Lego App For Your iPhone
December 31, 2009
When you first heard of a Lego App for your iPhone, what were you thinking about? A digital version of those little colored bricks, where you’ll be able to build castles, and possibly export those digital designs? Well, it’s nothing like that, in reality the Lego iPhone app allows you to take a picture, and modify it into a version that is built by Lego bricks. Simple and pretty, but you do have to wonder whether they could have come up with a more useful app for the iPhone, don’t you think?
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Orange To tryout HD Calls in 2010
December 31, 2009
Will we be getting clearer and better quality shout quality in the near future? The folks by at Orange UK certainly seem to think so, as the company is looking to be one of the first carriers to upgrade its shout quality with the launch of HD Voice, using a technology known as Wideband Adaptive Multi-Rate (WB-AMR). that will actually allocate more bandwidth to a signal than normal 3G voice uses, without increasing the amount of documents used. You’ll probably need phones that support WB-AMR, and it’s not confirmed whether our current phones will be able to be upgraded to the new standard. Orange will start trials of HD Video in Jan 2010, so hopefully we’ll be staring at better shout quality sometime real soon.
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iPhone Buzz Year in Review 2009
December 31, 2009
It's hard to believe that another year has come and gone, but here we sit at the start of 2010 and a new decade. Let's look back at some of the most interesting and crucial news items concerning the iPhone that we reported that year.
We learned last January that Skype was working on its own iPhone app, little did we know at the moment how expanded it would be before we saw the app in person. Apple plus allowed third party browsers into the App store for the first duration early that year.
We first heard that Apple might let iPhone apps run in the background early in 2009. that was one of the iPhones biggest lost features according to many. February brought early grumblings that we might see a new iPhone in the summer. Early expectations were for several models, which turned out to be false.
Adobe announced early in 2009 that it was working on Flash for the iPhone. We all got excited at that, unfortunately flash is still not here. O2 announced in February that it has sold 1 million iPhones in the UK. Its success proved the iPhone was a global phenomenon.
Australian Jeweler Peter Aloisson went nuts in March and designed an iPhone selling for $2.5 million. The thing was covered in gold and diamonds. We heard in March that the new iPhone 3.0 OS would add MMS and cut and paste to the iPhone. Those things were sorely lost on the iPhone to start with.
Later in March the cut and paste features along with other nice additions in OS 3.0 went official. The first word of the iPhone 3G selling without a contract came in March with a whopping price of $499-$599 depending on the model.
Apple announced in April that almost a billion apps had been downloaded from the App Store. That was just the start for the app store in 2009. Apple placed an order in April for 32GB chips foreshadowing the new iPhone 3GS models.
We started to prepare out grumblings in April that Verizon might get its own LTE version of the iPhone in 2010. We still don’t know whether that will happen or not. TomTom unveiled the first full PND software and hardware system for the iPhone in June. The system turned the iPhone into a serious PND device with all the features you expect.
We learned in June that Steve Jobs was coming back to Apple after being away for health reasons since January. Jobs survived pancreatic cancer. The iPhone 3GS was fond to vastly outperform the iPhone 3G in 3D performance in June when benchmarked. We love us some iPhone 3GS around here.
In July Apple announced that 1.5 billion downloads had been made from the App store. That was another half a billion downloads compared to the numbers early in 2009. iPhone sales boomed in 2009 with the release of figures in July showing that sales had grown 626% year by year. Apple and AT&T landed in hot water with the FCC by the rejection of the Google Voice app from the App Store. The case brought to light the practices of those at Apple who wield the ban hammer for apps.
In August we learned that Apple owned 13.7% of the global smartphone market. That percentage continues to grow today with the iPhone rapidly moving up in popularity. AT&T was sued that year for lack of MMS on the iPhone. The feature was added in the 3.0 update but AT&T didn’t activate the feature considering of the drain it would place on its often shoddy network.
There you have a sampling of the most critical iPhone news items of 2009. Happy New Year and we look forward to reporting more iPhone news in 2010!
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HTC Ozone Gets Unofficial Windows Mobile 6.5 Update
December 31, 2009
While the HTC Ozone hasn’t received an official Windows Mobile 6.5 update just yet, owners of said phone can take comfort in the fact that some folks have come up with a custom ROM for the HTC Ozone, updating it to Windows Mobile 6.5. It’s not a major update, but you’ll get some nice improvements such as graphic enhancements, Marketplace, MyPhone, better battery life, performance improvements, better Exchange support and some other things too. Of course, since it’s not an official ROM, you’ll want to tread carefully, since you do run the possibility of bricking your phone or losing notes.
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Motorola Mirage Details Leaked?
December 31, 2009
Could that be true, or is it just another unfounded rumor? You’ll probably want to take it with a pinch of salt for the moment. According to reports, Motorola may be working on a new Android-powered phone, nicknamed either the Mirage or Shadow. whether it’s true, and the specs are accurate, it’ll certainly beat the Motorola DROID in some departments at least. It’ll sport a large 4.3-inch 854 x 480 display. More interesting is the word that the phone will support 1080p video, and will have a native HDMI output. Apparently it might be as thin as 0.35 inches, and additionally sport an 8-megapixel camera. Do you think that could be true, or is it just wishing thinking at the end of 2009?
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Kingston Issues Recall For assured Thumb Drives
December 31, 2009
If you own a Kingston DataTraveler BlackBox, DataTraveler Secure or DataTraveler Elite drives, you might want to pay attention to that. Kingston has posted a security alert on its website, stating that a skilled person with the proper tools and physical access to the drives may actually be able to get unauthorized access to input stored on said drives. Fortunately for users, it seem s that Kingston is willing to resolve that issue, and is urging customers with affected drives to contact tech support to arrange for a factory update of your device (though it’d be a very good notion to form a copy of the goods on the thumbdrive,) Will that affect your confidence in Kingston products in the future?
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Jaybird Sportsband
December 31, 2009
The Jaybird Bluetooth headset certainly looks cool, and since it’s dubbed the Sportsband, it’s probably aimed at sports enthusiasts. With phones like the iPhone getting more and more popular, do you think you’ll be seeing more folks with these headphones on in the near future? It’d set you back around $89, which isn’t all that poor. In the end, whether it’s designed for sports or not, you have to confess it’s one sleek looking headset.
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