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In my continuing quest to find a little paraphrase of Lord of the Rings “, a device to rule , “I have seen so many different phones,” smart “phones and other devices like them, that I pretty much lost, how many, and when I them all. They are all a little out of the blur Palm Treo 650 Sony Ericsson P910i to the products of T-Mobile and Nokia. In short, a device name, and I have tried it, and for one reason or another, found it. After trying so many different devices, I finally on the BlackBerry 8700g < / a> as a completely satisfied that most of my needs for an all-in-one phone, contacts, calendars and e-mail tool I can imagine, to a computer or anywhere lug a separate PDA and phone . The BlackBerry had a lot of things for them: decent interface, fast response, best-of-class e-mail handling, and it was also a pretty good cell phone too - something many of my other previous decisions (which will remain nameless) failed to be. But as good as the BlackBerry was, it was soon eclipsed by a shiny new device: iPhone . As from the date on which the iPhone was announced, I felt sure that at last a device that would be capable of, everything I wanted it to handle as well as the multi-media functions, user-friendliness and design was brilliant Famous for Apple. Then, in June of last year, iPhone was finally in my hands, and I was off and running. In the months that followed, I grew to love the iPhone and most of its functions. He quickly became an indispensable tool capable of so much. But I wanted to anyway, it was lacking a bit in some areas, and I started to miss some of the things on the BlackBerry and how he handled certain functions. Also, know that I am perhaps a little suffering from “grass is greener” effect, I have decided that both devices to the test to determine once and for all who is in the best position would be that to do what I wanted to do in the way I wanted it done. Before I go further, keep in mind that the following is subjective and based on my own observations. It is not yet scientifically, I have something very strict test the devices - I both of them and then responds, how well or how poorly, every unit has done what I wanted it to do. OK, it is now that of the way, let's move on. IPhone My choice of a “competitor” was the AT & T BlackBerry Curve (aka the 8310). To my tests as fair as possible, I wanted to test a device against the iPhone that most closely mirrored its functions. It also meant that both units had on the same wireless carrier. With AT & T on both units, I was able to compare apples, good, blackberries and see what happened. Setup and Data Sync Setting up both devices was a relatively painless process, the big difference is that in the case of the BlackBerry, I turned it in the AT & T store, and then it was almost immediately. For the iPhone, I had to wait until I have at home, combine it with iTunes, and then go through the activation process. The activation of the iPhone was mostly painless, but it had its questions - as I in a previous post last year . Regardless of the method of activation or any problems, when both devices were activated, I was able to use any of them without difficulty. I then started to them through their steps. Initially, after the activation data synchronization between my Mac and test the equipment. First, I worked with the BlackBerry. RIM has decided license, a piece of software from another company to connectivity, synchronization, and other features for Mac users. This software is known as for PocketMac BlackBerry. For whatever reason, the brain trust in RIM did not feel it was necessary or useful to do a lot with this software other than the offer as a download at its website. It seems not, as his lot in the past about the way in the development, since it was first published is not much improved since I started working with him. After a somewhat tedious process in the RIM - website, where you are committed to a high degree of personal information only to download a software for a device that you pay only for money, you can download PocketMac. I find it a little strange that not only provide this information to the software, there is no way to save it for the next time just in case, you have to download it again for some reason. Even if my experience at RIM's website has been less than ideal, PocketMac is a great thing for themselves: it's free. Unfortunately, that's about the only thing. I am more tech savvy, and I usually no problems during installation or with most software, or to solve problems. Also, PocketMac downloading, installing on my Mac and test it for the synchronization of data between my Mac and the BlackBerry would have a relatively simple proposition. I could not be more wrong. I was able to install the software successfully, so kudos to you for the opportunity to get that far. But after it was installed, that's when things a downturn. After many unsuccessful attempts to synchronize data between the BlackBerry and my Mac, the unexpected quits partially synchronized or corruption of one or more contacts or calendars and some Attempts customer service on the attempt to solve these issues, I have abandoned PocketMac RIM completely. Instead, I opted for the only other solution currently available: the non-free Missing Sync . My experience with Missing Sync was almost a polar contrast to the PocketMac. In short, it worked correctly the first time, and I was able to synchronize contacts, calendars, tasks, and even images between my Mac and the BlackBerry curve. A very pleasant experience. Missing Sync costs $ 39.99, but for the money, it works as advertised and worked, at least for me, fine. Also, money well spent. Next, the iPhone. Apple iPhone, which easily integrate with your Mac with iTunes, especially if you are with iCal and Address Book. Connecting the iPhone to my Mac and always my contacts and calendar entries with iTunes to synchronize worked for the first time, and continued to work for the entire time during my two weeks of testing. In fact, I have not had a problem with this part of the iPhone experience since day one. If you are using a different application for your contacts and appointments, as it is now your contact or similar results may vary, as in the moment, it is not all for you to synchronize your data to iPhone. Entourage users, on the other hand, are not abandoned by the use of Entourage Sync services, which allows synchronization between Entourage address book and calendar, and the iPhone. As I am an Apple iCal and Address Book users, my examination of Entourage Sync for the BlackBerry was mostly just to see if it works. I did not test it to see clearly, if there are no problems. Maybe someone else can elaborate on this topic? Usability To be honest, I prefer the BlackBerry 8700g and His use the side scroll wheel to the curve and its more advanced trackball. I am not a great fan of the trackball, and in some cases found it rather cumbersome to use. Although, after an attempt for a bit, I have more uses. Probably because sufficient time, I would have completely adapted. Obviously, the BlackBerry works differently than the iPhone, especially