Well, I am not going in details about all the features and updates that come with iPhone 2.2 firmware, but I discovered an update that is yet to be mentioned on any blog or site as far as I know.
Prior to 2.2, whenever you do an update on installed app, it will trigger a new app icon followed by downloading and installation after that the new app icon will be merged with the existing app icon. In 2.2, updating an app does not follow that process anymore instead it will just do over the top of existing app.
On top of that, 2.2 makes my phones more responsive and faster, although how I wish it has copy/paste feature…but I guess Apple is reinventing it
iToday is an iPhone/iPod Touch application coming out from Today (Singapore’s 2nd most-read English newspaper). The purpose of it: to let people read Today Newspaper on iPhone or iPod Touch. An app just for reading a single newspaper? I thought RSS is what we use for syndicating news content?
For me, it is yet another “CAN DO” application that we will see on AppStore. Today boasts the features of iToday, like offline reading ability and archives which is also possible with many of the RSS reader applications available on AppStore.
Instead of developing a native app, what Today can just do is to add iPhone support to its existing news website. And of course, for offline reading and etc, just enable full content RSS feed instead of going through all the troubles. With iPhone 3G recent release in Singapore and with this iToday app, I forsee a lots of follow-up applications which purposes are to showcase the attitude of “I CAN ALSO DO” instead of really serving the needs of users.
Yesterday night, iPhone was officially released in Singapore by SingTel and Apple. I am not sure whether there are people sleeping and queuing to get it. iPhone comes with brand new SingTel mobile phone plans called iFlexi plans and the main thing is you can’t just go and grab it as you wish instead you have to make an appointment with SingTel to go and collect your iPhone which price start from S$348 (approx US$246 and tied to 2 years contact).
As an early adapter of first generation iPhone (4GB), I am very aware how revolutionary iPhone is and how it can change the way we do with our mobile phones. Yet with more and more applications and services release for iPhone, more and more I realize that iPhone does not work that well outside of US and Europe.
Just take a look at the app stores and all the iphone enabled websites, they are either US or Europe based. Although new generation of iPhone comes with 3G, promised connection speed of 3.6Mbps by SingTel is quite impossible unless local developers start to come out with applications as well as web based services for iPhone, and of course they must be hosted locally.
If not, it is very hard to utilize apps like Qik which offers live video broadcasting. I have tried using it on WiFi and it still has a bit of lag so you can think of how app will perform on 3G.
Yet, if you are a social networking whore, iPhone is a must have device for you to connect 24/7 to your Facebook or MySpace or even your blogs.
Omnia is a Windows Mobile based touchscreen PDA phone released by Samsung and Diamond by HTC. It is indeed feature packed phone which comes with GPS, 8/16GB space (4GB for Diamond), expansion slot (not available in Diamond), 3G/HSPDA, 5MP camera (3.2 for Diamond) and Windows Mobile 6.1 Pro. Today, I overhead people talking about Omnia/Diamond vs iPhone and I was quite shocked to hear what they have to say. They actually said that Omnia and Diamond are much better than iPhone (even better than the 3G version). Well so, is Omnia and Diamond really better than iPhone? The answer is of course obvious, a big NO.
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