The 4-fingers gesture on iPad is better than double-tapping the home button. But this would be the perfect one.
Everything has been said about it. Except:
There are two types of Apple users: the hipsters: “look at my shiny toy! Apple is sooo coool!” and geeks: “just my perfect tool”. For the former category, hardware upgrades are not shiny. As far as I could count the latter are already preparing to pre-order or to line up for it.
Then there are the analysts and “journalists”. The firsts must talk BS. The latter must spread it.
David Pogue shares 4 tricks he learned from an Apple genius:
So there you go: How to make your iPhone battery last a lot longer. For free. You’re welcome.
No push-email, no GPS checks, no Notifications, no Background apps—the last one is unexpected. And I’m not sure when should you disable GPS/Location checks: should it be permanent or is it enough not to have GPS enabled apps running?
Hilarious:
And, yes, this once again means that the iPhone has gotten the latest version of Android before many Android devices have.
According to iNotes.ro the iPhone 4 will be available at the end of September. So the couple of weeks mentioned by the Orange PR will actually mean more than 3 months. During this whole period there was no official update from Orange. Why?
There way too much being written and said about the missing Flash on the iOS devices (iPhone, iPad, iTouch). And the solution is simple. Really simple. I’m pretty sure smarter people than me have pointed it out already. It is called:
Flash on demand
How it works? If you are familiar with ClickToFlash for Safari that’s pretty much about it. But let me briefly describe it for those that are not familiar with it.
Flash is disabled by default. But the browser is presenting it (look no more empty spots on the page!). On a user triggered action the Flash plugin is loaded and plays it (look no annoying ads slowing down the browser!). The user can also trigger the unload. (look, I’m not worried anymore about Flash).
The fact that Apple and Adobe do not work on such a simple solution is a clear sign they do NOT care. They don’t care about you and me, the web, or anything. It is just about money and PR.
According to the Orange PR BS, the iPhone 4 was supposed to be available in a couple of weeks after its official launch. We all knew this was impossible as the 2nd round of countries to launch it were announced and Romania wasn’t listed there either.
The real question is: what is worse Orange PR/BS/lies or the journalists offering Orange Romania free advertising?
Following today’s press conference at Apple, it is now confirmed that iPhone 4 will be launched in another 17 countries on July 30. That list doesn’t include Romania, so we can conclude there’s no iPhone 4 in Romania until August. Or knowing Orange Ro, I’d say at least until August
That’s what I’d call a perfect gift for the iPhone addicts out there. I just wish Santa is hearing me now!
The Gizmodo guys, disguised as the ☞ myth busters, are destroying all possible explanations of not having videochat support on the iPhone:
Conclusion:
My only guess: They just want to milk the hell out of their user base. They know their game, these Cupertino boys and girls. They know they have the market by the balls. They know they can keep churning out marginal upgrades …
And to confirm the conclusion I have found a ☞ videoconferencing kit for iPhone (nb: that’s a very good joke).