in the way you access to the various functions. For the blackberry, you scroll down and click your way through the menus until you get what you want. They also have a text, phone numbers and other data with a real keyboard. As we all know, this is not the way it with the iPhone. When I first iPhone, I found the interface awkward, and I was sure that I never used to touch the screen to the input of text. However, after it for that long time, I am quite accustomed. This goes so far that when I started with the first curve for this test, I found myself to touch the screen, sometimes without realizing it. I think it does not need a long time to learn that new behavior. But even if I have grown used to the iPhone method of text entry, I still found entering text on the BlackBerry Mir easier because the keyboard. It makes typing easier if I really feel the keys under my fingers. What usually happens during my two weeks of testing is that I could give more, specifically e-mails and texts on the BlackBerry as I could on the iPhone. The iPhone, I found myself to go back and correct what more often than on the BlackBerry. Course, it might also be that I greren fingers. Maybe if my fingers were smaller I would have more luck with the iPhone-touch keyboard? I do not know whether that would help or not, but the result is that I have less and shorter articles and e-mails, when the iPhone, as I did, as with the BlackBerry. As for the other functions of the device, which both have multi-media capabilities such as a music and video player and a camera to photograph. The iPhone is far ahead of any other device when it comes to the playback of video or music. But his camera is not as good as the ones in the curve. I am not sure why Apple chose this mittelmiger a 1.2-megapixel camera in the iPhone, but they have, and this is a place where the Black Beats iPhone in the multimedia area. Finally, I wanted to see how well the two devices, like a phone call. Call me crazy, , but also to all the impressive range of functions, Both devices through, I also want them to work well, I can make phone calls. From my use of the BlackBerry 8700g, I remind myself that there is a very good signal telephone and got many areas in which my previous phones and devices. The curve also proved to be an exceptional phone, allow me to appear in many areas of Los Angeles could be the iPhone. I was even able to get signal and calls during the meeting in my office at home with the BlackBerry Curve - something I can never do with the iPhone. Calls were also much clearer, if I people with the BlackBerry. In fact, if I use the curve, some people were confused when they heard how well the call sounded and asked me if I was at home on a landline connection. Nobody has ever asked me this question, as I do with the iPhone. The same quality was apparent in the use of the devices for the second most important thing that I do for you in the course of the day: E-mail address. The BlackBerry has a long tradition in this area, and this experience really comes through in the handling of the e-mail. I am sure that some of the seemingly perfect e-mail handling has to do with the way e-mail address is “pushed” to the device instead of “pulled” by the iPhone. To explain, if you are not familiar times, the BlackBerry is supported, at least at the level of consumers, by what is known as the BlackBerry Internet Service or BIS . If you opt for a BlackBerry account go to a certain website BIS, in this case of AT & T, in which all information about the e-mail addresses you want the BlackBerry to access and then a little bit wait for your e-mail to start flowing to the unit. After you first enter that information that all e-mail is sent to you with one of these accounts are configured automatically “pushed” to your BlackBerry to be read. You do not have anything on your end or on the device to get it. It comes easy to you. The iPhone does the opposite. You configure e-mail account information on the device itself or on your Mac and then, if you want your e-mail address delivered to iPhone, send a request to your e-mail accounts and “pulls” the e-mail to your iPhone, so that you can read it. The difference may be subtle, or could it be that thinking “who cares?” But it is this difference that the BlackBerry sets on the iPhone in view of the e-mail handling. You do not need to remember to e-mails and not the device, if you have a BlackBerry. It just works. If someone you an e-mail broadcasts, it is delivered almost instantly, so you can read it. You do not have to think, and that is one point to make is the beauty of the system and makes something that the BlackBerry device better for the people, for the timely e-mail address is grter importance. Another way of the BlackBerry e-mail handles better than the iPhone is its ability to get more than one message at a time, and as they read. I do not always want to sit there and choose an e-mail address after another, I can read it as a highlight. This is a laborious process. I would also like the ability to have text-only e-mail, as on the BlackBerry, but not the iPhone. Apple May think everyone wants HTML e-mail all the time, but for many people, like me, it is not necessary. Plus, when e-mail address on the iPhone could only text, it would be likely to load faster than good, especially in EDGE data speeds. Use this option in a future software update? Conclusions What really matters is these devices are aimed at two different markets in two different types of users. While each has its strengths and weaknesses, which they both with its core functions well - with the BlackBerry e-mail and telephone and iPhone as a multimedia device. The bottom line, at least for me, is that if I change the way users, with a good camera, push e-mail address and a telephone that works pretty much everywhere I go were the deciding factor on which device, the BlackBerry would win. Since I am not this kind of user, the iPhone is the device for me. I am willing to sacrifice something for some other iPhone's cutting-edge features. It is not that it was a bad phone or e-mail handles terrible, it only has a little work to do in these areas as well as the BlackBerry. The BlackBerry has been much longer and has a lot more time on their core responsibilities sharpen functionality. The iPhone, on the other hand, for all the changes, is still a version 1.x product, which can only be better and better with each subsequent revision. I am prepared to him a chance to do that. We can only hope that Apple does not take too long to iPhone improvements needed, because even if the BlackBerry lacks, in a way, when compared to the iPhone, it is also better than in the previous year. If Apple is not careful and not constantly evolving iPhone, it will find itself continuously in the BlackBerry shadow as number two player in the world of Smart Phones. Although, if I know Apple, you are already hard at work planning the next generation of i-units, which not only overtake RIM BlackBerry and its strike, but out of the water. Since Apple's track record, engineering and design bravery and his vision for the future, I am sure that the company can do.
