The Iphone Blog

Archive for August, 2009

Below is today’s roundup
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  •   What the Wireless Industry Will Tell the Feds, the Wired.com Interview (Pt. 3) –
by Ryan Singel from Wired: Epicenter
  •   Find My iPhone Leads Cops to Robbery Suspects –
by Danny Allen from Gizmodo: Apple
  •   Did AT&T get a sour apple when it snagged the iPhone? (Cleve Nettles/9 to 5 Mac) –
from Techmeme Firehose
  •   HOW TO: Find the Name of That Song –
by Barb Dybwad from Mashable!
  •   All a Cub Reporter Needs Is a Scoop and an iPhone (Claire Cain Miller/New York Times) –
from Techmeme Firehose
  •   iPhone 的热，法国人最知道！ –
by Casper Kao from Engadget 中国版
  •   CrunchDeals: DropCopy for the iPhone is free –
by Peter Ha from CrunchGear
  •   DropCopy Free Today Only (Sunday, August 30th) –
by Brooke from Apple iPhone School
  •   Dev-Team, Snow Leopard, Jailbreaking and Unlocking –
by Brooke from Apple iPhone School
  •   Facebook 3.1 Features –
by Brooke from Apple iPhone School

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Written by Dave Caolo
To date, there are no confirmed battery overheating incidents for iPhone 3GS and the number of reports we are investigating is in the single digits. The iPhones with broken glass that we have analyzed to date show that in all cases the glass cracked due to an external force that was applied t…

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Written by Budi Putra
Following the Metro Paris Subway application, here is another Augmented Reality (AR) app for the iPhone 3Gs that's welcomed into the App Store: RobotVision. The Bing-powered app has interesting features which appear on top of your iPhone's camera viewer when you point at a restaurant o…

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In the previous post I talked about a cool app devoted to Spanish cuisine. Tapas Recipes is an excellent application whether you would like to learn about Spanish dishes or prepare one yourself.

The author of Tapas Recipes, Carlos Jiménez Galindo has provided our blog with promo codes specially for our readers. The giveaways starts now! The first four readers to e-mail will get the codes.

Please don’t leave your promo code requests in comments. Send an e-mail and you will get the code. Hurry up, these codes won’t last long.

I plan to arrange promo code giveaways on a regular basis. So, subscribe to the RSS feed to stay in the loop and even better, follow Apple iPhone Blog on Twitter.

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Below is today’s roundup
of news and blogs that haven’t yet hit top story status by our community. Visit
Apple iPhone news and blogs for even more
news and blogs converage.

  •   QuickJump QuickPeek 87: Face-off now on: you got those price cuts you wanted, now get those numbers up –
by Mabie A. from Nintendo DS
  •   Week in Apple: Snow Leopard discoveries, MacBook rumors, and Steve Jobs –
by jacqui@arstechnica.com (Jacqui Cheng) from Ars Technica
  •   Facebook 3.0 Is Here –
from I4U News
  •   Top 10 Tactics for Productive Travel –
by Kevin Purdy from Lifehacker: Top
  •   Failure to launch: Apple bungles Snow Leopard distribution in New Zealand –
by Chris Rawson from The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
  •   A bit of [Big] Apple history: visiting Tekserve –
by Michael Rose from The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
  •   The Daily Roundup: here's what you might've missed –
by Ross Miller from Engadget
  •   Location-specific home screens coming to the iPhone? –
by Jay Hathaway from Download Squad
  •   Location-specific home screens coming to the iPhone? –
by Jay Hathaway from Download Squad
  •   iPhone Explosions: The Inside Story –
by Jesus Diaz from Gizmodo: Apple

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Written by jacqui@arstechnica.com (Jacqui Cheng)
Critics call shenanigans after Apple, AT&T letters to FCC: Everyone is puzzling over Apple and AT&T's letters to the FCC about the apparent rejection of a Google Voice iPhone app. Ars peers through the holes in their version of the mess.

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Written by Pete Cashmore
7. IT’S HERE: Facebook 3.0 for iPhone Has Arrived – Facebook’s latest iPhone app is here…and it’s awesome. We look at the unique features in this innovative new social app.

7. IT’S HERE: Facebook 3.0 for iPhone Has Arrived – Facebook’s latest iPhone app is here…and it’s awesome. We look at the uniq…

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For at least the third time this month, Apple and AT&T are being sued by a consumer complaining of being duped into believing that multimedia messaging, or MMS, was already available on the iPhone.

