Archive for the ‘iphone’ tag
iPhone 3.0 Preview Wishlist (update)
The web is a wash with speculation over the coming iPhone 3.0 preview along with the new SDK scheduled for tomorrow, March 17th, at the Mighty Blue Apple’s HQ in Cupertino. It is worth noting that this is version 3.0 of the firmware, not 2.3, so we should be expecting something fairly major. Although the major works could be under the hood. Continuing from my iPhone 2.2 Wishlist, here are some of the additions I would hope have made the cut.
One of the most fundamental things (still) missing from the iPhone is the ability to copy and paste. This seems to be one of the most common rumours doing the rounds at the moment and, whilst not being particularly groundbreaking, would be greatly received by many. Read the rest of this entry »
iPhone 2.2 Wishlist
Five things I wish had been included in the recent iPhone 2.2 update (and really, in the original release of the iPhone 3G).
- A2DP (bluetooth headphone) Support
- MMS Picture messaging
- Landscape text entry in Mail
- The ability to forward SMS messages
- OBEX File transfer for photos
Genius Playlists
I’ve been a subscriber to the excellent last.fm service for a long time now; I love it when clever technology is put to a cool purpose. Not only can you track your listening habits (which can be pretty interesting in itself, worthy of its own blog post which will follow), but with some analysis the clever guys at Last.HQ can recommend music that you will probably like. I use the stand alone app at work, too, to listen to music, giving me access to stream my music ‘from home’ as well as other interesting new tunes.
Around the same time as I got my iPhone 3G (and hence started using iTunes (never fear, I will not forget you, Frankel)) iTunes 8 was released. Apple were making a song and dance out of Genius, a function which would generate you playlists based on a starting file, as well as recommending music which you might like to buy from the iTunes Music Store (oh, how convenient - thank you Mr Jobs ;)).
To me this sounded familiar, and after having a quick gander at it to establish what it looked like, I dismissed it. Perhaps it was my choice of track, but the results it returned weren’t great.
Fast forward two months. For a laugh last night, whilst scrolling through my music, I noticed the cheese-tastic classic Loveshack by the B52s. A quick right-click, Start Genius later and I had 25 tracks which are worthy of the status of ‘Le Grand Fromage’. Read the rest of this entry »
Rocking out with my iPhone
So I’m sat on a beanbag in my lounge taking a break from rockband to post (a long over due) blog entry, from my shiny new iPhone, using the shinier Wordpress iPhone app. Awesome sauce 
How young, hip & trendy do I feel?
