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Smartphone Options Dictated By Device Exclusivity
Sprint launched the EVO 4G just before Apple unveiled the details on the iPhone 4 at WWDC. Verizon is planning to launch the new Motorola Droid on June 23–the day before the iPhone 4 officially goes on sale. Both moves seem like marketing ploys intended to divert attention from the next generation iPhone, but device exclusivity and carrier contracts create a situation where these marketing …
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iPhone reselling takes off after WWDC
After Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone 4 last week, gadget trade-in site Gazelle reports 10,000 old iPhones being traded in the week following.
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iPhone 4 available for pre-order
Steve Jobs announced the new iPhone 4 only eight days ago during his WWDC 2010 keynote, and it is now ready for pre-order. Well, at least one of them is.
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iPhone 4 to have double the RAM of the iPad or iPhone 3GS
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Week in review: iPhone preorder overload
Preorders overwhelm the system, while the E3 expo makes gamers salivate. Also: Twitter at a crossroads.
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Apple asks FCC for broad secrecy on iPhone 4 documents
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5 Reasons to Upgrade to Apple’s Safari 5
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Chinese Apple developer gets iPad stolen during WWDC; Apple gives him new one, Steve Jobs emails
Here’s the story. The victim, Stone, is a Chinese Apple developer from Tencent…
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Apple to host second WWDC, exclusively for the Mac?
According to a French site Hardmac, there may be another annual WWDC dedicated exclusively to the Mac platform. Sources apparently tipped the publication that Apple wants to show that the Mac platform isn’t going anywhere, as some are fearing because Macs took a back seat at this years WWDC: One of our most reliable sources at [...]
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Which Web Design Company?

There are thousands of web design directories that provide a listing service for web design companies. A Google search for ‘website design company directory’ shows over 184,000,000 results from pages worldwide. Most directories provide no value-added functionalities for web design members or users. How do such directories help a business looking for a web design company? The simple answer is they don’t!

Let’s face it, choosing a web design company is a pretty tough job when you are not really sure what to look for in a company. Do you go for the best price? The company who is based closest to you? A friend who designs sites as a hobby? Or one that was recommended by the company next door? To date, the industry has mostly worked through referrals, and Which Web Design Company is the first to take this concept to the Web.

At Which Web Design Company a business can search and find web design which matches their particular criteria – whether that’s price, location or type of website required. They can narrow down their choice by reading ratings and reviews by previous clients and can contact the web design company directly.

Which Web Design Company was created to bring value back into the web design industry. It’s crucial for businesses to be able to find the right web design company for their industry. It’s time the web design industry distinguished itself – many web design companies have already hocked onto the fact that they need to work with a niche industry to create successful websites. Web designing is more than just putting together pages to form a website; it’s about creating a marketing tool. And to do this, it’s an absolute must to understand the company’s industry, understand the business’s objectives – because the whole point in building their website is to achieve these targets through the Internet. WWDC creates a platform for people to be able to find a website design company which is best suited to their industry, a company that will understand who their customers are and how to reach out to them.

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Seven Reasons Why the Iphone is More Computer Than Phone

You had to be living in a cave over the past ten days to miss the iPhone hype, and while it’s now replaced by the Batman hype, I thought I’d share with my experience a week or so in.

 

There have been plenty of articles written about the new iPhone 3G: Walt Mossberg, gizmodo, Engadget and cnet, so I’m not going to give a review, but I am going to tell you why it’s a game changer and why it’s more computer than phone. Building on what David Pogue wrote about last week regarding applications, let’s go a little deeper and talk about usage.

 

First, if you take a look at any of the reviews listed above, you’ll notice that the phone usage comes last. Why? Well, like I said, this is more computer than phone. It’s about what you can do with it, and oh, by the way, you can make calls as well. As I look at my usage over the past week, it’s weighted about 80% data/computer and 20% phone; if anything, I think I’ll probably up the data/computer percentage a bit over time. We’ll see.

 

And the roll call:

 
#1 It crashes

I’ll get the negative out of the way first. Sure, I’ve had some BlackBerry restarts and crashes, but I’ve had more in the last week on the iPhone than I’ve had in the last few months on my BlackBerry Curve.  So iPhone -1

 
#2 Application store

It’s a single place to get all the goods for the iPhone and plenty of applications, many of which are free, that really expand the usage of the phone. And that’s the key; the application store is a conduit for adding features to your phone. Just as your computer doesn’t do much without software, the hardware and application software from third parties takes this phone to another level. Application store +3

 

So let’s talk about computer-like behavior and some of these applications that enable it.

