10. Illusion Of Being Open

Ten things hated about Android
10. Illusion Of Being Open

One of the bigger things don’t liked about Android is the illusion of being open. Android is free and open-source. The phone carriers and manufacturers lock down the OS. This isn't exactly a new thing. RIM and Apple do it too but it's not a secret. When they install preloaded apps like SprintNav, VZ Navigator, and other bloatware, its not a surprise. With Android, I can't remove this bloatware unless I root my phone. Rooting is Android's equivalent to jailbreaking an iPhone. In Linux talk, getting “root” access means getting administrative access. Think sudo. For example, I can't install software unless I am root. This requires me to type in a password. Back to Android. They market themselves as being free and open but that is only half the story. In order to get root access, you'll need to perform risky ROM flashing that may brick your phone if not done properly. I had to root my Android in order to get a flashlight app to work because it needed root access to control the LED flash. The procedure was easy to follow but it can be intimidating for newbies. Because Android is so “open”, cell phone carriers are capable of modifying and locking it down. Don't believe me? Look at AT&T's first Android device, the Motorola Backflip. They modified Android's default Google search and replaced it with Yahoo! search. I'm sure you can think of other examples. The point is, if Android is so open, why do I have to Flash a different ROM in order to get administrative access? Last time I checked, I purchased an “opened” phone. That's their illusion. Their marketing. Sure the platform is inherently open but the carriers lock it down. By the time it gets into your pocket(literally), it's closed. Don't like having a Vcast app? Too bad.

9. Shady App Opt-ins

Ten things hated about Android

9. Shady App Opt-ins

Most third-party Android apps have a weird opt-in that requires you to give up your privacy. These apps often get access to your data and location. Why does a third-party app need to know where I'm located? The problem is you cannot install these apps without giving them access. After a while, it becomes so common, you don't even think about it anymore. Click next, next, accept, install. You want access to my GPS location? Sure! Why not...........................................

8. Feels Sluggish On Good Hardware

Ten things hated about Android

8. Feels Sluggish On Good Hardware

Speaking of GHz speed processors, I still feel new Android phones aren't living up to their spec sheets. Back when 528MHz processors were the standard, we should be thankful we have 1 GHz processors. The problem is things still feel sluggish with 1GHz Snapdragons, Hummingbirds, OMAP's, and whatever the new Arm A1000 architect they've released. I love watching countless 'iPhone 4 vs Latest Android” videos. The iPhone often holds its own with weaker hardware. I'm not an iDrone by any means. I don't even own an Apple product. However, I can appreciate Apple optimizing their software with their hardware. This means many Android phones feel sluggish with good hardware. Yes, the new breed of GHz speed processors are fast but I always detect a hint of stutter here and there that bothers me like a hangnail.

7. Poor Battery Life

Ten things hated about Android

7. Poor Battery Life

Probably my biggest complaint with Android is its terrible battery life. It's pretty consistent across all manufacturers. When I had an Android phone, I would be lucky to get a full day's use out of it. I had to buy extra chargers for work and the car just to trickle in a few watt hours into these little lithiums. 8 hours of use is common. I would pull my phone hot off the charge at 10AM and it would be red by 6pm. What good is a huge touch screen and all these smartphone luxuries when I have to turn off WiFi every time I leave my home? Why do I have to turn my brightness down just to squeeze in an extra hour? Why do I have to get a task killer and babysit these background apps? Probably the biggest question that comes to mind is why do companies make these awesome smartphones and put tiny batteries in them? All touch screen smartphones should have at least a 2Ah(2000mAh) battery. At LEAST! Most smartphones have at the most, a 1500 mAh battery which is pitiful considering they're powering GHz speed smartphones. Those that say their Android's battery life is fine is kidding themselves. No one should expect 8 hour of real-world usage. A smartphone should last at least a full business day. Each person has their own requirements but suffices to say, 8 hours was not good enough for me.

