You’ve experienced the hype, you’ve seen the long lines outside Apple and AT&T stores, but is the iPhone 4 worth it? Lets take a look. Retina Display The Retina display on the new iPhone 4 really is all its cracked up to be. If you use an iPhone 3GS, a current model BlackBerry, or other [...]
Generally speaking a human body is a capacitor. That means at certain point, it can potentially generate 15,000 V. That’s why when humidity is low, the chances of a static discharge remains high. Have you experience making a spark when you touch some metal or even your family members? You’re exactly discharging a potential energy [...]
Now that the iPhone 4 has finally started making its way into the hands of Apple cultists, er, fans everywhere, you can hardly find a news story talking about anything else. Every day it seems like there is another news article about how Wall Street analysts are practically fainting over the stock prospects of AAPL. [...]
The coming of new smartphones is riding the heat of the summer sun. Craig, Bill and I are all together on this another episode of Mobile Computing Authority podcast. Aside from the nice discussion of cruising, we’re doing our usual take on the new iPhone 4 and it’s iOS 4.0. We’ve also talked about the [...]
One of the more convincing sales pitches of Mr Jobs when Apple launched the iPad is that the iPad will run almost all of your iPhone Apps. I guess this is true, especially if you love Atari’s Asteroid game of the 80s. The resolution is almost similar. That’s how bad the resolution of most of [...]
I just watched some live blogs from different sources at the very recently (like a few hours ago) concluded WWDC 2010. Steve Jobs, the marketing genius of Apple has just announced the new iPhone 4 to the world. It will be release in the US, France, Germany, UK and Japan on June 15, 2010. Okay, [...]
Well, our bi-weekly podcast has been inactive for some time now but we’re trying to come back to it. If you love podcast, you may want to take a listen to MCA 077. This one is recorded last Wednesday with Bill and I talking about the emergence of iPhone HD prototype in a Vietnamese website. [...]
“Think Different” – the ad campaign that Apple launched 13 years ago. It was probably the single most important ad campaign for a company that started in a garage and became one of the most successful tech industry players. It was a phenomenal story of rags to riches, of nerds to coolmeisters and of [...]
After the lost and found iPhone saga, tv personalities had themselves an excellent material for their shows. A week ago, David Letterman poke fun of the engineer who lost the smartphone as you can see here in one of the youtube postings: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH4yCmc9OkE This week, Ellen Degeneres aired a fake iPhone commercial on her show. [...]
I had the iPhone for almost 2 years now but last year I wanted to know if it is really the Swiss knife of gadgets when it comes to outdoor activities. 1. Is it better as a GPS compared to a stand-alone outdoor GPS? 2. Can it somehow predict the weather conditions when we are [...]