest' of the world. "We" have our own 3G standard. Go figure. And having a 3G phone needs friends to have 3G phone as well so that video call is possible; but one pays dearly for the data transmission on cell. I might look at a HTC Touch Pro. It has all the touch feature of iPhone plus a slide out keyboard. Problem with this, it runs on Windows Mobile OS. And for me to sync my Contacts and Calendar from my Mac, I need Miss Sync. Additional cost. Then there's the concern of heat dispersion problem with HTC phones before, fried the chip. Technology. Too bad the Nokia does not support Mac in terms of syncing. Only PC.