Mar
3
2010
After letting the initial dust Apple kicked towards HTC settle, my iPhone-toting compatriot Rene (I think you guys know him or something) and I had a discussion about the patent lawsuit and Apple in general. [...]
Category: Apple, iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: apple vs htc, derek kessler, Editorial, guest editorial, precentral.net
Feb
22
2010
Should Apple TV switch to the iPhone OS? The Apple TV was introduced in late 2006 but debuted alongside the iPhone at the Macworld 2007 keynote. Since then, the iPhone has become a huge, mainstream [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: apple tv, Editorial, iphone OS
Feb
15
2010
Microsoft today announced their long anticipated — possibly long delayed or oft re-started — Windows Phone Series 7 and showed off a brand new user “experience” including deep social network integration and full on Zune [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: Editorial, iPhone, iphone vs windows phone, The competition, windows phone 7 series
Feb
13
2010
Yesterday at Macworld two events helped clarify something I’ve been discussing with Dieter for a while now — Apple, the iPhone and iPad, and closed vs. open systems, control vs. chaos. These two events were [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: AT&T, big media, control, Dieter, Editorial, facebook, google buzz, gruber, ipad, iPhone, leo laporte, open vs closed, state of the apps, twitter
Feb
3
2010
With the launch of Apple’s iPad tablet and iBooks eBook purchasing and reading software, Apple has significantly rounded-out their device and content offerings, but TiPb can’t help but think a few iApp holes remain, namely [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: blogging, Editorial, emagazines, enewspapers, iblog, iChat, ifeeds, imagazines, imags, inews, rss
Jan
28
2010
Like many things Apple, the iPad launch has galvanized those who believe it’s the “next big thing” from those who believe it’s the “latest stink” — but what about those who, you know, have actually [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: Editorial, ipad, pundit, roundup
Jan
28
2010
When Steve Jobs whipped out the iPad, the first thing I did was do a double-take on the screen’s 4:3 aspect ratio. At 1024×763 it’s what I used to have on my 2005 Windows XP [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: 16x9, 4x3, aspect ration, books, Editorial, ipad, movies, Web
Jan
28
2010
The brand new Apple iPad is running iPhone 3.2 and has several features we’ve wanted on, you know, the actual iPhone device for a while now. Never mind that the iPhone 3.2 SDK is iPad-only, [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: Editorial, features, ipad, iPhone, iphone 3.2, tipb wants
Jan
28
2010
TiPb mentioned this a couple times in passing — that the iPad perhaps didn’t show things like multitasking and better notifications because it’s running iPhone 3.2 and those will be iPhone 4.0 features, likely only [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: Editorial, ipad, iphone 4.0, Rumors, secrets
Jan
27
2010
For the spec fiends among us, Apple has posted up almost every little number you’d ever want to know about their new iPad tablet (except, of course, what silicon is powering it on the inside [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: Editorial, ipad, News, specs
Jan
27
2010
Though we heard persistent rumors that the iPhone would tag along for the iPad ride, neither iPhone 3.2, iPhone 4.0, or anything concerning an iPhone on Verizon were mention during the “Come see our latest [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: Editorial, ipad, iphone 4.0, rumormongering, Rumors
Jan
26
2010
Could Apple’s iPhone have moved over 40 million units, and the iPod touch almost 30 million yet, for a combined platform total hurtling towards 70 million?
We don’t know, but we’re opening the iPhone calculator app [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: crazy maths, Editorial, install base, iphone platform
Jan
25
2010
Daring Fireball has an interesting post up regarding the continued lack of a Flash Player for the iPhone, and the reasons why Flash support for the iTablet/iSlate/iPad is unlikely:
I’ll leave the last word [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: adobe, daring fireball, Editorial, flash, itablet, politics
Jan
22
2010
TiPb’s iTablet hopes and dreams are fairly simple — Apple, please make us a device we can give to our moms and never get another tech support call back from them in our lives.
Okay, maybe [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: come see our latest creation, computing, Editorial, itablet, mainstream
Jan
22
2010
Phil Gyford decided to take an old fashioned pen and paper, a MacBook laptop computer, an Apple Newton MessagePad 2100 with handwriting recognition, a Palm Vx with Graffiti input, a Palm 650 with a physical [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: Editorial, iphone vs, keyboard comparisons, typing contest
Jan
12
2010
Scarcely 2 months after Motorola and Verizon launched the Android-powered DROID, Google is back with another high-end smartphone, the Nexus One, this time sold unlocked by Google directly, but also in partnership with T-Mobile, and [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: buyers guide, Editorial, Featured, iphone vs android, iphone vs nexus one, nexus one
Jan
4
2010
When we made our “Dear Santa Jobs: All We Want for iPhone 4.0 is…” holiday post, one of the items we didn’t include but which came up frequently in the comments is a Mobile Finder [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: document repository, Editorial, file access, iphone 4.0, mobile finder
Dec
25
2009
Dear Santa Jobs, all we want for Christmas iPhone 4.0 is… Well, grab your cocoa (touch) and take a long sip, because just like our buddy Derek, we’ve a bit of a list this year.
Don’t [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: dear apple, Editorial, iphone 4.0, santa jobs
Dec
25
2009
So you were nice enough for Santa to leave a shiny new iPhone 3GS or iPod touch G3 in your stocking, and it’s unwrapped and charged and… you need to know what to do next?! [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: Accessories, Apps, Editorial, Featured
Dec
22
2009
So the oldest 2007 iPhone 2G can easily download and run (most of) iPhone OS 3.1 while the current 2009 crop of HTC Dream and Magic devices on Rogers will officially be stuck on Android [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: android vs iphone, Editorial, Google, htc, rogers, The competition