Incomplete iPhone

The iPhone is a great gadget, absolutely wonderful. The one glaring omission from this otherwise fine phone was a radio tuner. My old N95 came complete with one, something which came in handy when listening to the forest games at work on a Saturday afternoon!

Anyways, I’m not even sure the iPhone has a tuner inside the phone at all, so chances of a firmware update adding a radio feature are zilch. Something worth keeping in mind for the ‘iPhone 2′?

I bought an app a few days back called Wunder Radio. It’s a £3.50 Internet radio tuner. It works on any 3G or WiFi connection, picking up an incredible array of stations. Not just the UK, but worldwide. It also comes with the utterly useless but indeed curious police scanner feature. Basically a means of listening to American emergency services go about their business. Quite odd, but hearing the New York Fire Department attend to a fire – with the siren blazing in the background – was fun!

This radio app is definetly worth the cash, and the best part about it is it’ll play any internet radio station provided you have an URL. So it’s a chance to hear Nuxaq radio and indeed yours truly on your iPhone!!

(just enter www.nuxaq.com:8000 into Wunder Radio and you’re away)

Lost & Found

It’s been a while since I last wrote anything, that time has largely been taken up by watching Lost and just carrying on with the mundane.

Glad I started watching Lost, it’s another great American tv programme -save for some criminal English ‘accents’! – and it’s great now to be able to talk with all the guys at work about it!

Also in the world of telly, Easter will see three new episodes of Red Dwarf broadcast. I really have high hopes for this. It’s been 10 years since season 8, more than enough time for Doug Naylor to write some decent scripts. It’s also been great to hear Robert Llewellyn’s views of how it’s all going via Twitter. He’s posted various pics of himself dressed up like Kryten, and also given us an insight into the filming.

Poor Robert though, he made an honest remark last night on Twitter, regarding Comic Relief’s use of celebrities to guilt you into donating, and the poor fella had a never ending stream of ‘twits’ who had got the wrong end of the stick, thinking he was against Comic Relief altogether. Problem with Twitter is the original posts often get lost in the subsequent postings, so for somebody like Mr Bobby Llew, it can often lead to incidents like last night! I’m sure he’ll be a bit more careful in future…