Maybe you know someone with an iPhone who doesn stop going on about it…
Your head will be spinning with what the iPhone can do.
You will probably have to catch your breath after a while.If you are an iPhone owner you will already know why it is the best phone available.
You will probably be thinking one of two things if you do not yet own an iphone.
1. “I have to get me an iPhone”
2. “OK, I’m jealous now, you can stop”
The one thing you will most likely not hear an iPhone owner evangelising about is iPhone insurance.
iPhone insurance is just one of those things you think about after the euphoria of owning your own iPhone has worn off a bit.
It is finally yours.Maybe your mind will wander to…
It might not be found anywhere?”
It might be a few more days before you think
“This is totally part of my life now – what if it was stolen?”
Or maybe you’re thinking “What if I dropped this into the bath and it killed my iPhone?”
And that is when you realise that your precious iPhone is naked, unprotected.
You’ll fork out £350 to get a new iPhone but its not just that.
It’ll be some while before its back with you.
All of this is why you seriously want to look at getting iPhone insurance.
You will find some sites selling iphone insurance?
What exactly do you want and which policy has it?
iPhone theft is something you are very likely going to want cover for.Also loss, if you lost your iPhone. Once you have the cover protection you can relax a bit about damage.
Water damage will be a vital element you want included.Some iphone insurance providers dont offer water damage cover – but it is a major killer of phones. 1.Over 6 million phones are lost every year.
So you will need to get your policy – but where?
Beware the high price instore insurance.You will be encouraged to get their insurance because the staff make a cut.
Look online for iphone insurance.Do this and you will pay less.
So if you own an iPhone, do yourself a favour – get it protected with iPhone insurance.
Filed under: Hardware, Rumors, iPhone
iResQ, the iPhone/iPod repair site, has posted pics of what they claim is the front faceplate of the next-gen iPhone. Two things about this piece of hardware are particularly interesting. First, the part is approximately 1/4 of an inch taller than the iPhone 3GS, indicative of a slightly taller form factor for the next-gen iPhone. Second, there’s a small, reflective strip directly above the hole for the phone speaker. iResQ believes this is likely to be the new location for the iPhone’s proximity sensor rather than an indication of any new hardware; however, moving the proximity sensor to a new location and increasing the overall length of the device could still point to a front-facing camera or other new hardware on the next-gen iPhone.
It’s worth mentioning the possibility that these “iPhone” parts aren’t legitimate. iResQ hasn’t revealed its source for the part, and purported iPhone bezels leaked in 2009 turned out to be parts for a completely different device. The backside of the supposed next-gen iPhone’s face is missing quite a few parts present on the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS, which either means the part iResQ received was incomplete, the next-gen iPhone has had its internal hardware shifted around, or the part is fake.
So case manufacturers, don’t throw out your old blueprints just yet. Unfortunately, it’s likely we won’t find out whether these are legit or not until June/July of this year; despite rumors of an iPhone update in April, the most likely date for the next-gen iPhone’s release is early summer.
[Via MacRumors]
TUAWPurported pics of next-gen iPhone front face surface originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Filed under: Hardware, iTunes, Apple, iPhone, SDK, Jailbreak/pwnage
Jailbreakers ahoy! Yesterday brought the release of the Dev Team’s pwnage tool for jailbreaking and unlocking iPhones equipped with the new 3.1.3 firmware. As usual, though, there are a few catches: first, if you don’t need to update to 3.1.3, the dev team says you shouldn’t bother anyway — it doesn’t do much that the old versions of the firmware doesn’t, so if you don’t need to upgrade, just leave your jailbreak as is.
3G and 3GS users especially should be leery of this one, since if a mistake is made, there’s a chance you could upgrade your firmware and then not be able to unlock it again. They also have all sorts of other warnings and exceptions on their blog post. As they say, don’t download and run those files without seriously thinking about what you’re doing with your iPhone.
If, after all of that thinking, you decide it is time to crack open your iPhone with the 3.1.3 firmware, the jailbreak will put together a custom 3.1.3 IPSW for you to restore back on to your iPhone — here’s a quick how-to to start with. Good luck, and be careful out there!
