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.mac rejuvenates to Mobile Me
So finally, .mac gets a kick up the you know what and is replaced by Mobile Me.
Push email. Push contacts. Push calendar.
MobileMe stores all your email, contacts, and calendars on a secure online server — or “cloud” — and pushes them down to your iPhone, iPod touch, Mac, and PC. When you make a change on one device, the cloud updates the others. Push happens automatically, instantly, and continuously. You don’t have to wait for it or remember to do anything — such as docking your iPhone and syncing manually — to stay up to date.
Wireless syncing is pretty cool, but it was already happening with imap email, or have I missed something? To be honest, anything would be better than .Mac currently - it was started to become very dull. The new Mobile Me web-based services, all built in Ajax look very swish, so that will really help peple have a better perception of the revamped .mac - check out a pic below from Apple’s site…
Apple are pretty on the ball with their communication too - I’ve just received an email detailing the new service, what is happening as an existing .mac customer and all the features.
The push email is something I will welcome, and the wiresless syncing but I am not sure when I would use the web apps as I will have my iPhone with me. I do like the fact I will get ANOTHER email address!
Start Slide Show with PicLens LiteAs a MobileMe subscriber, you can continue to use your mac.com address for email. You will also be issued a me.com address with the same user name that you can use if you prefer. The choice is yours.
Hello Steve!
Picture from Engadget - thanks for the liveblogging guys!
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iPhone pics or fake? You decide!
Gizmodo has just posted up with pictures of an alleged iPhone 2, with front facing video cam! (Yes please). They come from CrunchGear’s Matt Hickey….
Now I am liking the look of these, but I am calling a good fake - something like this would not leak. This kind of stuff is going to have more security than Bush and Mugabe put together.
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iPhone 2 Predictions galore
Mobile Crunch have a good post about next week’s supposed new iPhone. Check it out here.
I posted about my thoughts a few days ago, and I was along the right lines. I’m more interested in whether the price is going to be subsidised or not. We all know that the British mobile phone model is for free or very cheap phones and a monthly tariff. This is the reason that the iPhone did not take off as well as expected when launched here, as people were put off by paying £200++ PLUS a monthly tariff. Cult of Mac talks about this.
Now, we’re just waiting for the leaked pics!
