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Will Google Crush The iPhone?
Apple Faces iPhone Legal Challenge
AT&T Has 20 MORE iPhone Questions
Fixing iPhone signal loss
With this Apple iPhone, I can go on a web Safari
Will Google Crush The iPhone?
Forbes’ Brian Caulfield says:
Take one look at the smart-phone market, and it's easy to see a murderer's row. Apple sold one million iPhones in less than three months this summer. Palm is rejuvenating its lineup with the cheap, pretty Centro. Research in Motion's BlackBerry continues to enslave the corporate class. And Microsoft looms large as well, with its software on 140 phone models available from 160 mobile-phone carriers.
But all those devices are, well, just phones. None truly disrupt the wireless industry. That fact has left the field wide open for Google to do a little murdering of its own. Industry sources say the online search and advertising specialist could publicly detail its long-rumored mobile-phone project as early as next week--with tech-gadget bloggers gossiping about every aspect of the look and feel of the latest tech toy.
Ultimately, however, the device's design won't matter. Instead, it is the business model powering Google's phone that promises to be something completely new. To Google, it doesn't matter how many software licenses you can grab. It doesn't matter how many pricey handsets you can sell in a quarter. The only thing that matters is eyeballs. More people spending more time with Google's phone will mean more money.
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Apple Faces iPhone Legal Challenge
vnunet.com's Iain Thomson reports:
An environmental group is planning to sue Apple over hazardous materials used in the iPhone unless the company changes the design.
The Center for Environmental Health (CEH) has warned Apple to stop using brominated flame retardants (BFRs) and PVCs in the iPhone within 60 days or face legal action.
The group is not seeking a product recall, but wants warning stickers put on all iPhones to alert users to the alleged risks.
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http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2201567/iphone-faces-legal-challenge
AT&T Has 20 MORE iPhone Questions
2ADay reports:
A few weeks after the iPhone hit the market, AT&T sent out an extensive 20-question survey (covered in this post).
Now, AT&T has followed up with another email survey - some questions the same - obviously to gauge differences between mid-July and now mid-October but others are more detailed in asking what you would like to see changed on the iPhone.
For the full report visit here:
http://2aday.wordpress.com/2007/10/19/att-has-20-more-iphone-questions/
Fixing iPhone signal loss
TUAW's Erica Sadun reports:
Yesterday, Scott forwarded me along a question from TUAW reader John Stuart. He wrote in asking about his cell signal. When put on sleep/hold, the signal fades out and he can't receive calls. His phone is unlocked and in the UK, and this signal loss appears to be a common fault.
As a temporary measure, John started playing back music on repeat, with the volume cut off. As you might imagine, this runs down the battery and prevents him from actually using the iPod features without having to do extra work.
TUAW to the rescue. After polling the developer community, ApolloIM developer Alex "Arminius" Schaefer came to the rescue. He remembered that SummerBoard supported a mode that would retain your signal even in sleep mode.
The hack works like this....
You can check it out at:
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/10/19/fixing-iphone-signal-loss/
With this Apple iPhone, I can go on a web Safari
The Telegraph's Claudine Beaumont says:
I was in New York last week, and couldn't resist paying a visit to the Apple store on Fifth Avenue, hoping to bag myself some cut-price gadgets thanks to the weak dollar....
I did manage to get a little bit more time on both the iPod touch and the iPhone to see which I wanted to buy, and I've finally stopped dithering and made my decision: I'm opting for the iPhone, which arrives in UK shops on November 9.
For me, the killer application on both of Apple's touchscreen devices is the full Safari web browser, which allows you to surf the internet exactly as you would on a computer, without the need to visit websites that have been optimised for the tiny screens of mobile handsets. The problem is, the iPod touch can access the internet only when you're in a wi-fi hotspot, whereas the iPhone can surf the web (albeit rather sluggishly) over the mobile phone network when not in a wireless internet zone.
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Charles W. Moore
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