6. Memory Hogging Widgets

Ten things hated about Android

6. Memory Hogging Widgets

Part of the reason I think Android has poor UI is widgets. Widgets are like micro apps that run on the “desktop” of Android. These widgets are memory hogs and they add to Android's messy interface. Lots of apps comes with widgets that you can put on your home screens. Android has some preloaded and HTC has many SenseUI widgets. These widgets are like early HTML pages. When the web was in its infancy, many people thought it was cool to build webpages with flashing text and neon colors. That's how I describe Android widgets. Some are plain, some are functional, some are ugly and some are just stupid. All of these widgets look out of place unless you follow a strict color scheme. Even then, consistency is still hard to achieve unless you have a theme. I used to have tons of widgets on my home screen until I found out they bogged my phone down, it was almost unusable. Widgets may be cool for computers but for now, they suck for phones.

5. Poor UI

Ten things hated about Android

5. Poor UI

The next problem I have with Android is its user interface. At first, I thought it was great. It felt like having a little computer in your hand. After using it for a while, I had a chance to objectively look at it. I found it to be very counter intuitive. After a while, it did become like a computer. I would often times have icons littered across my home screens. It reminded me of saving all your files to the desktop and quickly seeing lots of “trash” that needed to be cleaned. After I cleaned it, they were still unorganized in the huge menu. One could say that's my own fault and it may be so. Lets move on. Lots of Android apps function differently. When you hit the “back” button, you would expect to go to the previous screen. Keep hitting back and each app acts differently. Did the application close? Some apps will close when you hit back all the way but not all. Now you have to open up a task killer to see if this app is closed or not. Each app behaves differently from the back button and also the menu button. Each settings for each app is different so there is nothing intuitive or uniform about the UI.

4. Accept/Reject Meetings

10 things hated about Android

4. Accept/Reject Meetings

Accepting meeting requests on BlackBerry is simple. After you get an invitation, you can either accept or reject it. This is a problem on some Android phones but not all. I don't want to dwell on #3 but this is another example of fragmentation. For me, the problem was specific.

3. Fragmentation

10 things hated about Android

3. Fragmentation

One of the more serious problems with Android is their fragmented platform. Most apps depend on a newer version of Android which means you either have to upgrade your OS or buy a newer phone. Since most carriers take their time to release an upgrade, you are left behind while newer phones enjoy these cool apps. I suspect most carriers delay their upgrades in order to provoke people to buy newer phones. Actually, I wouldn't be surprised. Besides the different versions of Android, you also have manufacturer specific skins on top of Android. HTC has SenseUI, Samsung has TouchWiz, and Motorola has MotoBlur. Each manufacturer takes Android and turns it into their own unique version. This makes the experience on each device different. The result? Fragmentation.

2. Freezing & Force Closing

Ten things I hated about Android:

2. Freezing/Force Close

Android is the constant freezing and “Force Close”. Whenever an app freezes up or doesn't respond, you are prompted to force close the app. It experiences an isolated incident but it's not. Just by browsing some Android forums, you will read of many annoying incidents of force close. Even though Android is based on Linux, it feels more like a smartphone version of Windows Vista. Always crashing and freezing.

1. Terrible Touch-pad

Ten things hated about Android:

1. Terrible Touch-pad
The stock Android touch pad is terrible. There are plenty of better soft touch pads out there. One of my favorites is Swipe. Why can't the standard touch pad be good? The soft touch pad on Apple's iPhone is much better than Android's. The predictive text on the stock Android touch pad is terrible. The point of using a soft touch pad with predictive text is so you don't have to go back and fix all the jumbled words.

Lσst iPhσne Lσst Passwσrd

Lost iPhone means your passowrds can be owned in 6minutes.  Researcher from Fraunhofer Institute
of Secure Information Technology have relased a video showing how easy this is in three steps.

1.They jailbreak the device.
2.Get access to keychain file.
3. Decrypt it.