 
#3 Where you at

Borrowing for a second from Boost Mobile and Kanye, you really don’t have to ask this again. Loopt, demonstrated at WWDC, does run on other mobile platforms, but on the iPhone it really shines. Add your friends to your networks and Loopt keeps track of where you are via the built-in GPS, as well as letting you share photos and messages, all without a call. Location-based services +2

 
#4 Music

Devices that play music anywhere have (in many thanks to the iPod) become almost ubiquitous, but the iPhone with its applications manages to best them all. First, Pandora –yes the one that your IT dept. may be trying to block on your network–runs on the iPhone. Once I installed the app on my phone, using my same Pandora log-in gave me access to all my stations that I’d been listening to on my Mac. And it has the same thumbs up /down feature so Pandora can keep learning about the kind of music I like and don’t. Oh and it plays over 3G as well as WiFi, so truly music Pandora on the go.

 

Shazam, and I don’t mean Captain Marvel. Instead, launch Shazam and hold it up to a radio/tv/speaker and Shazam will listen to and identify the song. Now you’re one touch away from previewing and buying it on iTunes. Music on the iPhone +3

 
#5 Games

Taking full advantage of the accelerometer games like Crash Bandicoot and iPint (which by the way is a GREAT example of advergaming gone right!) allows the user to control the games by simply tilting and rolling the phone. Playing feels definitely un-phone-like, more like a PSP like experience, a great way to kill time when you’re not making a call. Game play +2

 
#6 Social Networking

What computer phone would be complete without social networking tools? And with the new iPhone came AIM Chat; as expected, it’s connected to your iChat / AIM account so it uses the same log-in to give you access to your buddy lists.

 

Recently updated (thankfully, as the initial release version was light on features) is the Facebook app. So chat and the majority of my main Facebook features, all on the go, a winner. Staying Connected +3

 
#7 Email and calendar

Building on the Mac’s already well-integrated email and calendar in Leopard, Apple’s new MobileMe gives you Over the Air (OTA) syncing, just like those corporate BlackBerry Enterprise Servers. Now admittedly, MobileMe had some issues in the maelstrom of switch from .mac and new iPhone release and some users have had problems with the OTA syncing, but my usage has been great. And I love that my calendar, email and contacts stay up to date across my computer, web and iPhone. OTA syncing +1

 

I’ll stop with seven reasons, but the list could go on, mainly due to the great applications, leveraging the hardware and software that Apple built. It’s a game changer in my opinion. Why? Because it’s less about the phone and more about the device. Being able to work, play, connect, post, etc. pretty much wherever you are is very powerful. And while other devices were here first, the iPhone just gets it a little more right.

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Thumbthug Mobile Games – Top 10 Iphone Games of 2008

This year has without a doubt been the year of the iPhone and more to the point, the year of the iPhone mobile game. The launch of the Apple (AAPL) iTunes App. Store earlier in the year unleashed a torrent of new games and iPhone applications onto the world. Although most of the early releases tended to be rehashed versions of existing game concepts, adapted for the iPhone experience, as 2008 progressed, our friends the game developers, have started to get to grips with the uniquely new technologies. Which have helped define the iPhone as THE mobile gaming experience to be reckoned with and hopefully with the game developers just getting warming up, who Knows what 2009 will bring!

Oh yeh! and you can make a phone call if you really want.

As the year draws to a close we asked our thumbthug.com mobile gamers to weigh in on what they felt were the best iPhone games of 2008.

10. Tap Tap Dance/Tap Tap Revenge Opinion was pretty much split were tapping was concerned. Both Tap Tap Dance which is a Dance Dance Revolution style game and Tap Tap Revenge which is basically Guitar Hero for the iPhone scored high this year both for playability and just shear down and dirty fun. But if we had to give it either way it would probably go to Tap Tap Revenge because, lets face it, more people want to be lead guitarist in a rock band than a backup dancer for Britney! The online element also helps to add depth to the gaming experience.

9. SimCity EA has done a great job in porting this game over to the iPhone maintaining all of it’s engaging and addictive gameplay qualities. The downside is that there are still a few bugs in the system that need to be sorted but EA are working on them and have promised to have them resolved shortly. That said, SimCity may have scored higher this year if it were not for this.

8. Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D Really not much to say about this game apart from it’s just a fun driving game that uses the iPhone’s accelerometer to steer. If you are a fan of games like Mario Karts on the Wii, you will be a fan of Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D on the iPhone. Just don’t try and walk down the street whilst playing it, lampposts are harder than they look.

7. Super Monkey Ball Another just down right fun game that makes great use of the iPhone’s accelerometer technology and i would not have expected anything less from SEGA. Just watch-out for the motion sickness!

6. Bejeweled 2 This game seems to become everybody’s favorite regardless of what platform it is thrown onto. It just goes to show that great gameplay out weighs great graphics every time.

5. Tetrus Classic, classic and again a CLASSIC!

4. Enigmo Voted “Best iPhone Game” at Apple’s WWDC ’08 this fun puzzle game also seems to be a favorite of the thumbthug.com crowd. If you are the shoot ‘em up type cell phone gamer then this game is probably not for you but if you like a game that is fun, challenging and makes you think then you are an Enigmo!

