THe most recent Changewave consumer mobile survey releases the information that 16% of those surveyed were planning to get an iPhone. There are some customer satisfaction quotes in there that are worth reading too:
The ChangeWave survey also asked consumers how satisfied they were with their current phone, and found the iPhone registering the highest satisfaction levels of any device. An extraordinary 77 per cent of iPhone owners said they were “Very Satisfied” with their device. The RIM Blackberry also received a relatively high rating, with one-in-two owners reporting they were “Very Satisfied”.
At the other end of the spectrum, just 36 per cent of Motorola owners, 34 per cent of Palm owners and 29 per cent of Sony/Ericsson owners reported that they were “Very Satisfied” with their phones.
blah blah disruptive technology blah blah at the cost of Motorola etc etc.
The iPhone is now officially supported in Glide Digital’s Glide Mobile offering. Glide is a system for sharing video, audio, documents, and photos via email, and they’ve now included WMV files in that list; it’s all apparently encoded somewhat on the fly to account for differing abilities on different phones. There’s a press release available with more details.
Plusmo, purveyors of fine mobile widgets everywhere, have announced that their 20,000 mobile widgets have been made compatible for the iPhone.
Plusmo also enables users to create personalized widgets out of useful web services, XML/RSS based sources including news feeds as well as professional media, and user generated content such as blogs, photos and videos, and other Web 2.0 content.
Plusmo widgets are mini web applications that offer traffic reports, store locators, games, blogs, specialized searches, live sport updates and much more.
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We’ve reported on Synchronica before. Well, it seems that they’ve started a free trial of the service. Or at least you could, in theory, sign up for it here. If they weren’t updating it right now.
Apple posted their troubleshooting guide for the iPhone. Recharge, Restart, Reset iPhone, Remove, Reset Settings, and Restore. ‘Return iPhone’ is notably absent from the list.
If you need some online phrasebook love for when you travel to Europe or to Latin America, Coolgorilla has got you covered. Western Europe, that is, and I hope you’re not going too far north. They have phrasebooks for common language requests, and have the clips of those common phrases spoken by native speakers. The languages included are French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and German. I don’t know about you, but my hovercraft is full of eels just thinking about it. [via]
Folks from iPhone Alley figured out who wrote the iPhone commercial song, and extracted the part that Apple’s been using for the commercials. It looks like the culprits are Orba Squara (iTunes link), and the song is ‘Perfect Timing.’ iPhone Alley is kindly hosting the mp3 for anyone’s use, so if you fancy a download, it’s available. So if you weren’t sick of that music yet, this almost guarantees that you will be soon: YouTube has declared it as mandatory background music for every iPhone clip.
Boingo Wireless, purveyors of fine not-for-free wi-fi hotspots across the galaxy will be making 13 of those hotspots free. If you’re going to get into a plane one of these days, in one of the following 13 hotspots, and you’re using an iPhone, it may be worth remembering this list:
- AZO – Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport
- BNA – Nashville International Airport,
- BWI – Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport,
- DTW – Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport,
- EWR – Newark Liberty International Airport,
- JFK – John F. Kennedy International Airport,
- LGA – LaGuardia Airport,
- MDW – Midway International Airport,
- MSP – Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport,
- OKC – Will Rogers World Airport,
- ORD – O’Hare International Airport,
- STL – Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, and
- YYZ – Toronto Pearson International Airport.
If you’re not at one of those wi-fi hotspots, it’s going to cost you, to the tune of $21.95 per month. [via]
The folks at the iPhoneDevWiki continue to delight and amaze. They’ve made more discoveries, and have reverse-engineered one of the chip radios (Nucleus) that they need to reverse-engineer. There’s a two-way two-chip communication hurdle to overcome, but they’re a step closer to total unlock, which is their main priority. They still have to co-ordinate the unlocking from the main CPU chip to Nucleus. If you want the gory details, and want to read about baseband memory and the like, check out the post at Gizmodo. If you want the executive summary,
In other words: two doors, two locks, but also one more front to crack this Pandora’s Box open.
The Unofficial Apple Weblog has posted a pretty full page of notes and thoughts concerning the recent patch. If you’ve hacked your iPhone, one might say that it’s a definitive guide to what’s going on. Also of note is the user comments: the comments section is where the collected wisdom of the internet has posted the differences they’ve seen in the patch.
