Tag Archive | iPhone
WWDC 2011 – Part 3: iOS5
The main new features of iOS5 are the new notification centre, wi-fi syncing and the ability to be PC free and iMessage among others. Notification centre is definitely the biggest and most significant update. I got my first smartphone a while back, a Sony Ericsson Android phone. It doesn’t run the most up to date [...]
Thoughts on Nokia’s Burning Platform
To be frank, I thought the Nokia CEO Stephen Elop’s open letter was a waste of time and extremely long overdue. It should never have come to this. I don’t understand why he wasted so much time talking about a burning platform. He should have just got straight to the point and told his company [...]
More on iPhoneography and Hipstamatic
I wrote a while ago about whether iPhone photography, or iPhoneography as it’s often referred to is good or bad for photography in general. I was fully in support of these kinds of apps which allow anyone to really bring out their artistic flair while taking regular snap photos. Hipstamatic is similar to Instagram in many of [...]
Instagram and the Rise of Artistic iPhone Photography
Casual snap photographers have been replacing their point and shoots with more practical mobile phones for many years now, and the technology behind those camera-phones has consistently been improving. While even the most expensive of phones can’t match the performance in resolution and picture quality of even the average current point and shoot models, quality is often [...]
Skype – How it changed everything, and mobile video calling
When I come to think of it, Skype has become an indispensable tool for me recently. I mostly use it to keep in close contact with someone very special to me, and the fact that it’s free to talk to someone in another country for hours every day in perfect sound quality is amazing to me still. [...]
Facebook Places: 4 in a Square
Facebook places is the latest major feature addition to the massive social network. You can use your iPhone or other compatible phone or iPod Touch presumably, and check in to any location when you’re out. You can describe what you’re doing and tag friends who are there with you. Essentially, you can look at this [...]
Apple Event: New Cases, Full Refunds Offered
I think Apple have done a great job of handling and hopefully diffusing the antenna situation today. As I predicted the other day in my last post, they did decide to hand out free bumpers or other cases to all owners and have admitted a problem. They are also emphasising a full refund offer for [...]
WWDC 2010: iPhone 4 Thoughts
WWDC didn’t really bring much in the way of things we didn’t already know. We got to see the iPhone 4 in all its glory for the first time officially. The device at first may look a bit more chunky than its predecessor, but in actuality, although it is less curved, it is thinner than [...]
Google IO: Android 2.2 Froyo Thoughts
Android has really been picking up steam recently and I have to say I didn’t expect it to start challenging Apple so soon. Yes, it has been 18 months, but that isn’t really that long when you’re faced with a monumental task of creating a brand new mobile operating system from scratch. Not only that, [...]
What can Palm do for HP?
Palm have been a company in recent years that have been under a lot of pressure to produce a product to re-establish them at the head of the Smartphone market. Of course, they now have the iPhone to contend with as well as a strong line-up of Android powered devices. Palm were looking to be [...]
