March 07, 2010
By: Neal
Category: Uncategorized
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Rumours circulated this week that European iPhone carrier O2 is reportedly planning to allow video calls on a future “4g” iPhone, for the same price as voice calls.
The evidence is an allegedly leaked list of future tarriffs, and if it’s real, it will be further evidence of a front-facing camera
However, it’s now also being postulated that these are general prices for video calling on all O2 phones.
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March 07, 2010
By: Neal
Category: Hardware / Accessories, News
Apple’s Steve Jobs has let slip that it will not be possible to tether the forthcoming iPad to and iPhone, to use the iPhone’s Internet connection.
Asked by an e-mail correspondent whether such tethering would be possible, jobs reportedly replied with the following cryptic and intriguing response:
No.”
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March 03, 2010
By: Neal
Category: News, iPhone Apps, security
Virgin Anerica has stopped using the Flash platform init’s web-pages, so that iPhone and iPod users can access them.
According to The Register, the airline’s Chief Information Officer said:
"I don’t want to cater to one hardware or one software platform one way to another, and Flash eliminates iPhone users. This year is going to be the year of the mobile [for Virgin]."
It is hoped that by the end of this year, if the system is approved by security authorities, Apple gadget users will be able to flash an electronic boarding pass at whoever asks for it.
This could be interesting (to geeks, anyway), if it becomes a trend. Could it really be that large companies are going to make do with, and even revert to, HTML for their fancy web presences?
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February 20, 2010
By: Neal
Category: Nonsense, Tips, iPhone Apps
Lost your iPhone? Want to use the “find my iPhone” feature of Apple’s Mobile Me service to find ít?
No problem! Now you don’t even need access to a computer.
All you have to do is download the Mobile Me app to your iPhone, and use the “Find My iPhone” feature directly from your iPhone that you can’t find.
Genius!
Anyhoo, the useful thing to come out of all this, is that Apple’s Me.com now works better on the iPhone.
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February 20, 2010
By: Neal
Category: Hardware / Accessories, News, Rumour
It’s being rumoured that the next generation of iPhones may come with Samsung’s “Super AOLED” screens.
According to OLED-Display.net
Our OLED industry sources told us that Apple accept the lifetime from Samsungs AMOLED Display, but Apple has been reluctant to use OLEDs in their iPhone, because of the power consumption on email and web browsing. They may be changing their position as the efficacy of the material increases and since they can use a black background with white or blue letters for email. The power consumption of the OLED is dependant on the content, Apple is fearful that the use of the iPhone in accessing web sites will use up too much power.” (more)
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February 20, 2010
By: Neal
Category: Nonsense
You know all those cars that Toyota recently had to recall? T
urns out it may be a result of a Apple’s latest iPhone software update.
Read all about it here!
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February 20, 2010
By: Neal
Category: News, Nonsense, Opinion, security
The emergency services in Tracy, California, are no longer free.
Starting soon, if you have an emergency, you’ll be charged $300 just for having your phone call to 911 answered.
The only alternative is to pay a “volunary” $48 annual subscription which allows you as many injuries and rapes as you can fit into twelve months of your life.
(More at CBS13.com)
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February 18, 2010
By: Neal
Category: Nonsense, Tips
When the weather’s cold and the gloves are on, your iPhone or iPod touch are unusable. Sausages make ideal controllers, but which works best?…” (Read more from the The Times of London)
And they say print journalism is dying.
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February 18, 2010
By: Neal
Category: Nonsense, Rumour
It’s easy to get carried away by Apple patent applications and similar documents. So let’s do it.
AppleInsider has been looking at a patent application involving ways of improving the manufacture of cameras on handheld devices. Somewhere along the ay, they came across this íllustration:
I refer you to the question posed in the headline.
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February 18, 2010
By: Neal
Category: Hardware / Accessories, News, jail breaking
Finding out whether your iPhone can be jailbroken and easily unlocked unlocked is surprisingly complicated these days. Not only do you have to check what version firmware you’re running, there’s the issue that later versions of the 3Gs model can only get a“tethered” jailbreak.
By the time you figure out whether it’s worth a try, your head hurts.
iH8sn0w have come out with a tool for Windows that might help. F0rcast checks the jailbreakability of your device. Read about it at their website, here.
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February 18, 2010
By: Neal
Category: News, Twitter, security
Are you at an airport right now, happily tweeting away on one of the numerous Twitter smartphone apps, about the two week holiday you’re going on in Tunisia? Or perhaps you’re whining in 100 or so characters about the business trip you’re having to go on, and allowing foursquare to track your current location?
Well, you could be unwittingly making yourself appear on Please Rob Me, a site that shows tweets, often including exact locations, of people who tell the Internet that they’ve left their house unattended.
Worried yet?
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February 18, 2010
By: Neal
Category: Hardware / Accessories, News, Opinion, Rumour
An insurance company is alleging that four in ten claims on iPhone insurance are “suspicious”
Speaking to Sky News as quoted in Tom’s Guide, Supercover Insurance said that many phones appear “to show at least six blows by a hammer”.
