I would love to report on the greatness of the iPhone 3G’s 2.1 firmware update, but I can’t, because for the last hour-plus, the little status bar showing backup progress has been running. My backup has never taken an hour. I also don’t think that the 9GB of data on my iPhone would even come [...]
So lots of new stuff from Apple today. Hit the clicky thingie to read about new iPods, new iPod accessories, as well as iTunes 8 & iPhone 2.1 updates.
iPhone 2.0.1 software was released today, coming in at right around 250MB. The only things listed as changes on the update screen were “Bug fixes” but I can tell you that my iPhone Backup in iTunes went from 20+ minutes down to 1 minute and 1 second after the OS update. Pretty sweet!
In addition, Contacts [...]
Start writing that letter to Santa, or at least to his people. According to the Daily Mail in the UK, Apple will release an iPhone Nano later this year, in time for Christmas, that will have a form factor similar to the just-about-to-be-revised iPod Nano and a somewhat stripped-down feature set. They continue that it [...]
In the last couple of days, a flurry of speculation has erupted over the rumor that the forthcoming MacBooks will feature glass, multi-touch trackpads. The comment that keeps getting made is that it makes no sense to have glass trackpads unless you need to see what’s underneath them, as in a little screen.
“Why would Apple [...]
Word on Blog Street is that Apple’s got iPhone 2.1 in the works, due for a September release, that includes features that would allow for GPS orientation. I hope there’s a new version of iTunes coming, too, because 7.7 is some buggy shtuff.
Here then are 10 things that Apple needs to fix with both iPhone [...]
Outside the Deer Park Apple Store today, there were about 150 people in line already when I got there at 7:45am. Right behind me was a family from Israel…I didn’t really talk to them, so I’m not sure if they lived here too, were just visiting, etc. But they were obviously pretty excited about getting [...]
Official word has hit the street on pricing for iPhone 3G plans. See the pix above to find out how hard you’ll have to squeeze the piggy bank each month starting a week from Friday.
If your finger hurts hurts too much to click the thumbnails, here’s the lowdown on the range of pricing:
450 anytime minutes, [...]
Gizmodo says that Boy Genius says that iPhone Atlas says that AT&T says that the iPhone will have MMS. What’s funny is that the screenshots circulating regarding this suspicious news don’t appear with the original story on iPhone Atlas.
I’m not including links to any of them because, you know, it’s fun to make people work [...]
For Apple and, in particular, iPhone fanboys, June 9th was a day among days. The excitement was not only palpable on the various gadget, iPhone and Apple sites, it was specifically discussed: A site I visited that was streaming live video coverage of Apple’s WWDC 2008 featured three guys, one of whom asked the question [...]