Category — iPhone News

There are a couple tips in deciding which web browser is best between the iPhone 3G and the Blackberry Storm.

The first tip in determining how fast your browser will be is your locale. Are you living in a metropolitan area or are you living in the woods? This will determine what network you should choose. If you are living in the woods, I personally would not choose AT&T as Verizon, Sprint, and other major networks would have better reception.

A second tip in determining your browser speed is WiFi. If you are always in an area where WiFi is accessible, your choice should be the iPhone 3G. If you are a person who is always on the go, you should choose the Blackberry Storm EVDO network.

This video will compare the iPhone 3G and Blackberry Storm Web Browser using Wifi and EVDO.

Microsoft has developed Seadragon for the iPhone community. This is a high resolution viewing app for the high powerful graphics processor of the iPhone. Seadragon can view giga-pixel sized images and provide a deep zoom, allowing users to get very up close and personal with thousands of pictures. The developer Ben Vanik has created a video talking about the promise of Seadragon Mobile.

It all started with remote control cars, boats, airplanes. Now you have you a remote control for your fish tank using your iPhone. You are able to control your fish tank from anywhere around the world. A webcam feed is used to view your fish tank while controlling what lights you would like to on/off. Pretty neat. This service is brought to you by the people at ioBridge technologies. View the video here.

iPhone developers have released an app that will find any product on the Amazon website. All you have to do is take a picture with your iPhone camera, run the picture through the app and it will scour the Amazon website. The Amazon iPhone app will find the closest possible product that relates to your picture. Pretty neat. Check out the app here.

You heard right, Wal-mart has confirmed that it will soon be stocking shelves with the Apple iPhone. Wal-Mart’s stock shares rose 5% this morning because of the recent news. Many reports are saying Wal-Mart will be selling the 4 gig iPhone. The $99 price is not official as Apple and Wal-Mart are refusing to comment. Keep your eyes peeled in late December.

If you’re one of those people with hundreds of gigabytes of music on their computer and you’re getting sick of swapping over tracks on your iPhone, then maybe it’s time to take a look at a service like Dot.Tunes.  It’s a web server that publishes your entire iTunes library online, so that anybody with the right password (I’m assuming for legal reasons that would be you and only you!) can access them from wherever there’s internet access.  Give them twenty bucks and you can have a custom iPhone interface making searches, playback and playlist management easy.

Apple has released (via iTunes) is iPhone Software 1.0.1. Apple simply describes the update as containing “bug fixes”, and does not indicate any additional functionality at this time.

Speaking to analysts for RBC Capital Markets this week, Apple’s Vice President of iPod Product Marketing, Greg Joswiak, said the first software update for his company’s iPhone handset is due to arrive shortly.

“Management expressed excitement at plans to increase iPhone value over time via new software features, citing ‘the sky is the limit’ for iPhone software,” analyst Mike Abramsky told clients in a research note Tuesday. “An iPhone update patch is expected shortly.”

The iPhone software updates include:

• new widgets
• peer-to-peer applications (chat, picture messaging, social networking)
• location-based services
• MMS support
• home networking
• integration with Mac OS X Leopard

I will keep you posted on the release.

Ron Paul, Republican Congressman and 2008 Presidential hopeful, announced today that he had successful modified an off-the-shelf iPhone (AAPL) to run Ubuntu, an open source Linux distribution popular with technology aficionados worldwide. With the aplomb of a hacker, Paul described in broad strokes the steps he took to alter the popular phone’s operating system in an hour-long press conference in the nation’s capital. Paul challenged Rudy Giuliani to read his report on his campaign website. I wonder if Rudy was interested?

After hearing about the disappointment in financial results stated by Apple, they announced that they sold 270,000 iPhones in the first 30 hours of iPhone sales. Philip Michaels from MacWorld argues that the only thing the iPhone failed to do in its opening weekend was live up to some fairly ridiculous sales forecasts. I personally don’t believe Apple is fretting over the financial figures seeing that a core of its business deals with Macs.