Category: iPhone
The Top 7 iPhone rumours you haven't heard yet
There’s acres of speculation humming around the iPhone this week, encouraged by Apple’s habit of releasing new info shortly before launch (see last week’s announcements of the iPhone’s boosted battery life and YouTube application).
Top 10 YouTube videos showing the funny side of iPhone
iPhone iPhone iPhone. It's all Apple fans can talk about this week. And if you're not already camping outside an Apple Store, you're probably TOO LATE. But at least you can laugh about it.
At least, you can if you have a look at these ten videos, handpicked from YouTube for chucklesomeness, rather than serious in-depth analysis of its specs. Watch the first below, then head over the jump to see the rest.
Get (virtually) hands on with iPhone thanks to Apple's guided tour
It’s iPhone launch week, which means a.) the hype machine will crank up to scorching level by Friday, and b.) from next Monday, we’ll have to find another mythical handset to burble on about. GooglePhone, anyone? PSP phone? Haribo Handset? Okay, maybe not that last one.
This week's hottest iPhone stories: YouTube on iPhone, better battery life, Bluetooth headsets, Google applications, Opera Mini browser, iPhone cases
There’s now less than one week to go until the iPhone launches in the US, and there’s only so much hype that can be reported. Much of the news has been focused on the latest tidbits of information that Apple has chosen to reveal, or has been ‘leaked’ to the press.
The big news, features wise, is that YouTube will be on the iPhone, starting with 10,000 videos converted to the iPhone-friendly H.264 format, and with the entire catalogue converted by the autumn.
Apple has updated its battery life claims – now you’ll get up to 8 hours of talk time. Impressive, if true.
March of the giant iPhones
Think your mobile phone is a bulky fat beast of a handset? You should see the iPhone. There’s no WAY that thing’d fit in your pocket. In fact, I don’t even know how you’d carry it home from the Apple Store without a couple of friends to help lift it.
iPhone won't run Flash or Java: is it a complete Web experience?
Apple has already made it clear that the Safari browser built in to the iPhone won’t run the Flash plug-in. Now it’s also been noted that it won’t run Java applications, either.
Because of these two omissions, Mobile Business magazine has weighed in and claimed that the iPhone won’t run the full Web.
They claim that Flash and Java are “near essential” applications – and I’ll own up and say that I’ve said similar about Flash. I’m not a huge fan of Flash, because it does its best to slow down even the most modern PC’s CPU, but I recognise that it has become a standard for a number of web applications.
Java, too, is a pain. The only Java I like is the hot, steaming variety that comes from my coffee percolator each morning. The other Java is – well – hot and steaming might describe it, but it ain’t coffee.
YouTube is the mystery extra iPhone application
So much for wishful thinking. After all the rumours that the mysterious ‘twelfth icon’ on iPhone’s homescreen was GPS, it turns out that it’s actually YouTube. Yes, Apple has announced that it’s designed a native iPhone application to stream YouTube videos to the handset via Wi-Fi or the mobile network.
iPhone gets battery-life boost and scratch-proof screen
Apple wouldn’t be Apple without springing a few surprise iPhone announcements in the days leading up to its launch. Yesterday’s was a corker too, as the company revealed that the iPhone’s battery life will be longer than expected, while it’ll be more scratch-proof too.
Greenpeace campaigning for a greener iPhone
Imagine: you’re first in the queue outside an Apple Store at 5.59pm on 29th June, with one hand on your credit-card while the other is planted squarely in the face of the person behind to make sure they don’t push past. And suddenly you’re plagued by doubt: what if this iPhone thing isn’t ecologically sound?
Pricing expert: "Apple could have charged MORE for iPhone"
The downside of Apple's iPhone is that it's too expensive, right? Wrong. At least, that's the view of Rafi Mohammed, author of a book called 'The Art of Pricing'. So he should presumably know.
