So facebook quietly update their iPhone application earlier this week. What’s the major update? Contact syncing of course! It allows you to connect your iPhone contacts with your facebook friends and even download their picture from their profile! This used to cost a few bucks extra to have an un official app do this for you, but now the official app does it for freezies! Check out some screenshots below:
With the iPhone rumors a stirr, since there is a scheduled event that normally takes place around January every year, I figured I would give you one that I thought was rather interesting and seemed a bit more plausible for a June/July 2010 release. I assume that they would talk about it in the January event, and make us wait till June, like they have before. The tidbits that I am hearing is about a new 5MP camera that would shoot 1080p video. Now I find this plausible because of the source of the current iPhone’s camera, OmniVision seems to say they will be supplying Apple with a lot of these cameras for a summer release. To be completely honest, I would be more than thrilled to know that I waited 2 years for the 4th gen iPhone and skipped the 3GS. I would be even happier if AT&T would get off their duff and make the iPhone use its 7.2Mbps connection, or at least have 4G ready by then, and would make it a perfect union of 4’s! With this camera, it looks like you will also be able to shoot 1080p video! Does that mean we will finally be able to watch our HD versions of our movies?? Because I have a lot of podcasts that I watch everyweek, but I have to watch them on my PC b/c my iPhone doesn’t do HD. How about it Apple, you could blow M$ out of the water with an iPhone HD. The only thing is, the iPhone screen is still a crummy 320×480. I guess if they did a 5MP camera, they would also have to up the screen resolution as well.. that’s my take on it.
Merry Christmas!!
via [ArsTechnica] & [TUAW]
So I was on digg (as I am everyday..) and I was reading this article about Steve Jobs being a man of few words, and I absolutely LOVED it!!! This was a great read, but I had to laugh at his reply, it had the “Sent from my iPhone” signature attached! I remember reading an article somewhere saying that it was no longer o.k. to do that, and that you were just being a doucebag if you still had that on your emails.
Well, king of douchebags is still doing it, so I call it now, it’s still o.k.!
Has anyone questioned At&t and why we don’t have tethering yet on the iPhone? Have we just completely forgot that we were told that we would have it by the end of summer this year??? It was talked about that we would pay an extra $10 for the option (above the $30 for unlimited data) as do the blackberry users. This information was presented to us at the time of release of the iPhone 3.0 OS. When the iPhone 3GS was launched across the globe, many countries got this feature right off the bat, along with MMS! At&t dropped the ball and we didn’t get MMS until September!!!! Surprisingly, they didn’t even charge extra for having a feature that my black Razr V3 had like 7 years ago!!!! Here we are, going into the Christmas season of 09′ and we still have no road map or anything telling us when it is coming!
photo credit: ismashphone.com
The good thing is, I’m not a newby iPhone user and I have jailbroken mine. (Mind you, I don’t know how it actually works, but at least I can download the software and get out from the apple chains!!!) I actually updated my carrier file to 5.0 before Apple updated to 3.1 and I’ve had tethering enabled for quite a while now, and it didn’t require a jailbreak! Before that, I was using iPhoneModem 3.0, which I still use every now and then if I don’t have the USB cable.
There are plenty of other options out there as well, and a few that made it into the iTunes App store, but were eventually pulled. To be honest, I really don’t use the option that much, as I am either at work, home or even school where there is wireless that I can hope on. The only time I don’t use work or school and iPhone modem instead is when I want to do some financial transaction.
You can see where this post got inspired from:
via [Digg] via [iSmashphone]
AT&T has finally set a date, 9/25/09. iPhone will finally get MMS as a native feature (that my RAZR V3 had like 6 years ago). Now if you remember, a few months back At&t stated that they will not charge anything extra for the MMS feature, and will treat it as a regular text message. (There was a FAQ link online, but it has since disappeared) This is a little late, since fall starts on 9/22, but I guess since they are finally letting it happen, I’ll let it slide. I don’t want to see any extra charges for my MMS!!! (see a post about it over at iLounge & PCWorld)
The only problem is, that there is still no word on tethering. Now for those of us with jailbroken iPhones, we have been using iPhoneModem or downloaded the .ipcc file that allows tethering to work just by plugging it in USB or over bluetooth. I wish we could hear an official date on that, but until then, I will continue to use iPhoneModem.
Now if this isn’t the way of the future, I don’t know what is! US bank is now updating their iPhone application to feature check deposit via the phones camera!! The check never has to enter the bank at all. After you take the photo of the front and back, the pictures zoom their way to the clearing department, and you get your money. You can either trash the check, or dispose of it via a shredder, but you have now saved yourself a trip to the bank! How cool is that???
