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Call me stoked when I was doing my not-often-enough browse through the App Store look for something to download on my iPhone, when I got nothing better to do, and I came across Galaga. Previously I had been impressed with the turnout of games like Pacman, for example, but I was never really a Pacman guy back in the day, but I was definitely a Galaga guy. So when I saw Galaga Remix, I was intrigued. I have to admit though I am a perennial cheapskate though, so the $5.99 price tag took me for a bit of a loop as I am never really sure how much interest such a game will hold for me. In other words, will I play it once and then never play it again?

So I filed it away as a cool blast from the past and something I might consider in the future and went back to my browsing. This is when I got to the free applications and found Galaga Remix Lite. Now the price was right for me. I realized it was probably a very limited reproduction but that is okay I just wanted a taste of the old days. So I downloaded the Lite version and started it up. First I chose the arrow controls over the slider controls, because it seemed to make more sense, although I was a little concerned about my abilities to play Galaga on the iPhone. So as it loaded up, automatically in landscape mode, I got ready. I was hit by the music first, then the very nice graphics and I was engrossed. I was able to clear the first two levels even though one of my dogs attacked me on the second screen. That being said, the game was over, and now I had to decide what to do.

As soon as I finish writing this, I will be forking out the $5.99 as Galaga is one of those games that never gets old. The only game that might capture me more is if someone made Tempest on the iPhone, although I am really not sure how that control would work.

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I tried to submit a story via the iPhone earlier and ran into a few problems. The first problem is that there is no Cut and Paste on the iPhone, so when using the Submit a Story URL you have to type it all in. That is where the problem comes in. When I hit the backspace/delete button on the iPhone it erases the entire line including the “http://” that is pre-entered. Since I am still getting used to the keyboard, it was difficult for me not to make at least one mistake when entering a 60-70 character URL.

By the way the funny thing is the story I was submitting to Digg was something someone else had already submitted so I would have ended up canceling the submission anyways.

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Since this is a blog and a blog about iPhone, it stands to reckon that I would eventually try to write a blog entry on my iPhone. I was not sure how it would go and how well the latest revision of Wordpress would work. So I was in a parking lot away from home dutifully on the EDGE network when I decided to give it a go.

It was easy enough to log in to Word Press and choose “Write Post”. The problem came, however when entering my post. My Wordpress defaults to the visual editor, which is great when using my computer, but I soon found out that with the iPhone, at least on the edge network. Apparently it is redrawning the entire text box with every key stroke. This makes sense as it is a WYSIWYG editor. The problem on the iPhone is after pretty much every keystroke the focus flies all over the page and makes it virtually impossible to type anything in.

Fortunately I did not struggle with it for too long and I was able to switch to the Code setting and was good to go right away. I did not have any fancy formating, images or anything else, so it maybe a bit more of a challenge if you want to do anything beyond basic text. There is always old-fashioned HTML in the Code window. If anyone figures out how to overcome the issue in the Visual editor on the EDGE network please let me know. Otherwise it is completely possible and relatively easy to blog from the iPhone.

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One of my last hurdles to overcome in fully utilizing my iPhone was setting up e-mail. I have been essentially dreading it as my set up has me getting a lot of mail every day, with a significant portion of it being spam. I have essentially been relying on Thunderbird to deal with SPAM which is not the best solution. After mulling it over for a day or so, I came upon a solution.

I decided I would try to utilize Gmail as a Spam filter for my E-mail. Then I would either pick it up from Gmail or forward it back. My original plan was wanting to forward it back to the same address. This is doable, but I would to muck around with my mail on the server, and my main mail account is actually hosted on a shared server that I do not own, not on one of my own servers. I attempted some half-hearted hacks with Cpanel, but suffice it to say it did not work how I wanted it.

So while still trying to crack the nut of having Gmail sending mail back to the same account that was forwarding to it in the first place, I decided to try the Gmail setup on the iPhone directly. You have to use POP3 with Gmail and the iPhone. This is fine, but the problem for me was that it does not honor the changed “From” field when sending mail. So when I sent mail even though I wanted it to show coming from “me @ mydomain.com” it showed coming from “Mynick @ gmail.com”. This simply was not workable as it made my e-mails potentially confusing to recipients. I really needed a solution that would allow me to send out mail and have the from and reply-to line set to what I wanted, so it would appear to be coming from my original address.

