Quitting 3 was quite easy (and lucky): I still have a few months left on my contract, but because they made a mistake on my account, I was able to terminate the contract early (hurray!). Was kind of expecting them to make me some offer so I wouldn’t change networks, but no. Way to treat a three and a half year old customer.

Going to Vodafone was easy. Having a friend working there even made the contract sweeter (£560 for a one year contract with 1200 minutes, unlimited texting, 750MB mobile internet, 2GB internet using openWiFi and 25MB / day when on roaming and 10 free sms when on roaming).

But of course, a contract like this had to come with a phone. Now that was a story. Had a two week wait for the phone (fine, I could live with that), but on the day they were supposed to deliver (the crappy DPD service) I was home waiting for it, and they don’t deliver! DPD comes with an excuse that it had been refused (the twats). So call Vodafone, ask for redelivery next day at work address, all good and next day… no delivery! Was already on its way back to Vodafone (again, DPD twats).

So another call, another arrangement (after finding where the hell my phone was) and it was delivered today at a Vodafone store.

At last, after walking a thousand miles (not really, I took the bus), I’ve put my iPhone 4 to rest (until Christmas) and got a nice white upgrade to the… drum-roll…. iPhone 4S 16GB!

PS: The photo above makes me think is time to upgrade my bridge to a slr…

I found this by chance, and for it to work you need to have iOS5 and an iCloud account.

This was tested using the iPhone 4, the iPad 2, Windows 7 and Snow Leopard, all up to date, using iTunes 10.5 Beta 7.

So, what are the steps?

1 – Make a backup into the cloud of your device;

2 – Restore your device settings. Upon restart you will get the welcome screen to input all your details.

3 – When you get a choice to restore from a backup, choose the iCloud backup. This will make the device start to download all the apps you had previously.

4 – Once the device starts downloading the apps, connect it to the computer with iTunes open.

5 – On iTunes, choose the device, go to the apps tab and choose to sync the apps. You will see that the device kept the layout configuration you had already setup.

6 – Just wait for it to finish synchronizing and you are all done.

This weekend I went finally to visit Stonhenge. It’s definitely an amazing place to visit, not only for the stones themselfs but also the place around it.

It started in the city of Salisbury, which on itself it has quite a few nice attractions. It’s a small town, but with very friendly people and a nice landscape.

Cycling up the roads to Stonhenge I went trough some forest and trees, and smelling that fresh air was very refreshing.

The way back was the most difficult as after cycling for almost 40 miles I was out of stamina and the up hills where tough :p but eventually I got home.

Overall is quite a nice place and it’s worth to visit it at some point

But, since I got the Dell up and running again, I was going to delay the purchase of the Mac. However I found a nice deal for a used one, so, I couldn’t let this one go by.

It’s not the latest one, but for what I want is good enough (although I need to upgrade the memory from 1GB to 2GB). It’s going to be used mainly to make some experiences at home developing for iOS, so who knows, maybe I’ll come up with a nice ideia like the Angry Birds game :p

So I guess now the circle is completed: iPod mini -> iPod nano -> iPod touch -> iPhone 4 -> MacBook

PS: And finally went cycling after a long time. It’s still freezing, so it hurts to cycle on this cold, and the chain needs WD40 after all the rain it has poured over it!

Here he is: the Star Trek communicator. Just got it from the post man. Now if I could afford a real size Enterprise E…

If you got one of this phones, check Nokia Software Update as there is a new firmware for the phone. Biggest change is kinetic scrolling on the menu (there was already in other areas of the phone). Personally I find the phone more responsive as well.

Have fun…

For the games there’s a little thing called consoles, so no problem there