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Dec 28, 2008
As a seasoned iPhone veteran. I never thought I would say this. The BlackBerry Storm is now my phone of choice. The BB Storm is the most well put together well thought out phone/PDA I have had in years. The interface is packed with features and easy to navigate. Having Cut & Paste, MMS, a serious camera/video device, text forwarding, the ability to run IM's (Instant Messengers) in the background, a usable file system, OTA (over the air) BlackBerry software updates, a user changeable home screen (for that personalized feel) and much much more. Surely trumps the iPhone by far as the iPhone does none of this.
I have been loving this phone since my purchase a month ago. The only thing that could have been better is the included software. The iPhone's iTunes integrates all aspects of sync into one program. BlackBerry desktop manager does not (two different programs are needed one for media sync one for information sync).
I am not having a good "Apple" day today. I took my fifteen year old daughter to The Apple Store today to buy a 32GB iPod Touch. She was so happy all day awaiting our trip to The Apple Store.
This is what happened. We told the salesperson what we came for he left for a moment then appeared with the Touch. I thought to myself the case the iPod Touch was in looks kind of small to accommodate the fat wall charger that is usually shipped with iPods. I mentioned to the salesman oh Apple must have reduced the foot print of the wall charger. He informed me that there was no wall charger just a USB cord. I then said let me understand this correctly. I am getting ready to give Apple 399.99 (plus tax) for an iPod and Apple can't even include a probably less than a dollar (made in China) wall charger??? The very helpful salesman then told me I could purchase one for 29.99. I said may I have a moment to confer with my daughter.
The iPhone Dev Team, the developers of the PwnageTool and QuickPwn applications used for unlocking and jailbreaking iPhones and iPod Touches, have announced that they have successfully unlocked the iPhone 3G and will release the unlocking application on New Year's Eve.
Analysts regularly check with supply and distribution channels in an effort to forecast sales of products and the iPhone is no different. The wild card this December quarter is the emergence of the iPhone Gift Card. According to Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu, demand estimates are are 6 million units down from 6.9 million units in December of 07. Wu believes this numbers are inaccurate, as they do not account for iPhone Gift Cards, the wild card in trying to estimate iPhone demand this holiday season.
A Russian iPhone site claims to have information on the 2.2.1 iPhone firmware beta, stating that it includes background push notification. Apple first committed to a push notification service for iPhone applications back in June that would allow notifications to be sent to your iPhone even when the applications in question are not running. Apple stated it would be available for developers in September but it was missing from the recent 2.2 firmware update and no official word has come from Apple on the cause of the delay or when it can be expected at this point.
The image below is posted at RussianiPhone.ru but its authenticity has not been verified.
The long string of lawsuits against Apple continued yesterday with EMG Technology filing suit against the company for patent infringement. EMG claims Apple infringes on U.S. Patent No. 7,441,196 in the way the iPhone navigates the Internet.
The patent was issuee on October 21st of this year and covers the display of Internet content reformatted from HTML to XML on mobile devices, the industry standard currently displayed on the iPhone. Additional patent claims include the technology for manipulating a region of the screen for zooming and scrolling.
Earlier today, Adobe demoed a version of Flash running on Google's Android OS and yet to date there is no light at the end of the virtual tunnel for Flash on the iPhone. Sure, Adobe says they are working on a version of Flash, but are there other factors in play that are preventing Flash on the iPhone?
According to iPhone Hellas, the 2.2 firmware for the iPhone will be released on November 21. It should incorporate the features previously leaked from developers who had access to the first and second beta distributions, including Street View in Google Maps, the ability to turn off auto-correction for text entry, Japanese Emoji, changes to the App Store, and the ability to download podcasts directly in the iPod application.
What still appears to be missing is the push notification feature that was promised for October. There's been no word and few rumors about this feature, but it is still a hotly-anticipated one for many iPhone users. Of course, the iPhone is still missing other highly-desired features like copy and paste and MMS, but we can all hope and dream that Apple will throw something we're not expecting into this release.
Apple has rejected the latest version of CastCatcher, a streaming radio app that is currently available in the iPhone App Store. Version 1.3 of CastCatcher was not so lucky. The app was rejected by Apple who provided the following reason:
Last week, a story in the NY Times alluded to the fact that Opera mini had bee rejected by Apple because it "competes with Safari". Mac insider John Gruber of Daring Fireball did some digging and according to his sources, Opera Software has not submitted Opera Mini to Apple. Gruber goes on to say that if Opera Mini were submitted, it could very well be declined for violating guideline 3.3.2 of the iPhone SDK Agreement.