While most customers take out insurance because they value their iPhone, we started to notice increases in claims as new and upgraded iPhones were launched," said Carmi Korine, director of Supercover Insurance. "For short periods around new model or upgrade launches, claims to replace lost, stolen or damaged iPhones go through the roof."
Korina added that iPhone owners can’t seem to wait it out for an upgrade, wanting to stay current by getting the latest model after resorting to "extreme measures." Many damaged models received by the company show at least six blows by a hammer. Korina said that one device was even dropped on the pavement and then run over by a car. “
Interestingly, they don’t seem to be saying whether suspect claims are always denied.
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February 17, 2010
By: Neal
Category: News, Nonsense, jail breaking, security
One of the ugly facts of life of jailbreaking and / or unlocking your iPhone or other device, is that you are reliant on the skills of geeky kids to come up with the tools.
Anyone looking for an untethered iPod Touch jailbreak (a jailbreak that doesn’t necessitate connecting your device to the computer every time you switch it on), may have come across various announcements and Twitter posts about the imminent arrival of “Spartanbr3ak”.
They will then have arrived at the website of “Spartanbr3ak”, and been treated to this:
It goes on to say
Your mom smells.I didn’t ask to be born. You’re gay. “
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February 17, 2010
By: Neal
Category: News, Opinion, iPhone Apps, itunes / music
Over twenty phone operators have formed an alliance to develop universal Mobile phone applications, that will work on many handsets including those by Sony Ericsson, Samsung and LG
Meanwhile, as the Irish Times reports, another alliance was announced on the same day, at the same conference.
Nokia and Intel announced they would form an alliance to produce an open platform that would work across a variety of devices, including phones, netbooks and connected TVs. The MeeGo brand will combine the Maemo and Moblin brands, and is expected to launch in the second quarter of 2010.”
In other words, two separate groups are each working on universal software platforms or mobile phones.
I’ve got a great idea.
How about each individual telco and manufacturer creates ít’s own, individual universal app platform? Then we could have hundreds of universal app platforms to choose from!
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February 17, 2010
By: Neal
Category: Rumour, jail breaking
Apple has reportedly banned a number of hackers from accessing it’s app store, citing “security reasons”.
For example, CNET reports that that one user,
….who recently found an exploit in the latest iPhone OS version 3.1.3 that could unlock the baseband version 05.12.01. [He] ….now gets a message saying that his Apple ID is banned for "security reasons" each time he tries to access the Apple’s App Store.
The user in question would have been easy to find, given that his username contains his full real name, and he is quite well known.
CNET goes on to point out that Apple could have gone further, by banning hackers’ devices from the store, rather than just their ID. As it stands, they can still create a new account.
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February 13, 2010
By: Neal
Category: Uncategorized
After a mysterious unexplained hiatus, we’re coming back. iPhone User News .com will be rebooting around the middle of next week. We’re coming back with daily dollops of news about Apple’s humble portable telephone.
We’ll also be launching a sister site all about that pad thing, in the near future.
Thanks for visiting.
Neal at iPhone User News.
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January 03, 2010
By: Neal
Category: Opinion, iPhone Apps, security
A new app lets you complete a TSA survey about airport security spot, and submit it along with your GPS location, from your iPhone.
Security staff can presumably then pinpoint your location in the airport and lock you up for reading on the plane, or something.
Anyway, read more about it at Examiner.com
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January 03, 2010
By: Neal
Category: Hardware / Accessories, iPhone Apps
A new app and wristband accessory for the iPhone and iPod Touch, called WakeMate, may help you wake up happier, albeit late for work.
It monitors what kind of sleep you’re in (REM, etc), and adjusts your alarm to the most suitable time to awake you.
You can, however, set it’s parameters, to ensure you don’t sleep too late.
Read more about it at Gizmodo.
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January 02, 2010
By: Neal
Category: Opinion
As you may have noticed, in recent years terrorists have been making occasional attempts to take away the freedom of people in the US and other countries.
The most recent attempt, on Christmas day, involved a man allegedly tried to ignite a bomb.
Thankfully, the authorities are ready to deal with this. They’re not going to let terrorists destroy the freedom that we in the western world cherish.
They’ve decided to retaliate by banning the reading of books and use of electronic items such as iPod Touches, last hours of international inbound flight.
That’ll teach ‘em.
You’ll never destroy our freedom, terrorists!
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December 30, 2009
By: Neal
Category: Tips
I have to admit that, until now, I thought that the only way to switch off gps / edge data on my iPhone was to switch on “Airplane mode”, which shuts down all data, messaging and calls, then switch “wifi” on to use that.
This works fine if you don’t want to receive any calls.
But sometimes you do, and if you’re using a choppy wifi signal, maybe listening to some online radio, you want to make sure your phone doesn’t slip into 3g or gprs / edge and run up a bill while you’re not looking.
Here’s a link to a very helpful blog post that tells you how to do just that on a jailbroken phone. After the once-off initial setup, a few taps in your “settings” screen is all you need.
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