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Wired: Inside the iPhone Network Meltdown (attfail)
This weekend in between the many activities I got a chance to sit down with my Wired magazine and read an article that has just been posted online, Bad Connection: Inside the iPhone Network Meltdown.
An excerpt from the article:
For iPhone fans, it really was too good to be true. A pair of Apple executives had just described the latest model of the iPhone — the 3GS — onstage at the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference in June 2009. The audience loved it. The 3GS was twice as fast as its predecessor, it included a camera that shot video, and the updated iPhone operating system enabled multimedia messaging and tethering — the ability to use the phone as a modem. Just one problem: While many customers in Europe and Asia could enjoy all those features, AT&T, the iPhone’s sole US carrier, wouldn’t allow video messaging or tethering at launch. In other words, the most advanced features wouldn’t be available to AT&T customers. What’s more, some current iPhone users who wanted to upgrade wouldn’t get the subsidies that new customers enjoyed. Incensed iPhone fanatics vented their fury on Twitter. “AT&T has been one disappointment after another.” “Is AT&T trying to squeeze more money from us poor suckers?” And they punctuated their complaints with a hashtag — the Twitter convention for grouping conversations — that became an eight-character protest slogan: #attfail.
Overall a recommended read, the article is well written and thorough in analyzing the relationship since inception.
Apple iOS 4: My Review
Everyone has an iOS 4 review, or an iPhone 4 review, why shouldn’t I?
Apple WWDC 2010 – Steve Jobs Keynote Video Available
You can see the full video stream of the WWDC 2010 keynote online, announcing the iPhone 4.
iPhone 4: WWDC Demo by Steve Jobs, Video Chat announced
Today, June 7, 2010, Steve Jobs demoed the new iPhone 4 at WWDC 2010 in SanFrancisco. iPhone 4 comes out on June 24th
Here are some pieces of information we have been given about the new device:
- iPhone 4
- 24% thinner than current iPhone 3GS
- Mute button looks more reliable (mine always changes in my pocket)
- Front Facing camera
- Two mics
- New Design (the one that was leaked)
- Metal band around the phone is 2 antennas: Bluetooth, Wifi, GPS — UMTS / GSM
- Pixel density increased, now a 960×640 display (existing applications already take advantage of this) — called Retina Display
- An outward facing LED flash
- 326 dpi screen (better than the human eye can see)
- 802.11n Support
- Gyroscope (this is a HUGE deal)
- 720p at 30fps video recording
- 5 Mega Pixel camera upgrade (and some other fancy ways that makes their camera better than everyone elses … of course)
- Extended battery life: 7 hours 3G talk, 6 hrs 3G data, 12.5 days of standby time
- Upgraded video editing — looks almost like a mini Final Cut
— quite the large functionality set for a mobile device - iMovie for the iPhone will cost $4.99 at the App Store (uh oh, charging for their own functionality)
- iPhone OS 4 (of course)
- Video Chat! – over WiFi only, called FaceTime
WWDC 2010 – Apple’s Steve Jobs Keynote @ 1pm eastern!
Don’t forget, today the new iPhone 4G should be announced. I’m hopeful there will be a few other surprises today too!
To follow live coverage check out the following:
Steve Jobs at D8 Conference
In case any of you missed this:
By the way, you can see much more at All Things Digital.
Steve Jobs to do keynote at WWDC 2010: iPhone 4G to follow, HTML5 authorware?
I saw that Steve jobs will be doing the keynote of the Worldwide Developers Conference 2010.
This can only mean a few things;
- The new iPhone 4G will be announced (very likely)
- Apple will move away from AT&T (hopefully, I’m getting doubtful though)
I also believe there will be other announcements regarding development environments for HTML5. Given Steve Jobs’ strong HTML 5 support over the previous months, and the recent love/hate relationship (mostly hate) with Adobe — something tells me we will be seeing Apple competing with software for HTML 5.
Adobe demos Android Table with Flash (and Air)
From the article, Adobe Shows Google Android Tablet as Apple iPad Alternative, Adobe has demoed an Android tablet.
Now bloggers have seen it in action, thanks to Adobe, which showed off an Android tablet at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, held May 3 to 6.
The images and videos (and laughs) come courtesy of Zedomax, which scored this scoop, noting the device supports Adobe Systems’ Flash and Air.
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Google and Adobe later confirmed that Android would support Flash, the ultimate riposte alliance to Apple’s snubbing of Adobe.
Adobe is obviously trying to bite back at Apple for the many comments about how bad Adobe’s Flash platform is for mobile devices.
Will the table running Flash prove any of Steve Jobs’ ‘Thoughts on Flash’ wrong?
Watch the video:
Flash confirmed on Android 2.2
In a blog on the NYTimes site called Google’s Andy Rubin on Everything Android, the author writes on a conversation with Andy Rubin at the Google campus. Confirms full Flash support for Android 2.2, code-named Froyo.
Open is open and we live by our own implementations.
- Andy Rubin, VP for Engineering at Google
Adobe CEO, Shantanu Narayen, responds to Steve Jobs’ “Thoughts on Flash”
Earlier I posted a response to the “Thoughts on Flash” article by Steve Jobs. It seems Adobe has responded via a live-blog session on The Wall Street Journal. I first saw this reported at Neowin.net, Adobe respond to Jobs’ “thoughts on Flash”.
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