Posted by: Marianne Schultz
on Aug 28, 2008
If you owned a smartphone before the iPhone, you probably used it for tethering to get online with your computer in a place where wifi was not available or too expensive. With the iPhone, tethering hasn't been possible unless you've jailbroken your iPhone or were lucky enough to buy NullRiver's NetShare app while it was briefly available in the App Store. In the U.S., you'll notice that other smartphones offered by AT&T can make use of data plans that allow tethering, and the iPhone is one of the few smartphones, if not the only one, that they offer that cannot make use of one of these plans, nor is there currently a native app or Settings option on the iPhone that enables this.
Well, today there's a
rumor that indicates that AT&T and Apple are looking into this! The rumor revolves around an email supposedly sent by Steve Jobs in response to someone who complained about AT&T's lack of tethering options for the iPhone. The purported reply from Steve says "We agree, and are discussing it with ATT [sic]".
Every year, there is always at least one rumor supported by an alleged email from Steve Jobs, and we've already had one or two of these this year, but this could prove to be one of the more exciting ones so far for iPhone users who really want to be able to use their iPhone 3G's high-speed network connection to be able to do even more on the go without worrying about doing something unauthorized on AT&T's network and/or voiding the warranty on their iPhone to enable this capability.
So, as always, we'll wait and see if this turns out to be true. My trusty Magic 8 ball says the possibility of this rumor coming true is "Most Likely" and it's never lied to me yet.
Via
MacRumors
Posted by: Marianne Schultz
on Aug 23, 2008
While I love the iPhone’s accelerometer and how current apps and games take advantage of it, Super Monkey Ball is just plain hard. Hand me a controller with a D-pad or joystick and I could make short work of it, but tilting the iPhone like a madwoman isn’t working all that well for me. Enter iControlPad - they’ve been working on a gamepad for the iPhone for a little while now, but it looks like they are closer to a working model that would be sold for around $30. Sound good? Yeah, I thought so.
TouchArcade has anonymously received pictures of another iPhone gamepad that could also be in the works and they’ve posted these images. There’s no other information on this second possible gamepad, so its validity is uncertain, to say the least. It’s reasonable to think that there’s more than one company out there looking to capitalize on the iPhone as a gaming device, so the idea isn’t that far-fetched.
While we’re on this topic of gaming on the iPhone, I have to admit that I don’t play games all that often on my iPhone. As I did before the advent of the 2.0 firmware and the App Store, my iPhone is primarily my phone, personal information manager, portable email and web-surfing device, and iPod, and games are something I do only when I need to kill time while waiting in line or when I’m too antsy to focus on anything else. So, if any gamepads are released in the $30 range, that might be too steep for a casual iPhone gamer like me. But what about you? How much would you be willing to pay for a gamepad for your iPhone? Tell us in the Comments section!
Via [TouchArcade ]
Posted by: Christopher Meinck
on Aug 20, 2008
Kevin Rose, founder of Digg, Revision3 and Pownce, has offered up a host of new rumors surround Apple product announcements that we can expect in the next month.
- Revamp of entire iPod line.
- Small cosmetic changes to Touch
- Nano to see significant redesign to a candy bar shape with a widescreen display
- iPods to see fairly large price drops to distance itself from the $199 iPhone.
- iPod touch 2.1 software, iPhone to get update very soon after.
- iTunes 8.0 which Rose says is a major update with new features
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