I finally settled on using a second email account. I just set up a second account on my server and had Gmail forward the mail to that account.

So to explain how it works:

Mail comes to my server at “me @ mydomain.com”

My server automatically forwards all mail for “me @ mydomain.com” to “mynick @ gmail.com”

Gmail takes all that mail runs it through their very good spam filtering, and then forwards the remaining messages to “me-secondary @ mydomain.com” and then also archives the messages on Gmail.

I receive the messages at “me-secondary @ mydomain.com” with IMAP both through Thunderbird, and through my iPhone.

So far it has been working excellently. There is no filtering or ability to create new folders on the iPhone, so I have to do all that on Thunderbird, but it has not been a big deal so far. Gmail has been doing an amazing job filtering out the spam, leaving me with a reasonable inflow of mail that can be effectively used on the iPhone. I will ocassionally go to Thunderbird and run my mail filters, but I can access the same mail from both locations now.

The only thing I had to change on the iPhone was what some of my default boxes were. For Trash and Sent boxes, I had to choose the ones I was using on Thunderbird, to sync them up. When people get messages from me it shows as coming from my original address and replies get sent back to the same address.

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In case it has not been specifically said, one of my favorite features of the iPhone is its WiFi capabilities. So when I struggled with getting WiFi to work initially, I was bummed. You can read about what I did to fix it here. Regardless, now we move on and really start to see how WiFi is going to work with the iPhone. So Sunday morning I was going out to breakfast, and WiFi hits were popping up all over the neighborhood. I could see all the local routers. I even tried to attach to one unsecured network to see what would happen, but I got out of range too quickly.

Then today I was in the center of nearby McDonalds that offers WiFi, and noticed a pop-up for their network. I connected up, and in a few seconds I was browsing on their WiFi network. The great thing about this, though, is the iPhone remembers these things, so anytime I am in range of this WiFi in the future it will automatically switch over and use it. So anywhere you go where you can tap into a WiFi (that you are authorized to use), I recommend setting it up. Then in the future, even if you are not thinking about it, you can get all the benefits and speed from going through the WiFi network.

I am really pretty excited about this. I know a lot of people like to take about EV-DO and 3G and the rest, but honestly, the future of mobile communications is not going to be tied to cellular networks. It is going to be WiFi Maxi WiFi, Broadband WiFi and the rest.

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There has been a lot of discussion as it relates to the iPhone battery. I was not paying much attention to it the first few days, but once I buckled down I discovered a few things. For one it is not entirely clear how you get the gauge to actually start working on the settings screen. I did it by using only the wall charger. My experience tells me the USB charger is significantly slower then the included wall charger.

So once I got a full charge and got my timer reset I decided to see what kind of results I got. At first I kept it off for a day, but the battery was still at 50% so I kept it off a charge for 2 days.

The results:

~5% battery life remaining

Usage 5 hours 17 minutes

Standy 1 day 12 hours

So over those two days the phone was on or in standby the entire time. WiFi was never toggled off as I use it a lot and had no interest in turning it off. Most of my usage was e-mail, browsing, and some of the widgets. Did not use the iPod at all. On the second day I used it much less than the first day, as I only had a little over an hour of usage during day 2.

I don’t know if this match up with the specs as it is hard to mix and match usage, but I was not disappointed with the amount of time I got out of the device over nearly 42 hours. That is how long with my normal usage, WiFi always on, never turning it off, that it took to get the battery down to about 5%. As for the percentage, personally I am quoting a number based on a visual guestimation. If there is an actual way to see the % of battery life left I would love to know what it is.

Finally, I think it might take a couple full charge ups before the battery is workingup to specs. The first day or two it seemed my battery ran down quickly, but after I got a few good charges into it, it seems to be lasting longer. Based on some of the complaints I have seen from others, this seems entirely possible.

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Well I wrote a little blurb about my battery life this morning here. Then I came across this tip on MacRumors here. Essentially it advises you shut down your applications when not using them. The way to do this is to simply hold the HOME button down for 8 seconds or so while you are in the application you want to close.

For me personally I enjoy being able to flip back and forth between open applications. But to save battery life it does make sense to close down those you are not using. So if they do change this in the future, hopefully they make it an option. So if you are finding your battery draining faster than you would like and you have application that are open in the background that you are not using go ahead and close them down.

