The city guide downloads are available in the Extras menu on select Nokia phones. The maps used in the Nokia Maps 2.0 service are provided by Navteq, which Nokia bought earlier this year, and TeleAtlas.

The Lonely Planet guides can be downloaded over the air to some Nokia phones or onto a PC.

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Each download, which costs 7.99 euros, or about $11.75, provides maps with directions and some background on important sites.

Navigation and location-based services are an important part of this strategy as it tries to make itself into a service and content company. In February, Nokia launched the new 6210 Navigator phone, which has an internal compass, as one of the premier phones using the Maps 2.0 service. And its $8.1 billion acquisition of Navteq, announced last October, was also a big step forward. The company also recently acquired Plazes, which allows cell phone users to use different navigation tools, such as GPS, to geotag or link to various points of interest within a social-networking context.

Tired of lugging a big travel book on vacation? Some Nokia phone users won’t have to. They’ll be able to download Lonely Planet travel guides directly onto their mobile handsets.

Nokia, which is already the global leader in cell phone sales, has been trying to develop a service business. Through its Ovi platform it’s developed Nokia-branded services offering music, gaming, and social networking for its cell phones and smartphones.

Nokia first announced city guides for Nokia Maps users in February when it upgraded the maps service and launched new phones that take advantage of the service. When the service first launched it included city guides from other travel publishers, such as Berlitz. But now Nokia is expanding the guides and has included Lonely Planet, whose travel guides were initially geared toward low-budget travelers and backpackers.

On Tuesday Nokia announced a deal with the travel book publisher Lonely Planet to sell maps and city guides to Nokia Maps 2.0 users. The service will initially allow users to download information for more than 100 cities, with more destinations to be added.

Gossain acknowledged that it is hard to get people to change their habits, especially for something like Web search where people seem to go on auto-pilot.

“You won’t find that on your Google page!” it says, before ending with the trademark Yahoo yodel.

Yahoo is running radio ads in the San Francisco Bay Area and several other markets in an effort to get more people to use its search engine instead of Google’s.

Apparently, the ads are not a response to the unsolicited Microsoft bid for the company, as Gossain said Yahoo began planning the ad campaign in December. Microsoft went public with its offer on February 1. The companies are talking, but Yahoo is holding out for more money.

The radio spots started running in the Bay Area a week ago, said Raj Gossain, vice president of marketing for the Yahoo Search team. He wouldn’t say what other markets are involved or how much the company is spending on the spots. Ads are running online, too.

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“Search engines like Google get you lost in all the links, but not Yahoo search,” one of the ads says before noting that Yahoo offers drop-down menus with related suggestions as the searcher types.

The radio ads will “introduce Yahoo search to folks who perhaps haven’t tried us in awhile,” he said. “We’ve got capabilities in our search experience that the competition doesn’t have.”

Updated 10 a.m. PDT with quotes from radio ad.

Yahoo not only wants to show off new features added to its search engine in October, like search assist, short cuts, and multimedia results, but also to remind people that there is an alternative to Google.

“The rationale is we feel like we’ve built a better mouse trap and, quite frankly, we wanted to remind users that there really is a choice in search engines,” Gossain said. “We’ve got a better, simpler, easier-to-use mouse trap.”

The Yahoo search ads seemed to have the desired effect on one blogger, Luca Filigheddu, who wrote: “I’ll be honest, it works. If I hadn’t listened to it today, (I) wouldn’t ever (have) realized that Yahoo search had improved so much. Good.”

Most speakers, including a lot of very high-end, stupid expensive ones still sound like speakers. You know there’s a tweeter and woofer, and the sound is coming out of a box.

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You can read the full review here.

Magnepan was founded in 1969 and has built over 200,000 pairs of loudspeakers to date. The technology is nothing new, they just keep refining it, a little bit at a time.

And no, it’s not perfect (read the review to learn more on that score), but it’s simply the best there is for under two grand.

A perfect speaker wouldn’t sound like a speaker. That’s the goal after all, the speaker should disappear and we should just hear the sound. With perfect speakers the instruments and voices on the recording would sound life-size and completely believable.

