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http://www.mobicity.com.au/apple/unlocked-iphone-4s.html Legit and the real deal. Father in law and my offsider at work have both purchased from there on my recommendation with no issues whatsoever. I know of a few others, too. Have you considered seeing what deal Telstra can give you on a new phone? Vodafail suck balls. If you can't dump Vodafail due to a contract, Mobicity is the way to go.

Look towards regional Vic, such as Ararat or Geelong. You can buy positively geared property out there at the moment and while capital growth may not be quite are strong, it's also generally less volatile than the suburbs. Ararat is in the midst of a massive expansion of the prison which means more people looking to rent/buy out there. My offsider is about the purchase his third ~$100k property in Ararat. His existing two are positively geared at about 110% combined after all costs at the moment. He advertises on Gumtree and doesn't use a real estate agent. As for suburban/city, I would recommend talking to a professional. I can put you in touch with a property planner/mortgage broker if you are interested. Just let me know where you are and I'll find one in your area. Otherwise, if you 're going to go it alone, Alex has the right of it. The west population is growing at stupid levels but is still affordable. I'd look for a couple of townhouses or something like that in Altona, Hoppers or Werribee (or whatever the big new estate between Hoppers and Altona is called). FYI, I work for a mortgage aggregator.

I haven't actually put a different battery in yet. Haven't had a need too. The HTC Velocity is called the Vivid in overseas markets and comes with a 1620mAh battery. http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Battery-HTC-Velocity-4G-2000mAh-Extended-High-Capacity-BH39100-/270996224320?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item3f18a23940#ht_4553wt_1397

Well, it would seem the iP5 is suffering from shonky battery life (surprise, surprise). People are reporting 4 hours tops, but with some fettling and resetting of settings, and turning a heap of shit off, it can be extended out to possibly 8 hours. Gee, that's not dissimilar to what I get with my Velocity. Isn't superior battery life one of the virtues of Apple products? Not a big deal I suppose. You could just go out and buy a higher capacity battery and put it in like I can with my Velocity.....oh, wait....

If the repairs are going to run at around $5k, it's touch and go whether it will be a write-off. Most insurance companies will go to around 60-70% of value before writing it off. $5k is arguably ~50% of the value of your car. Either way, if the insurance company can offload the car to you for a few grand, they will often prefer that than having to go through the process of auctioning it off. Once the quote comes back and the insurance company makes their decision whether they are going to repair it or not, tell them you wish to purchase the wreck (assuming it's a write off). They will estimate what the car will fetch at auction and offer it to you for that which they will simply remove from the payout figure. Whatever you do, remember that the insurance companies will be out to make sure you get the smallest possible amount either by giving you less for it or over estimating what the wreck is worth. Don't accept their first offer as there will be room to negotiate a better outcome for you. Just hit them with facts such as current adds on Carsales and SAU if they offer your too little for it. Also, being not at fault, you have more room to negotiate as essentially you are negotiating with the other insurance through your company and you have no agreement with the other company therefore are not bound to accept what they offer.

While I reckon the graphics look pretty good, Halo isn't about the prettiness. It's one of the most immersive storylines ever put to a game. It's multi-player is also one of the best on the market. There are mixed messages regarding Halo 4 on PC.

Not a bad idea.

I've never got into the whole anime thing where people get boners over comics, but I'm in love with Cortana.

I'm amazed there's not been a thread yet. Huge Halo fan, going right back to the firs.t It's the only game for which I have attended a midnight launch. Halo 4 looks amazing. Bungie no longer owns the Halo marque, it's now got the full force of Microsoft behind it and it looks like they have gone no expense spared.

Nope, mine came with Gingerbread, I did an OTA update to ICS.

I've got a Velocity on ICS and have no issues whatsoever. The only time I ever have very weak or no signal is when in in the elevator at work. Apart from that, I've never seen it without near full service. Hell, I even got service at my parents home which in rural NSW and a mobile wasteland.

Look. I don't have the silver crab if you tied up Monopoly Man. Because 20 years ago in Arkansas, we met and we ate bananas. But I didn't blow up! So instead, we just sat and sung It's A Small World After All. And while we were doing it, we killed a puppy with a gluestick that just happened to be dancing to our music. So the silver crab came and said, "I have a mystery portal, but look. You won't have me if they tied up Monopoly Man. Because 20 years ago in Arkansas, you met and you ate bananas." And so I saw you people. And here I am. Get it? You better. I have a purple orange sliced in half and I am not afraid to use it

Go to Settings >> About Phone >> Software Updates and check for updates. If it's not yet on ICS it will do it OTA. And you don't need to back anything up before hand. Just fire it off and after about 5 minutes your phone will reboot and you'll be up to date.

