13 posts tagged “iphone”

 In accordance to this PR article made by Apple Inc., they've sold their one millionth iPhone. So congrats to them!

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CUPERTINO, California—September 10, 2007—Apple® today announced it sold its one millionth iPhone™ yesterday, just 74 days after its introduction on June 29. iPhone combines three devices into one—a mobile phone, a widescreen iPod®, and the best mobile Internet device ever—all based on Apple’s revolutionary multi-touch interface and pioneering software that allows users to control iPhone with just a tap, flick or pinch of their fingers.

“One million iPhones in 74 days—it took almost two years to achieve this milestone with iPod,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We can’t wait to get this revolutionary product into the hands of even more customers this holiday season.”

Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation with its award-winning computers, OS X operating system and iLife and professional applications. Apple is also spearheading the digital media revolution with its iPod portable music and video players and iTunes online store, and has entered the mobile phone market this year with its revolutionary iPhone."

So it looks like Apple is on track for ten million iPhones sold by the end of 2008. Hopefully by then, all of the haters will be quiet and realize that the iPhone is not just full of hype.

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In other iPhone news, it looks like that people are actually complaining of the $200 off from the iPhone. Now I could understand that if you just bought it a week before it was announced, then yeah, I could understand you could be angry, but the people that are complaining that you were ripped off when you bought it at launch, then..well, you should have expected the price drop around holiday season. I did, even when I bought two. One for my wife, and one for myself. Steve Jobs said it the best and correct way he should have said it.

"Second, being in technology for 30+ years I can attest to the fact that the technology road is bumpy. There is always change and improvement, and there is always someone who bought a product before a particular cutoff date and misses the new price or the new operating system or the new whatever. This is life in the technology lane. If you always wait for the next price cut or to buy the new improved model, you'll never buy any technology product because there is always something better and less expensive on the horizon. The good news is that if you buy products from companies that support them well, like Apple tries to do, you will receive years of useful and satisfying service from them even as newer models are introduced."

There is an example of why we love/hate Steve Jobs. He can be nice to be around at one point, and then become snarky but still come off as a nice guy (Except for in the early days of Apple, when he would just flip out, which I was back when I was younger, and I still am to this day.)

But iWhiners, you'll be getting $100 at Apple Stores and on the Online store. Meaning Leopard will be $29, or a free Shuffle or a very cheap Nano, but no, you still complain. Don't you understand that other companies wouldn't even offer $25, let alone $100! Apple is giving half of your money back, which is a great point for consumers, and for them.

But better off for me since I'll be getting $200 back, meaning if Leopard comes in a family pack like iLife/iWork 08', I'll be getting a family pack of Leopard.

Neener, Neener, Neener.

iPhone

 So Apple has announced the new iPod, the new iPod Nano, new iPod Shuffle, and guess what.. THE IPOD TOUCH! So what? This means that Apple now has downloadable songs for both the iPod Touch and the iPhone. So now, the Zune has lost the only feature that might have brought customers, not that the Zune had more than three customers. Now on to get you guys an iGasm.

The iPod Nano:

Nano now has video!

 So now the iPod Nano is really Nano, and they're really damn cute. They have video now as you can see in the above photo from Apple. I've never liked using a Nano, but I'll still get one for Kacie.

iPod Classic:

iPod Classic

So the old iPod is still around, so people not ready for the new age in technology can still use the click wheel for now. Still the same shape, just now in 160 GB, something that could decide in iPod, iPod Touch and the iPhone.

iPod Touch:

iPod Touch

So the new iPod, the new iPod Touch. It's basically the iPhone without the iPhone. Looks like it has Safari, so it does have Wi-Fi. Plus you can download songs directly from it, as with the iPhone. Hello new iPod, meet your brother iPhone.

The iPhone

iPhone

  Ever since the iPhone launched, many news outlets have been claiming that the iPhone will die after 400 charges. anyone who knows anything about computers and batteries knows that if you go after the 400 "cycles" that you will only lose a small to medium fraction of the batteries capacity (20% of 100% in this case), if you just use a small fraction of the battery at a time and not drain the whole thing out. Well after skipping over or actually reading my small comment on it here is the real expert.

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One of the biggest knocks on the iPhone has been its battery. It’s not removable, which means — like an iPod’s battery — it will eventually run out of juice and need to be replaced.

