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I tried out ShoZu a few days ago and had such trouble getting it to work with WAP/GPRS that I gave up in frustration and deleted it.

I was watching the BBC's Click program (again) and it was all about the new iPhone 3g and basically how wonderful modern phones are. It inspired me to have another try at getting 3G working on my phone. I did a network search and found two versions of 'vodafone uk' one with a little icon. I connected to this network and a new icon appeared on the phone. I looked it up in the user manual and it indeed means I had 3G!

I downloaded the ShoZu application again and this time it came down very quickly, 450k in less than a minute. I fired it up and it synced with the server to set up the links I can send stuff to. I tried it out by blasting a picture to EverNote and again it worked, taking about a minute to upload a picture. The option in ShoZu to rotate a picture works nicely.

My 3G reception is still patchy and it looks like the phone will keep dropping back to the non-3G signal all the time. It's made me think about various options such as streaming webcams to the phone etc. May have to sign up to the vodafone 'unlimited' internet package that is limited to 500M/month.


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