Another iPhone eats shit. A 4s. Updated to iOS 6 and it's locked the phone solid. Do a hard reboot and nothing happens. Same thing happened to an iPhone belonging to one of the sales guys about 4 weeks ago. The phone is now a paper weight. The tally is now up to two since I started keeping count (so ignore the ~15 prior to that time). As yet no HTCs or Samsungs have broken and the office is split pretty close to 50/50 Apple vs the rest.

I say Stay-ji-ah, which appears to be the correct pronunciation according to the translator. Yay!

The TM08s in matt black with matt black centre caps please The look the goods. $3,500 does put them well into premium wheels territory though.

Ahh crap, I missed that the bottom graph was the two different rears.

That's an impressive result, Stao. Really holds on up top now. Defo worth the effort of dual actuators IMO.

Go to Settings >> Language & Keyboard >> Touch Input and edit Personal Dictionary and delete "ti".

My nanna wouldn't give two f**ks. Regardless of the fact she died last Wednesday, she's never owned a mobile phone. And if she did she would have been smart enough to figure out how to swipe your finger left to right once in order to then turn on or off what she wanted. With Android, I can leave GPS permanently on if I want and it doesn't actually make a big difference to the battery life. But I run mine lite because that's the way I roll. I have the GPS, bluetooth and wifi off and I have my screen on about 50% brightness cause that's all I need and those, cumulative, add a few hours to my battery. Not that I give much of a shit about battery life though, but it's just what I'm used to now. But really, who gives a f**k if battery life is shitty, my phone is on the charger probably 21 hours a day. I think you've got your hand on it if you insist a phone should be everything to everyone, 24/7 without any input from the user. If turning a feature on, such as GPS, is too laborious then I think you have a bigger issue than being an iSheeple. And if people are too f**king stupid to know how to go to the Apps and hold their finger on an app for 2 seconds then move it to where they want it, then wow, people are even more f**king stupid than I thought. How do these f**kers breath without assistance? Sorry, but your argument that iPhones are manifestly more simple than Android is retarded. Android is simple whereas iOS is "ZOMG, I'm a retard and even I can figure this out" simple. I don't think that's something Apple users should be proud of. Another issue is that with that brainless simplicity the Sheeple all love comes an inherent lack of customisability. f**k that. I can add and remove home screens put different widgets on the screens (such as power management apps!) and put on custom background pics, lock screen pics and so on.

At what point does weight become a "who gives a f**k" feature? Seriously. My phone weights about 163g. Do I give a f**k that it doesn't weight 118g? Nope. Same with thickness. "Oh shit noes! my phonez is 11.3mm thick! WHY OH WHY ISN'T IT 7.3mm LIEK TEH IPOO5!" The iPhone 22 will be so light and thin that it simply won't exists and yet they'll still sell 100,000,000 of the things to Apple Sheeple. Pay $800, get given a box, get it home, open it up, find it empty, take a photo of it and put on Instagram (with your iPhone 21), post of FB how totally amazing the iPhone 22 is and how it's totally ground breaking and, dare I say it, revolutionary. I can't wait! Also, can I ask you Seano, what "nothing but problems" did you actually have with your Samsung?

The whole "complicated" argument is amusing. Seriously. How dumb do you have to be to think the extra simplicity of iOS over Android is a bonus? Why would I wrote my name with a pen and a bit of paper when I can dig shit out of my undies and smear my name on the wall? Doesn't get much easier than writing with your own faeces, does it? Interestingly, with the GPS, you can turn it off on an iPhone but you have to navigate through four different screens to get there. I have the GPS widget on my screen one left of my main screen. Don't get much easier than that if you ask me. I barely ever use my GPS so why would I want it on all the time? You can make Android look just like iOS. Simply drag the necessary apps, icons and widgets onto one of the pages. How on earth can you claim iOS is easier? I simply don't get it. EDIT: SFSC, that's not just directed at you. I hear the "it's just easier" argument a lot from the iSheeple at work and it perplexes me.

I love that. "ZOMG, my Nokia N95 is such a piece of shit compared to a phone that released mere days ago! Totes getting an ipoo5 cause it's 10000timez better than my piece of shit N95! Well f**king duuuuuur. Interestingly, the Ipoo5 barely matches my 6 months old HTC Velocity and gets spanked by the SIII.

The Samsung marketing department has been kicking goals lately. They really are giving it to Apple. Then again, Apple has given them plenty of fodder with the whole "patent for swiping" thing and of course Apple iSheeple continue to be the butt of many jokes the world over. I will probably get a Samsung next time round because A) they make excellent phones and B) they continually pisstake Apple.