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I came across something I did not know and it would have helped me this weekend. When on the road, I wrote a blog post, but could not place it in the correct category in Wordpress, because the selection of categories is a scroll box. So yesterday when I started using BeeJive IM, I noticed you could use two fingers to scroll the chat box. So today I decided to do a quick test in Wordpress and yes indeed, you can scroll any box with two fingers. Simply place both fingers in the scrollable area and slide them up or down to scroll.

I do not know if everyone knew this, but I certainly did not, and that is what I get for not reading the instruction manual for the iPhone.

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Apple has released a demo of their touchscreen keyboard here. Personally I am very interested to see it. I know people who have long double-thumbed it on regular keyboards want to believe there is no way it can be faster, or without tactile feedback as useful, but the demo does point to some interesting tools it uses to help the overall experience.

It is interesting to see someone typing away at lightning speed with both thumbs at the end of the demo. Personally I will wait and see for myself, but considering all the benfefits the device is able to have because it does not have a hardware keyboard, anything that gets this “soft” keyboard in the ballpark will make it more than a worthwhile trade-off.

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It was interesting to see on the front page of my local paper, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram Business Section a big article and picture of the iPhone. A few things caught me right away about the picture though. First of all it only had eleven icons, it was missing the recently revealed YouTube icon, and it also said “Cingular” in the upper-left hand corner, not AT&T. Since both these items have been changed for at least a while now it seems they could have gotten updated images. Doing a quick Google search though, I find many other news sources have been using this older picture to show with recent articles.

I don’t see any straight on images of the iPhone with the updated changes on the Apple site, but I suspect media outlets do have access to newer images from Apple’s PR department, just call it a guess. So why are these media types using old pictures? Probably the same reason why they are going to the same industry pundits and analysts who tend to provide commentary and opinions based on nothing more then conjecture. With the internal headline of “Limitations May Hinder Sales of iPhone” I get to read through a litnany of fancy titles who act like they have actually used the device or have something useful to contribute about it, yet in actuality all I get is a lot of hot air and in some cases bad information.

I boil it down to lazy reporting. They are too lazy to get new images, and they are too lazy to actually do any work for a story, so they e-mail a handful of the same people they always e-mail, put it together and write a story. I probably put my effort into this blog entry then David Wethe put into his Business Page article on the iPhone in the Star-Telegram. You can ask him yourself if you like. Dwethe@star-telegram.com

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I want to get into this issue right now, because a lot of people bashing the iPhone without using it are basing their claims on the speed of the AT&T Edge network. First of all we need to understand that the Edge network is the largest wireless data network in the United States. We also need to understand that it has been undergoing a pretty significant upgrade. We also need to realize that under ideal conditions 3G is not many times faster than Edge, it is a couple of times faster.

All that is irrelevant though, when you factor in how most people will use the iPhone and where they will use the iPhone and in reality the average data thoroughput for the average user will be much higher than any other comparable smartphone. That is Wifi. I don’t know where some of these critics and analysts live, but where I live I have Wifi. So Wifi will always be the order of the day at my house. Now I work at home so that also covers me there. Regardless, I suspect a lot of people will have Wifi access at or near their work. Add in all the other Wifi hotspots that exist, and in some cities where total Wifi is free everywhere, and you have to understand Wifi is the future of portable device communications, not cellular broadband networks. Apple is embracing the future with this, and it will only help to increase the availability of Wifi.

So while those of you who are pining away for 3G and your miniscule battery life, I will be zooming around on Wifi, and for those times when I am in transient or out of a Wifi area, I will use the slightly slower Edge network and not have any problems with it.

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So far we know that neither of these will be a part of the iPhone, as of right now. However, in the internal AT&T documents, I mentioned it specifically says that MMS and Instant Messages are included in the data plan. This may be a good sign that with a software upgrade these will eventually be available to iPhone users. I do not care that much about MMS, but I would really love to use Instant Messaging on the iPhone over text messaging. I am not really interested in using any of the web-based hacks either. I want a real time IM client that I can use.

Update: Some people have correctly intepreted the clause to be applicable to other phones that might have the iPhone SIM card placed in them. So it is not directly talking about those features for the iPhone but instead that phones that supported those features would have them included in the iPhone Data Plan if you swapped out SIM cards.

I can still hold out hope for a native Instant Messenging Client.