Thin is in: the MG1.6/QR

I reviewed the speaker for Playback a few months ago and was shocked by its sound quality, “The MG 1.6/QR might be the perfect way to discover what being an audiophile is all about. The MG1.6QR sounds so different — and more like live music than any box speaker I can think of for less than two grand. My wife, who rarely reacts to what I’m reviewing was blown away by the MG1.6QRs, and when I told her what they retail for she couldn’t believe it. Neither can I.”

It’s a flat panel design, standing a statuesque 64.5 inches tall, but just 2 inches thick! Instead of a dome tweeter and cone woofer the MG 1.6/QR boasts a 2 inch wide by 48 inch tall aluminum ribbon tweeter and a 442 square inch mid/bass panel. It’s a dipole design, meaning just as much sound is radiated off its back surface as the front.

In fact, Jobs is able to maintain his so-called “reality distortion field” in part because he is above us all. We can’t engage him in conversation the way we can with Woz. Want to talk to Woz about his favorite video game? Go ask him. Want to ask Jobs a question about, well, anything? Good luck getting through his phalanx of PR people.

At Macworld Wednesday, popular technology and sex columnist Violet Blue wrote that she saw Jobs on the show floor and decided to go talk to him.

But boy, is the man cold-hearted. What does he expect to happen if he walks the floor at Macworld? He’s surrounded by the most fan-boy of the fan-boys. He’s going to get approached, swarmed even. If he doesn’t want to be, then he shouldn’t be on the floor.

Blue, of course, does not fill in the contextual blanks that might explain whether Jobs was having a bad day, was in the middle of an IM conversation with someone, or anything else. But is anyone really surprised that Jobs would so abruptly snub a fan, even at Macworld? I’m not.

Now, let’s examine Jobs. Everyone knows he is one of the greatest business and technology visionaries in history. Onstage, say, at Macworld, he has a bright smile and an extremely charismatic and engaging manner. He looks like he’d be fun to talk to. Yet his reputation is for managing by fear and for having little patience for the public.

“I saw that Steve Jobs was just hanging out on the Macworld Expo floor, not in conversation, not talking to anyone, and poking at his
iPhone in the middle of the wandering public, so I walked over,” Blue wrote on her SFGate.com Open Source Sex blog Thursday. “Thinking a girl–in this case, a fangirl, me–will never get anything if she doesn’t ask for it, I lightly touched his arm and said, ‘Hi.’ He looked at me, and I blushingly asked if it would be OK for me to take a picture with him. I didn’t say my name or give credentials or anything else, I was just any girl. He told me curtly, flatly, that I was rude. And turned his back to me.”

Let’s start with Woz. Though he claims to have been acutely shy in his early life, these days Woz is a social butterfly. He shows up at tech event after tech event in Silicon Valley, such as the 30th anniversary of Apple, or the 25th anniversary of the Commodore 64, and is almost eager to glad-hand anyone who comes by. Want a picture of you and Woz? Get in line.

If you want to look at how the personalities of Apple’s two co-founders, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, differ, perhaps one way would be to measure their responses when asked to pose for pictures.

You might think that I love to bash Jobs and Apple since I’m writing this. In fact, between my wife and me, we personally have four Macs, two iPods, a couple of AirPorts and, oh, I’m sure there must be more. I had my religious conversion from Windows to
Mac nearly four years ago. And I’ll be the first to grant that Jobs towers above anyone else in tech when it comes to imagination and understanding what his customers want.

Has there been any fallout over the whole controversy that took over blog chatter earlier this year when Robert Scoble was testing a Plaxo script on Facebook and got his Facebook account banned?
Smarr: The main takeaway from that was that as much as people want control over their data and the ability to make it portable, there still are some legitimate debates to be had about, say, if I’m sharing info with you in one context. How much should I be in the loop when you take it into another context? We thought it was a more cut-and-dry issue. I think ultimately you still want to be able to take people you’ve met in one place and put them in another place, so I don’t think there’s anything too crazy going on there, and we’re trying to do the same thing. But it’s still interesting how that all works. In the physical world, if you give me your business card, you wouldn’t tell me “Oh, you can put it in Outlook, but don’t you dare put it in Lotus Notes.”

