Here’s a tip that’ll save you some money at the App Store: When downloading an app, do it from your computer rather than through your iPhone or iPod Touch directly. What’s the difference?
Well, it so happens that there’s a little problem with the App Store. It identifies you as a unique customer by your iTunes account--not by your device, and certainly not through a combination of both.
What it means is that if you download an application--whether free or paid--through iTunes, you can sync in with your iPhone as well as other iPhones or iPod touches--without paying anything extra.
We’ve been used Read More...
Bad news for Nokia and Symbian loyalists: the much-talked about touchscreen Nokia which appears in the The Dark Knight isn't a prototype of the forthcoming Nokia Tube. In fact, it was just a phone they built so it could be used in the movie. It is not a commercial product. In other words, the phone stays in the Gotham city.
In case you missed the news, the pictures of the alleged Nokia Tube are circulating on the Net:
Watch the movie anyway--it's still a nice looking phone, and the movie is simply brilliant.
We’ve reported that there are a bunch of problems with the App Store--it isn’t all perfect. When I first noticed some of these problems (NO trial versions?) I did, for a while, wonder if they would affect the popularity of the App Store. I needn’t have worried, it turns out.
The App Store has just completed 25 million downloads. Thats a staggering, astronomical figure to achieve in just 11 days. Considering there are some 7 million iPhones in use, each iPhone users is averaging nearly four downloads.
On second thoughts, maybe that’s not so impressive after all. Not by Apple standards, at Read More...
The Dark Knight is fantastic--deep and intense, brutal and unrelenting in its analysis of human nature. And Heath Ledger plays possibly one of the most memorable and truly frightening villains of all time. Not easy to get him out of your dreams. So a strongly recommended movie--watch it for its terrifying pace, for stunning action, for an insane contest between good and evil, and of course, as a tribute to Heath Ledger.
But I also promised to report on the Nokia Tube: A Nokia Touch screen handset does make its appearance at one point. Very brief, so there really isn’t much Read More...
I’m watching The Dark Knight a few hours from now, and quite looking forward to it. Heath Ledger is the main reason, of course.
Another reason is that I just came across a report which states that Nokia Tube 5800 has been used in this movie at some point. I guess they took a cue from Samsung’s YouTube campaign. If I manage to spot the Nokia, I’ll be sure to tell you about it.
While Nokia is working on getting some publicity, it looks like it’s working the way round for the iPhone. An app called The Dark Knight: Hahaha, available for free, lets Read More...
It’s just one of those days where I keep running into satire—and it’s so annoyingly subtle that I’m not even sure it’s there. I just wrote about Apple’s “miserable weekend sales” in “Apple hatred at its worst!,” and now here’s another one.
Chris Green at ITPro claims that Microsoft is planning a Zune-based smartphone. This is what he says:
…such a device is in the works, which is great news as it would easily provide respectable competition to Apple’s iPhone.
All the components are in place – Windows Mobile as the underlying OS, the Zune user interface for the front-end, tweaked and extended…
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Last.fm and Pandora have both brought their services to the iPhone in the form of native apps.
As we reported earlier, AOL was the first to announce the its native radio app for the iPhone.
A quick visit to the App Store reveals that the reviews of these apps are generally favorable and the music streams just fine over 3G and over Wi-Fi.
I know there’s a minimum 8 GB iPod that comes with the iPhone, but it looks like these music services will also work great.
On second thoughts, maybe not. Damon Poeter impersonates an Apple hater and writes about the miserable failure that Apple’s iPhone 3G launch has been. It’s a clever satire. Here’s a sample or two:
Despite massive hype surrounding Apple's launch of its 3G iPhone last Friday, some 6.7 billion people around the world opted against purchasing one over the weekend.
“[T]he new iPhone 3G is clearly off to a great start around the world," Jobs said Sunday, putting a brave face on the epic fail of the first weekend's sales figures.
Clever, yes. But check the comments on the page. Most people were genuinely Read More...
A favorite game among analysts in the tech world is to try and predict the sales of the iPhone for a specific period, or in general make any iPhone related predictions. Stocks, profits, revenue, market share—anything you can think of has already been predicted.
In this column, we’ll file all such predictions as they come in, and you’ll be able to find them by date or by analyst, and also see for yourself how the predictions actually panned out.
One of the foremost “predictors” is Gene Munster, analyst at Piper Jaffray. Let’s begin with his latest--a quick summary of all his earlier Read More...
It seems BlackBerry Thunder which is yet to release, and which is at present just a little more substantial has a lot of bloggers all crunked up. If you visit these pages, you’ll find a large number of people going into a tizzy and using strange, hyperbolic language that has no connection to the real world. To see an example of how that’s actually done, check these sites:
Crackberry.com
Electricpig
Wise Startup
One visitor at Crackberry even comments:
WOW im on verizon have a blackberry almost went to cingular for this and thank god i didn't sign on like my friend for the iphone this Read More...