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Is there a good suite of network monitoring tools out for the iPhone? I want to be able to punch in my websites and have them saved, then when I run the application it will just go through them all and check all the services I want to see if it is available. Then as long as I keep it open it will keep polling on some interval I can set myself.

Along with that basic ping, nslookup and other network tools would be great. I went looking for this in the App Store and I could find nothing close. If someone wants to go to the next level, when Apple introduces the push service, set up a monitoring service that will push alerts to my phone. I would pay a good monthly fee for this as long as I could monitor all my sites/servers.

If anyone has any recommendations let me know. I will be more than happy to check out any apps tht might work and give them a review.

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Since WIFI was one of the biggest features for me, it was frustrating that the first 15 hours I owned the iPhone I could not get Wifi working. I figured a few things out on my own, and also got some great advice from others. I am compiling those here for others who might have trouble with their home WIFI.

1) WEP Password. If you are using WEP encryption on your network, you have two choices, WEP Password, or WEP hex or ASCII. Notice the little bar at the top that says “WEP Password” with an arrow next to it. If you are entering the Hexadecimal code for your WEP network, you need to toggle it to “WEP Hex or ASCII”.

2) WEP Hexadecimal Password part 2. Another problem I had, even with the above toggle was it still would not take my code. If you are still having this problem, preface your code with a “$” so you might enter: “$D0EBDEED2101555CF5123AEB56A” This worked for me.

3) WIFI Still Not Working? This was me. My WIFI was still not working. My phone would only use the EDGE network. Fortunately Mav over on EverythingIphone.com was able to create a list of steps that got me working. Very much appreciated Mav.

A) Remove yourself from your Network. Go into your network and select “Forget This Network.”

B) Turn WIFI Off. From them Settings Menu for WIFI, you need to toggle the Blue On Button to the Grey Off Position.

C) Reset/Reboot your Wireless Router. Wait for your Router to fully reboot.

D) Turn WIFI back on, on your iPhone.

E) Re-Connect to your WIFI Network. Re-enter your encryption information as needed.

I have been forced to use the EDGE network since I had the phone, and it is not horribly slow, but it was very nice to finally get the phone sailing on my WIFI and using my DSL connection. Very well done. In all honesty all of those above steps should not be necessary so hopefully there is a bug that affects some people that is preventing the devices from properly communicating without a full reset. My 2Wire router has been unbelievably reliable, and I throw all kinds of devices at it, and have never had to reboot it to get one to connect. Regardless, I was able to get it working. Again thanks to all those who provided the tips, suggestions etc. If anyone has any more wifi related tips let me know and I can add them to the list.

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A free Elvis application [iTunes link] is now available for iPhone owners. Elvis Presley Enterprises announced it was releasing an iPhone app which allow fans to view newly released pictures and videos, listen to podcasts from Elvis Radio and live images from a camera at his longtime Memphis, Tennessee, residence, Graceland.

According to Scott Williams, vice president of marketing for Elvis Presley Enterprises, Elvis always believed in embracing new technology. “This new Elvis Mobile application is another unique way to continue Elvis’ legacy.”

“Elvis would have been the first person to buy an iPhone and an iPod,” said Chris Przybyszewski, CEO of Resolute Games & Apps, the Memphis company that created the Elvis iPhone app. “He would have loved the portability and would have been one of the biggest iPhone users ever.”

Elvis Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was an American singer, actor, musician, cultural icon, and sometimes referred to as “The King of Rock ‘n’ Roll” or “The King”.

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The location-aware, mobile social network application GyPSii has launched its free iPhone application [iTunes link] today. It allows users to create and share “geotagged” content in real time with friends.

GyPSii delivers an all-in-one mobile social networking experience. It allows people to instantly capture and share what they are actually doing, building a multi-media virtual diary on their world – the places they have been and the things that they have done.

GyPSii users can automatically update their status across other social networks such as Twitter and Facebook via the GyPSii Connect service.

The launch of our iPhone app, according to Shane Lennon, SVP Product Management and Marketing at GyPSii, also marks the launch of the company’s next generation of user experience (UX).

The GyPSii iPhone application is currently available in English and Chinese.

