Our foreign correspondent Achim has compiled a list of the iPhone’s international roll-out schedule. If we missed something, please let us know.
May 8th, 2008 by Scott | 3 Comments »
May 7th, 2008 by Achim | No Comments »
Vodafone, which didn’t participate in the launch of the iPhone in its home country, England, has now partnered with Apple to launch the iPhone in 10 different countries. Later this year, customers in Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, India, Portugal, New Zealand, South Africa and Turkey will be able to purchase the iPhone from Vodafone. In a short message on its website.
Vodafone announced the launch, avoiding any reference to which model (2.5G via EDGE or the rumored 3G via UMTS) will be offered.
In addition Telecom Italia Mobile confirmed the news story from last week, that they will be selling the iPhone in Italy soon. Which will make Italy the first country where customers can get the iPhone from two different providers. This can be seen as a
confirmation that Apple is slowly but surely moving away from the “you can be our exclusive partner, dear telco, but you have to agree to fork over a share of the usage revenue” model and is really going for overall smart phone market share, leaving some of that nice recurring revenue stream on the table.
May 6th, 2008 by Liana | No Comments »
Accessing my Google applications from my iPhone has just been made easier by the good folks over on the Google mobile team. As a long time user of Google applications on many mobile devices, no interface has been so clean and light as this newest iteration of Google’s productivity suite for the iPhone and iPod Touch. According to the Google Mobile blog, the polished Google experience is also now “available in 33 new markets and 16 new languages, from Argentina to New Zealand, from Swedish to Chinese.”
Now, armed with my iPhone, I can be quick on the draw when I am challenged to “Google it!”. Having added the familiar www.google.com to my iPhone’s Home Screen, I have the added bonus of Gmail, Calendar and Reader at my fingertips in just two taps. With little effort, I also have access to Google Docs and News.
Google News for the iPhone launched on May 1, 2008, and is available to users in over 30 countries. I can now browse the front page of Google’s current news, events and stories. There is even a search box which enables me to see results of a search initiated from the News home page. Where available, many of my search results included a YouTube icon displaying associated video to compliment the written story. Clicking on the YouTube icon and video opened and played it right on my iPhone.
Ulf Waschbusch, Product Marketing Manager on the Google mobile team writes:
“Furthermore, if you use Google Apps - now is the time to use your domain name on the iPhone as well. Just bookmark http://www.google.com/m/a/YOURDOMAIN for fast one-click access to Google. Please make sure to replace YOURDOMAIN with your actual domain name.”
I am using a personalized domain, www.girlsgonegeek.tv, with Google Apps and am hosting my email there. To have access to the Google productivity suite, when logging in using my at girlsgonegeek dot tv email address, I had to configure my settings within Apps administration to have access to all of the modules (Documents, Calendar, Reader, etc.). Also a user of a separate, free at gmail dot com account, my Apps run like clockwork without any setup or permissions needing to be configured.
There is no better price than free, and Google has done a great job of building applications that work well on the desktop and now on the iPhone and iPod Touch. Bravo!
Let me know what you think of the new interface. What is the next step for Google’s mobile UI?
May 5th, 2008 by Scott | 1 Comment »
I finally got time to post another wallpaper pic. This one was made at Newport Beach, OR. I hope you like it. This is a free wallpaper pic you can use on your iPhone. P.S. If you’re interested in photography - check out TWIP.
May 3rd, 2008 by Scott | 1 Comment »
May 2nd, 2008 by Scott | 5 Comments »
Thanks to “Bodyguardz” (makers of protective skins for the iPhone) for supporting the Apple Phone Show, to get a 10% discount, use the coupon code “phoneshow”.
Scott Bourne - Executive Producer - Podango Studios
Andy Ihnatko - Co-host - Celestial Waste of Bandwidth and Sun-Times
Chris Breen - Co-host - Macworld
Liana Lehua - Site of the week picker - Girls Gone Geek
Achim Voermanek - Foriegn correspondant
Our one year anniversary!
On this week’s show:
Scott asks Andy, “What is the most noteworthy iPhone thing that has happened in the last year?” Apple’s ability to convince the entire world to create a third version of the world wide web. Popular websites often have a bit of code that notices when you visit on an iPhone and creates a web-application like page just for you, Mr. Iphone user, we love you we love you we love you.
Scott posses the same question to Chris. The swiftness in which the iPhone became popular. Also significant is the jail breaking community. The things that this user community has been able to do really shows off the power of the iPhone which makes the release of the app store even more exciting.
May 2nd, 2008 by Scott | 1 Comment »
While we cover a more serious brand of photography here at This Week in Photography, as an iPhone junky and a photographer, I couldn’t help being amused by this statistic I saw on Flickr.
According to Flickr, more camera phone photos on Flickr come from an iPhone than any other camera phone, including the much heralded Nokia N95.
Flickr points out that the graphs are only accurate to the extent that we can automatically detect the camera used to take the photo or shoot the video (about 2/3rds of the time). That is not usually possible with cameraphones, therefore they are under-represented.
While this really means nothing, I found it amusing and thought you might too.
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