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(PRODUCT) RED iPhone coming this Christmas?

admin — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:17:52 +0000

Red iPhone may be introduced during the upcoming Christmas shopping season. It's still a rumor, but it makes perfect sense as about that time all the hype surrounding the iPhone 3G launch might start to slow. With the device like this, Apple could further push its sales forward.

Apparently, the iPhone 3G in red will be sold as part of the (PRODUCT) RED campaign, where parts of the profits are donated to the Global Fund to fight AIDS in Africa. In the past, Apple has released several such products like (PRODUCT) RED iTunes gift cards, a red 8GB iPod Nano, and a red 1GB iPod Shuffle.

[Via: CrunchGear, MacBlogz]

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Nokia 2600 coming to AT&T?

admin — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:19:39 +0000

The low-end Nokia 2600 is apparently coming to AT&T. Specs wise, there's nothing too exciting, but this is Nokia we're speaking about and they do want to grab a serious chunk of market. North America is the only place where they're far from the leading player, but it's the phones like the 2600 model that’ll help them gain hearts and minds of the Americans. Actually, forget the part about “hearts and minds” — it's the mass feature phone market Nokia is targeting with this candybar.

“Nokia 2600 coming to AT&T” is still a rumor, so we're not aware of the exact release date nor how much the device will cost once it hits the market. AT&T and/or Nokia will certainly issue a release. Stay tuned, in the meantime…

[Via: CellPhoneSignal]

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AT&T looking towards web-based voice-recognition application for handsets, i

admin — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:17:37 +0000

Voice-recognition applications aren't exactly high on our list of gotta-have features for our myriad mobile phones, but it sure is a cool idea - especially when the steering wheel gets in the way of tapping on a mobile phone's keyboard. So, it's good to hear that AT&T is looking to bring true voice-activated text-entry to their stable of handsets through a web-based speech recognition service.

The research project leverages AT&T's WATSON speech recognition engine, commonly referred to as Speech Mashups, to bring voice-activated features to any handset with a high-speed wireless data connection. The web-based voice-control service could be used to control a wireless device directly or input information on a webpage - as long as the software was made to work with web standards like AJAX and Javascript.

AT&T's Speech Mashups service would work with the company's 3G network to transmitting voice to a remote speech recognition server, translate the voice-input into personal language, and send the commands back to a mobile phone or website.

AT&T has demonstrated the service on an iPhone 3G. Information was entered in to a prototype version of YellowPages' mobile website. Text was entered by simply speaking the desired information at the appropriate times.

Unfortunately, the Speech Mashups service isn't designed to offer voice-dialing or direct voice-control over handsets. And, native applications need to be developed with specific code allowing them to interact with the web service in order to take advantage of speech recognition.

AppleInsider has video of the service in action, head on over to check it out.

[Via: AppleInsider]

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Verizon declares Palm Treo 755p at end of life - Verizon phases out Palm Treo 75

admin — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:23:10 +0000

With the more popular Palm Centro making more significant headway in Verizon's Palm OS-powered smartphone portfolio, the No. 2 US wireless carrier has announced that the recently launched Palm Treo 755p has met its end-of-life. The Palm Treo 755p was only launched on Verizon a few months back, and it seems that Verizon is already done with the long-delayed Palm Treo 755p.

The end-of-life announcement from Verizon comes on the heels of the Palm-issued Treo 755p update.

Whatever Verizon's reason for killing off the last remaining vestige of Palm's classic Treo-design, we're going to miss the bloated sucker. And, we're sure business-users needing a keyboard with keys bigger than the Tic-Tac's on the Palm Centro's keyboard will be missing the Verizon Palm Treo 755p.

[Via: PalmInfoCenter]

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Extend your iPhone 3G’s battery life

admin — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:21:33 +0000

With the new GPS receiver and 3G radio sucking the life out of your iPhone 3G's battery like there's no tomorrow, you'll likely have noticed shorter battery life compared with the first-generation iPhone. If the iPhone 3G is your first foray in to the world of Apple phoning, then just accept that whatever battery life you manage to get is normal.

