Articles by Dieter Bohn
The headline says it all except the pricing and availability. Pricing: $399.00 US for the 8GB (same as it ever was) and $499.00 US for the 16GB model.
Wait? What? Wasn’t there, like, this big conference not too long ago where you could make announcements about new iPhones? Oh yea, there was, I was there. Guess doubling the amount of available storage on an iPhone isn’t worth Steve’s precious keynote time, (but jiggly mode is?). Anyway, it’s good news nonetheless.
…Since I’m currently rocking one of the classic 4GB models, that 16GB model is mighty tempting. The only question left: will they drop the price on me two weeks after I finally buy it?
(Oh, and the Touch now comes in 8, 16, and 32 gig varieties!)
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Patrick writes in:
I updated to 1.1.3 and love it but now I am being asked for my email [...] all the time when I click on mail and it isn’t storing it.. also it isn’t storing the voicemail password.. can you help me out please so I don’t have to go back to 1.1.2
Eep. Looks like you’re one of the many to experience weirdness with 1.1.3, my sincere condolences.
When it comes to fixing weird bugs like this I am personally fond of the brute force methodology. Plug in your iPhone and sync it up. Next step, make sure you have all your email sitting safely on your desktop email client. Then, in iTunes, click that scary “Restore” button under your iPhone’s “Summary” settings. This will erase everything (including your music) and then you can re-sync it. I’d then recommend setting it up as a “fresh device” instead of telling it was the previous device. You should then be able to re-set everything up, from your music to your contact list to your email.
If you’re not fond of the “brute force” method above, the other thing to try is to just delete that email account on your iPhone and re-set it up. As for your voicemail, well, I guess I’d try to do the same. Honestly, though, I’m going to pitch this one to the Phone different community.
Somebody have a better fix for Patrick that doesn’t involve a full restore?
(p.s. This is not strictly related to your question, but I’d also recommend maybe switching your email away from your current address to Gmail or Yahoo. The benefit is that you will be able to use that even if you switch ISPs. Yahoo will give you instant push, Gmail will give you sweet sweet IMAP support)
iPhone hacker extraordinaire Erica Sadun was poking around the calendar database on her iPhone and found some encouraging tables:
CREATE TABLE Task (ROWID INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, summary TEXT, priority INTEGER, duedate INTEGER, completiondate INTEGER, calendar_id INTEGER);. – - (TUAW)
Full support for Tasks/ToDos is a basic feature and one that may be holding back many business users from fully embracing the iPhone. Here’s to hoping that we’ll see a 1.2 update very soon with full support not only for native apps, but a brand new ToDo app as well. Viva la February!
I hate to say I told you so… ok, that’s a lie. I love to say I told you so. Google has an iPhone fixation, as Macworld made clear. The latest piece of evidence for their love affair is this NYTimes blog entry, where Google co-president Sergey Brin waxes ecstatic about the Google Maps feature on the iPhone.
Also interesting that that Google CEO Eric Schmidt also chimes in on the potentially awkward fact that Google is developing their own (competing) smartphone operating system. Schmidt’s take – they’ll profit on the iPhone even after Android comes out by way of online ads. They should, too, since the iPhone hits the web more than any other smartphone out there today.
It looks like those crazy analysts who said that Android wasn’t a threat to the iPhone may have been right.
Campfire is a popular web-based project management system for teams – I’ve used it before and will use it again. It’s so chock-full of Web 2.0 goodness that I’m fairly sure you need to wear horn-rimmed glasses in order to get it working properly, but I digress. The good news it they’ve just released an iPhone version of the system — a version that will automatically appear when you access your Campfire account via your iPhone.
So now instead of leaving the guilt and shame of not keeping up with all your work projects on your desk, you can carry it around in your pocket. I recommend your shirt pocket, because that’s closest to your heart, where you guilt belongs.
Ouch! According to this thread on the Apple forums (via TUAW), AT&T users from Chicago to Milwaukee to St. Louis to Kansas City aren’t able to get online via EDGE. That’s a major black-eye for AT&T — and of course it doesn’t just affect iPhone users. Things are supposed to get running again by the end of the day …unless it take until February 5th. I’m based down in Florida so everything’s in the clear.
You down?
Update: Gizmodo tells us what’s going on:
However, an insider who works on networks dropped me a line as to why AT&T’s 3G network is having these sporadic issues today: apparentely, six GGSNs “rolled over”. (GGSNs are gateways between wireless and regular networks.)
The Speck SeeThru Case ($29.95) for the Apple iPhone is a hard plastic case that also comes with a belt holster. When I saw Speck at Macworld, I was impressed with their wide array of cases and also with their clip/stand system. After some time with their SeeThru case, I continue to be impressed.
Read on for the full review!
We already told you that 1.1.3 hasn’t been all it’s cracked up to be, but one of the issues with the ROM slipped by us. Namely: some people have been experiencing SMS messages getting listed out of order. Threaded text is the best thing since, well, SMS, but it doesn’t do much good if your texts are all out of order.
The problem arises when you don’t have your iPhone’s clock set to update automatically from the network time and your iPhone thinks it’s one time, the carrier another. So presumably the SMS app lists incoming texts by their carrier-based timestamp and yours by the internal timestamp — a mismatch means out of order texts.
The fix – turn on automatic updating and deal with whatever hassles that might bring you if you travel between time zones a lot.
(via Engadget Mobile)
So we know that jailbreaking 1.1.3 is possible (but a bit of a pain), but now we’re also hearing that the pain doesn’t necessarily stop once you’ve finished the jailbreak. Gizmodo is reporting on various issues including the breakage of Google Location and of various native apps. The latter isn’t too surprising, as there are lots of internal changes in 1.1.3 that seem to be getting the iPhone ready for official apps. How’s that? Well most applications don’t run as root and there’s even a hidden application key that programs will need to run. (That last means that hackers might someday be able to provide native apps without resorting it iTunes)
If all that doesn’t scare you and you haven’t updated to 1.1.3 yet, a couple of 13-year-olds have released an over-the-air solution for you over at http://ijailbreak.com/. 1.1.3 folks will need to downgrade to take advantage of it, though.
Sadly,the issues don’t appear to be limited to just people who are hacking away at their iPhones. Folks are noticing that 1.1.3 seems to be dropping calls and handing Bluetooth poorly (though there are some ugly fixes for that).
You? How’s 1.1.3 been treating ya?
I’m going to come right out and say it: I hate Sudoku. Don’t get me wrong, I can do Sudoku puzzles and I even know some of the tricks and (god help me) the terminology for the various combinations of empty boxes. But it’s not my bag, my bag is crossword puzzles. So seeing this pop up inside installer.app is welcome.
It looks like getting the .puz files is a bit of a hassle — it would be better to have a source list of online puz files, but these are getting tougher and tougher to find these days anyway. Otherwise, great native app. Come on, you have an iPhone, which makes you cool. Language puzzles are so much cooler than mere number and logic puzzles. If you’re jailbroken, hop on over to installer.app and give it a shot.
Learn more here: iCrossword at Rustywagon (via)
