Since my iPhone is always with me for obvious reasons, it is time to use it like I would my DSLRs. I’ve started a gallery on my website to show off some of the photos I take with my iPhone. It should be easier for me to maintain. Take a look when you get a chance.
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Yeah I know, this all happened yesterday. So why report it today? Well that is the level of excitement the iPhone 3GS generated, for me atleast. I guess I got wrapped up with all the cool hype about a matte backing, or video conferencing, or Steve Jobs pulling the new phone out after his famous, “One more thing.” No, instead we got the iPhone 3GS. An incremental upgrade to the 3G. Yeah, the tone is that of disappointment. The 3GS does have an auto-focus 3mpix camera that can do video, a compass and voice control (oh that last one can SOO be turned on for current 3G iphones) but that is it really. The iPhone 3.0 software would give all iPhone users cut/paste, landscape keyboards across all apps and voice memos. We also get MMS but only when AT&T is ready to roll that out (meaning it will not be available at launch). Tethering is also an option, not from AT&T, starting to see a pattern? PLUS if I did want to upgrade, I have to pay hundreds more per phone and sign up for another two year contract. Hmm, let’s see the Palm Pre had a killer launch and is a true contender to the iPhone, Apple looked a little weak with their incremental upgrade and AT&T is crippling iPhone users even more by locking out current users from the discounted rate. With money being as tight as it is now, I am looking for something that says I should buy now from Apple or AT&T. I’m not seeing it.
I love my iPhone but I think I am going to wait it out for the next iteration of the iPhone and hopefully on Verizon’s network. With the shaky ground AT&T’s exclusive deal with Apple and the desire to gouge it’s current user base with pricing and delayed launching of features, there is no real incentives to lock yourself in with AT&T beyond the initial contract.
I spent the last couple of days filling in for my dad while he recovers from surgery. My parents own a couple of stores in Colorado and though it would have been helpful to manage the front-end, my talents were better utilized elsewhere, like fixing up their homes and properties. So while I was re-wiring electrical (small stuff mind you) and moving a whole lot of earth, a lot of tech news had occurred while I was away. Like, oh I don’t know, the preview of the iPhone 3.0! So sadly I was not there when all the tech sites went live with coverage, but at least there were great summaries:
Ars has a great article about what firmware version should you compile your iPhone app on. The moral of the story obviously is not to build on the latest version of the firmware due to saturation rates. The artical is a great read and recomended to all developers but the first thing that hit me was how broken Apple’s distribution model was. continue reading…
With much of the public attention drifting toward WebOS, Android, iPhone and Blackberry, it seems the market leader Symbian and the recently formed Symbian Foundation will not be resting on it’s laurels, offered up it’s plan for five simultaneous builds of it’s OS. This will allow agile support for in-demand features yet ensure active builds released in the wild are stable and secure. With such an aggressive plan, one has to wonder how much of this announcement relates to leading the market with innovation or trying to divert the growing attention to the impending launch of Palm Pre, Windows Mobile 6.5 or iPhone 3.0. This is turning into a great Texas Hold’em poker game. Heck Palm just went ‘all in‘.
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