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Entries Tagged ‘iPhone’

Note to Apple: Fire your Backup Programmers, Get New Ones

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 [...]

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iPhone 2.0.2 Software Out, Fixes…erm…Bugs

Yup. That’s it. No more info than that. Just like the last one. But, hey, at least there should now be fewer, you know, bugs.

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iPhone 2.0.1 Software Out, Seems Faster

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 [...]

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Incase Releases SlimSleeves, Laughs at iPhone Users

I have no problem with the fact that the Incase SlimSleeve for various incarnations of the MacBook, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air are about $35, but why on earth, then, are their cases for the iPhone only about $5 less? Assuming both products took about the same amount of time / effort to design & [...]

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Our Favorite (non-time-wasting) iPhone App So Far!

Sure there are a zillion (read: ~900) iPhone apps in the App Store in this, the first week of the store’s existence. And sure, there are some great things in there like OneTap Movies, Bejeweled 2 (despite its tendency to reset the iPhone every other time it runs), G-Park and, of course, PhoneSaber.
But these apps [...]

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AT&T Reveals iPhone 3G Rate Plans

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, [...]

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Possibly Bogus Info with More-Bogus Photo re: iPhone MMS

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 [...]

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iPhone 3G Announcement: The Aftermath

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 [...]

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