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Loading ...Vanity, thy name is LG Shine
So, off to trendy downtown T.O. hotspot Lobby (corporate slogan: “No, you can’t come in dressed like that”) for the announcement of the new lineup of cell phones from Rogers for the holiday season. It’s a rough life, this being forced to eat Kobe beef sliders and wash ‘em down with raspberry mojitos, but someone’s gotta do it. Read the rest of this entry »
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(1 votes, average: 10 out of 10) Loading ...iPhone impersonators and the landscape of Web design
Telus and HTC launched the HTC Touch smart phone at a downtown Telus retailer this morning. One’s coming in for a full review shortly, but I had some hands-on time with it at the launch, and I must say … well, it’s a smart phone.
It’s not explicitly positioned as an iPhone competitor, but it’s implicit. David Neale, chatting after the launch, referred to the iPhone as “opening the floodgates” for similar devices. Read the rest of this entry »
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(1 votes, average: 8 out of 10) Loading ...One bad Apple
While we in Canada wait with bated breath for Apple to bestow upon us the privilege of owning an iPhone, developments south of here might tarnish the World’s Coolest Phone’s hitherto unblemished reputation.
Apple’s software update has “bricked” (as in, rendered about as useful as a) iPhones hacked to work on networks other than AT&T’s in the States. Phones with third-party software freeze. Oh, and there have been some feature upgrades, but they seem to be quite beside the point.
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(3 votes, average: 6.33 out of 10) Loading ...Paying the iBill
Schadenfreude isn’t really my bag, but after suffering through roughly a kajillion iPhone news releases, articles and analyses, I got a chuckle out of what appears to be the first pothole on the iPhone highway, even though it’s service provider AT&T Wireless with egg on face.
Apparently, the bills are huge. Not expensive. Just really, really long. New York Times blogger David Pogue’s bill came with pages and pages documenting Every. Single. Data. Transaction, almost on a kilobyte-by-kilobyte basis.
The opus sent to Pogue, however, was apparently not as magnum as that sent to graphic designer and blogger Justine Ezarik. Watch her open her iBill — all 300 pages – on YouTube.
E-billing, anyone?
On a completely unrelated note, here’s an experimental use of the Windows shutdown tone that bears looking into.
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(4 votes, average: 5.25 out of 10) Loading ...iPhone apps - taking care of business?
By Joaquim P. Menezes -
So many developers are still sore that they’re not permitted to write native apps for the iPhone.
Many continue to bemoan the very limited development potential that restricts them to creating Web apps running within Safari (Apple’s Web browser included on the iPhone).
All that’s understandable.
In fact when the “no native apps” announcement was made by Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, in June, many predicted this would severely limit the usefulness of the iPhone within the enterprise.
But now some software vendors are trying to make the best of (what at first blush appeared to be) a rather shoddy deal.