Filed in the Northern District of Ohio on Wednesday (PDF hosted by Wired), plaintiff Deborah Carr says Apple and AT&T misled the public into believing that the iPhone 3GS was capable of sending and receiving MMS messages on the device. The lawsuit claims that Apple’s “print and video advertisements…on television, the Internet, the radio, newspapers, and direct mailers” all mention the availability of MMS on the device.

Two similar cases–one in Illinois and another in Louisiana–were also filed against the companies in August.

According to the latest lawsuit, first reported by InformationWeek, customers were told that MMS would be enabled on June 17, 2009, when iPhone OS 3.0 was released.

That seems rather strange, considering that Apple and AT&T announced on June 8, during Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference keynote that MMS would not be available until later in the summer. AT&T confirmed that time frame to Wired on Friday.

“We absolutely will offer MMS on iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3G with 3.0 upgrades in late summer, once we complete some system upgrades that will ensure our customers have the best experience with MMS,” an AT&T representative said in a statement cited by Wired.

Carr’s lawsuit does admit that Apple has a notice on its Web site explaining that support for MMS would be available from AT&T in late summer. However, the suit characterizes the note as a “mouseprint disclaimer,” referring to the small print.

Technically, Apple has enabled MMS in iPhone OS 3.0. The proof is that 29 carriers around the world activated MMS on the iPhone when the new operating system was released on June 17. It’s not available in the United States because AT&T isn’t ready to activate it yet, which was disclosed on June 8.

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Apple’s iPhone may be the darling of the mobile-phone industry right now, but some users in France aren’t singing its praises, claiming that the device explodes or cracks without warning.

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However, after conducting an internal investigation into the cause of the broken touch-screen glass, Apple denies that there is an underlying iPhone flaw. In fact, Apple said that in all cases it investigated, some kind of force was applied to the iPhone, causing the glass to break, according to a BBC report Friday.

“The iPhones with broken glass that we have analyzed to date show that in all cases, the glass cracked due to an external force that was applied to the iPhone,” Apple said in a statement cited by the BBC.

Last Tuesday, in response to a European Commission investigation into accusations of overheating and exploding iPhones, Apple referred to its internal investigation, saying, “We are waiting to receive the iPhones from the customers.”

As part of its investigation, Apple also looked into complaints of the iPhone battery overheating but again said it found no problems. “To date, there are no confirmed battery-overheating incidents for iPhone 3GS, and the number of reports we are investigating is in the single digits,” according to the statement.

The investigation’s findings don’t mean much to France’s Frank Benoiton, a consumer who said his wife’s iPhone cracked, and it “was not dropped and experienced no unusual shock,” he told the Associated Press.

France’s trade minister declined to comment on a meeting with Apple about an investigation that the country’s consumer protection agency is conducting into the reports, according to Bloomberg.

The European Commission also issued a warning using its rapid-alert system, Rapex, which warns of dangerous consumer products.

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If you have some time on your hands, there are some great applications that can be great to keep you sharp and on your toes. If you want to make good use of your time, then there are some excellent applications to help you do just that.

1. Weird Laws – If you want to keep up with or research some of the craziest laws out there, this application is for you. You can be the source of all trivia with this application and wow people with your knowledge.

2. Discovery Channel – If you are a follower of the Discovery Channel or simply want to keep up with some interesting trends or information, this can bring great insight. You can expect from this free iPhone application what you expect out of the TV station so the information is endless.

3. Mind Reader – Prepared to be “wowed” as this application reads your mind and spits back some interesting information at you. This may be a game but it definitely involves some ideas that are sure to keep you sharp.

4. Tap Word – Another game but one to keep you on your toes! Here you can use your iPhone to perform a word search and keep sharp even in the most dulling circumstances. This is one to keep with you for the anytime challenge.

5. Doodle Buddy – This is a great way to keep sharp because nothing shows your talents like art. You can express yourself artistically with this application and keep sharp as it allows you to have an excellent outlet. Sure to break up a boring day too!

6. NPR News – For the person who wants to stay on the go no matter where they go, this educational station can travel with you for free. Keep up with your love of NPR News or just get introduced to it with this application.

7. Crack the Code Free – This is an excellent way to keep your mind sharp because you have to really work at cracking the code. This is an excellent game of skill and knowledge and works with your skill so you are constantly on your toes.

8. Wikipedia Mobile – If you want to keep in touch with everything that you’ve ever wanted to know and be the bearer of all trivia and knowledge, keep this traveling online encyclopedia with you at all times.

9. Myths and Facts Free – Ever wanted to decipher between fact and fiction but never have the time? If you have time on your hands, this is a great application to use to keep up with what is true and what is totally false.

10. Chess Free – No game can test your knowledge better than chess, so this is a great game to keep with you. This application can teach you a thing or two about the game and keep you intrigued.

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