Any passwords you’ve stored will be accessible – your e-mail account, web sites, banking information, etc. There’s not much can be said now, other than to hope that Apple fixes this pretty quickly.

Multi-Touch tech & long battery

iPhone users know how to use iPhone touch pad, its a most natural act.  Using finger as your pointing device makes it joy to use. Apple has most advanced Multi-Touch system better than anyother brands.

It has really long battery life. The power-efficient A5 chip and iOS 5 deliver outstanding battery life to the phone. So you can doing your stuff in phone, keep making calls, watching videos, playing games, checking email, and browsing the web.

Picture Stream in iCloud

Picture streaming........... in iCloud, recently taken pictures are automatically sent to all your devices.  Take a picture in iPhone and it appears on your iPad and Computer.  Amazing synchronization that allows you to see whatever picture you upload to your computer it shows to our iPhone and iPad.

You dont have to do manual synchronization to transfer anything.  For viewing pleasure your pictures are there when you want to share.

Geotags & iPhoto

Geotags are the data tags that iphone stores where ever you taken them.  So you can browse them from where you've taken them.  If you want to see photos in some place for example Bangkok tap the places button, then tap the pin of Bangkok.  You can even zoom in on the map to see places with in Bangkok and the pictures you have took pictures of landmarks.

iPhone functions to iPhoto for the Mac, means you can view organize photos event or places.  If you want to see pictures of your daughter.

Tap her pictures in faces view to open an album containing photos of her. Isn't this intresting?

iPhone Picture Capability

Picture capapbility of iPhone is just great. You can do touch up photos on your iPhone like crop, enhance, red eye removal, rotate.  Keep your photos arranged in the albums.  Where you can mark favourites aswell.  Presentation of photos are in such a way your friends wont just looks at one photo they will just flick around on to another and takes enjoyment of your vacation, friends, hangouts pictures.  This joy comes to you only if you pass your photos to your friends on iPhone.  The high resolution retina display gives your photos a polished look.  No matter if you zoom in or out to see details and you get the pictures sharp, vibrant and rich in colors.

iTunes in the Cloud

Get to see your music and TV shows. No need to miss them.

You suddenly be turning in to a mood to listen to songs or watch hilarious sitcom episode repeatedly.  With iCloud, you can download iTunes automatically and new music purchases to your devices.  Have access to past music and TV show from any of your devices, that is too wirelessly and without syncing.

iCloud

iCloud stores your music, photos, documents and more and wirelessly pushes them to all your devices. Automatic, effortless, and seamless — it just works.
Whatever is on you iPhone is also available in iPod touch, iPad, Mac and PC.  Reminders synchronize with Microsoft Outlook or iCal. You can edit you to-dos on you computer.  And iCloud pushes them to all you devices.

iMessage

Messages with iMessage are unlimited.1 And secure, too. Now you can text it up with fellow iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch users running iOS 5.  Talk to all your friends or family at once with group messaging. See who’s reading with delivery and get read receipts. If words not enough to express use send photos, videos, locations, and contacts.

If you are love to do text, you’ll love Messages on iPhone that comes with iMessage, a new service that’s better than texting. Because it’s between you and anyone using an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with iOS 5. Express as much as you want. And say way more & more & more.

Notification Center

It’s the one status displaying place where you’ll see whats going on. iPhone works with your apps to let you know about missed messages, calendar invitations, friend requests, and more. New notifications appear discreetly at the top of your screen. And you can see a summary of recent notifications when you swipe down from the top of any screen.
You could be in the middle of anything: chapter 10, an email to your client, a FaceTime chat. With Notification Center, alerts pop up discreetly at the top of your screen, without interrupting what you’re doing. If it’s important, tap to respond. If not, ignore it and it will disappear from the screen as quickly as it came. And it will be ready and waiting in Notification Center.
Notification Center keeps track of all your recent alerts in one convenient place.