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If you’ve ever gone into the Apple Store (who hasn’t?), you’ve seen that many of the employees have mobile checkout capability. Using a Windows Mobile based system, the Apple Store employee can charge your credit card and even email the receipt to you. I surmised that Apple has been forced to use the Windows Mobile based system because at the time they didn’t have a portable device to do the transactions. With the iPhone / iPod Touch, those days may be over. Enter iSwipe Credit Card Terminal iSwipe Credit Card Terminal
AppNinja’s iSwipe for iPhone may just be a glimpse into Apple Store retail future. iSwipe allows anyone with a Authorize.net, Cybersource or PayPal Pro account charge credit cards directly on the iPhone. iSwipe acts as a gateway to these accounts featuring best-of-class encryption and an easy way to charge credit cards on the go.



My wife and I have a side business that frequently does trade shows and conventions. When I first heard about iSwipe, it seemed like the perfect candidate to test out just how easy it would be to accept credit cards on our iPhone. In the past, we’ve used PayPal’s virtual terminal and borrowed a friends Sprint PCS mobile card to get internet access at our shows. We processed the credit cards on my MacBook and while it’s a fairly easy set up, we couldn’t justify the purchase of the WiFi card just for the small amount of shows we do. iSwipe is the perfect solution as it uses 3G to transmit the encrypted data to the gateway of your choice.

AppNinja’s just released iSwipe 1.2 which fixed a lot of shortcomings of the original version. For instance, in the previous version, you had to enter all of your account credentials by hand into your iPhone which was a royal pain! Some of the credentials from our PayPal account looked like a bazillion characters. Chances of getting them keyed in correctly on iPhones virtual keyboard were iffy. The new version 1.2 allows you to easily copy and paste your credentials into a secured web browser form. It then actually sends the info via a secure key to the iSwipe app on your iPhone. Very simple! Once activated, iSwipe sprung to life and I charged myself $.10 to make sure that it worked and it did!

I had a lot of questions for the developer and he was always very nice and answered all of my questions I had about setting things up on iSwipe. AppNinja’s also has a very good support forum on GetSatisfaction. This is a great place to start if you’d like to get any of your questions about the application answered before purchasing.

We used iSwipe this past weekend to process a few credit cards and it worked flawlessly. Version 1.2 was supposed to allow PayPal Pro users turn off the need to enter a customers address information but it was mistakenly left out. That feature will be available soon in the next version. Other than the pain of entering the address information in, I wish that iSwipe had some form of visual communication while it’s processing the credit card. Some kind of status screen or meter would be good as there were some instances where I got scared that the app had crashed, only to see a second later that the credit card had been processed.

Unfortunately, iSwipe Credit Card Terminal iSwipe Credit Card Terminal was on sale LAST week so it’s back at it’s original price of $29.99. It’s well worth the cost though as it’s a very easy to use credit card terminal app. While I could just as easily use PayPal’s virtual terminal on my iPhone, the hassle of logging in then waiting for the virtual terminal to load in Mobile Safari is time that I don’t want my customer to wait through. iSwipe is fast and instantly logs into my PayPal Pro account so I can instantly do credit card transactions. More info about iSwipe is available at AppNinjas website.

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From what seems to be a questionable post from a forum poster at a Chinese site, it seems that the 3rd generation iPhone may be a small upgrade. So far, the features unveiled are:

* 600 Mhz CPU
* 256 Mb Ram
* Digital Compass & FM tuner
* 3.2 MP Camera w/autofocus
* 32 GB Flash Storage
* No changes to physical size/casing

I’m not sure how much of this to believe as a few things make me doubt it’s validity…however I could be wrong and this feature list could be entirely right. One of the things that doesn’t sit well with me is the fact that it has a digital tuner and an autofocusing camera. Maybe not so much the fact that it has an autofocusing camera but Apple has NEVER included an FM tuner in ANY of it’s iPod products…oh well, we’ll see who’s right in the next few months. Who knows, maybe i’m wrong…it has happened before.

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Amazon updated its free Kindle app for the iPhone, adding features that many people been waiting for. The version 1.1 features include the ability to pinch to zoom in on images in Kindle books, to read in either portrait or landscape mode with auto-rotation and added a couple of new choices of text color.

Kindle for iPhone and iPod touch is available for free from Apple’s App Store on iPhone and iPod touch or at www.itunes.com/appstore/. You can shop for hundreds of thousands of books, and wirelessly transfer them to your iPhone and iPod Touch.

