Iphone 3.0

Jonathan Ive considering a move back to UK?

By chrissyboy6969, Monday, Feb 28, 2011 a 9:05 am

UK news paper, The Sunday Times is reporting that Jonathan Ive, the Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple, wants to return to the UK to live! Ive is the principal designer of the iMac, MacBook, unibody MacBook Pro, iPod, iPhone, and iPad.

Ive supposedly wishes to commute to Cupertino from his home, which is based in Somerset, England, and the Apple board is not exactly thrilled by the idea. A friend of Ive’s family has allegedly confirmed the dispute and told The Sunday Times:

Daily Tip: How to change your iPhone text message notification tone

By chrissyboy6969, Friday, Feb 11, 2011 a 9:25 pm

New to the iPhone and curious how to change your text message (SMS) tone? Apple is not overly generous when it comes to customizing alert tones on your iPhone. Ring tones are completely customizable but email tones can't be changed from the default unless you jailbreak. Text messages are somewhere in the middle -- you can personalize them but not customize them (yet). Read on after the break to find out how!.

Iomega SuperHero, an alternative backup solution for iPhone and iPod Touch

By chrissyboy6969, Wednesday, Jan 5, 2011 a 9:38 am

Iomega has announced an alternative backup solution for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The device known as the Iomega SuperHero, takes the form of a normal charging dock. The major difference is the dock has an SD Card slot complete with a 4GB card. This on-board storage allows you to backup important data from your device.

RunKeeper Pro free until the end of January

By chrissyboy6969, Thursday, Dec 30, 2010 a 3:40 pm

RunKeeper Pro has been made available to everyone for free today. The offer lasts until the end of January 2011 so don’t delay, go and grab yourself a copy of this fantastic app for free.

Daily Tip: How to restart/reset your iPhone or iPad [Beginner]

By chrissyboy6969, Friday, Dec 17, 2010 a 1:54 pm

iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad having problems or just being buggy and unresponsive and curious how to restart or reset it? Strange as it sounds, just like a computer, restarting or resetting can solve a host of problems. We'll show you how after the break!

Happy Birthday iPhone 3.0! (Tell iPhone 4.0 We Said Hurry!)

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, Mar 17, 2010 a 4:33 pm

One year ago today Apple held their iPhone 3.0 SDK Sneak Peak event and released iPhone 3.0 Beta 1, giving all of us our first look at cut, copy, and paste, MMS, tethering, Spotlight search, Voice Memo, in-app purchases, turn-by-turn navigation, stereo Bluetooth, pervasive landscape keyboard, P2P gaming, and whole bunch more.

Updated: iPhone 3.0 Spotlight Search Finds Deleted Messages?

By Rene Ritchie, Tuesday, Aug 18, 2009 a 6:57 am

UPDATE: iPhone 3.1 does indeed fix this.

iPhone 3.0: Location Aware Google Search via Safari

By Rene Ritchie, Thursday, Jul 16, 2009 a 2:09 pm

Google Blogs (via Gizmodo) has announced that the long-rumored Geo-Location based services in Mobile Safari are indeed included in iPhone 3.0 and being put to use in "My Location" searches by Google.com on the iPhone.

Is Your iPhone Battery Life 20% Less With Push Notification?

By Rene Ritchie, Monday, Jul 6, 2009 a 9:50 am

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Back when Apple re-introduced Push Notification at the iPhone 3.0 Sneak Preview Event, Scott Forstall claimed that, unlike background multitasking that could cause an 80% drop in battery life, Push Notification would only cause a 20% drop. While some debated the truth (or truthiness) of his claims, it did set the expectation that users running Push Notification-enabled apps would see lower battery life, and gave an indicator of just how much less.

Third New Apple iPhone 3GS Commercial Focuses on Video Recording, Editing, and Sharing

By Rene Ritchie, Thursday, Jul 2, 2009 a 6:44 am

Looks like Apple wasn't quite done unveiling new iPhone 3GS commercials, as a a third one began airing last night focused on video recording, editing, and sharing.

Like the previous two, which highlighted copy and paste and Voice Control, Apple's keeping them all about the new features -- and the ease of use of the new features.

So that means compass and landscape keyboard are next, right?

[Apple.com]