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Engadget iPhone Review

admin — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 20:28:24 +0000

This is one of the better iPhone reviews I have read.

Apple store is ready to sell the iPhone (almost)

admin — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 22:05:59 +0000

Only 3 more hours and then the iPhone is available for purchase. Not for me in Canada but all fellow US-applefanatics. Enjoy!

When can I get an Iphone in Canada?

admin — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:34:00 +0000

So, tomorrow (June 29) all of the Apple faithful in the US get their hands on the iPhone. Good for you…

What about Canada? How long do we have to wait. We have been very lucky in the past when it comes to getting new versions of Blackberry devices. Often, that happens at the same time or even sometimes earlier than it does it the US. Any coincidence that RIM is a Canadian company? Or maybe Rogers is that easy to deal with? How will that change when they are dealing with Apple? (And yes it will be Rogers since its a GSM phone)

To me the reason this may take longer than it should is due to the data plan. Rogers makes a boatload of money from their corporate data plans. currently a 25Mb plan is much more than what AT&T is proposing as part of their iPlans. So what will happen? My guess is that Rogers will see the demand and then want the iPhone enough to make the needed adjustments in the data plan pricing.

All Apple employees get a free iPhone

admin — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:28:32 +0000

Would love to be working at Apple right now. Everyone who has been there a year will get a free iPhone at the end of July. According to this link at Ars Technica, Steve Jobs had an internal meeting with Apple employees today and announced this along with hints that the next version of the iPhone may have OS X and that the next Macs are “off the charts”

iPhone Rate plans available

admin — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 22:15:51 +0000

Apple today announced the rate plans from AT&T

Big news - all plans include unlimited data!!

Prices are:

$59.99 for 450 minutes
$79.99 for 900 minutes
$99.99 for 1,350 minutes

There are family plans and options if you already have an existing AT&T plan.

Steve God Jobs delivers the iPhone to his disciples (cartoon)

admin — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 21:57:58 +0000

From the Washington Post, a cartoon from Nick Anderson

iPhone does not let you change SIM cards (or sim-locked)

admin — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 21:14:57 +0000

According to this post, Tom Raferty has sources that indicate the SIM cards in the iPhone are not removable. While apparently there will be a process to convert your existing SIM number to your new iPhone, that doesn’t change the fact that one of the reasons the GSM network has been so successful is due to the transportability factor.

And that is now gone. Again this has not been verified but if it true, that would be a large oversight. And a disappointment for anyone who hoped to get their hands on an unlocked iPhone.

YouTube on the iPhone

admin — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:49:06 +0000

Apple today announced that YouTube will be available both on the Apple TV as well as on the iPhone.

How important is this? Two sides to this. Everyone that slags Apple because there is no keyboard, corporate email (we think), etc. will see this as no big deal. But who cares about those people? Seriously, they are the PC character in the Mac and PC ads. They don’t think its important to have any features on a device that makes it fun to use.

I use a Blackberry Pearl every day and have used a Win Mobile device. The Blackberry is great at…email. Nothing else. Wait - one more thing - SMS messages. If you need to type it you cant beat the experience.

But if you need to go beyond that, it is really lacking. The people who are happy that YouTube is available on iPhone are the same ones who think that MySpace or Facebook are vital to what they experience on the Internet. Neither one of those is usable on my Blackberry even if I do have a keyboard. Why - because the rest of the experience is like going to the dentist - PAINFUL.

So in and of itself YouTube isn’t that big of a deal, but it signals the way this device will be used and who will use it. Really if only 1 per cent the audience that uses YouTube or Facebook or Myspace decided that they needed to have an iPhone, that wouldn’t be too bad for sales would it?

Adobe Flash will not be available at time of iPhone launch

admin — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 03:18:43 +0000

According to this posting at TUAW, it’s now official that Flash will not be available this month with the launch. Its likely that this won’t be the case for very long. My bet would be in a month - how else can you say that, as they do in the commercials, that it is not the “watered down Internet” or the “mobile Internet”. Its supposed to be just “the Internet”

Sample iPhone interface in Javascript demos what Digg might look like on an Iphone

admin — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 03:14:39 +0000

Controversy continues in the developer ranks about the iPhone “SDK“.

David Cann has created a demo page that shows you what using DIGG might look like on the iPhone. The source code is there so you can test it.