What’s this? Another usability study? A recent study found that the heralded Apple iPhone takes a back seat to the Motorola Q9h in SMS text messaging prowess, among other things. Good Housekeeping Research Institute took 11 QWERTY keyboard-packed handsets with subsidized (after 2-year contract) retail prices of $300 or less and pit them against the…
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Apple iPhone SDK Beta 3 is out!
Apple just released the iPhone SDK Beta 3. Included in the new version is a new tutorial, various bug fixes and “support for the latest iPhone OS.” Beta 2.0 firmware is extended, as well. Hop over to developer.apple.com/iphone, grab the SDK and start wrapping up the apps you’ve been working on. 😉 Kudos for the…
Two-thirds of Chinese aware of Apple iPhone
In a country that hasn’t even seen the official launch of the iPhone, more than two-thirds of the Chinese population is aware of the iPhone. There are so many iPhone clones coming out of Chinese factories, it’s almost impossible not to ignore the counterfeit side of things. Perhaps the prevalence of China-made iPhone copies has…
Apple iPhone has hidden screenshot utility – who knew?
Why were we fussing around with third-party screenshot utilities all this time? Probably because there wasn’t anyway to enable the hidden screenshot function in iPhone firmwares v1.1.3 and after. Well, thanks to the work of RipDev, we have news that the hidden screenshot functionality is a simple matter of editing /var/mobile/Library/Preferences/com.apple.springboard.plist. Screenshots can be taken…
Apple iPhone takes the lead as No. 1 mobile browser in US, No. 2 in UK
Browsing the web on the iPhone is a dream. The experience is unrivaled by any other mobile browsing platform. So, it’s no wonder that the iPhone’s Safari browser has already climbed to the No. 1 spot among mobile browsers in the US. What makes it so great? Sure, there’s multi-touch, capacitance touchscreen, Safari, and tabbed…
Apple iPhone SDK downloaded 100,000 times!
You may like it or not, but iPhone keeps getting most of the media attention. Today Cupertino folks announced that a total of 100,000 SDKs were downloaded. It’s only fair to say not all of these people will actually ever make an iPhone application, but the number is impressive nevertheless. As a matter of fact,…
ZiPhone 2.5 brings simple jailbreak / unlock GUI tool to Apple iPhone v1.1.4 – Mac and Windows!
Let’s give it up for Zibri! Just days after iNdependence beat him to the punch with a simple-to-use, iPhone v1.1.4 compatible, GUI interface to jailbreak, unlock, and activate the iPhone’s newest v1.1.4 firmware, Zibri has announced that the other jailbreak GUI-offering has been updated to work with the iPhone v1.1.4. As expected, ZiPhone 2.5 is…
Apple iPhone generates 50 times more Google searches than any other mobile device
In yet another iPhone-validating statistic, Google announced at Mobile World Congress Barcelona that Google search traffic from iPhones was 50 times greater than search traffic from any other mobile device. We already knew that the iPhone sent a lot of traffic to Google, but this is just outrageous. It seems that iPhone users are addicted…
Native third-party app adds real speed dial to Apple iPhone
Lack of the real speed dial feature on the iPhone may be frustrating for some people who by now got used to the idea of keeping the phone numbers of their close friends and family members only a click away. That was probably the reason behind Big Boss’ application which adds this important functionality to…
Apple iPhone keeps getting stronger in smartphone segment
With only one product and a late-year launch, Apple has really done well for itself with the iPhone. The fastest-growing segment in the mobile phone industry is the smartphone segment, and it’s been growing every year – growing 72% over 2006. And, a new report from Canalysis estimates that Apple became the world’s third-largest smartphone…