But, just because you’ve faster data speeds (enabling faster web-surfing) and real-deal GPS hardware tucked inside that glossy-backed iPhone 3G of yours, doesn't mean you’ve to live with shortened battery uptime. There are a few things you can do to try and increase the time between battery charges.

You can disable your 3G data radio. That means you get slower web-surfing and data-speeds. You'll be limited to EDGE data access. But, that doesn't necessarily mean your web-surfing times will suffer all that much. iPhone 2.0 OS boasts improved Webkit performance that helps load websites faster than with previous versions of the iPhone Mac OS. You'll be surfing at slower speeds than if you had the 3G radio enabled, but you'll still be surfing at faster speeds than the original iPhone running iPhone 1.1.4 OS.

Navigate to Settings>General>Network>Enable 3G and toggle “OFF'

You can try to force-quit iPhone applications that may be running in the background and sucking precious electrons from your battery pack. Once started, most iPhone applications will continue to persist in an inactive state in the background. They wait for you to return to them, starting up lickity-quick in the same say that you left it in. Note: I should clarify that only Apple's own default iPhone applications (the applications that came out-of-the-box with your iPhone) run in the background. And, with the iPhone 3G jailbreak now live, jailbreak applications can run in the background as well. Use this method for official iPhone applications and jailbreak applications.

Open up suspect applications (anything that you don't want persisting in the background) and hold down the “Home” (the only button on the iPhone's face) until the application quits. It takes a while, be patient.

Try resetting the iPhone. As with any personal, a quick system restart can solve most problems faster and easier than tracking down the specific issue.

Hold down the Power/Sleep button located along the top-edge of the iPhone until you see the “Slide to Power OFF” prompt.
Flick the slider to the right and let the iPhone shutdown.
Press the Power button to turn on the iPhone

Turn off your iPhone 3G or iPhone's WiFi radio. If you have the iPhone 3G, you're not hurting for super-fast data speeds anyway. If you have an iPhone with iPhone 2.0 OS, you'll notice faster web-surfing on EDGE as well. WiFi can suck battery life like nothing else. Try disabling this to get more uptime from your iPhone batter.

Navigate to Settings>WiFi and toggle to “OFF”

Change your fetch data settings. Your iPhone can automatically check various email accounts at preset intervals. Depending on the interval and how many emails accounts you’ve setup on your iPhone, checking mail can drain your battery faster than you'd like. Try turning off automatic email fetching (if email isn't that important to you) or increasing the fetch-interval.

Navigate to Settings>Fetch New Data and set your interval to “30 Minutes,” “1 Hour,” Or Manual
- Setting the “Fetch New Data” option to “Manual” will require you to update your iPhone Email client in order to receive new emails.

Turn off location-services. As cool as it is to see yourself located on Google Maps and have photos geo-tagged with your location, it can be a tax on your battery to constantly update your iPhone's position. Try turning off the Location Services option.

Navigate to Settings>General and toggle “Location Services” to “OFF”

Lastly, you can try to reset your network settings. This can also resolve any signal strength issues, but will also wipe any stored WiFi passwords and settings. Use this as a last resort - not because its perilous, but because it can be a hassle to re-enter all your WiFi passwords.

Navigate to Settings>General>Reset and hit “Reset Network Settings”

Good luck, and don't forget to leave a comment down below!

Update
The list has been updated.

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City Guide iPhone application gives iPhone things to do in Washington DC

admin — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:23:24 +0000

What's the plan for tonight?

You've likely come across that particular question every now and again. Whether you're trying to decide where to eat, where to drink, or where to kick back and take a load off, rallying the troops to get off the couch and in to the social scene can be difficult.

The latest iPhone application to give indecisive socialites a heads-up on local nightlife is City Guide. The Washington Post has launched their new entertainment guide for DC-locals looking for a fun night out on the town. The City Guide application gives iPhone 3G users a GPS-locked map of their immediate area, serving up thousands of local-area restaurants, bars and clubs. The entertainment guide allows you to search by location name, neighborhood and cuisine - giving easy access to addresses, phone numbers, hours of operation, pricing info, and more.

