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A dynamo in your iPhone, no cables or attachment needed to you car, it uses the accelerometer in your iPhone to measure things.

Introducing: Dynolicious

Dynolicious is the first automotive performance meter available for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Dynolicious uses the hardware built-in to your iPhone to measure the performance characteristics of your vehicle. No external wires or equipment is necessary, simply slip the iPhone into a cradle or cupholder and go!

Some of the performance metrics Dynolicious can measure:

-0-60 Acceleration

-1/4 Mile Elapsed Time

-Lateral G’s

-Horsepower

Unlike other accelerometer-based performance meters, Dynolicious uses the advanced data-handling and display capabilities of the iPhone to make the most of your performance testing. Dynolicious maintains a history of test runs, showing you averages and trends in your results. Dynolicious also allows you to enter modifications performed to your vehicle, and will instantly show before-and-after results to easily identify gains or losses.

The iPhone in Japan is not working so well. You could not get a decent signal so I have 2 iPhone, the second one is an iPhone I got in Hong Kong which is SIM FREE, so I stick in my NTT Docomo into it, and make the Softbank iPhone transfer the calls to it. Even then, my NTT iPhone was dropping calls. I need phones to function to get work done, so I was considering buying a new non-iPhone phone. It was that bad.

So yesterday I downloaded the iPhone 2.1 update and here are my results.

* Decrease in call set-up failures and dropped calls - a little better
* Significantly better battery life for most users - then I am not a member of MOST users
* Dramatically reduced time to backup to iTunes - yes, this is so quick.
* Improved email reliability, notably fetching email from POP and Exchange accounts - not quantifiable yet
* Faster installation of 3rd party applications - yes
* Fixed bugs causing hangs and crashes for users with lots of third party applications - not tested
* Improved performance in text messaging - yes
* Faster loading and searching of contacts - yes
* Improved accuracy of the 3G signal strength display - yes
* Repeat alert up to two additional times for incoming text messages - yes
* Option to wipe data after ten failed passcode attempts - this is really good.

Overall the software update seems to fix crucial flaws and proves that Apple can modify vast parameters of the chip functions in their product. Other phone manufacturers are not so lucky as their product is made by components of 2 ore more different companies, an OS and the Unit etc.., giving them less chance, accuracy of getting firmware and application and hardware in tune at the same time. So Apple has an advantage.

Visited the iPhone madness where 1500+ people got in line politely overnight to buy a piece of new technology. CNN was interviewing this guy dressed as storm trooper in 35c deg heat. I got mine.

Tunewear had quite a busy booth at the APple Expo in Paris.

Decided to hack my US iPhone so I can use it on my world wide travel. SIM free and jailbreak. Done.