Facebook’s obviously having some issues these days with the “app spam” controversy. That’s sort of parallel to what Plaxo had some problems with early on. Would you say that they could learn a lesson from what you guys experienced?
Smarr: I wouldn’t say that that’s the case. I think the high-level lesson is there’s always this tension in start-ups between making everything very one-at-a-time opt-in but then having a hard time to actually get growth going, and trying to get things accelerated and do the right thing for your users but in a way that actually helps things take off. We’ve certainly learned over time about when it’s okay to go a little faster and when you have to sort of pull back.

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Wait, so did you know that Scoble would get banned from Facebook?
Smarr: No, that didn’t play out at all the way we had originally intended. Scoble was being an early alpha tester of this feature since he’s got 5,000 friends on Facebook and that’s sort of a good “stress tester.”

So would you let people throw sheep at each other on Plaxo?
Smarr: It’s unclear. But we do want Plaxo to be genuinely useful and about staying in touch between real people. I think there’s lots of things we could’ve done.

Bacn!
Smarr: Exactly, right, bacn. And that’s what we think is one of the real opportunities with the stuff we’re doing now with trying to make an open social Web where everyone can communicate. Why does everyone ask me to confirm that I’m your friend as though I’ve never used any other site in my life? It’s only because they don’t talk to each other, the users aren’t empowered to take the connections they made in one place and use them in another place.

Do you think that people would have the same “acquaintance spam” problems with Plaxo if it had emerged now rather than circa 2003?
Smarr: The stuff that has happened since is so much more egregious than anything we ever did. We were one of these victims of being one of the first people to do it right, and people weren’t used to it. So many of the social networks now will like, pull in your address book and just e-mail everybody without telling you, and use these very misleading tactics, and we never were trying to be shifty. I sort of marvel at what’s gone on since then…how many e-mail notifications have you gotten from Facebook or Twitter? If you actually look at the volume, just because of how many people use these things, it’s just huge amounts of e-mail.

The meta-goal of a lot of what we were doing was to raise awareness and get people talking about these sorts of issues. That, I’d say, was a resounding success.

Yup, and everyone knows he’s got 5,000 friends.
Smarr: And he’s obviously been very much a vocal supporter of the kind of stuff we’re working on. But then it triggered some rate limit on Facebook and got his account shut down, and then he blogged about it…when we woke up (the next day) we were kind of in damage control mode all day. I think if we’d gotten a chance to tell the story the way we wanted to, people would’ve seen that there’s sort of less than meets the eye here, that this is a useful and genuinely good and not privacy-scary sort of thing. But we certainly did intend it to be a conversation starter, but we were also actually trying to build a useful feature for our users. It’s one of our most-requested features.

If you had to give one piece of advice to Mark Zuckerberg, what would it be?
Smarr: Open is good for business. I don’t think Facebook has anything to fear from being closed down to user control of data. I think they get that. A lot of them really do believe in openness and transparency, they just have to get there in stages. Ultimately I think they’ll be a great beneficiary of this.

Plaxo was the first major social site to implement Google’s OpenSocial. How has that been going?
Smarr: OpenSocial itself is still kind of a work in progress… (Critics) said OpenSocial was announced and then, “There’s nothing there, what happened?” But I think it’s important to remember that the timing had more to do with the fact that they (Google) saw all these companies saying, “Oh, we need our own platform” and there was all this fragmentation. That message of saying, “Wait a minute, guys, you don’t all have to do your own thing, why don’t we get together and do something together?” You sort of had to say that soon enough that it wasn’t too late.

Recently there were some rumors that you guys had gotten bought. Where did that all come from?
Smarr: It’s Silicon Valley, I don’t know, it’s a very gossipy town and especially whenever they smell money in the water, everybody kind of goes crazy.

Invent a theoretical company who would be your dream buyer.
Smarr: I don’t think we need to be bought by anybody. I take it as a testament to the fact that what we’re doing is useful and relevant that all these people were talking about, “oh, these guys should be buying Plaxo.” Nobody was saying “That’s stupid, they’re not doing anything useful.” It’s kind of like reading your own obituary in a way.

So what’s the transition been like from focusing on straight-up contact management to growing and evolving as the Web has become more social?
Smarr: The world really changed around us. If you think back to 2002, when we conceived of and launched Plaxo, there was no social networking, there was no Friendster, there was no Flickr. This notion of living your life online didn’t really exist. So I think in a way the business plan was oddly prescient. It was like, there needs to be this software that lives in a cloud that helps you stay in touch with people even though you’re all changing jobs and using different tools. It wasn’t called social networking, but it was (the same) pinpoint.

