Tonight I attended the launch party for the Samsung Instinct phone. I wanted to personally check it out to see if it lived up to the ‘iPhone killer’ label that has been floating around. Unfortunately it doesn’t but that doesn’t mean I hated it. Here’s my quick take on it which is appropriate since I…
Do you see this a lot on your iPhone 3G? While downtown for the fireworks the other day, got to experience this error many times personally. In talking with others, it seems that if you live/work in downtown Vancouver, you probably see it a lot. Is this due to Rogers having insufficient network bandwidth as…
Is the battery life of your new iPhone 3G disappointing you? Try these three tips to increase it’s daily usage before having to recharge. I went from getting about a days worth of moderate usage to two days easily only doing the first two tips – the third is for when you need to squeeze…
A few people have been asking me about car chargers for the iPhone 3G so I thought I’d post a quick note about what I’m using. First of all, be careful what you plug your shiny new iPhone into! Plenty of things are meant for iPods only and can actually fry your iPhone. Many iPod…
The iPhone 3G and the Apple App Store has been out for a few weeks now so I figured it would be a good time to talk about what I’ve got on my iPhone and hopefully show you a few things you might want to check out yourself. First though, an annoyance I have about…
Buzz was kind enough to include a quote and a link to me regarding the recently released Pwnage software tool for the iPhone. Here’s what it looked like in today’s edition of 24hrs (PDF link): and a photo of the real thing: Here’s a link to Buzz’ blog post about it. I still think it’s…
Automattic has released (and Apple has approved) their native iPhone app for managing your WordPress sites. This post was created with it. Find the app on the iTunes App Store. Update (not from an iPhone): Here’s a video of the features of the app:
The iPhone Dev Team just released their Pwnage tool for the 2.0 firmware (Mac only at this point). You may also need some bootloaders to create the customized restore file you’ll need in order to get your 1st gen iPhone onto the new firmware. The updated 2.0 firmware will give your old iPhone all the…
I was going to call this post “It’s been One Week…” but in light of the recent issues Barenaked Ladies frontman, Steven Paige is having, I decided to go for something else instead. I’m not going to do a ‘full’ review since that’s been done to death already. I thought I’d share some of my…
This pretty much sums it up (works best if you use Twitter): (via Sean Osteen on Flickr) Despite being in line at 4am, it still took over 4 hours for me to have a working iPhone 3G after physically getting it due to server issues. I’ll elaborate more on the phone in a future post…