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Disappointed by iOS 4.0 for 3G , went for Android…

July 25, 2010 By

android phone romaniaIt all started with the  4.0 Iphone OS update … milions of 3G Iphone users got disappointed. The Iphone was slow, it took 3 seconds to answer a call and for some 10 seconds for “slide to unlock”.

A few days ago I got the HTC Desire (the so called european version of Google’s Nexus One). It’s almost the same phone and I really musta say this, Android is fasssst ! Really fast!

What you get ? Better camera, better Mail (and of course GMail), Google Maps integration, 1 GHZ processor 512 ROM and 576 RAM.

The 3.7 inch AmoLED display is way better compared to the Iphone’s LCD. Almost the same battery life for day by day use.

Still under review….but 8 people out of 10 (IT geeks of course) said the Android does worth the switch from iOS.

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Office 2010 Academic and Windows 7 Professional 64 bit for only £79 !

July 10, 2010 By

Office 2010 Suite for StudentsI’m not a big Microsoft fan but I just couldn’t resist their  ”Ultimate Steal” of the year. Here is what it consists of:

  • Ms Office 2010 Academic Suite for only £49
  • Ms Windows 7 Professional 64 bit Upgrade (you must have a valid license of XP or Vista) for only £30

I took advantage of my @northumbria.ac.uk account and in 5 minutes using Digital River’s shop I had the product keys and download links. Office 2010 is about 586 MB and Windows 7 Pro is about 3.2GB.

Be aware you need to have a Win XP or Win Vista license prior to installing Windows 7 Professional , this is just the upgrade version. However the price is unbeatable. Upgrading from XP it’s a bit tricky but if you have minimum IT knowledge you’ll be fine.

If you had a Office Trial before you can use the same .exe file and just use the new product key since the executable is the same (name, version and size ) so you don’t have to download it again.

Those of you who are interested should visit the following link:

http://www.microsoft.com/student/office/en-gb/default.aspx

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