[via Engadget]
Dev team releases PwnageTool 3.1.5 to jailbreak iPhone 3.1.3 firmware originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Dev team releases PwnageTool 3.1.5 to jailbreak iPhone 3.1.3 firmware originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Filed under: Hardware, Cult of Mac, iPhone
Unfortunately these guys are already sold out (though maybe there’ll be more soon), but I’m still posting them here just to gaze on their awesomeness — Etsy user Rabbitrampage put together these six iPhone icon keychains (well, five iPhone and one Finder) out of felt, thread, and fiber fill. I think they look great, though it would be nice to have even more custom icons available. I guess if you want a special icon keychain made of your own app (ahem), you’ll have to make it yourself.
This same Etsy user also enjoys wrapping your iPhone in felt recreations of old retro items like Game Boys and even a VHS tape. I’ve already got a case on my iPhone, but if I didn’t have one yet, I’d definitely pick up one of these.
[via iPhone Savior]
TUAWiPhone icons in felt keychain form originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Filed under: How-tos, iTunes, iPhone, iPod touch
By default, movies and TV shows in the iPod portion of the iPhone and iPod touch play in landscape view. The biggest change with respect to video orientation came about with iPhone OS 2.0, which provided the option for landscape-right viewing (that is, with the volume and silent/vibrate buttons facing up). While most videos could, and should, be viewed in landscape, there are times that call for a portrait perspective — for example, when placing your iPhone into a dock, which is what I do when working out.
Getting your iPhone to play a movie or TV show in portrait mode requires a simple change in the video’s tag, from TV Show or Movie to Podcast. Simply right-click on the file and select “get info “(or you could use the Command-I shortcut). Then, in the “Media Kind” section within the “Options” tab of the video, select Podcast. Now, the videos will show up in both the Podcasts and Videos section of the iPod portion on your iPhone.
Obviously, this isn’t something you’d want to do with every movie or TV show in your library. So, to revert the file back to its old self, you’d want to follow the same process and change the video back to a TV show or movie.
Tricking your iPhone to play TV shows and movies in portrait view originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Tricking your iPhone to play TV shows and movies in portrait view originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Fans of This American Life, a weekly Public Radio show hosted by Ira Glass, were thrilled to discover that a dedicated iPhone app had been released. Developed by Public Radio Exchange, the This American Life (TAL) app not only gives users unfettered on-demand access to the show’s entire archives going back to 1995, but provides the content in a user-friendly and interactive format.
Now, instead of buying those back episodes for 99¢ apiece on iTunes or getting stuck listening on the Web, you can grab those episodes anytime for a flat app cost of $2.99. We gave the TAL app a whirl—being the huge TAL fanboys and girls that we are—and found that it was definitely worth the money, despite a few of the typical annoyances that come with third-party apps.
Reactions around the Web to the lack of Flash support on the iPad are extremely polarized. The most common complaint is that Flash is necessary for a larger percentage of the Web to work properly. Popular video sites like Hulu, FunnyOrDie, and others are effectively shut out of the iPad browsing experience. This also includes many casual games, a majority of which are written and deployed online using Adobe Flash.
Of course, Apple has its own reasons for excluding Flash from the iPhone OS (which also runs on the iPad). Apple also offers its own alternatives—for which you’ll have to pay—but those aren’t always up to par with the unbridled selection you find online.
We’d like to know your position on the absence of Flash on the iPad. We realize that this is a random sampling and not authoritative, but we’re still interested in what you guys think about this issue. Our readers skew highly to the educated, high-income, IT, and otherwise professional market segment, and we know that many of you like to tinker with your gadgets or are software developers.
Go to Poll Technica: do you want Flash on the iPad?
Filed under: Apple Financial
No doubt about it, Apple stock has been on a wild ride since yesterday’s iPad announcement. Investors were hoping Apple would deliver big, and while many Wall Street analysts believe they hit a home run – thanks in large part to not just the technology, but the price point of the device – the stock took a large dip today. On news of the iPad, AAPL closed at $207.88 yesterday. Today the stock lost over 4% to close at 199.29.
Why? Well, most of the time there’s a huge sell off after Apple announces something new. A majority of the sell off is because people generally price the stock according to the rumor. It’s the old “buy on the rumor, sell on the news” mentality. I’ve already stated in the past that I believe AAPL is headed past $300, and their latest earnings certainly seem to be pointing in that direction. But how does the iPad fit into all of this?