Most Adv. Operating System Phone

Most of you know how to use "iPhone" interface the first time you pick it up from store.  You can say its a finger friendly multi-touch human interface.  This is why its a joy to use iPhone.  Its always simple to start your phone task by the smart looking Home screen is always the easiest place to get started.  More than 500,000 are available from the App Store till now.  Its easy to make a Face Time call  and editing a video using iMovie.  Everythin you do is easy fun and most natural.

Word Ball 1.0

After success with Monte-Lingual 1 to 10 and Stock Wars, Continuous Integration, Inc. released Word Ball 1.0, their first word game for the iPhone and iPod touch.  Word Ball taps into a different genre of word building apps and games. By providing a unique approach and game play, Word Ball adds a different twist to word games and demonstrates the evolution of the rapidly growing and popular gaming category.
 

Speech Recognition App

Speech Notes for iPhone application is released by Russian Federation – Beam Speech Solutions. The unique application to keep your voice and text notes in one place.

 Using this unique service one can enlightened to collect all dictated and written notes in one place.  You may easily transform your speech into human readable text with just one button click. Save your time typing your ideas; start speaking right away and the rest will be done by Speech Notes. At the moment it supports 13 languages: Chezh, Danish, Deutche, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian more to add soon.

Free Beer App

Brewski Me 1.0.1 is a free beer app designed by Rocksauce Studios. For aged connoisseurs and brew beginners alike, this app will keep track of beers users drink, beers they want to try, and beers their friends have been drinking-all from their iPhone or iPod touch.

It’s a simple process; the app has a beer database chock full of beers and breweries from all around the nation that the user can choose from. Once they search for their beer by the name, brewery or style, the user can view details about each beer, add it to their beer queue, or rate and review the beer. If they like it, they can add it to a favorites list. From there, drinkers can even view similar beers or add beers they have in stock to their cooler. Users can even share their findings with the world by checking in their latest beer via Twitter or Facebook.

The new ViewRanger

These days technology has made life simpler. Apps have become essential traveler’s companions, whether it’s for currency exchange, language interpretation or making reservations and many more.

The simple guidebook is so last year and now, if you’re an guide author, so is a dependency on finding a publisher to print one.

The new ViewRanger interfacewill give any experienced guide author or for that matter, anyone with good local knowledge to impart, the opportunity to build their own app and publish the content on smart phones, as well as showcasing and promoting content on social networks.

Protective 3M stickers

3M has got a new technology – a screen protector. Sure, it’s nothing out of Q’s lab – but these give you super-resistant, privacy-increasing films that are easy to apply.

iPhone Travel App

Dear Readers technology can do such a thing that I never even thought of before.  iPhone in your hand means thousands of apps in your hand that can be useful in your life anytime whether you are cooking, driving, travelling by plane or waiting in a long queue in an airport to take the chance to fly as wait listed.  In my case I was one going to be wait listed but something clicked in my mind that in my iPhone there is an reservation App.  I asked to the other passenger trying for same flight number and one whom I asked waiting in 6th position.  I see that my chances are very less there but still i tried an App.  With in 10 mins time an airline officer came with some papers in her hand and I asked her about my paper work? then she asked my name and she went through the list of passenger and found my name.   She told me to proceed with check in then that time Wowww thanks iPhone i will never leave you off my hands.  Its a full interactive booking engine: air ticket, hotel, car rental, tickets & attractions, last minute deals, airport VIP lounge reservation, worldwide travel insurance, weather, maps, live support, all in one application.

iPhone HD Rubber Case

What more is to see in iPhone they always keep on giving the ultimate phone everytime. So now I have thought to give you something new about its accessory details on its casing. We can find lots of case design for iPhone but here is the special one.

LUXMO HD Rubber Case White Autumn Flower-rear only for iPhone 4 Model: CRIP4WTATFL Protect and personalize your wireless device with this Crystal Rubber Case-rear only. The surface of this case is covered by fashionable color. This accessory provides protection by preventing scratches and chips. Hard plastic was reinforced to the front edges, sides and back of the wireless device to endure the life of the case. What's more, the white autumn flower on the surface looks great. Our premium crystal rubber cases will help keep your device safe.

iPhone Calorie Counter

Are you worried about your health? It's never too late to make a resolution to start taking care of your health.  Whatever your goal weight or readings you want to see Calorie Counter by Viaden Mobile is a great way to keep a good track of your calorie intake and activities.