3. Trism Another game to take full advantage of the iPhone’s tilt and touch gameplay, Trism sits somewhere between Tetris and Bejeweled in the game style highraki. Yes Fun, Yes Addictive!

2. Topple If you love to stack you will love Topple, this very addictive “How high can you go?” game is both funny and fun at the same time. Drag, rotate and stack your blocks and when they fall, drag, rotate and stack some more. Oh, and it’s FREE which might account for some of it’s ranking.

1. Rolando Without a shadow of a double, Rolando is the Thumbthug.com Gamers iPhone game of 2008 and I mean overwhelmingly, we are talking “Obama-esc” landslide. And i have to say that we here in the thumbthug.com office tend to agree. This puzzle game utilizes all aspects of the iPhone’s gaming technologies to great effect. Hats off to ngmoco, Inc for creating the iPhone game of 2008.

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iPhone 3G S vs. iphone 3G: the new iPhone looks promising

iPhone 3G S vs. iphone 3G: the new iPhone looks promising

source: http://bestvideoconvertersoftware.blogspot.com/2009/06/iphone-3g-s-vs-iphone-3g-new-iphone.html
The competition in the mobile phone world will never stop. On June 6th Palm have published its new competitive phone Palm Pre. Then on June 8, Apple has unveiled new iPhone at WWDC – the iPhone 3G S. It announced that new iPhone 3G S will sell on June 19th. The price of iPhone 3G 3.0 has slow down to 99 dollars and the rumor said that new iPhone will sell at 199 dollars of 16GB and 299 dollars of 32GB. Besides the price strategy, the new iPhone will largely improve its function as well as bring many new features to compete with Palm Pre. Then let’s have a close look at the new iPhone 3G S: How does the new iPhone improved compare with the original iPhone 3G 3.0?

Appearance: unchanged
From the picture we can found that there is not much change on iPhone’s appearance.

Battery life: longer
The new iPhone battery life last longer than the original iPhone 3G: for talk time, iPhone 3G can last up to 10 hours on 2G and iPhone 3G S is 2 hours longer; On Internet use, iPhone 3G can last up to 6 hours on Wi-Fi, and iPhone 3G S can last 9 hours on Wi-Fi; For audio playback iPhone 3G S can last up to 30 hours while iPhone 3.0 24 hours, and for video playback, iPhone 3G S can last up to 10 hours, 3 hours longer than iPhone 3G.

Storage capacity: bigger
The rumors said the capacity of new iPhone would be bumped to 16GB and 32GB. Much bigger than the 8GB of iPhone 3G,

The Speed: Faster
Apple is promising faster performance — the “S” in 3G S signifies “speed.” Apple claims it’ll render Web pages and launch applications twice as fast on average as the iPhone 3G. So the new iPhone would be faster to use.

New features of the new iPhone:
iPhone 3G S Camera
With 3 Megapixel, auto-focus camera the new iPhone will allow you to tap on the part of the photo you want to focus, and it will automatically do so. It will also be adding the ability to automatically handle exposure, white balance and better low-light sensitivity. If you want to get close to a photo subject, say up to 10cm away, the new camera will also have an auto-macro.
iPhone 3G S Compass
With the new iPhone you may always be able to find north, and if you double-tap the screen, it will show you your current orientation, even in the Maps app.
iPhone 3G S Voice Control
Why bother with touching your phone when you can just voice command it?  Hold down the home button for a second and you will be prompted to start issuing voice commands which can include making calls, asking your device what song is playing, telling it to find similar songs and so on.

More multimedia functions:
Record video
The new iPhone camera is going to be able to shoot video!  The new feature will allow you to record at 30 frames per second (fps) at VGA resolution with audio, auto-focus, auto-white balance and auto-exposure.

Edit video on the go
With the new iPhone you needn’t to wait until you’re at your computer to start editing your mobile movies. You may trim your footage right on iPhone. Just drag to select start and end points on a filmstrip.

Audio playback
iPhone 3G S supports audio formats: AAC, Protected AAC, MP3, MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 2, 3, and 4), Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV
Video playback
As video files, the iPhone 3G S supported: H.264 video, up to 1.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Low-Complexity version of the H.264 Baseline Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats;
H.264 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Baseline Profile up to Level 3.0 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats;
MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats.
If you haven’t H.264 or MPEG-4 videos on your computer, you may use Nidesoft DVD to iPhone Converter to convert DVD files into iPhone 3G S compatible formats or use Nidesoft iPhone video converter to convert all other video files into iPhone 3G S, just follow the step by step guide.

Share video anywhere
With the new iPhone 3G S, you may send your video via MMS, or select video from the Camera Roll and let iPhone add it to a new email message. You may also publish videos to YouTube to share your videos.

So, after the comparison, the new iPhone 3G S seems more promising than the iPhone 3.0 to hit the new Palm Pre. Of course, nobody knows the result before it is published, let’s just wait for its official release date of June 19th.

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