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Posted Friday, 13 June 2008
After Monday’s iPhone 3G announcement, the blogosphere is full of opinions. Engadget has a good overview of the new iPhone here. Andrew Dobrow checked the AT&T coverage map for the New York City area and claimed that the 3G coverage was poor. It looks fine to me, as long as you don’t live in central New Jersey. Our 3G coverage on Oahu looks excellent by comparison.
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AT&T 3G coverage for the metroplex
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AT&T 3G coverage for the island of Oahu
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Posted Monday, 9 June 2008
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Apple has unveiled the iPhone 3G, which I had been calling iPhone 2.0.
- The new iPhone will support 3G data connections, which should provide faster service when users cannot access a WiFi network. Om Malik thinks that some carriers, including AT&T, may not be ready, which I find hard to believe.
- 11 July 2008 is the first day of sale in the US and several other countries, with availability in 70 countries by 2009.
- The new iPhone is slightly thinner, so it should fit inside current cases and accessories.
- The back of the phone is black plastic. Bye-bye, aluminum metal back.
- The headphone jack is no longer recessed, so almost any standard headphone should work.
- The US price has been lowered to $199 for 8GB, $299 for 16GB of RAM. There must be some factories in China that are humming with activity this summer.
- The new iPhone firmware supports Chinese character recognition.
- The new iPhone will have true GPS features.
- Enterprises will be apple to authorize iPhones and to write enterprise applications that are restricted to company phones.
- The iPhone 3G will work with Microsoft Exchange 2003 and 2007 servers.
- The .mac email and file sharing service has been renamed to MobileMe, and given better compatibility with Windows machines
- Steve Jobs claims the iPhone 3G will have decent battery life, with 300 hours of standby time, 10 hours of 2G voice, 5 hours of 3G voice, and about 6 hours of web browsing.
Engadget has a live transcript of the announcement. I enjoyed reading BoingBoing’s satirical version, written as a Greek drama.
Om Malik has a recap that focuses on the entertainment and social networking apps and sites for the new iPhone.
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Posted Sunday, 18 May 2008
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I’ve been writing articles about the iPhone since the device was announced in January 2007.
billso.com uses the WPtouch plugin to provide iPhone and iPod touch users with a touch-friendly interface, search and menus.
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Posted Sunday, 18 May 2008
I’ve reconfigured m.billso.com and the entire billso.com site to work with most web-capable mobile phones, smartphones and PDAs.
iPhone and iPod Touch users will see the regular desktop version of billso.com on their devices. These users can still save a bookmark to their home screen, and that entry will display the billso.com logo.
billso.mobi will also redirect users to billso.com
I started using mowser.com in February 2008 to provide a mobile version of billso.com. Mowser inserted advertisements on the pages to help support the service.
Sadly, mowser.com has been sold and it is shutting down some of their services. Read co-founder Russell Beattie’s article for more details.
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Posted Saturday, 17 May 2008
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