IPhone 4 higher graphics could mean shared graphics as well as shared code with iPad When the iphone 4 was announced, Steve made a big point about the higher resolution capability of iphone 4 with the new ‘Retina’ display. Now there is a bit of marketing hype there. Dissecting this would be a whole other post, but the upside is now there is a value proposition in putting high resolution… Read More
Why the iPad is like a big iPhone, and why its completely different So the iPad has been out for just over a week now and after using it a few time and talking with and watching how others use it; I’ve observed that although the iPad is just a big iPod touch, its also complete different just because of the screen size. Yes, yes, the CPU is… Read More
40% of blackberry users would switch to a smartphone Last week I talked about how near 30% of current ebook owners would have bought the iPad if it had been available. Well, another study from arstechnica states that %4o of blackberry users will go to a smart phone when their contract is up.. Many of them going to the iphone. Its pretty clear that… Read More
Andriod market share is up, Apple is flat, the rest? #Fail So let me count how many people are surprised by this… Show of hands?? Hmmm just you in the back? Work for Microsoft? Yea, ok figured. Just a quick look around San Francisco and you can see the number of Android phones are starting to make enough of an impression that they are starting to… Read More
A firefox browser in iphone? Perhaps not, but what if… Om Malik from GigaOm started a rumor (and I only say rumor to be safe) that Mozilla is planning something for the iphone. Now the first thought is; “Hey! Firefox on the iphone! ” Yeah. As sweet as that would be, and you bet it would be sweet because the browsing experience on the iphone… Read More
What is Augmented Reality on mobile devices? I wrote this as a companion piece for an article that may show up in the next issue of iphoneLife, but I thought I would include it here and now since AR is getting more relevant. Also, one of the things I said NEEDS to part of the AR toolkit for iphone (mobile) got a… Read More
Text message (SMS) to voice on the iphone My nephew Jared turned me on to this app. DriveSafe.ly is still in Alpha and only on jailbreak at the moment. At some point they will release it via the app store, but without backgrounder, I’m not sure how useful it is. The app is simple enough; every 5sec or 1min it checks for new… Read More
Realtime collaboration on the iphone? Enter Adobe Connect mobile. This is great news, and WAY faster then I expected it. Right now, there is not a solution for real time collaboration for mobile devices, and given limitations of screen real estate , memory and CPU power, its not surprising. The great part about flash, is how easy it is to build modules and swap… Read More
Google search options spotted on the iphone Just showed up today, at least I noticed it today. When you do a google search on the iphone, you now get options like on the desktop. Its not full featured, meaning we still do not have an advanced option, but still, bit by bit, google is providing a rich experience through the mobile web… Read More
Photo editing with Photoshop on the iPhone This just came out today. Its pretty fun. You can edit a photo, crop, apply a filter, etc.. Pretty cool really. You can do the basics that you would expect: cropping, changing exposure, convert to black and white, change contrast. There are some basic filters too; sketching, blurring, image border, I like the rainbow filter,… Read More
Flash on the iphone! Its finally here!! Mostly Straight from the web site! I will update as I learn more. * I just tried one of the apps, and it works great. And that is not surprising because is coco, but still, anytime you go from one language to another there are risks. But so far, so good. 3 of the demo apps… Read More
Adversts in Google Maps on the iPhone? Great. Not I saw this in TC and have not seen it myself, but I will keep an eye out over the weekend. Basically, you could have a ad for beer or a bike shop or something based on the search. Also, it SEEMS uses can inject items into maps, but I think its more of where… Read More
Stitcher, digital radio for the iphone, gets an update I use Stitcher anytime I’m on a long drive. Normally between SF and Sacramento. What I like about Stitcher is the number of offerings, but mostly because its the only place I can get BBC radio, short of downloading a podcast, which I will not do. So today I got a press release saying they… Read More
A new Uber iphone twitter app: Tweetie 2 I like Tweetie. I wrote an article for iphonelife on iphone twitter apps (it not out yet, but here is a short version) and of all the apps I tried, I used tweetie the most when I’m not using twittFilter. (twittFilter is a web app and my fave given that I wrote it). So Gizmodo,… Read More
Bionic Eye: Another AR app for the iphone. This works in the US I just posted a few hours ago that we are going to see a rush of new augmented reality apps soon, and then I get an email for a new app that does the basics you would expect, and it looks pretty nice. This one will work on 3GS phones, but without the fancy AR… Read More
Want to reduce drop calls and poor performance on AT&T, give them more money! That’s right kiddies! Your iPhone just does not do it anymore eh? Since upgrading to 3.0 you have seen worse performance and even worse battery life since 3.1? (more on that here) Dropped calls eh? MMS coming in WAY late? Missed a call… 4 hours ago? Well, there is a fix to all this.. short… Read More
If you sync to MS Exchange, do NOT upgrade to iphone 3.1 I just saw this on BNET.com and have not dug into it yet, but I will later today. But I thought I better get this out now. from the article… Exchange 2007 will only communicate with devices that have encryption embedded into the hardware, which iPhones older than the 3GS version do not have. However,… Read More
Review of FourSquare 1.4 for the iPhone – Sweet I got the email telling me FourSquare 1.4 is out. I ran outside (because my iphone does not work in my office) updated the app, played with it, took a few screen shots, and then sat down to write about it. And then I took a quick look at the email again and techcrunch did… Read More
iPhone vs Android web browsing. Hint, its all about the cache I have not hidden the fact I have complaints with the iphone and AT&T, but all in all, I still regard the iPhone as the best smart phone out there. Till just recently.. I have the Android HTC from the Google show, but I have only played with it off and on. Lately, AT&T service… Read More
Vonage gets VoiP love, Google gets rejection. Picking winners and losers are we? It seemed pretty clear that Apple was not going to allow any real players in VioP/phone management area into the iPhone. Ok, we have all heard the story.. if you have not, look here.. But have a look at this press release.. HOLMDEL, N.J., Sept. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Vonage (NYSE: VG – News) has announced… Read More