Applelinks iPhone News Reader - Wednesday, August 20, 2008
iPhone OS 2.0.2 Released; Fails to Fix 3G Reception Issues
Rising iPhone Browser Share Points To Sales Of 5 Million 3G Units
The iPhone Kill-Switch Kerfuffle
Googlephone Is Coming Soon
iPhone OS 2.0.2 Released; Fails to Fix 3G Reception Issues
iPhone Atlas reports:
Apple has released iPhone OS 2.0.2 with its obligatory but unhelpful release notes indicating only "bug fixes."
Unfortunately, a resolution to widespread, frustrating 3G reception issues is not among those fixes. In fact, some users have reported that the update manifests poorer 3G reception that 2.0.1, with devices now giving a "No Service" message in previously 3G-accessible locations.
For the full report visit here:
http://tinyurl.com/6x6ack
Rising iPhone Browser Share Points To Sales Of 5 Million 3G Units
AppleInsider's Slash Lane reports:
The iPhone's share of the worldwide browser market has increased nearly twofold following the release of the iPhone 3G last month, leading researchers at PacificCrest to suggest that September quarter sales of the device may be tracking 1.5 million units ahead of expectations.
In a report to clients Tuesday, analyst Andy Hargreaves cited data from Net Applications that shows the iPhone's share of the global browser market to have accelerated to 0.31 percent from 0.16 percent since the July 11th launch of the iPhone 3G.
For the full report visit here:
http://tinyurl.com/5wj57z
The iPhone Kill-Switch Kerfuffle
BusinessWeek's Olga Kharif reports:
And you thought Google's got the goods on you. Sure, the Web search leader keeps tabs on the searches that emanate from your PC. But consider the data dossier that could be drawn up on users of Apple's iPhone. Subscribers use the music-playing mobile phone not just for storing music, photos, and contact lists, but also for e-mail, Web surfing, and software downloads from Apple's iTunes.
Concern over how Apple and software developers that work with it might use some of that intel surfaced in recent days with reports that the company built in a "kill switch" that lets it disable applications it considers malicious, even after they've been downloaded onto a subscriber's phone. "The idea that Apple can choose what functionality my applications should have frightens me," Jon Zdziarski, who discovered the existence of the kill switch, recently wrote on his blog. "How about legislation that requires a mandatory kill switch be integrated into every human being, so that the police can kill an individual without even needing to dispatch an officer to a scene?"
But for all the unease over the kill switch, concerns over how Apple may use iPhone subscriber data may be misplaced, industry experts say.....
For the full report visit here:
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2008/tc20080818_266301.htm
Googlephone Is Coming Soon
The Register's Bill Ray reports:
T-Mobile will launch an Android phone this year and with Google allowing developers access to version 0.9, we'll soon see if it has managed the finesse of an iPhone with Nokia-grade functionality.
Version 0.9 of Google's platform is now available for download, with a redesigned user interface and some significant improvements in functionality, as well as lots of eye-candy to seduce the iPhone crowd. But Google's revolutionary platform is still lacking some of the features we've come to expect of a smartphone, including hardware on which to run it.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/19/android_new_version/
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