Posted by: Marianne Schultz
on Sep 4, 2008
The time for Best Buy to begin selling iPhone 3G's in their stores is drawing near - you now have only a couple of days to wait before you can saunter into your local Best Buy to be misinformed by salespeople who rarely know much about Apple products. Be sure to do your research ahead of time - both Apple's and AT&T's sites have lots of good information on how to get ready for your iPhone 3G purchase. Beware of one thing at Best Buy -
Gizmodo talks about some extra services offered by the Geek Squad when you purchase some accessory packages. These extra services include setting up your new iPhone 3G and getting your email up and running. I wouldn't recommend you take advantage of these services either - doing both is incredibly easy and already well-documented by Apple
here and
here .
Yesterday, I mentioned that TUAW had the scoop on Spore for the iPhone, but EA has officially confirmed that they are working on 9 more games in addition to Spore for the iPhone.
According to Macworld , those other 9 games are Yahtzee Adventures, EA Mini Golf, Lemonade Tycoon, Mahjong, Monopoly: Here & Now The World Edition, SimCity, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09, Need for Speed Undercover and The Sims 3. That's a lot heading our way - start saving your pennies now to indulge in some game purchases from the App Store!
Kevin Rose, founder of Digg.com, has been the source for most of the Apple product rumors surrounding the September 9 event. He's elaborated a bit more on the rumored iTunes enhancements
in his blog . While we don't see a reference to faster iPhone syncing to cure those back-ups that can take up to several hours for some users, it does sound like more HD content will be coming and available to all of us without an Apple TV at home. I often use my iPhone as a media source to watch movies rented from iTunes through our home entertainment system and I'd love to watch them in full HD glory. I hope Kevin's right on this one (and that the iPhone will be capable of putting out that HD video)! [Via
TUAW ]
Posted by: Marianne Schultz
on Sep 3, 2008
Ever since I saw the demo of Spore on the iPhone on the web a few months ago, I've been looking forward to its release.
TUAW reports that it's due out later this week from a conversation with Will Wright, the creator of Spore. It doesn't sound like it will have the same type of gameplay as the full PC version, unfortunately.
Apple seems to be taking a harder look at the Apps it approves for the App store these days. Over at MacRumors, a rejection email a developer received from Apple for his "Pull My Finger" app is
posted , where his app is described as having "limited utility to the broad iPhone and iPod Touch user community." My guess is that this is a direct result of the issues with the infamous "I Am Rich" app that was available for a short time on the App Store with a $999 price tag that had no real use other than providing bragging rights. If Apple is indeed vetting apps against some utility standards, they have a lot of work ahead of them to go back through the App Store to review apps that they approved prior to the implementation of these standards.
iLounge claims to have the dimensions of the second-generation iPod Touch. We don't know if these drawings are the real deal, but if so, the next iPod Touch will bear more resemblance to the iPhone 3G with tapered edges and a thicker middle. The supposed 4th generation iPod Nano dimensions show a taller and thinner form factor similar to that of the 2nd generation Nano. Of course, new iPod product announcements are expected at Apple's September 9 event, so we'll all know soon enough!
Posted by: Marianne Schultz
on Sep 2, 2008
AT&T's data network appears to be down this morning along the east coast and fairly far inland as well. Users on Macrumors.com are describing various reasons behind the outage from calls with AT&T, with the most interesting one given as "Apple's Safari servers are down." Come again? Oh, yeah - all the data on every iPhone in the U.S. runs through Safari servers managed by Apple first. How could I forget about that? Right. Engadget has reported on this outage as well.
Has your iPhone camera taken odd pictures showing mis-placed pieces of the scene you want to capture like a live puzzle? If so, you're not alone - TUAW reports on a number of these distorted pictures posted to Flickr by various people, and the phenomenon is being called "iPhone Cubism." Who knew that you could create post-modern art with your iPhone without even trying? This looks like a software bug that will hopefully be addressed in a future update.
Griffin has announced some new iPhone 3G accessories at the IFA Consumer Elecrtronics show in Berlin. The new products are a suction cup window mount, the Reflect hardshell case, and the Streamline sport armband.
Remember that goal of selling 10 million iPhones by the end of the year that Apple has set? Well, it sounds like they are well on their way. Some dedicated fans have gathered data from the general public and extrapolated from it that about 8 million iPhones have been sold so far. Apple stockholders rejoice! -Via TUAW .
Posted by: Christopher Meinck
on Sep 1, 2008
Apple has scheduled a special event for Tuesday, September 9th. It's expected the company will debut new iPods. There has been speculation that a new iPod Nano and possibly a major revision to iTunes. Let's rock!
via Engadget