Whatever you would like to eat just let and iPhone count it for you and help you stay stably healthy.   Each individual have different body chemistry so over here you can create your specific profile, create your own diets, physical activity plans and view your progress over time.  This application have best updated database of 400,000 food items with customizable servings, recipes with images and detailed description, activities with info about burned calories! And even if you do not manage to find something, you can easily add it as a custom item. This app for iPhone and iPad will take all your requirements into account!  Make your healthiness a habit  - a resolution to start a new life.
Top 10 iphone applications to loose weight.(http://mashable.com/2009/01/03/free-iphone-apps-to-lose-weight/ )

Free Apps for iPhone

If you are familiar with the applications section of the phone's feature set you must be knowing that some applications require a fee as well as free iPhone applications are available in many categories such as games, communication software and productivity enhancements.  Many applications are provided without restrictions. Some applications don't require a fee, but are supported by and strategically placed advertisements that may limit your enjoyment of the application. Other applications are more a trial version that feature a limited set of features that can be unlocked by purchasing an upgrade. Finding iPhone Applications isn't a difficult process, but knowing where to look and how to review applications can save space on your iPhone.

Free iPhone Applications are available every day on the Apple Applications store. Applications are sometimes created by a company as a compliment for their products or services. Some applications are created by app companies that make money by developing Apple-related applications. Some applications are offered by individual programmers that are unaffiliated with a company.

Free applications list for iPhone can be found at http://iphoneapplicationlist.com/apps/

Find friends on map in iPhone and iPod

See where your friends are right now?
By adding latitude to your iPhone or iPod that gives easy access to Latitude in safari and to be able to update latitude information for your friends. Google Latitude and excellent way of getting informed about your friend's where abouts from your phone, computer or both.

How to?

1.Open http://google.com/latitude in Safari on your device.
2.Sign in to your Google Account.
3.Tap the + at the bottom of Safari.
4.Tap Add to Home Screen.
5.Tap Add to confirm and the icon will appear on your Home screen.

After you have added a Latitude icon to your Home screen, it can be moved to your main screen by tapping and holding down on the icon and then dragging it to another screen.

Watch thinner IPAD

Two cameras for FaceTime and HD video recording. The dual-core A5 chip. The same 10-hour battery life.1 All in a thinner, lighter design. Now iPad is even more amazing. And even less like anything else.

A5 Chip

Watch the iPad 2 video Thinner, lighter, and full of great ideas. Once you pick up iPad 2, it’ll be hard to put down. That’s the idea behind the all-new design. It’s 33 percent thinner and up to 15 percent lighter, so it feels even more comfortable in your hands.2 And it makes surfing the web, checking email, watching movies, and reading books so natural, you might forget there’s incredible technology under your fingers.

Problem with iPhone Clock

Apple continues to deal with problems with the clock on the iPhone -- this first cropped up back in November, when clocks were turned back an hour to standard time. Some issues were still popping up in January, and now this weekend, as clocks were turned forward for Daylight Savings time in the US, some users were still having issues of varying kinds, from clocks changing when they weren't supposed to, to alarms not going off when set up correctly. Some users are even reporting the time changing just fine, and then inexplicably switching back -- one of my friends had a problem like that with his first-generation AT&T iPhone last night.

iPhone Tips & Tricks

iPhone is a great phone people think they can do any thing from it and workout with unlimited games application and many more.  It has also got limits and going offlimits
 may hamper your expensive phone.

1.       Avoid the App Addiction

Free Apps a bad thing for iPhone. People download a ton of apps, of course. Free apps. Apps for a buck. Game apps. Apps and more apps. