AT&T iPhone Wi-Fi: Available Yesterday, But Not Yet
In another turn on the merry-go-round that is AT&T Wi-Fi and the iPhone, we have news that the service was supposed to launch yesterday. An internal memo floating around AT&T specifically mentions a failed launch of the upcoming iPhone Wi-Fi service but offers no specific reason. The iPhone Wi-Fi offer that was scheduled to launch today has been […]
Spotting celebs with the iPhone
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Humor, Odds and ends, Apple, iPhone
Obama and Lindsay Lohan are far from the only people rocking the iPhone lately — a new site called “Coolspotters” claims to track brands and the celebrities that use them, and the iPhone is pretty cool lately. 32 celebrities have been spotted — everyone from Mike Tyson to Heidi Klum to Rose McGowan (pictured, though that really could be anyone, couldn’t it?). In fact, the Apple iPhone is actually the most popular product on the site right now — one spot above something called the Omnipeace t-shirt (yes, but does it have a multitouch screen?), and two spots above the MacBook Air.
Because everyone knows you need a site to tell you that what you own is cool, right? Of course, they are cheating a little bit — I don’t think the fact that Steve Jobs is using something necessarily makes it cool. Otherwise, we’d all have seen celebs toting around Newtons.
Still, if seeing celebs use the same product you have is your thing, the iPhone’s got you covered there, too. Can’t say it influenced my purchase much, but good to see that the rich and famous are catching on to what’s been TUAW’s favorite tech-cessory for a while.
[via Kottke]
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Piper sees iPod boost; Sybase for iPhone; Japan/Korea rumor
Analysts at Piper Jaffray see iPod shipments on the rise and suggests Apple is bucking fears of a continued downturn. Also, Sybase is readying a native iPhone app, AT&T may offer iPhone insurance, and two carriers in Japan and Korea may launch the i…
The Piet Jonas Company has teamed up with Google Sky to bring you Astro - the hottest new app for your iPhone! Astro brings you the map to the stars on your iPhone display screen. Full color images blast to life as you command your interface to deliver you to your desired astrological destinations. You can visit Mars or the Moon - even take an escorted trip to Uranus (couldn’t resist).
More - you can get immediate and pertinent information that describes your interplanetary destinations. Learn everything under the Sun about any planet, star, constellation, moon or asteroid in the entire known cosmos!
Powered by Google Earth, Google Sky presents you with a cosmic voyage to rival your wildest dreams (If they don’t involve naked Martian chicks. That would be wilder.).There’s even a new bug fix feature that rocks out quite well.
Let’s say you’re checking out the surface of the moon. You notice a particularly appealing crater and want to examine it in great detail. Simply command Astro to zoom in and provide all known data. Within a couple of seconds, you have become privy to information previously reserved for only the nerdiest of NASA engineers. Chicks dig part-time nerds - believe me!
Whatever - download Astro to your iPhone and check it out. Even if you have zero-gravity interest in astronomy, you will dig this cool new app for your iPhone. If nothing else, it’s a great (and seemingly harmless) way to get close to that one chick and show her that one thing that will light up her night.
Do it!
WSJ on touch BlackBerry; Intel 4-core; T-Mobile at 100K iPhones
A report by the Wall Street Journal further kindles rumors of a touchscreen BlackBerry going toe-to-toe with the iPhone this year. Meanwhile, T-Mobile Germany reports selling more than 100,000 iPhones since launch, Singapore Airlines offers passenge…
Native Orb App Brings Live TV to Your iPhone
The OrbLive streaming media app is for everyone who is sick of waiting for a Sling Mobile client on their iPhone. As you may (or may not) know, Orb pulls files off your PC and streams them to any device with an app or web browser capable of accessing the Orb interface. From there you can stream music, video files, and if you have a TV tuner card, live TV. While Orb was previously accessible via Safari, this new, official app is supposed to be an easier, more intuitive way to get your media on the go. It does require a jailbroken iPhone, however. Check out the video of the client in action. [Orb via Register Hardware]
Control Your TiVo With Your Ubuntu Machine
This Ubuntu app isn’t quite as cool as the TiVo remote app for iPhone we saw last week, but the concept of controlling your TiVo over your network is just getting started. By allowing any network device to issue orders, you can essentially make your cellphone, laptop, PC, wall panel or internet connected dog into a remote for your TiVo. [Zatz Not Funny]
Control Your TiVo With Your Ubuntu Machine
This Ubuntu app isn’t quite as cool as the TiVo remote app for iPhone we saw last week, but the concept of controlling your TiVo over your network is just getting started. By allowing any network device to issue orders, you can essentially make your cellphone, laptop, PC, wall panel or internet connected dog into a remote for your TiVo. [Zatz Not Funny]
AT&T page hints at second iPhone model
What are you playin’ at, AT&T? Some tipsters pointed out to Engadget that the My Account page on AT&T Wireless’s site now provides you with two options after you select Apple as your phone manufacturer: the run-of-the-mill, ordinary, “iPhone” and the mysterious “iPhone Black.” Cue the suspenseful music. I snapped…
AT&T now limiting iPhone sales to one, requiring plastic
AT&T in an internal memo to its retail department on Wednesday instated a couple of new policies regarding sales of Apple Inc.’s increasingly hard-to-find iPhone, primarily that customers are allowed to purchase only one of the handsets until further…
TimeCapsule
TimeCapsule is a great looking backup application which allows you to save various states of applications in your iPhone. Here’s some of the apps it works with so far: AddressBook s contacts, Call History, Calendar, Installer s sources (restore may not work due to permission problem in some firmwares, refer to FAQs for solution), Map s bookmarks & […]
Scanning wallet cards into the iPhone
Filed under: Software, Hacks, Tips and tricks, Odds and ends, iPhone
This is pretty much genius. Like Albert, I have a bunch of “membership cards” in my wallet — they’re those cards with a barcode or number on them that you get from places like the local grocery store, or some other retailer. They’re useful to have around, but they tend to pile up after a while, and pretty soon, your wallet gets to be a brick of barcodes rather than anything you’d actually want to carry around in your pocket. Albert’s solution was to scan all of his barcodes into the iPhone, front and back, as an iPhoto album. And lo and behold, just like the paperless boarding passes we posted about a while back, it worked. All of the barcodes were scannable, which means no more countless membership cards — just a gallery in your iPhone.
We’ve already heard of barcodes reading both on and off of the iPhone, of course, and we’ll hopefully see more of this when the SDK drops in just about a month here (maybe, in the future, someone will write an app to generate barcodes from numbers, so you don’t even need to get a clear scan). But even without an external app, this is pretty handy solution to clearing up some of the clutter in your wallet. Obviously, for anything important (driver’s license, credit cards), an iPhone scan won’t do. But just to get the membership prices down at the Jewel-Osco, scanning wallet cards into an iPhone seems to work just fine. Very nice.
[via Waxy]
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Spotting celebs with the iPhone
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Humor, Odds and ends, Apple, iPhone
Obama and Lindsay Lohan are far from the only people rocking the iPhone lately — a new site called “Coolspotters” claims to track brands and the celebrities that use them, and the iPhone is pretty cool lately. 32 celebrities have been spotted — everyone from Mike Tyson to Heidi Klum to Rose McGowan (pictured, though that really could be anyone, couldn’t it?). In fact, the Apple iPhone is actually the most popular product on the site right now — one spot above something called the Omnipeace t-shirt (yes, but does it have a multitouch screen?), and two spots above the MacBook Air.
Because everyone knows you need a site to tell you that what you own is cool, right? Of course, they are cheating a little bit — I don’t think the fact that Steve Jobs is using something necessarily makes it cool. Otherwise, we’d all have seen celebs toting around Newtons.
Still, if seeing celebs use the same product you have is your thing, the iPhone’s got you covered there, too. Can’t say it influenced my purchase much, but good to see that the rich and famous are catching on to what’s been TUAW’s favorite tech-cessory for a while.
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Latest iPhone deals nearly quadruple Apple’s addressable market
An announcement by France Telecom’s Orange subsidiary on Friday to deliver the iPhone to 10 more countries later this year effectively quadruples Apple’s total addressable market when combined with other carrier announcements over the past two weeks,…
WSJ on touch BlackBerry; Intel 4-core; T-Mobile at 100K iPhones
A report by the Wall Street Journal further kindles rumors of a touchscreen BlackBerry going toe-to-toe with the iPhone this year. Meanwhile, T-Mobile Germany reports selling more than 100,000 iPhones since launch, Singapore Airlines offers passenge…
