Archive for August, 2010

iPhone 4 – Jailbreaking vs. unlocking

August 31, 2010

People are sometimes confused by the terminology used for setting their iPhones free. The terms “jailbreaking” and “unlocking” are often used interchangeably, but they are different. Here’s what the two terms mean.

One in three mobile Facebook visits are iPhone

August 30, 2010

What’s the most important app on the iPhone and iPad? According to an expert on the subject — a guy that’s written a Facebook book — no other app is used as much or by as many people. Surprisingly, the next biggest group of mobile users is the Blackberry with Android and Palm bringing up the rear.

The latest on the Verizon and white iPhones

August 30, 2010

The two biggest things in the Apple rumor mill right now concern the Verizon iPhone and the white iPhone, which may be a sad state of affairs with an iPod event coming up. Still, what about those iPhones?

App Store has more than 50K active devlopers

August 29, 2010

There lots of folks who believe that sooner or later developers will flock to Android because that’s where the majority of users are. However, for the time being at least, devs are going to follow the money and that means writing for the iPhone and iPad.

Microsoft to spend big bucks to catch the iPhone

August 27, 2010

Microsoft feels that they are so far behind their smartphone competition that they need to spend big on hype to catch up. The strangest thing, though, is that they still feel that they can play in that arena at all.

Netflix comes to iPhone, iPod touch

August 26, 2010

When the industry-leading content streaming launched on the iPad back in April, the company said an iPhone and iPod touch version would be coming soon. Well, soon is now as the Netflix rolls a client for Apple handhelds.

Android 2.2 rollout is a train wreck [Google is evil]

August 25, 2010

We’ve always been told that one of the hallmarks of the Windows PC is innovation and the wonderful variety of machines available giving you exactly the price/performance package you want. If you buy into that, then Android is the pocket PC of your dreams.

iPhone 4 units in China to come with cases

August 25, 2010

It looks like China Unicom, Apple’s partner in China, may be trying to avoid the problems that Apple faced in the U.S. over antenna problems by shipping iPhone 4 handsets to customers with cases already attached.

An app to solve iPhone 4 spam problems

August 23, 2010

It may be that solving spam problems on the iPhone 4, which neither allows for nor provides protection from spam email, is not anything done to the iPhone itself, but rather to the machine that is its mother ship.

The iPhone still displays the most mobile ads

August 23, 2010

What with mobile ad companies being bought, sold, opened and closed, it has been hard to tell who to believe in “news” about mobile ads. Now, independent Millennial is out with a report that sounds about right.


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