For example, a site like LinkedIn or Plaxo, which caters in general to a more professional demographic, less kids, that sort of thing, there might be less of everyone wanting to throw sheep at each other and that kind of thing. You might be able to give people a little more rope to broadcast things, to show each other. I think everyone hopes through OpenSocial that they can encourage the right kind of sharing.

Speaking of people with a lot of contacts, there’s been a lot of press about how Bill Gates has stopped using Facebook and now he’s signed on to LinkedIn. Does he use Plaxo?
Smarr: I actually don’t know. We don’t spy on our users. It’s not like Facebook where anybody can access anybody’s user records. We do have, I think, a lot of prominent people who use Plaxo, because we get anonymous statistical samples within Plaxo (about job title). “CEO” and “president” and “executive” and that kind of thing are at the top. So you might think of contact management as something that people at high levels would delegate to admins or something like that, but it’s clearly like, being successful has a lot to do with really staying in touch and knowing people, right, so it’s something that these people all sort of do themselves.

We’ve got all these initiatives and coalitions and standards that are starting to emerge. There’s OpenID, DataPortability, OpenSocial, and the like. You’re getting all these different standards. Are they going to run into compatibility problems?
Smarr: I think the good news there is that because most of these are these community-driven efforts, there are all these people who are talking to each other all the time. All these people who started OpenID and OAuth and OpenSocial and DataPortability, they all started for different reasons, and yet they’re all converging into this shared vision of a user-centric online identity kind of thing, and that’s one of the proof points in my mind why this is really the right way to go, why we can tell it’s going to win. The pieces just fit together, not because they were designed to, but because they all sort of have got the same vision…(it’s) just like a perfect storm. They’re all happening at the same time, and they’re all filling in the right pieces. It’s really cool.

Joseph Smarr, Plaxo chief platform architect

We really think Plaxo’s going to become a kind of dashboard for the social Web where you sort of help manage and maintain relationships across all these different sites, see all the activity there.

So how could Bill Gates use it?
Smarr: Bill Gates is such a special example it’s hard to know exactly, but I think he, just like anybody else, meets all these people and wants to see what they’re doing, it’s a really hard problem to stay in touch with all of the online content in particular that people are doing. In particular, if he had friends or colleagues or family he wanted to stay in touch with, I’m sure even he has aggregation problems. People are putting up photos on Flickr or Picasa or Microsoft or whatever it is, and just being able to say, you know, “Ray Ozzie posted vacation photos” would be really useful.

MIAMI–Joseph Smarr, chief systems architect at Plaxo, has become somewhat of an icon of social media’s future. An ardent supporter of open standards, Smarr is arguably one of the biggest proponents of Google’s OpenSocial who can’t officially claim to be a Googler. So it’s fitting that Smarr has played a prominent role at the Future of Web Apps conference; CNET News.com had a chance to catch up with him on Thursday and find out some more about what “open” really means and what’s next at Plaxo.

When you talk to developers, what are the most frequent questions you get about OpenSocial?
Smarr: I think a lot of them are very interested in the sort of viral aspect of it because a lot of developers are doing this stuff because they really want to get in front of a lot of eyeballs…Facebook imposes all these limitations about how many invitations you can send out, who you can invite, who can see the stuff. They’re obviously doing that to prevent abusive use of the stuff, but it also potentially curtails legitimate use of it as well.

But if people have to curate their online identities like that, couldn’t that lead to more fragmentation because people are seeing different faces of each other?
Smarr: The problem is, right now, you can’t have it either way. Right now it’s fragmented whether you want it to be or not. A lot of these technologies are going to let you sort of consolidate your online identity. Now it’s either public or it’s private, but this is going to allow you to share different things with different people. I think it’s going to work really well. It’s certainly something users are going to have to learn how to deal with, but users have to learn how to deal with a lot of stuff online. But it’s fundamentally what users want.

