Posts Tagged ‘Apple’
Where there’s this many iTablet rumors, there just has to be an actual product Steve Jobs is finally happy with and will be unveiling to the world at a special Apple event in early 2010, right?
That’s what Apple Insider is reporting. The gist is as follows:
- 10″, 3G networked device similar to “a jumbo iPod touch”
- Guided by Steve Jobs from hospital, home, and work
- Culmination of at least 6 previous prototypes Jobs vetoed
- Will launch in first quarter of 2010
- Verizon may be the carrier
- Delays caused by lack of satisfaction over Intel Atom power consumption
- Hence Apple bought PA Semi to build in-house, custom chipset based on ARM
Check out the full article, linked above, for more.
Still and all, even if this is real, Bill Gates has been trying to push the tablet concept for almost a decade with little or no mass market acceptance. Can Apple work another product category miracle, doing for the tablet and e-book form factor what they’ve done for the MP3 player and smartphone?
Can Apple take the tablet from geek niche to consumer necessity? Or is this doomed to Apple TV “hobby” status from the get go?
theiphoneblog.com
Apple has announced the third quarter results. Thanks to iPhone and iPod Touch, it is the best non-Holiday quarter revenue and earnings in history. They made a huge revenue of $8.34 billion and a net quarterly profit of $1.23 billion, or $1.35 per diluted share. Since most people prefer to choose iPhones and iPod Touches over the regular iPods, the number of units sold of regular iPod has dropped 7%. Apple expect it will drop with larger percentage in the future.
Apple’s Tim Cook has also talked about the relationship between Apple and AT&T, and he said it’s excellent. He said he knows AT&T will invest more money for faster networks (Ah. AT&T is still crap in 3G speed in most areas.) People have also asked netbook during conference call, and the answers is still the same. They think netbook cannot give customers the best.
[via Apple]
winandmac.com
Apple has blocked the IPCC tethering hack used to activate iPhone tethering on the AT&T network, according to a TUAW report.
TUAW has learned that, with the release of iPhone OS 3.1 beta 2, tethering via the IPCC hack no longer works for AT&T customers. While iPhone OS 3.0 provides support for tethering, AT&T has yet to officially support it. As a workaround to obtain tethering (as well as MMS for some), some users have modified their carrier files (IPCC). As of 3.1 beta 2, this no longer works.
Those who need tethering may want to avoid the 3.1 update when it becomes available.
purplesnow แก้ปัญหา wifi และ แบตเตอรี่
Here is how to install purplesn0w:
* Make sure you have a legit activated iPhone 3GS. If you have T-Mobile make sure you disable 3G in the settings.
* Open Cydia, and add http://apt.geohot.com to your sources
* Install the com.geohot.purplesn0w package
* Watch for the success output in Cydia
* Reboot your iPhone 3GS
TiPb iPhone App Store Picks of the Year
One year, 56,000 apps, and over a billion downloads later, Apple’s iTunes App Store for the iPhone and iPod touch celebrates its first birthday.
To mark the occasion, we’re taking our Picks of the Week, where a few of us from team TiPb, bloggers and forum crew alike, bring you our current favorite, funnest, most useful apps, and giant-sizing it to cover the whole year.
And what’s more — the editors from SPE network join us in picking their favorite iPhone and iPod touch apps of the year as well. Love. Up.
So what are our picks of the year? Find out after the break!