Mar 03
Mar 03
Steve Wozniak is in Australia this week to speak at the Broadband and Beyond Conference. He's also sat down with The Sydney Morning Herald to discuss, among other things, his disappointment with the iPhone:"To tell you the truth I was really disappointed when the iPhone was introduced ... half the phones in the AT&T store at the time were 3G phones ... I was shocked because Apple is bringing the full internet [to mobiles] ... and it's not 3G."
Woz isn't alone in this complaint. Since the iPhone is the first mobile phone I've ever owned (I know - crazy), my only experience is with EDGE. Of course it isn't as fast as broadband in my house, but it isn't unusably slow, either.
The iPhone is scheduled to debut in Australia later this year (not that it isn't there already).
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Mar 03
 CNET Crave Blog | Woz Dumps on MacBook Air, iPhone, AppleTV Slashdot - 3 hours ago AcidAUS writes "Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak heaped less than lavish praise on the company's iPhone, MacBook Air and Apple TV products when visiting ... Woz: "I'm trying to figure out a way to make the Air part of my life." CNET Crave Blog all 2 news articles |
Mar 03
iPhone in the enterprise? InfoWorld, CA - 59 minutes ago With the highly-anticipated iPhone SDK just days away, rumors are swirling about just what Apple's intentions are for enterprise users. ... |
Mar 03
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• Apple movie rentals fell a few short, (601, actually.)
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Mar 03
Filed under: iPod Family, Cult of Mac, Bugs/Recalls, iPhone
In this trivial video, someone shows what happens to the iPhone when the stopwatch has been running for over 1,000 hours. You may ask yourself, "Who runs their iPhone's stopwatch for over 41 days?" And we asked ourselves the same thing. But what happens is most definitely surprising -- and brings a whole new meaning to geek.
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Mar 03
I have never tried using the passwd command on my jailbroken 1.1.3 iPhone, since everyone warns of its use. However, I don't like having the default root password that everyone in the world knows, so I wanted to figure out a way to change it. It's pretty easy actually. On a Mac or Unix/Linux, the openssl command will do what you need like this:
I ssh'd to the iPhone, and ran cat /etc/master.passwd, then copied that output to BBEdit (or other text editor). Then I replaced the passwd section (in between the first two colons) with my new hash for both root and mobile users. Finally, I copied the whole thing, swit...
openssl passwd -crypt -salt /s myNewPasswdI ssh'd to the iPhone, and ran cat /etc/master.passwd, then copied that output to BBEdit (or other text editor). Then I replaced the passwd section (in between the first two colons) with my new hash for both root and mobile users. Finally, I copied the whole thing, swit...
Mar 03
 MTV.uk | Britney Spears dumps cheating Adnan Ghalib by 'iPhone' – Tabloid Hell NME.com, UK - 31 minutes ago ... was convinced Ghalib was cheating on her, and in the following altercation the pop star ended up throwing a brand new iPhone into her swimming pool. ... Britney Dumps Adnan MTV.uk Britney angered at obscene messages entertainment.oneindia.in BRITNEY SPEARS DUMPS ADNAN! www.thedailygoss.com InTheNews.co.uk - Mobile Marketing News all 41 news articles |
Mar 03
 IntoMobile | iPhone SDK details leak, confirm assumptions Ars Technica, MA - 46 minutes ago By David Chartier | Published: March 03, 2008 - 09:12AM CT Apple's highly-anticipated iPhone/iPod touch SDK announcement is just around the corner, ... Apple to have final say on new iPhone apps TechRadar.com What makes Apple golden CNNMoney.com Apple Adds New iPhone & iPod touch Models PR-USA.net (press release) CNET News.com - eFluxMedia all 17 news articles |
Mar 03
Filed under: Cellphones, Home Entertainment, Laptops
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