Mobile blogging with my iPhone is possible, and easy, with the WordPress iPhone app. It’s a free application that makes blogging from your iPhone as easy as text messaging.
by patrick
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Several sites are now reporting that Apple will launch the 3G iPhone sometime in June, 2008.
This is really no a great surprise since rumors of the 3G iPhone have been around since before the last iPhone release. The interesting buzz is about the possibility that AT&T may offer subsidies of as much as $200 on this phone for a two-year contract. If that’s the case, this would bring the 8GB down to $199 and the 16GB down to $299.
The other buzz is that the new phones will have a slightly different form factor. Early rumors suggested the phone would be slightly thicker. But more recent rumors suggest the new iPhones will be 9.2mm thick, compared to the current 11.7mm thickness. So, I guess this means that they’ll either be thicker or thinner. Such is the nature of rumors.
Unfortunately, I just bought my 16GB iPhone a few months ago. So. I’ll not likely be getting one of these next generation iPhones this year. Perhaps it’s better to first hear reports of the 3G network,
The first iPhone application I’d like to highlight is a whimsical one.
TuneWiki is a free and easy to use music player that allows you to play songs from your iTune library on an iPhone or Touch and see synchronized lyrics. I’m not a particularly big fan of karaoke, but TuneWiki essentailly turn your iPhone/Touch into a portable karaoke player.
My interest in this application stems more from sometimes wanting to know the lyrics to a particular song while I’m listening to it. Also, this strikes me as an interesting and good use of a wiki community. The TuneWiki wiki site has announced that the Universal Music Publishing Group has granted the wiki community permission to legally view all of the Universal Music Publishing catalog of North America.
Check it out: TuneWiki
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Development for the iPhone has really taken off since Apple’s release of the SDK (Software Developer Kit). However, if you’d like to take advantage of developers who have released applications for the iPhone not officially blessed by Apple, you may want to Jailbreak your iPhone. And, if you’d like to use your iPhone with a service other than ATT, you may want to unlock it.
Fortunately, there is a relatively easy way to do this. The good folks over at iJailbreak have created a cool little installer that does all the work for you. It about 3 minutes to both jailbreak and unlock your iPhone. Once done, you’ll notice the addition of an Installer icon on your iPhone.
Click on this icon to enter the installer, where you can intsall, uninstall, and update a large collection of applications for your iPhone.
The list of available applications is huge, and growing.
In future posts, I will begin to review some of my favorite third party applications.
Also noteworthy, iJailbreak will unlock your phone. Although I haven’t tested this myself, there are numerous reports from folks who have successfully used the iPhone with non-ATT services.
by patrick
I did it. I bought one.
I have been feeling angst about buying the iPhone since before they were introduced. It just seemed like too much money. But when Apple announced the 16GB iPhone, along with the promise of the SDK for developers, I decided to go ahead and get me one.
It’s beautiful.
It arrived last weekend. The activation process was simple, easy, and all done from iTunes on my laptop at home. This should be a model, studied in business courses throughout the world, on how to make the customer experience a pleasant one. Since I was already an AT&T customer, the process took all of 5 minutes. A buddy of mine who switched from Verizon said the process was equally easy, taking about 20 minutes (including porting over his addresses).
Apple should be announcing some very cool new apps for the iPhone in the next 2 weeks. Since I couldn’t wait, I have already started experimenting with loading several 3rd party applications. Over the next week or so, I will be posting here about what apps I found particularly useful, and the process I used to load them.
Stay tuned…
