iPhone OS 4.0 To Bring Multitasking

Can you believe it is already time for the 4th iteration of the iPhone OS? We celebrated and rejoiced when we finally received copy and paste in iPhone 3.0, so what’s going to make 4.0 special? Of course the rumor mills are churning and churning as the time for a new iPhone and new software is getting near.

The big feature that seems like everyone wants is multi tasking, surprised? Nope, I wasn’t either. The iPhone already does some multi tasking in the background. You can continue to play music from the iPod app as you do other things. Also email is always running, it checks to see if you have mail based either on push notifications or different time intervals you already setup in the settings. So why aren’t people happy with this, and what will true multi tasking look like?

Apple Blocks Jailbreaking, Opinions?

First off, happy Wednesday to you. Here in Indiana it’s dreary and a little chilly. As I write to you though I’m warm indoors with a nice sweater and coffee. Perfect fall setting. With that in mind I wanted to ask you, what are your favorite apps for fall? I’m building a post for that, and want you the reader to have input on the post. Just trying something new. Leave a comment and tell me some of your favorite Halloween apps, apps for fall, etc…GET CREATIVE.

Bands With iPhone Apps

Happy stinking Friday to everyone out in the land of the internet. Fridays always bring joy to everyone, I won’t say for certain no matter what, but usually this is true. Even though the weather has turned to crap around campus here in Indiana, I’m sure somewhere the sun is shining perfectly. Todays post won’t be just another goofy app review, I’ve been noticing a new trend among the iPhone community and wanted to highlight that and weigh in with my opinion on it. Of course after you’ve digested what I’ve said, please do weigh in on this discussion with your opinions and ideas. Keeping thoughts to yourself never helps spread the idea of thinking! So read on.

iPhone OS 3.1 Quick Review

It’s only been a few days now since the big Apple iPod bonanza, and of course they didn’t leave out their precious iPhone from any of the updates. It is after all an iPod too. It wasn’t any big news, iTunes 9 is pretty cool. They did bring back the 160GB iPod Classic. I have one of those before they killed it then brought it back. The nano got a camera and the iPod Touch really didn’t get anything spectacular.

As for the iPhone, she got a little update from 3.0 to 3.1. Some welcomed features, and breaks some things that we won’t speak of. Here is a rough run down of the fixes and new additions…

What The iPhone Needs; Waterproof Sealing

Welcome back to what I like to call wishful thinking, otherwise known as What The iPhone Needs. My own little, sort of, column where I can dream and complain about what I think the iPhone needs. It’s been awhile since I’ve done one of these, and since today I’m on the road moving back to school I thought it was about time to just vent.

Photos On The iPhone Wrapped Up!

Photos On The iPhone

That series is finally gone and out of the way. I’m slightly sad to see it go as I love photography, but it’s time to move on. There are so many photo apps in the app store that you could almost make a whole website devoted to photography on the iPhone 3GS. None the less, I wanted to add one last post to wrap up the series. A simple way to quickly go over the apps, and the pros and cons that come with each one.

Apple iPhone 3GS Review Roundup

It’s been a crazy day for me here in my house. I’m working on my very own iPhone 3.0 review plus other video reviews to publish soon, I’m also trying to clean up and get work done for other clients despite leaving for a month on tour if the midwest. I haven’t started packing for that yet, that’s for tomorrow I guess. If you were unaware the new iPhone 3.0 software was released today, although it’s been available for awhile if you looked hard enough or torrented it. It was the same seed that the developers got just earlier this month, and sadly for us here in the U.S. AT&T is still slow on delivering us MMS and tethering. It’s really irritating isn’t it? The iPhone 3GS also comes out in two days, and if the person who bought mine would hurry and send me the payment I’d be going out to get my very iPhone 3GS to review for you all. You know, just part of the job. If I’m blogging about the iPhone I’ve got to have the latest and greatest right? Haha, none the less I sold my iPhone 3G and it pretty much paid for my iPhone 3GS.

iPhone 3G S, Already Sold Out?

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Surprise, surprise… As I sit here and write to you and 1:30 in the morning my time I’m reading a news update on MacRumors.com that AT&T has already sold out of iPhone 3G S through their online pre-order. Throughout this whole ordeal it seems to me and the rest of the world I’m sure, that AT&T has really dropped the ball this time around on this years iPhone launch. They seem to act like they are out in the dark on everything that Apple has done, which isn’t the case since every other carrier was on the ball when June 8th came around. So like I said is it any surprise that the iPhone is out of stock already through AT&T?

TomTom Finally Brings Turn By Turn To The iPhone

Can you believe your ears, or your eyes as you will see in the video, TomTom has finally done it. A true turn by turn GPS app is coming to the iPhone. This is a day for celebrating everyone, and let me tell you why. For the last year I’ve been harping the fact that Apple HAS to let someone build a great turn by turn app. The iPhone 3G came out and had built in GPS, how could you not have a turn by turn app. Well maybe there is something holding them up, like AT&T again. Gosh I want to kick AT&T right where it hurts, but that’s besides the point.

Palm Pre & iTunes Working Together

As much as this has to do with the Palm Pre, this has to do with the iPhone. As you all may or may not know the Palm Pre is supposedly the holy grail for Palm. It’s no secret that Palm has been in trouble for quite some time. Even long before the iPhone came along Palm was in need of a great phone to save itself. At one time in my life I actually did own a Palm Treo. I don’t remember which one it was maybe the 650? Some weird number naming scheme that no one can remember. It had a touchscreen, semi worked and semi didn’t. It also came with those things that we use to call stylus. It was an ironic name because nothing about the stylus was stylish. That’s why when the Blackberry came along it was the king of cool, effectively putting Palm in it’s coffin. As they say and I firmly believe the iPhone was the nail to that coffin. It hasn’t came to fruition yet, but it will happen. Luckily for Palm the Pre will keep it afloat a little longer. I was hoping that yesterday Apple would give us some great news about the iPhone, instead we got a decent update and crap from AT&T. No tethering until late in the summer? A BIG WTF for AT&T, I love my iPhone but AT&T really needs to get with it to keep Apple’s partnership. Otherwise you are going to have over 40 million unhappy iPhone owners jumping ship.

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