TiPb Staff Picks of the Year
Chad’s Pick: BeejiveIM
There are a lot of apps I could have chosen for this, but I think one of the biggest has to be Beejive. With the advent of Apple’s Push Notification service and the SPEED of the iPhone 3Gs, Multi-tasking Instant Messaging has become a thing of the past. This application is robust and very configurable. If you aren’t using software 3.0 you can even have Beejive send you emails when someone replies. You can also add custom backgrounds, colors and more. Oh, and it supports many services as well from AIM to Facebook. [$9.99 - iTunes link]
Chris’ Pick: MLB.com At Bat 2009
I mentioned this app in the podcast, and truthfully, this app gets used on almost a daily basis. For any baseball fan, it is a must have. Aside from a few missing features (like not listing league leaders, or more detailed stats pages) this app allows you to follow live audio broadcasts for any game, and even features live streaming video for a couple of games each day! For people who are not in the same market at their favorite team, this app is a must. Follow the game live, listen to it live, and watch video highlights. They have also begun offering a new feature – a quick (10 minutes or so) recap of the game with video highlights. [$9.99 - iTunes link]
Runners up: Flight Control [$0.99 - iTunes link], Texas Hold’em [$4.99 - iTunes link]
James’ Pick: Twittelator Pro
Twitter on the iPhone is like Peanut Butter and Jelly…they just work very well together. Twittelator Pro has all the features I need and them some. [ iTunes link]
Runners up: Peggle [$4.99 - iTunes link] and iTunes App Store App. [iTunes link]
Jeremy’s Pick: Pocket Tunes
Pocket Tunes gives you a ton of free radio and you have the ability to listen to everything Sirius XM has to offer including Howard Stern (with subscription) – unlike the watered down Sirius XM application. [$9.99 - iTunes link]
Runners up: BeejiveIM [$9.99 - iTunes link] and iTunes App Store App. [iTunes link]
Justin’s Pick: Shazam
One app I always have on my phone no matter what. It’s also led to me listening to music, tagging it, and buying it all on my iPhone! [Free - iTunes link]
Runner up: BeejiveIM [$9.99 - iTunes link]
Matt’s Pick: Brothers In Arms: Hour of Heroes
I know not everyone uses games, but this game is incredibly unique. I chose BIA mainly because I think it was the first application that showed what the iPhone was capable of processing. It also seemed to me that the controls are somewhat close to that of other FPS games. The uniques use of vocal narration accompanied by a significant amount of sound effects and multiple roles help make the user become fully immersed in the game. [$4.99 iTunes link]
Runners up: G-Map [$34.99 - iTunes link], MyWeather Mobile [$4.99 - iTunes link]
Rene’s Pick: Google Mobile App
Your bring it up to your ear, it activates, you speak, and it gives you results based not only on what you want, but where you are. There are glitzier apps in the store to be sure, more popular no doubt, but this was the first app that made me think it was time for Star Trek to start being jealous of us. “Computer!” indeed. [Free - iTunes link]
Runners up: Apple Remote [Free - iTunes link], Twitterrific 1.0 [Has been replaced by v2.0 - $3.99 - iTunes link]
Special Birthday Bonus: SPE Editor Picks of the Year
AndroidCentral.com Casey Chan’s Pick: Yelp.
You can always find a great place to eat or see the coolest places around you with yelp. Especially when you’re hungry and wandering the streets of San Francisco after Macworld =) [Free - iTunes link] 
CrackBerry.com Kevin Michaluk’s Pick: F1 Timing – 2009 Starter Pass
It’s effing awesome. I actually hold my iPhone in my hand while watching the races on TV. we need this for BlackBerry! [$2.99 - iTunes link]
NokiaExpert.com Matt Miller’s Pick: Evernote
Evernote gives me a global tool (across all my devices, Mac, and PC) to capture all my thoughts. The recognition is absolutely amazing and you can take photos of all those post-its and find everything later. [Free - iTunes link]
Runners up: Pandora [Free - iTunes link] and AT&T Navigator [Free + subscription - iTunes link]
PreCentral.net/SPE Editor-in-Chief Dieter Bohn’s Pick: BeejiveIM
Stupendous IM support on multiple platforms, push notifications through an elegant workaround before push notifications were official, and not afraid to charge what the app is actually worth. [$9.99 - iTunes link]
Runner up: iTunes App Store App. [iTunes link]
WMExperts.com Phil Nickinson’s Pick: Tweetie
Most used for me. [$2.99 - iTunes link] [Phil totally broke format and actually listed a half dozen #1s, including Paper Toss. Wheels on the Bus. Koi Pond. Scribble - Rene] [Gimme a break. I've got a 3-year-old! - Phil]
Runners up: Facebook [Free - iTunes link]. Pocket Tanks [Free - iTunes link]
TheiPhoneblog.com Rene Ritchie’s Pick: App Store
No, I don’t really get a second pick at the app store, but in summation — and on behalf of everyone here at TiPb and the smartphone app ecosystem as a whole — I’d like to wish the iTunes App Store an APPY ANNIVERSARY. May you continue to grow in quality as you do in quantity, and may this year bring more changes to make all of our experience, developer and user, better and brighter.
Hopefully we ain’t seen nothing yet! 
Your Pick?
You’re part of team TiPb too, so what’s your pick? What app was your Pick of the Year?
