Good news! I’ve bought myself a new phone, and it’s modern – you don’t need both hands, a custom sling and a three-phase power supply to use it. Things started well; email pretty much set itself up, a trip to Fring provided instant messaging, but GPS was a whole world of pain. Typical, it let me down in front of Dr Ben – which is never a good idea. The last time he laughed this much was when my first sat nav took us on a  ’short cut’ which grounded my car out. This time we ended up walking half a mile down a very busy road because he insisted on making random navigation decisions until I could demonstrate a reliable satellite lock – which didn’t happen. After several days of futile google searching and guess work, I finally modified the A-GPS settings to remove the http:// prefix. I don’t know why I did this, but it worked and I got a lock within seconds. A colleague’s handset  confirmed my guess-work, the http:// prefix was clearly not required. I must admit that, as a tester, I’m ever-so slightly disappointed that I fixed it.

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