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Yeah, never ending rumors on new iPhone. According to AppleiPhoneApps.com, the new Apple’s device is rumored to go on sale July 17. The site also predicts that the $199 and $299 price tags will remain.
Through its very own Deep Throat–aka a source who is “closely connected to Apple’s hardware development team”–the Web site posted some details on just what the third-generation iPhone will offer. What’s more, it names Friday, July 17, as the release date.

We can’t verify anything right now, but some of the predictions make more sense than others. A July 17 release date is very plausible. Both the iPhone Classic and the iPhone 3G went on sale on Fridays (June 29, 2007, and July 11, 2008, respectively). Apple likes to respect tradition.

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The NYTimes' Jenna Wortham is reporting that an as-yet unreleased Compete study proves that iPhone users don't use their devices for work. Well, that's not what the study really says. But the title of the story is an eye-grabbing: "Apple iPhone Owners Don’t Use It For Work"

This is based on the statistics:

"73 percent of iPhone owners used their mobile devices primarily for personal reasons, such as entertainment. By comparison, 59 percent of owners with other types of smartphones — from manufacturers like HTC, Research in Motion and Nokia — primarily used their devices for business and work-related needs."

Even if you use your iPhone as your sole work communications device, you probably also use it more for personal reasons. It does have a video iPod built-in and access to thousands of games, camera and location-based utilities for personal use. For those 27% who use the iPhone primarily for work, you are missing out!

Do you use your car primarily for work?

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The Apple Blog has the goods. Basically, now you can have more than one account on your Touch device. We're not sure how often this would come up or why someone would need multiple accounts (work/play?) but apparantly now you can switch between the two on the iPhone.

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Like it or not, the Blackberry did have a strong quarter according to NPD. The Blackberry comes in more varieties, often much cheaper than the iPhone and it is available on every wireless network - including what many percieve to be the best in the US, Verizon. Apple is, so far, sticking to just AT&T.

An aggressive “buy-one-get-one” promotion by Verizon Wireless helped Research in Motion’s BlackBerry Curve move past Apple’s iPhone to become the best-selling consumer smartphone in the U.S. in the first quarter of 2009. RIM’s consumer smartphone market share increased 15 percent to nearly 50 percent of the smartphone market in the first quarter versus the prior quarter, as Cupertino-based Apple Inc.’s and Sunnyvale-based Palm Inc.’s share both declined 10 percent each.

NPD Group Inc. said that the top five best-selling smartphones in the quarter were:
1) BlackBerry Curve
2) Apple's iPhone 3G (all models)
3) BlackBerry Storm
4) BlackBerry Pearl (all models except flip)
5) T-Mobile G1

“Verizon Wireless’s aggressive marketing of the BlackBerry Storm and its buy-one-get-one BlackBerry promotion to its large customer base contributed to RIM capturing three of the top five positions,” said Ross Rubin, director of industry analysis at The NPD Group. “The more familiar, and less expensive, Curve benefited from these giveaways and was able to leapfrog the iPhone, due to its broader availability on the four major U.S. national carriers.”

Smartphones, which represented just 17 percent of handset sales volume in the first quarter of 2008, now make up 23 percent of sales. “Even in this challenging economy, consumers are migrating toward Web-capable handsets and t1eir supporting data plans to access more information and entertainment on the go.” Rubin said.

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AppleiPhoneApps.com (unknown until now by us) says it has the latest iPhone specs. They've put out a lot of what we've already heard but also have some new "info". We've bolded what we consider new stuff. Here's their list:

* 32GB and 16GB to replace current capacities
* $199 and $299 price-points to be maintained
* 3.2 Megapixel camera
* Video recording & editing capabilities
* Ability to send a picture & video via MMS
* Discontinuation of the metal band surrounding the edge of the device
* OLED screen
* 1.5X The battery life
* Double the RAM and processing power
* Built-in FM transmitter
* Apple logo on the back to light up
* Rubber-tread backing
* Sleeker design
* Built-in compass
* Revolutionary combination of the camera, GPS, compass, and Google maps to identify photo and inform about photo locations.
* Turn by turn directions
* July 17th, 2009 release date

If there is a lighting Apple logo on the back, it will be powered by the screen light, just like MacBooks. There is no way Apple will use extra juice to illuminate a logo, when battery power is so important in mobile devices. The rubber tread backing also seems hard to imagine.

We're split on the FM transmitter. It is a very cool and useful feature, but one Apple hasn't been keen on using up until this point.

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