A true statement, as far as it goes. Batteries die. But many media reports this week have gone further. Take, for example, CNET’s review of the iPhone, which states that “Apple is estimating one battery will last for 400 charges — probably about two years’ worth of use.”

Two years of use, the review says, and your iPhone dies. Or disappears in a puff of smoke, like those old tape recordings on “Mission Impossible.” Sounds pretty awful, right?

Too bad it’s completely wrong.

Apple estimates that the iPhone will lose 20 percent of its capacity — a darn sight less than 100 percent — “after 400 full charge and discharge cycles.”

“Sadly, there are some inaccurate reports out there,” Apple marketing vice president Greg Joswiak told me today during a brief phone call from New York City. Joswiak isn’t quite sure where the story went off the rails — David Pogue’s initial New York Times review of the iPhone mentioned the battery issue, but Pogue got it right: “Apple says that the battery starts to lose capacity after 300 or 400 charges.”

Somehow, though, things got lost in translation. And follow-on reports started claiming that 300 to 400 charges would be the end of the line.

“After 400 complete cycles, the iPhone’s battery still has 80 percent of its charged capacity,” Joswiak said. “And by a complete charge cycle, I mean completely draining the battery, a full chemical cycle.” In other words, using a little battery and then putting your iPhone back in its dock doesn’t count as a charge cycle. If you use a quarter of your iPhone’s battery and then re-charge it, Joswiak said, that’s the equivalent of a quarter of a charge cycle.

“If you top it off, you’re not wasting a charge cycle,” Joswiak said.

Apple’s iPhone battery page explains the rated life and lifespan of an iPhone battery, and also provides some helpful tips about how to extend battery life. For example, the page suggests that “for proper maintenance of a lithium-based battery, be sure to go through at least one [full] charge cycle per month.”

So let’s put this in perspective: if you completely drained your iPhone’s battery every day — which would be a whole lot of use, since Apple estimates the iPhone can offer up to 8 hours of talk time per charge — in about 13 months your battery would only hold 80 percent of its current charge.

Or to put it another way, battery use will vary widely from person to person, but generally your iPhone will still be providing all but the heaviest users with good battery life even two years from now.

“Most iPhone users will realize, as most iPod customers realized, that they never needed to replace their batteries,” Joswiak said.

For those who do eventually need to replace the iPhone battery a few years down the road (assuming they haven’t upgraded to a new model by then), Apple will offer a battery-replacement program. If your iPhone’s battery dies young (i.e., within the first year), then you’re covered by Apple’s warranty and the company will replace your battery for free.

And my guess is that by the time most original iPhone batteries are running out of juice, there will be many third-party companies who will offer to swap out your battery at a lower price than Apple’s official offering.

So to sum up: As we’ve known since January, the iPhone’s battery is — like all iPod batteries — not user-replaceable. And like every battery ever made, it’s going to lose the ability to hold a charge over time. While the stories about the iPhone’s battery evaporating in two years are simply wrong, the fact is that sooner or later the iPhone’s battery will die. (Just like the rest of us mortals.)

But it won’t be evaporating in a puff of smoke anytime soon."

 Sorry that I didn't put my review up of the iPhone. I've just been too tired today to even write the review. I'll get back to not being tired tomorrow. I've taken about 5 cat-naps today, totaling in 5 hours of sleep.

I'm still tired.

  Avast! Kacie, Stephen, Josh and I are all in the PT Cruiser (Yaris sucks compared to the "iMobile") driving to Ohio so we can be with our family's and set off some fucking fireworks (I even made a launcher that looks like the fucking Spartan Laser.) For some odd reason, we will be setting them off Today, or on the Third. I don't know why that is, since well it is supposed to be the FOURTH OF FUCKING JULY, not the Third of July. So that means my review will be held back until Friday. What does that mean? Well it means I can have even more time with the iPhone. In need more time, which isn't saying that it takes along time to get used to it (Hell I scoff at Kacie's Crackberry Perl, such an ugly phone!) I need the time to be able to take more pictures with it, have time on the EDGE( Excruciatingly Damned Gradual Ethernet, as I like to call it..well not Ethernet..that is insulting Ethernet!) Network and to use YouTube, Mail, Safari, and other apps on the road..which is right now fairly fast, but that is because we are stopped in Springfield, MA. So I am sad to say my review of the iPhone will be postponed till Friday. In that time, be calm and trust the experts at Engadget to give you a professional review (Which I just read and agreed about 95% with, and I will use many of the same tests as they did)

