Posts Tagged ‘ iphone ’

The iPhone 4 fiasco continues unabated today, given that numerous independent testing agencies have found its reception lacking. The highly-respected Consumer Reports review might be the final straw: Apple will be forced to recall the iPhone 4 following Consumer Reports tests proving the “Death Grip” antenna issue is not software related, but a hardware...
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So much for the thin excuse that it’s a software issue … It’s official. Consumer Reports engineers have just completed testing the iPhone 4, and have confirmed that there is a problem with its reception. When your finger or hand touches a spot on the phones lower left side—an easy thing, especially for lefties—the...
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An interesting argument from RoughlyDrafted Magazine: What better curse could one wish upon one’s mobile platform competitors than a bunch of performance and security problems, poor battery life, a mess of user interface inconsistencies, and a malignant boil upon their efforts to develop their own third party development platforms? Jobs didn’t express such schadenfreude...
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Who, in his right mind, expects Steve Jobs to let Adobe (and other) cross-platform application development tools control his (I mean the iPhone OS) future? Cross-platform tools dangle the old “write once, run everywhere” promise. But, by being cross-platform, they don’t use, they erase “uncommon” features. To Apple, this is anathema as it wants...
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Crazy, but wow:
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So Apple is suing smartphone rival HTC for the Touch. This is not about HTC … this is about Google. Specifically, about Android. Android is the only competitive threat to Apple’s iPhone today. Windows Phone 7 may become one tomorrow, Nokia may have something else up its long sleeves, Palm may catch a miracle...
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The bet is roughly that the future of computing: 1. has a UI model based on direct manipulation of data objects 2. completely hides the filesystem from the user 3. favors ease of use and reduction of complexity over absolute flexibility 4. favors benefit to the end-user rather than the developer or other vendors...
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I wonder if this will have any anti-trust implications …. <blockquote>That’s right. Google will give the carrier ad splits that result from implementing the Google search box on any Android phone. FBR Capital Markets suggests that Google is taking this idea one step further in its November 24, 2009 report titled Implications of a...
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The first phone we’ll be selling through this new web store is the Nexus One — a convergence point for mobile technology, apps and the Internet. Nexus One is an exemplar of what&apos;s possible on mobile devices through Android — when cool apps meet a fast, bright and connected computer that fits in your...
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L5 Technology is using this week’s CES trade show in Las Vegas to debut the L5 Remote, a $50 accessory (paired with a free application) that turns your iPhone or iPod touch into a universal remote control. It’s coming in February. The accessory plugs into the iPhone or iPod touch’s dock connector. It measures...
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This is marvelous – I love it. iLingual from Lean Mean Fighting Machine is a new translation app for iPhone. Pick your phrase, hold it up to your mouth, and let ‘er rip. Check out this brief – and hilarious – video: First saw it at the Edible Apple.
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Neat video from people who strapped an iPhone 3GS to a model airplane: I you want to endanger a multi-hundred dollar gadget, this is as good a way as any, I guess, and better than most.
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You gotta love it: Unfortunately (or fortunately) it’s not real.
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Tonight I failed the husband geek-test: fixing something electronic for your wife. “But it’s not my fault,” I told my wife. “It’s Apple’s fault – WiFi is buggy on the iPhone.” And I think that’s more than a excuse. I think it’s true. Here’s the deal: we have a wireless network. My iPhone connects...
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