The iPhone 4 went live on the Apple Store today or pre-order. The catch?
You can only pre-order the black models – oh and the AT&T servers are being hit so hard that most people can’t place a pre-order. I have been trying since 6:00a and have not been able to do so (it is now 10a). Lame.
Charlie Sorrel:
The AirStash is a USB card reader combined with a Wi-Fi hotspot. Its purpose in life is to stream media to other devices, which means sending movies, music and video to phones, tablets and other memory-limited gadgets.
This has potential.
These sites are great and funny – but they don’t have all that much of lasting appeal in my mind. Perhaps I am the minority though.
My usage seems pretty consistent – a great table to look at if you are thinking of getting an iPad.
ZOMG! Short of news that the Oil Spill has been cleaned up – I think it is safe to mark this down as the best news of the day.
Must read for all nerds and significant others of nerds.
Felix Salmon:
But the fact is that blogs and paywalls just don’t mix.
Phil Plait:
So in my opinion, what Jobs said was fine. Soneira, while technically correct, was being picky. So I mildly disagree with him about that. I had to laugh, though: his dismissing (near the bottom of the Wired article) of the Quattro TV’s use of a fourth, yellow, pixel is dead on. When I first heard of that I knew right away it was a silly claim.
Still, the headline used by Wired.com was clearly incorrect; Jobs wasn’t falsely advertising the iPhone’s capabilities at all. I’ll note that I like Wired magazine quite a bit, and what we have here is most likely just an overzealous editor. But a lot of people read the headlines and it taints their view; someone reading that article may be more likely to think Jobs, once again, has overblown a product to excite people. He didn’t.
Clive Crook:
Contrary to my earlier thoughts, it not only surpasses the Kindle but for many uses supplants the laptop too. Far from being neither one thing nor the other, it is all things to all men–a good thing in a piece of electronics.
The Kindle is only better if you need to read in sunlight – otherwise buy an iPad it is better in all other circumstances.
This app is amazingly good, best RSS reader on any platform ever. I can’t decide if Instapaper or Reeder is the best iPad app, they are that close.
Umm yeah, nope. He even recommends a 5″ yet to be released tablet, WTF.
Shawn Blanc:
When the 20% battery warning comes up on my 3GS it means I go into iPhone survival mode, keeping usage to a minimum to prolong death before I am able to charge it next. But on the 4 a 20% warning will simply mean charge at my earliest convenience (the same way it is for the iPad).
Great look at the two platforms.
One thing is clear: Firefox has lost its edge.
Sue Zeidler:
By predicting its Flash Player would be in over 250 million smartphones by the end of 2012, Adobe said it expects its Flash software to be supported in 53 per cent of the more than 300 million smartphones expected to ship in 2012.
I can’t say that I see this happening – ever.
Don’t be fooled into thinking that mobile app developers are small time – they are the next wave of success (a lot already are making tons of money).
Can they make Twitter profitable is the real questions – they sure are acquiring like it is 1999.
Miguel Helft:
Dell also said that it had set aside $100 million for a possible settlement of these allegations, as well a separate long-standing investigation by the S.E.C. into its accounting practices.
Nothing says innocent like willingly paying $100 million.
Tim Van Damme:
My first generation unibody MacBook Pro feels like next year’s MacBook Pro, and I didn’t even upgrade your RAM.
I’m getting one next month. Can’t wait.