Hopefully we don't run into any "evil" lite-bright displays that flip us off into Oblivion.

  i just love making fun of Apple's blatant use of the lower case "i." So I got the iPhone, and from just feeling it and using it for a short time to put in my contacts I can say that it so far is perfect, but then again I've only played with it for a few minutes. So since my camera broke since I was tossing it around (More like swinging it around during taking photos of my cats) and it landed in the grass battery side down I can't put in batteries or they don't accept them. I've been trying to see if it is a internal error or if the springs don't work or are de-attached...so no photos of my iPhone or my iShirt yet..and I had pictures of many of the trips Kacie and I were on and the cats, and possibly a photo of myself (which is odd since I have a motto which is "Why the fuck do you want to see me? Do you want to masturbate to me? Pervert..") So yeah.. it's my camera taking the photos..or the iSight in my Macbook (Not my Pro since I use my Macbook to take iSight photos since it is smaller) so you'll have to wait for photos of the best phone ever made and the best t-shirt ever made..so yeah.. it's my fault for being horrible with my camera (I can't take decent photos, but my Aunt tought me to take pictures with a film roll camera back in the 80's when I was just a wee child) and actually trying to take pictures with my iSight..

(Coming soon, a dart game with my face as the bullseye, I'm sure those assholes at Gaming.Word will really enjoy that since they hate me with a passion)

  Lets see..no sleeping bag since it will just be really a few hours, iPod charged, check. Macbook Pro charged, Check. Portable power generator, check. Apple fanboyishness, iCheck. Checking everything..check. Stephen, check? First in line? Nope. Neighbors getting theirs before I do, check. Do I care? Nope, because I reserved one!

So you can now check if your local store has an iPhone here, and I did...and these are the results.

Iphonewoot

And now since Red Vs Blue is over, hopefully one of the three endings (Where everyone says "New Map!") is pointing to Red Vs Blue the Valhalla Chronicles.

And now on the eve of iDay, I leave you..with this.

"I've never been so embarrassed in my life.."

Simmonshump

  Ok, this is boring. Camping out for the iPhone might seem realizable if you live in I don't know.. Cambridge, San Francisco, or New York, but in Chestnut Hill? I don't think so. I already reserved one, so I know I'll get one on launch day. Plus no one else is here!

So I guess we'll (Stephen and I) just have to hopefully camp again on 12:00 midnight on the 29th.  

    With everyone and their mother wanting an iPhone, it might be hard for people to actually you know, find one, but luckily I worked at the local Apple store and I have a friend there who is a Manager there so I should (And will) be able to get my iPhone. So right now I'm getting my last few hours with my Mac Pro/iMac combination, and charging up the soon to be replaced iPod. It is kinda sad to have the last few days with an old friend. Now back to copying and pasting the roundups of the iPhone reviews and the NY times review of it!

Crunchgears round-up of iPhone reviews 

Go to the above link to constantly refresh to see what News sites and blogs have the review.

Pogues (Air time stealing ***hole who is making the Science Channel air him and now Lab with Leo!) iPhone review

The whole article:

Talk about hype. In the last six months, Apple’s iPhone has been the subject of 11,000 print articles, and it turns up about 69 million hits on Google. Cultists are camping out in front of Apple stores; bloggers call it the “Jesus phone.” All of this before a single consumer has even touched the thing.

So how is it?

As it turns out, much of the hype and some of the criticisms are justified. The iPhone is revolutionary; it’s flawed. It’s substance; it’s style. It does things no phone has ever done before; it lacks features found even on the most basic phones.

Unless you’ve been in a sensory-deprivation tank for six months, you already know what the iPhone is: a tiny, gorgeous hand-held computer whose screen is a slab of touch-sensitive glass.

The $500 and $600 models have 4 and 8 gigabytes of storage, respectively — room for about 825 or 1,825 songs. (In each case, 700 megabytes is occupied by the phone’s software.) That’s a lot of money; then again, the price includes a cellphone, video iPod, e-mail terminal, Web browser, camera, alarm clock, Palm-type organizer and one heck of a status symbol.

The phone is so sleek and thin, it makes Treos and BlackBerrys look obese. The glass gets smudgy — a sleeve wipes it clean — but it doesn’t scratch easily. I’ve walked around with an iPhone in my pocket for two weeks, naked and unprotected (the iPhone, that is, not me), and there’s not a mark on it.