What are we going to see coming up? Is the focus now going to be on getting OpenSocial in there, getting the developers on board?
Smarr: That’s one piece of it. Actually, the DataPortability piece is really what I think the future is for us. Pulse is doing great in its own right, but we really see the evolution of that. We really think Plaxo’s going to become a kind of dashboard for the social Web where you sort of help manage and maintain relationships across all these different sites, see all the activity there. There’s just so much to do there. It’s so fragmented right now and most users aren’t just using any of it right now because it’s so hard to have to create your profile and do everything from scratch and stay in touch and all that. The fact that we can live inside the tools that you use every day, on your phone, on Outlook, all these Web sites, means that I think we can take all these people who are using that daily pattern and show them this whole world of content. That’s got such legs…It feels like we’re on the cusp of a whole new era of the Web.

How often are you faced with privacy concerns? Silicon Valley might be thrilled about having a single identity online, but some people might find that a bit daunting, frightening even.
Smarr: Privacy is at the center of everything we talk about. It’s not just about people seeing stuff you didn’t want them to see, it’s also about maintaining the right level of professionalism and signal-to-noise ratio. So it’s kind of like, people that I’m doing technical stuff with here and then they’re putting up photos of their kids. It’s not that they don’t mind me seeing a picture of their kids, but that’s not the relationship I have with them.

At the core of Yahoo’s involvement is its role in the Apache Hadoop project, for which it opened an open-source research and development center last November. Yahoo and CRL’s announcement was timed in conjunction with the inaugural Hadoop Summit, sponsored by Yahoo and the National Science Foundation-funded Computing Community Consortium.

Yahoo announced Monday that it has joined forces with the Pune, India-based Computational Research Laboratories (CRL) in order to support research in cloud computing, a way to outsource hardware and software to service providers rather than host it locally. Under the terms of the agreement, researchers will be able to use the EKA, a supercomputer owned by CRL that contains 28 terabytes of memory, 14,400 processors, 140 terabytes of disks, and a peak performance of 180 trillion calculations per second.

According to CRL, EKA is the world’s fourth fastest supercomputer.

The “seamless mesh” concept is part of Microsoft’s next-generation software platform. Of course, Microsoft cannot abandon it’s lucrative client/server software franchises, such as Office or
Windows Vista, but Ozzie is taking a practical and measured approach to building bridges that span the client-server and services worlds. Synchronization is a key for working online as well as online in the loosely coupled, collaborative Web.

Enable collaboration and offline capabilities for any application

Ozzie conceived of Simple Sharing Extensions (SSE) in 2005 as the foundation for a decentralized data bus that synchronizes any feed to any device or platform. It has morphed into FeedSynch, a Windows Live service that enables data sharing via RSS and Atom feeds.

FeedSynch is part of Microsoft’s Sync Framework, which allows the following capabilities according to Microsoft’s documentation.

One question for the future is whether Microsoft will make this synchronization layer for the Web–a kind of worldwide mesh–truly open, or whether it will find ways to bind it a little more closely to its own Live environment. I’m betting that Ozzie’s Microsoft takes the open road.

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Extend the architecture to support custom data types including files

Leverage sync capabilities exposed in Microsoft technologies to create sync ecosystems

Ultimately, the “mesh” requires an overhaul of the back end to support utility computing on a grand scale. In addition, applications need to be “refactored,” Ozzie said in his keynote. He didn’t fully explain the notion of refactoring, but applications need to have a common user interface across different devices and to leverage the unique capabilities of each form factor. In addition, development tools needs to be “refactored” to support the broad variety of usage scenarios and devices without having to rewrite lots of code or use different tools for each target device.

Ray Ozzie is synchronizing Microsoft's software strategy.

From what I can gather, Ozzie and team are working on the plumbing required to create a seamless mesh that can synchronize content, services and applications across a variety of devices and user scenarios via the Web as a hub.

Roam and share information from any data store, over any protocol, and over any network configuration

Microsoft officials aren’t saying much about the mesh other than, “Stay tuned.” As noted in this post, Erick Schonfeld of TechCrunch discovered that Microsoft owns the mesh.com URL, but there is no site as yet.

With Silverlight, the XAML markup language, and multi-programming language support, Microsoft has a cross-platform development environment for creating rich Internet applications. Add in synchronization plumbed from the cloud that invisibly manages devices, applications, and services, whether online or offline, and the mesh starts to make sense.

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His second major initiative, Groove Networks, took the synchronization and collaboration concept into the peer-to-peer realm, allowing individual PCs to communicate directly with one another.

