With the new GPS receiver and 3G radio sucking the life out of your iPhone 3G’s battery like there’s no tomorrow, you’ll likely have noticed shorter battery life compared with the first-generation iPhone. If the iPhone 3G is your first foray in to the world of Apple phoning, then just accept that whatever battery life…
City Guide iPhone application gives iPhone things to do in Washington DC
What’s the plan for tonight? You’ve likely come across that particular question every now and again. Whether you’re trying to decide where to eat, where to drink, or where to kick back and take a load off, rallying the troops to get off the couch and in to the social scene can be difficult. The…
iPhone application features cut and paste – Rich text editor with cut/paste functionality
Just as I got done griping about how Apple needs to re-prioritize the iPhone 2.0 OS development goals and bring cut-and-paste functionality to the forefront – ahead of turn-by-turn GPS navigation – I found this new iPhone application that boasts just such a feature. Granted, cut/paste functionality in this application isn’t a system-wide implementation, like…
Apple bringing iPhone 3G to 20 additional markets on August 22
As expected, Apple has announced that they’ll be expanding their global reach by introducing the iPhone 3G to 20 additional markets next month. Despite handset shortages and sell-outs, Apple is committed to launching the heralded handset in over 70 global markets, including markets in Africa, Asia, Central and South America, and Europe. Following on AT&T’s…
AT&T: Apple iPhone 3G launch sales double that of iPhone
Regardless of iPhone 3G activation woes and product shortages that has Apple backlogging iPhone 3G’s at its retail stores for weeks, AT&T has announced that they’ve sold almost twice as many iPhone 3G’s in the first week and a half of sales than during the same period last year. AT&T posted a healthy $0.63 per…
Fix your iPhone 3G GPS problems – 3G network issues with iPhone GPS
The new GPS hardware in the iPhone 3G seems to be having some trouble when not connected to the AT&T 3G network. iPhone Atlas reports that some users are complaining of inaccurate GPS positioning when the 3G data setting (Settings>General>Network>Enable 3G) option is switched to “ON.” The iPhone 3G uses aGPS (assisted GPS), which means…
Apple iPhone needs cut and paste functionality
As great as the iPhone and iPhone 3G platforms are at playing media, surfing the web, mobile blogging, and even finding the nearest Starbucks in your area, there’s a critical shortcoming in its otherwise superb UI. Cut-and-paste functionality has been a sticking point that has drawn the iPhone’s Mac OS much criticism and ire from…
Windows Live Mesh on the iPhone!
At first glance, using Microsoft’s Windows Live Mesh service on an iPhone seems a bit counter-intuitive. Apple has MobileMe to compete with Live Mesh’s cloud-based storage and synchronization service. And, let’s not forget that using an Apple iPhone running Mac OS with a Windows Live service arguably aimed at Windows and Windows Mobile devices is…
Apple OpenCL to bring GPU parallel processing to iPhone?
What’s the big deal with GPU processing and Apple’s push to bring OpenCL to their Mac OS X “Snow Leopard” revision? It’s all about processing power and speed. You see, there’s only so much you can get done with a traditional CPU, sporting two or four processing cores. But, there are over a 100 microprocessing…
Another MobileMe blunder nets UK users an extra month of service
And the MobileMe fiasco continues. Apple just can’t seem to find their way out of the MobileMe push data services-hole that they’ve dug for themselves. In fact, they’re digging themselves deeper and deeper. The latest blunder in Apple’s MobileMe launch hits the UK in the form of gross over-charges to MobileMe trial users. You see,…