But the bigger achievement is the software. It’s fast, beautiful, menu-free, and dead simple to operate. You can’t get lost, because the solitary physical button below the screen always opens the Home page, arrayed with icons for the iPhone’s 16 functions.

You’ve probably seen Apple’s ads, showing how things on the screen have a physics all their own. Lists scroll with a flick of your finger, CD covers flip over as you flick them, e-mail messages collapse down into a trash can. Sure, it’s eye candy. But it makes the phone fun to use, which is not something you can say about most cellphones.

Apple has chosen AT&T (formerly Cingular) to be the iPhone’s exclusive carrier for the next few years, in part because the company gave Apple carte blanche to revise everything people hate about cellphones.

For example, once the phone goes on sale this Friday, you won’t sign up for service in a phone store, under pressure from the sales staff. You will be able to peruse and choose a plan at your leisure, in the iTunes software on your computer.

Better yet, unlimited Internet service adds only $20 a month to AT&T’s voice-plan prices, about half what BlackBerry and Treo owners pay. For example, $60 gets you 450 talk minutes, 200 text messages and unlimited Internet; $80 doubles that talk time. The iPhone requires one of these voice-and-Internet plans and a two-year commitment.

On the iPhone, you don’t check your voice mail; it checks you. One button press reveals your waiting messages, listed like e-mail. There’s no dialing in, no password — and no sleepy robot intoning, “You...have...twenty...one...messages.”

To answer a call, you can tap Answer on the screen, or pinch the microscopic microphone bulge on the white earbud cord. Either way, music or video playback pauses until you hang up. (When you’re listening to music, that pinch pauses the song. A double-pinch advances to the next song.)

Making a call, though, can take as many as six steps: wake the phone, unlock its buttons, summon the Home screen, open the Phone program, view the Recent Calls or speed-dial list, and select a name. Call quality is only average, and depends on the strength of your AT&T signal.

E-mail is fantastic. Incoming messages are fully formatted, complete with graphics; you can even open (but not edit) Word, Excel and PDF documents.

The Web browser, though, is the real dazzler. This isn’t some stripped-down, claustrophobic My First Cellphone Browser; you get full Web layouts, fonts and all, shrunk to fit the screen. You scroll with a fingertip — much faster than scroll bars. You can double-tap to enlarge a block of text for reading, or rotate the screen 90 degrees, which rotates and magnifies the image to fill the wider view.

Finally, you can enlarge a Web page — or an e-mail message, or a photo — by spreading your thumb and forefinger on the glass. The image grows as though it’s on a sheet of latex.

The iPhone is also an iPod. When in its U.S.B. charging cradle, the iPhone slurps in music, videos and photos from your Mac or Windows PC. Photos, movies and even YouTube videos look spectacular on the bright 3.5-inch very-high-resolution screen.

The Google Maps module lets you view street maps or aerial photos for any address. It can provide driving directions, too. It’s not real G.P.S. — the iPhone doesn’t actually know where you are — so you tap the screen when you’re ready for the next driving instruction.

But how’s this for a consolation prize? Free live traffic reporting, indicated by color-coded roads on the map.

Apple says one battery charge is enough for 8 hours of calls, 7 hours of video or 24 hours of audio. My results weren’t quite as impressive: I got 5 hours of video and 23 hours of audio, probably because I didn’t turn off the phone, Wi-Fi and other features, as Apple did in its tests. In practice, you’ll probably wind up recharging about every other day.

So yes, the iPhone is amazing. But no, it’s not perfect.

There’s no memory-card slot, no chat program, no voice dialing. You can’t install new programs from anyone but Apple; other companies can create only iPhone-tailored mini-programs on the Web. The browser can’t handle Java or Flash, which deprives you of millions of Web videos.

The two-megapixel camera takes great photos, provided the subject is motionless and well lighted (samples are at nytimes.com/tech). But it can’t capture video. And you can’t send picture messages (called MMS) to other cellphones.

Apple says that the battery starts to lose capacity after 300 or 400 charges. Eventually, you’ll have to send the phone to Apple for battery replacement, much as you do now with an iPod, for a fee.

Then there’s the small matter of typing. Tapping the skinny little virtual keys on the screen is frustrating, especially at first.