Find City Guide here. (iTunes link)

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iPhone application features cut and paste - Rich text editor with cut/paste func

admin — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:16:15 +0000

Just as I got done griping about how Apple needs to re-prioritize the iPhone 2.0 OS development goals and bring cut-and-paste functionality to the forefront - ahead of turn-by-turn GPS navigation - I found this new iPhone application that boasts just such a feature. Allowed, cut/paste functionality in this application isn't a system-wide implementation, like we'd need to see for a truly workable cut-n-paste solution, but it's a great begin.

At first glance, the application seems to be a easy “notes” program, but a little exploration proves it to be much more. The application allows for rich text editing - something the iPhone's “Notes” application fails to offer. And, combined with the capability copy text to another “note,” the application allows you to change the copied text's font size, font color, font type, and even apply bold, italic, underline, and strike-through effects to the text.

Unfortunately, slicing and pasting text will only work within the application itself - allowing you to transfer text from one particular “note” to another. Apple's iPhone SDK forbids this iPhone application from bringing its text-transfer ability to other iPhone apps.

Still, this latest iPhone cut-and-paste demonstration highlights the need for Apple to get working on true cut-and-paste functionality for the iPhone, and proves that it is indeed possible to get such a feature working on the iPhone's multi-touch UI. We'll be waiting for Apple to turn around and realize that the general iPhone-using public would prefer have cut/paste in the near-term at the expense of having to wait for turn-by-turn GPS navigation. Until that happens, enjoy these screenshots of the text-copying iPhone rich text editor.

[Via: AppleiPhoneApps]

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Apple bringing iPhone 3G to 20 additional markets on August 22

admin — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:17:40 +0000

As expected, Apple has announced that they'll be expanding their global reach by introducing the iPhone 3G to 20 additional markets next month. Despite handset shortages and sell-outs, Apple is committed to launching the heralded handset in over 70 global markets, including markets in Africa, Asia, Central and South America, and Europe.

Following on AT&T's announcement that they've moved almost twice as many Apple iPhone 3G handsets during the first 12-days as they’d with the original iPhone, Apple has set its sights on hitting the global market hard and fast with the iPhone 3G. On being grilled about the Apple's difficulties in keeping up with frenzied demand for the iPhone 3G, leading to stock-issues, Apple's COO Tim Cook said that Apple would be increasing iPhone 3G production. “I like what I’m seeing in the production ramp,” Cook stated.

The iPhone 3G is currently available in 22 countries worldwide, and Apple's website lists 50 countries under their “Coming Soon.” Apple is going to have to ramp their iPhone 3G production goals to meet demand in currently available market, as well as stock enough hardware to meet the inevitable rush for iPhone 3G's in additional countries if they plan to satisfy global demand for the handset and meet their sales-goal of 10 million units by the end of 2008.

Apple stopped short of announcing which countries comprised the 20 new markets in Apple's crosshairs. But, with the iPhone 3G planned to go live in dozens of markets around the globe, Apple should be seeing iPhone sales in Q3 2008 increase to record levels.

[Via: Macworld]

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Nokia announces N-Gage support for Nokia XpressMusic 5320, N78, N96

admin — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:21:44 +0000

Good news for all you Nokia N-Gage fans looking to get your Nokia N96 hooked up with all the mobile gaming resources of Nokia's N-Gage platform. First, you're apparently well ahead of the curve with that Nokia N96 in your hand. Second, Nokia has made good on their promise to offer multiple handsets with N-Gage compatibility in announcing that N-Gage is now available for the Nokia XpressMusic 5320, Nokis N78, and Nokia N96.

We're sure there aren't too many of you running around with Nokia N96's in your pockets, but for those of you rocking the frequently updated Nokia N78, just know that N-Gage is now a go.

No word on the Nokia N73, N93, and N93i getting N-Gage support as of yet. But, here's to hoping Nokia expands their N-Gage lineup to include older handsets.

Nokia N-Gage

[Via: AllAboutSymbian]

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Episode 218 - Apple IPhone 3G, Sprint Samsung Instinct

admin — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:21:43 +0000

Episode 218 - Apple iPhone 3G, Sprint Samsung Instinct

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