Posts Tagged ‘iPhone’
iPhone 4 Antenna Issues Confirmed
The video literally says it all.
So glad I do not have an iPhone 4. 
Taking Apart the iPhone 4
Now, come on, tell me this isn’t one of the coolest things you’ve ever seen?
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkcLLI6Yv8I
Yeah. Enough said.
Stir the Nation – Episode 6
In this episode we talk about Twitter Ads, Smurfs, Foursquare, employee monitoring and the iPhone. Thanks for listening, and have a great weekend!
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Stories we talked about: Employee monitoring, iPhone 4
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Stir the Nation – Episode 5
In this episode of Stir the Nation, we talk about Twitter Trending Topics, Google WiFi data collection, the iPhone 4 pre-order sales, AT&T, positive attitudes and more!
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Stories we talked about: Twitter Outages, Positive Attitudes, Google WiFi, iPhone pre-orders
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Steve Jobs Hates WiFi
At the WWDC event, Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, encountered WiFi issues. Watch this and see what I mean:
Thats hilarious. ”Get of the wifi.” Yeah, right. Nice try Steve.
Mobile Payment System for iPhone, iPad and Android
Kevin Rose did a video showing the Square iPhone Payment System, so watch this video before I go into more detail about the system.
Alright, thanks Kevin. Awesome review and awesome product. So, being released to the public very soon is the Square Payment System. It allows you to scan credit cards with your iPhone, iPad or Android phone to accept payments from customers.
Engadget reports:
The software is said to be hitting App Stores and Markets this week, working with a sugar cube-sized card reader that pops into the 3.5mm headphone jack, a device that the company is giving away for free to those who sign up. Using it will not be free, with retailers paying fees starting at 2.75 percent plus a 15 cent surcharge, but that’s considerably cheaper than many other options out there (which often require costly hardware to boot).
So, cool little new payment system. Cannot wait to see where it ends up when it’s released.
Android Runs on an iPhone
In a world of hacking and mods, one could only assume that Android would eventually be developed to work on an iPhone. And yes, that has come true.
PC World reports:
Now you can use the Android OS to browse the web and run any application that does not require audio support, as well as send and receive SMS text messages over the cell phone radio.
If you want to try it yourself, you’ll have your chance in a couple of days when the packaged binaries and instructions for the 3G are posted.
Take a look at this video of Android running on an iPhone.
After the first binaries are released, look for more improvements and functionality.
Next up is audio support–we’ve already laid the groundwork for audio support on the 3G and gotten it working in our homemade bootloader, so support for audio in Linux/Android will be coming in a few days.
Also, look forward to improved power management and backlight control very soon. The hope is that you should soon be able to carry around your first-generation iPhone or iPhone 3G running Android and use it just as normally as you would any other Android phone.
Apple iAds
When the Apple iPhone 4.0 software came out, Apple also introduced a new way to do advertising in a mobile way. Cue sound effects for Apple iAds. At the time of iAd introductions, CEO Steve Jobs stated that they want to change the way ads are served. Jobs is wanting to integrate ads into actual applications…not just searches. The advertisements will lie within the applications, and be interactive. They will no longer just sit there, but rather be interactive with the application user. In the introduction keynote, Jobs stated the following: (As reported by Mashable)
When you click on an iAd advertisement, it will take up the screen using HTML5. Once it is open, you can explore the ad. Apple demoed an advertisement for Toy Story 3, demonstrating the ability to not only see information about the movie, but to watch trailers, play games and more — all within the same application from which you launched the ad. You will even be able to buy products within ads.
Great…ads become MORE relevant in today’s Internet based experience and now you can interact with them. This opens up the doors to more possibilities in what can be done and served to users.
So, how do you benefit from this new ad platform? Apple says that the developer of the application will receive 60% of all revenue for the ad within the app. Apple gets the rest of the profits and is looking to make a big profit from this new platform. For now, the ads will begin to be intergrated into the iPhone, and probably move onto the iPod Touch and the iPad in coming months. Be on the look out for new ads in the iPhone apps.
iAds…good thing or bad?
Facebook Connect comes to iTunes
It has been rumored that Facebook Connect, the global tool Facebook created to connect your websites and services to the biggest social network in the world. It allows you to share information and recent activity from other services onto Facebook to alert all friends what you are doing. Putting this in iTunes would allow you to share recent purchases, reviews and other things you do with your iTunes account and program. This rumor can almost be confirmed because in recent months, Apple has begun moving their services to Facebook Fan Pages. iTunes and the company have pages and offer a built in iTunes store to browse recommendations and featured items. So, this only seems like the right move for Apple to combine their popular iPod and iPhone program with the largest social network. Facebook now has over 400,000 million users worldwide.
TechCrunch reports:
To be clear, you can already share songs on iTunes using both Facebook and Twitter (the feature was introduced last September). It sounds like this integration would make this easier, and there’s obviously the possibly for Apple to leverage Facebook’s social graph in much more interesting ways in the future.
Facebook Connect is coming to iTunes if you like it or not. The world is now revolving around Facebook and it’s popular Connect feature. You will continue to see Facebook Connect being integrated into more websites across the Internet and you can expect Facebook to keep getting a bad rap for keeping and analyzing user information and data like other powerhouse Google.