Notwithstanding the 1 million sale in three weeks, the iPhona-tics have one complaint in common. With its multiple features and functionalities, the iPhone battery is not able to handle the strain. The iPhone 3G battery needs to be recharged everyday if you are using its range of functions. Troublesome, especially if you are on the move for long and doing something with the iPhone - playing games, blogging, taking snaps, listening to music etc. You find that at the end of the day you do not have enough charge in to call up your office.
Apple’s portable iPhone charger is handy enough, Read More...
Browser vulnerability researcher Aviv Raff has reported three bugs to Apple. Predictably, all the three bugs come from the Internet and are security issues. Two of them are in the iPhone mail service and one in its embedded Safari Browser. The affected versions are iPhone Mail and Safari on firmware 1.1.4 and 2.0.
What do they do?
The mail bugs are likely to spam your mail box if you follow certain embedded links in the mails. Aviv says that this happens because of some design flaw. someone can send Spoof URLs to the iPhone users. This spoof URL will look innocuous - Read More...
Even as the demand for the 3G iPhone has far outpaced its supply in the US (footprint link), Apple, in its quarterly conference call with financial analysts has announced that it will be launching the 3G iPhone in 20 more countries world-wide on 22nd August. That will make the 3G available in 42 countries globally in a month's time from now. That is keeping in tally with Apple's proposed goal of selling 10 million 3Gs, in 70 countries, by the end of 2008. And they are on track as the statistics suggests – the 1 millionth iPhone has been sold Read More...
Techtree has this scoop that the iPhone will be coming to India sooner than expected. It seems that the iPhone will hit the Indian markets by August. While Apple has signed deals with both Voddafone and Airtel to sell the iPhone in India, it looks like Vodafone will launch its service first, while Bharati Airtel will release it towards the end of August/beginning of September.
Only the 8GB model will be available initially. The price of the iPhone as well as of the applications is expected to be subsidized for the Indian market. The 8 GB model will be priced somewhere Read More...
One of the most controversial and distinctive features of the iPhone is its keyboard—a unique feature till some copycats emerged. The virtual touch screen keyboard, has drawn a lot of flak as well as some praise. However, in spite of the criticism, Apple has not changed the virtual keyboard to a physical one. Apple has retained the big screen, the trim look and feel and the virtual keyboard. In fact, Apple has gone a step further and added a new feature to the keyboard where you can change the QWERTY keyboard to a number of other languages.
This keyboard continues to Read More...
Even as the demand for the 3G iPhone has far outpaced its supply in the US, Apple, in its quarterly conference call with financial analysts has announced that it will be launching the 3G iPhone in 20 more countries world-wide on 22nd August. That will make the 3G available in 42 countries globally in a month's time from now. That is keeping in tally with Apple's proposed goal of selling 10 million 3Gs, in 70 countries, by the end of 2008.
And they are on track as the statistics suggests – the 1 millionth iPhone has been sold within 3 days Read More...
Till a few hours ago, we’ve had reports that the the release of the WordPress application for the iPhone is imminent.
And it’s finally happened. WordPress has announced that they are now live at the App Store:
We’re live! WordPress for iPhone just launched on the App Store ...and get to blogging.
After the success of TypePad, another blogging tool that went native at the App Store, it was just a matter of time before WordPress came up with its own app.
WordPress is the first open source application that makes blogging available on a mobile device. The advantages of using it on Read More...