Our 2G iPhone, operating exclusively on T-Mobile, once started having issues making/receiving phone calls, and when a call was able to connect, it was quickly dropped. To determine whether the problem was with our iPhone or T-Mobile, we put our SIM back into our aging Sony Ericcson T610 backup phone, and verified that it, too, [...]
The iPhone Blog posted a poll today asking how people tend to use the iPhone’s virtual keyboard, and surprisingly, after 3k votes, portrait-based use is currently in the lead. We guess that this is based primarily on the amount of screen real-estate left after the virtual keyboard is displayed, as the landscape keyboard hides so [...]
One of the common quips about the iPad is that it’s nothing more than a “large iPod Touch.” It’s a statement the naysayers are fond of making, along with those who lash out at anything made by Apple as though Microsoft were still the only developer putting out a useful, solid operation system anymore; it’s [...]
We love this quote by Ed Finkler, which we spied over at Daring Fireball: When folks need an elevator, we should give them an elevator, not an airplane. We’ve been giving them airplanes for 30 years, and then laughing at them for being too stupid to fly them right. Finkler pretty much identifies what’s so [...]
We weren’t exactly surprised with Apple’s revealing of the iPad today. Aside from our dislike of “iPad,” the device does look pretty good, though it’s clearly not as revolutionary as many people hoped. While usage reports are sure to trickle in soon, we’ll take this time to look back at the post we made last [...]