Category: iPhone
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Handhelds from Palm Still Make Sense in Medicine
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLast night I solved the syncing problem that had limited Kathleen’s ability to use her Treo 650 with her new MacBook. I owe a lot of credit to the book Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition, which explained the details of the interaction between Palm Desktop for the…
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One Million iPhones Sold in 74 Days
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’m glad to hear that Apple sold its one millionth iPhone today. I think the $200 price cut will put holiday sales on the trajectory where Apple needs them to be in order to achieve the goal of 10 million iPhones in the first year on the market.
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Why the $100 Credit Makes Sense for Early Adopters of the iPhone
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’m one of the people who should receive the $100 credit that Apple is offering to early purchasers of the iPhone. I think this is a reasonable move on Apple’s part to reduce the shock associated with the $200 price cut for the 8-Gigabyte iPhone. It certainly won’t cost them $100…
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Apple Cuts the Price of the 8G iPhone to $399
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWow. I had no idea that Apple was planning to announce a $200 price cut on the 8-Gigabyte iPhone to $399. Since the media event ended, I’ve read a number of comments on technology blogs about how much the price of previous “hot phones” dropped in the first 90 days. The…
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I’m Planning to Use the iPhone to Review Ice Hockey Rule Changes
Reading Time: 2 minutesEvery year or two, the hockey organizations for whom I officiate go through rule change cycles. USA Hockey, the major organizing body of amateur ice hockey in the United States, is changing their rules this year. The National Collegiate Athletic Association changes their ice hockey rules every year. Even organizations like The…
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Safari on iPhone Really Intercepts Calls to Google Maps
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhile I was reading O’Reilly Radar, I noticed the article by Artur Bergman that discusses some of the developments at the iPhoneDevCamp over last weekend. The most interesting part of that article for me was the discussion of Safari’s handling of calls to Google Maps: Most offensive is, however, Apple’s claim to…
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The iPhone Does Multitasking
Reading Time: 2 minutesBack on January 10, I asked Is OS X the Key Component of the Apple iPhone? The first point I made in that article was about multitasking: Elegantly-implemented multitasking on a handheld device: Windows Mobile handhelds have this capability already, but none devices I’ve seen have a UI that comes close to…
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First Photos with My iPhone
Reading Time: 2 minutesFirst Photos with My iPhone: I picked the best 18 photos out of the first 100 that I took on my iPhone. See more iPhone-related photos in my Flickr photostream. I finally took the time to go through the first photos that I took with my iPhone and to post them via…
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My iPhone Battery Level Indicator Malfunctioned Yesterday
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOn the Fourth of July the battery level indicator on my iPhone malfunctioned. It consistently registered very high (close to 100 percent) throughout the day. This should have been a tip off for me. I expected the phone to warn me that the battery is running low, and for the battery…