Archive for June, 2007

iPhone Live Disassembly

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

Most people are waiting to buy an Apple iPhone for $500+ but these guys are disassembling the iPhone.
Watch iFixit disassemble the iPhone.
Quick Overview:
The iPhone is 4.5×2.4×0.5″, and weighs 4.8 ounces (0.3 pounds). For reference, 18 iPhones weigh the same as 1 MacBook Pro.
The display is 3.5″ diagonal, 480×320 resolution. That’s 153,600 pixels, or [...]

Apple iPhone Future Predictions - Part 1

Friday, June 29th, 2007

Please comment and add your own predictions. How many will happen? Place your bets!
We will continue to add to this post and see if the predictions become a reality.
(1) Who ever owns a cell phone has dropped it at least once. You put your cell phone on your lap while driving and when [...]

iPhone Problems After Launch - Part 1

Friday, June 29th, 2007

Please comment and add your recent problems or issues of your iPhone purchase.
The community is speaking and here is what we could find as possible problems.

(1) WiFi connection

(2) Music crashes while using Safari (browsing the web), rotating from horizontal to vertical view

(3) Spell check not 100%

(4) No email mass deletion button and receiving alot [...]

iPhone Then and Now: Fewer Willing to Buy; More Willing to Pay

Friday, June 29th, 2007

The percentage of shoppers reporting they were “very likely” or “extremely likely” to purchase an iPhone actually fell from 26 percent to 15 percent between the period after the launch announcement and the first week of June, according to Compete surveys of consumers shopping for or researching iPods in January and June, reports MarketingCharts.

Any Phone Can be an iPhone

Friday, June 29th, 2007

Live the iPhone dream on your on handset.
Do you have iPhone envy? Are you looking at your current phone and thinking: “I wish I could have an iPhone. Those iPhones, I’ve heard, are darn pretty hot.” Fortunately, there’s software that can enable many phones with some, if not all, of the features that Steve Jobs [...]

Steve Jobs to make a rare company-wide speech tomorrow

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

No one really knows where Steve’s going to appear on iDay, but we’ve confirmed with multiple sources at Apple that tomorrow morning at 11:00AM he’ll be giving an all-hands “Town Hall” iPhone mini-Stevenote for employees only — so obviously we’re not invited. Some of our peeps remember the iPod Town Hall meeting (at which Steve [...]

iPhone Video Review - Ed Baig and Jefferson Graham

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

A video featuring Ed Baig and Jefferson Graham from USAToday. The video does a nice recap of iPhone features. All iPhone reviews are extremely positive so far. The only negative aspects reported by reviewers, is AT&T poor coverage and slow data network.

David Pogue’s iPhone Review

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

David Pogue, a New-York Times Technology Journalist, was one of the selected few to have an iPhone a few weeks before the rest of us. Under a very strict none disclosure agreement, the journalist could not show iPhone or talk about it until yesterday. As usual, Pogue’s iPhone review is very well done. It’s interesting [...]

iPhone Review Roundtable

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

Reviews of the iPhone from the anointed few journalists who got a sneak peek at the device are starting to come in. Since we at PC World don’t have one yet (we’ll be the ones waiting outside the AT&T store on Friday with the “Will Edit for an iPhone” t-shirts), I thought the least we [...]

New Apple iPhone Keyboard Video

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

Apple just released a new iPhone keyboard demonstration of it’s innovative multi-touch keyboard.