Frank Cioffi Founder and editor of Apple Investor News has written an interesting editorial for The Huffington Post about what the iPad should mean to investors.
Cioffi (who’s long on AAPL) admits that while he’s a huge Mac fan, he probably won’t be buying the iPad because he’s not sure how it would give him anything he doesn’t currently have in his iPods, iPhone, or Mac laptops. He goes on to recognize that if one veteran Apple fan doesn’t see the iPad as providing something his other Apple devices don’t, it can’t bode well for the short-term outlook for the iPad, which many investors are expecting to be an iPhone-like megahit. But then he brings up a critical point: the iPad is a slow-growth device.
Apple has just reinvented portable entertainment and mobile computing. No, it’s not “magical,” as Apple claims, but it is an elegant form factor that will engage niche industries to create apps for their businesses. It will likely become a hit with educators… just as Apple started the decade with the iPod, which grew slowly into an iconic device, I predict the iPad, after initially underwhelming investors, will also grow over time and indeed create a new device category. But it will take time… Apple is planning for the long haul. This company has moved beyond an e-reader and created an e-entertainment device.
Cioffi also points out one thing investors should be even more ecstatic about than the Apple tablet – Steve Jobs’ weight. He’s looking like he gained some (not a lot, but some) and IMHO is looking much better than last we saw him.
But what say you? Are we going to be seeing dissapointing iPad Q3 numbers? Will the iPad eventually become the next “must have” tech gear like the iPod and iPhone? Tell us in the comments!
Disclaimer: This author owns shares in AAPL. Opinions in this post are those of the author only and should not be considered as investment advice.
TUAWiPad: Investors shouldn’t think short-term originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Filed under: Gaming, Freeware, Developer, iPhone, App Store
This one might require a little patience to watch, but those interested will be rewarded well, I think. The footage above is from an Apple Store in Toyko’s Ginza shopping district, where none other than Keita Takahashi showed up to demo his latest iPhone game. Who’s Keito Takahashi? He’s the gaming auteur behind Katamari Damacy and Noby Noby Boy, two of the weirdest yet most fascinating games of the last decade or so, and he’s bringing Noby Noby Boy to the iPhone.
Unfortunately, the above demo is in Japanese, but you can see what kinds of thinking is going into the game. It looks like he’s completely revamping the game as a top-down physics-based version of the already very strange PS3 version. We would provide you with some more explanation, but it probably won’t make things any clearer: the object of the game is to stretch out a little creature named BOY, and at the end of the level, your stretched length adds up with all the other players of the game online to another creature called GIRL, who is currently reaching out into the solar system. Told you it wouldn’t help.
Nevertheless, it’s pretty fascinating just to watch the four videos (start here) and see what weirdness transpires in the video — there are some interesting touchscreen controls, and lots of quick physics on the items bouncing around the iPhone’s screen. It’s not that great as an actual game preview, but that might not matter much anyway: Takahashi said a while back that whenever this weird monstrosity does release on Apple’s handheld, “price-wise might be like free.” We can’t wait to see it.
[via Panic]
TUAWNoby Noby Boy demoed at Apple Store in Japan originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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In light of the current tablet frenzy, TUAW is not alone shouting “Tablet, Tablet!” from the rooftops. The tablet has been a widespread and consistent story from several directions which we have been compiling and discussing. Over the last few weeks, TUAW has depended on multiple background sources who have information about the device, as do scores of other sites and news outlets.
In that light, we’ve assembled this round up of analysis and opinions posts, based on the most-likely credible rumors and sources we’ve been able to dig up from the last few years. Here are some of our longer discussion pieces that you might have missed the first time ’round.
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Publishing different: What the tablet brings to the table Like newspapers before them, traditional book publishers are facing the reality of the new digital world. With Apple’s much anticipated tablet expected to debut within the next few months, they’re… |
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App Store approvals and the tablet: why it matters When iTunes Connect returned after its Christmas break, developers noticed that things had changed quite a bit on the App Store approval front. Applications that had formerly taken ten to fourteen… |
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Tablet speculation: How could a tablet connect to the world? Do you know what word Dave Caolo is hearing in his sleep? Tablet. What phrase is trending mightily on Google Search? Tablet. What is every Apple fanboy and fangirl dreaming of for…um…some new… |
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TUAWTablet analysis and opinion: What TUAW has put on the table originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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