At the core of the mesh are data synchronization and sharing engines. With the Web and cloud computing becoming more pervasive, users want to be able to access their data from any device, and for the data to be up-to-date, secure and without duplicate content. That requires an standard synchronization infrastructure between services and applications no matter where they originate.

Ray Ozzie has a history of trying to break through software and usability barriers. With Lotus Notes, he and his team spent years creating the underlying client/server collaboration technology to enable synchronization, or replication of e-mail online and offline.

Ozzie teased the next evolution of his decades-long exploration of synchronization and collaboration, which he referred to as a “seamless mesh”–or what I’ll call “syncromesh”–in his Mix ‘08 keynote in Las Vegas: Just imagine the possibilities of unified application management across the device mesh, centralized, Web-based deployment of device-based applications. Imagine an app platform that’s cognizant of all of your devices. Now, as it so happens, we’ve had a team at Microsoft working on this specific scenario for some time, starting with the PC and focused on the question of how we might make life so much easier for individuals if we just brought together all your PCs into a seamless mesh, for users, for developers, using the Web as a hub.

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Add sync support to new and existing applications, services, and devices

Groove Networks was sold to Microsoft in March 2005, and Ozzie began his next major iteration on a much bigger stage, as Microsoft’s chief software architect.

The new release also includes two new components: LiveCycle Content Services ES, and LiveCycle PDF Generator 3D ES.

Adobe Systems is updating and expanding its LiveCycle software for building business-oriented Web applications.

The PDF Generator 3D ES component is targeted at the manufacturing industry and allows companies to share two- and three-dimensional models in PDF format. The component works with more than 40 CAD applications, according to Adobe.

LiveCycle is one of the primary products in Adobe’s enterprise business. The product is designed for applications that involve document exchanges inside and outside of organizations, such as government Web sites that require people to fill out and process claims. It uses Adobe’s PDF and Flex software to create paperless, Web-based applications.

The Content Services component, developed in conjunction with Alfresco Software, lets companies build a process or application linked to existing enterprise content. For instance, companies can use the tool to create a system for connecting manufacturers to parts suppliers, or for linking hospitals to insurers.

LiveCycle ES Update 1 will be available next month, Adobe said.

The US Department of Justice has actually wrung confessions out of two Nigerian men and one Senegalese man (who maybe thought he was Nigerian).

Pleading guilty in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York were Nnamdi Chizuba Anisiobi, whose aliases include Yellowman, Abdul Rahman, Michael Anderson, Edmund Walter, Nancy White, Jiggaman and Namo, age 31, of Nigeria; Anthony Friday Ehis, also known as John J. Smith, Toni N. Amokwu and Mr. T, age 34, of Senegal; and Kesandu Egwuonwu, also known as KeKe, Joey Martin Maxwell, David Mark and Helmut Schkinger, age 35, of Nigeria.

Ah, the injustice of it all!

Who says entrepreneurship is dead in Nigeria? If these guys built a website that lets you share slides to rob VCs of a massive valuation they’d be rich. But because they send spam, they get jail.

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Wow. Who knew that Nigerians were actually behind those Nigerian spam attacks (at least some of them)? Nigeria should certify and trademark its spam the way Florida does its orange juice.

Sound like a lot of MB? Nope. I hit nearly 10MB in just one day, and that’s with Saturday email traffic (not much) and very, very little web browsing. No pictures or attachments.

Apple fan that I am, I’m trying to think of a good reason why it should be so much more expensive to access email and browse the web internationally on my iPhone than it was with my Blackberry. (Same sites, same email volume.) It has put a huge crimp on how I use my iPhone. I’m actually frightened to use it at all, lest I go over the 50MB limit (when overage prices hit $5 to $20 per MB(!!!)).

I love my iPhone, Apple. I’d just like to be able to use it internationally. On the plans you currently offer through AT&T, I can’t.

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P.S. Don’t tell me this is AT&T’s fault. Apple has had so much control over everything to do with the relationship that if international roaming is ridiculously pricey, it’s with Apple’s blessing or direction.

This is my first trip overseas with my
iPhone, and it’s hard to express in polite language how disappointed I am with Apple’s international data roaming packages. I say “Apple’s” instead of “AT&T’s” because with my old Blackberry on AT&T I didn’t have the problem, so I’m laying the blame at Apple’s feet.