Excellent ad from The Sun
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Well, for once, The Sun produces something worth mentioning! A great send up of the Apple ads 
So, the iPhone is coming to Orange…
Yesterday I was a guest on William Wright’s tech slot on BBC Radio Lincs and we talked about the big news of Orange getting the iPhone as well as O2. Have a listen below:
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And now Vodafone! So yesterday Orange, and today Vodafone – finally, choice! The Guardian has a good post on it here, and says:
But under its new deal Vodafone will not have to pass any ongoing revenues over to Apple. Neither will Orange under the deal it has signed. As a result, both companies will have far greater pricing flexibility which should lead to reduced prices for customers, though they will still have to sign up to a long-term contract.
That sounds fine to me The BBC cover the news here, and remind us about O2 having new exclusivity for Palm’s Pre, apparently an “iPhone killer”.
That to me just does not ring true. Why? How about this for starters: (from a press release from Apple yesterday)
CUPERTINO, California—September 28, 2009—Apple® today announced that more than two billion apps have been downloaded from its revolutionary App Store, the largest applications store in the world. There are now more than 85,000 apps available to the more than 50 million iPhone™ and iPod touch® customers worldwide and over 125,000 developers in Apple’s iPhone Developer Program.
Pretty impressive eh?
Neural Interface coming to iPhone
Well, who knows what they have planned!
New iphone from Muadib on Vimeo.
iPhone 3.0 Software coming
Just breaking, is the news, that there will be an Apple Event on March 17th!
We just got the announcement, iPhone OS 3.0 is coming. Set your clocks, mark your calendars. It’s going down March 17th. Apparently, we’ll get a sneak peak at the new OS, as well as a look at a brand new version of the SDK. Exciting stuff indeed, and we’ll be there live at 10am PST (1pm EST) with the liveblog. Apple’s calling this an “advance preview of what we’re building,” so we’re not expecting anything ready to go as of the 17th, but hopefully this will allow developers to start building toward future functionality (hey, how about some push notifications?), and presumably users won’t have too many months to wait after that for the real deal.
Interesting… I wonder whether there will be any BIG UI changes? I’m guessing not, and hoping that they will be adding MMS and copy and paste at the very least. Launch of a Google Latitude App would also be nice.
What would you like to see?!
New iPhone 2.0.1 Software Released
Well this is looking very hopeful! The actual navigation and user interface seem much snappier and I don’t seem to be getting the dreadful lag which spoiled the whole experience.
Looks like they have done a good job. Now I need to go and try the GPS and see if I can get that to work! There’s also a new version of the Wordpress App, so I’ll be interested to see what features they have added, if any.
iPhone – not as good as the first
David over on the Signal vs. Noise blog has written a great post about the problems he has been having with his iPhone 3G and his summation of the overall experience so far. From the comments (76 and counting), he is not alone and I am seeing the exact same issues. Read on for my thoughts – pros and cons…..
Pros
- Looks great
- 3G is much better than edge
- The apps store ias a triumph and the games are superb
- Wordpress and Evernote are brilliant apps
- New Software 2.0 features are pretty good
Cons
- Buying experience (well, ok, I got a free upgrade) was poor – O2 store vs Apple Store? No contest
- The software is L A G G Y. It pauses, stutters and makes the UI feel very un-Apple
- Battery life – not good at all – you need to really be aware of what technology you are using if out of the house for a while (GPS, Push, 3G, WiFi etc)
- GPS – have not managed to get “my location” yet (about to try it again)
Overall - not as enjoyable as the iPhone First Gen, which did just work. David concludes in his post:
It feels a little like Apple got swept up in knocking down every single detraction point from 1.0 that they lost sight of what everyone loved about the first version. Yes, it got cheaper (not really), faster (some times), installable apps, and GPS, but it lost a bit of Apple soul in the process.
Although it pains me to say it, I have to agree.