Two things make the job tolerable. First, some very smart software offers to complete words for you, and, when you tap the wrong letter, figures out what word you intended. In both cases, tapping the Space bar accepts its suggestion.

Second, the instructional leaflet encourages you to “trust” the keyboard (or, as a product manager jokingly put it, to “use the Force”). It sounds like new-age baloney, but it works; once you stop stressing about each individual letter and just plow ahead, speed and accuracy pick up considerably.

Even so, text entry is not the iPhone’s strong suit. The BlackBerry won’t be going away anytime soon.

The bigger problem is the AT&T network. In a Consumer Reports study, AT&T’s signal ranked either last or second to last in 19 out of 20 major cities. My tests in five states bear this out. If Verizon’s slogan is, “Can you hear me now?” AT&T’s should be, “I’m losing you.”

Then there’s the Internet problem. When you’re in a Wi-Fi hot spot, going online is fast and satisfying.

But otherwise, you have to use AT&T’s ancient EDGE cellular network, which is excruciatingly slow. The New York Times’s home page takes 55 seconds to appear; Amazon.com, 100 seconds; Yahoo. two minutes. You almost ache for a dial-up modem.

These drawbacks may be deal-killers for some people. On the other hand, both the iPhone and its network will improve. Apple points out that unlike other cellphones, this one can and will be enhanced with free software updates. That’s good, because I encountered a couple of tiny bugs and one freeze. (There’s also a tantalizing empty space for a row of new icons on the Home screen.) A future iPhone model will be able to exploit AT&T’s newer, much faster data network, which is now available in 160 cities.

But even in version 1.0, the iPhone is still the most sophisticated, outlook-changing piece of electronics to come along in years. It does so many things so well, and so pleasurably, that you tend to forgive its foibles.

In other words, maybe all the iPhone hype isn’t hype at all. As the ball player Dizzy Dean once said, “It ain’t bragging if you done it.”

Starting today really, at 5:00 am I'll be starting my camp for an iPhone, I have a friend there (A manager) who has reserved an iPhone for me. Which is at the Chestnut Hill Apple store and most people here are going to the New York Cube one, but many people would go there, so you can find me here. Plus a guy by the name of Johnny Vulkan is holding a charity for AIDS research so help out if you live near New York. Happy camping!

(Good bye iPod, you served me well, through a tiny scratch I got rid of, and a dead pixel I still used you because you have the Apple logo on you, and no one in their right mind would get a goddamned Zune

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    The links to the newest info about the iPhone and Leopard.

iPhone does Word and Excel

Leopard videos

BSOD when file sharing with Leopard and Windows

iPhone under peer pressure

Apple introduces iPop, a unwelcomed new feature for 10.4.10

Starting off, lets talk about the iPhone supporting Word and Excel documents. It really isn't a big surprise since the iPhone really is a computer inside a phone, or really OS X in a phone. It also looks like Gmail is available, which is great since Gmail is better than Yahoo Mail by about 10 years.

Now moving on to the 5 videos of Leopard, has anyone else noticed how cool Leopard is? You have all of this zany shit happening in front of you in less than 10 seconds! I can't wait till October so I can Camp out and then make noises while "Stacking." Zooooooooonnnnnnmmmmmmg!

 When I first saw this picture I first laughed as hard as I did when I saw Balmer's lips being on the WWDC screen a few weeks ago. So I guess Leopard will pull a prank on Windows PCs, excellent for a Mac/Linux user with a Windows only wife! EXCELLENT! MWHHHAHAHAHAHAHHA!

Moving on to stress testing the iPhone, it looks like it has undergone many tweaks and will be able to be dropped? Well that is interesting, boy! I want to drop mah Iphone surrrrre weeee.

 Finally in this very long blog post, I am going to talk about the "iPop" that has plagued many users. I myself haven't experienced this, and hopefully not since I have the new Mac Pro, the new Macbook Pro and Macbook. I wouldn't want to hear a pop when listening to my music. (Thanks to a certain friend of mine who supplies me with the "money" so I can "get" the said "legal" music.) Hopefully Apple will release a hardware update so that it will stop, or a fix for it.

I'll be back to blogging as soon as I can finish drawing the design of the new Netcast site and get Ray to help me with the design of the Smells Like B3t@ side-quest site. Until then, have fun watching me play with my iPhone and have a mental and optical orgy with the videos of Leopard.