Visit the Apple Retail Store from 5:00 pm and let our Specialists show you round the features, help you choose the perfect model and set everything up just the way you like. Or buy iPad online and get free shipping – directly to your door.

This is also confimed on Apple’s UK web site.  However, there is still no sign that you will be able to pre-order your iPad2 before this time – most frustrating!

If you have more than one page of applications applying the update will cause a small glitch.  The addition of the Voice Memo app will cause the application in the bottom right of your first page to move, it puts in on a new second page without any other applications.

Panic not all your other applications are not gone but on pages 3+ and moving the single application from page two will fix the issue and remove the unwanted page.

And thanks to Mashable for their post about the immediate problems that can occur post update: iPhone 3.0 Problems? Here’s the Solution.

Am I just unlucky or has Surger finally died a death?

For those that haven’t seen it in action here’s a video I posted to YouTube a while ago.

TechCrunch featured an article First Look At Google Mobile App For iPhone: Great But Not Second Coming which examples the applicaiton features and compares it’s results to those shown my google in their demonstration video.

I this article I’m going to look at how well the application performed when I tried some basic searches in the office this morning.

Google Mobile App: Settings

My first observation was the the voice search button was not on the search dialog, slightly deflated and wondering if the feature was not available on the UK version I headed to settings to see if there was anything there that could be done.  A quick review of the settings revealed that Voice Search was not enabled by default and needed to be switched on.

 I also noticed that there was a caveat stating that it worked best with North American accents, so considering the number of accents there are in North America I thought let’s see what if makes of a proper Northern accent

The Test

To make the test a fair one I decided to pick some common things that people are likely to search for… or at least I would search for  I picked four broad categories Food, Drink, Entertainment and Travel and tried to search for things within them, so my chosen search terms were:

• Food
  Pizza, Chinese Food, Indian Food, Supermarket 
• Drink
  Pub, Beer, Lager, Vodka 
• Entertainment
  Cinema, World of Warcraft 
• Travel
  Train Station

Six out of the eleven searches returned the right results, well actually six and a half, Vodka initially returned Monica but I decided to try again and got the right results.  Here are the screenshots of the search results for each search in no particular order.

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A quick it to Google lead me to an article on On a Mac: Taking iPhone screenshots which revealed that it’s one of the funky new features that came with the 2.0 firmware.  I showed it to a guy a work and we wondered if it would work on the iTouch with the 2.0 firmware, OK it doesn’t have a camera but WTF let’s try it, and it does indeed work.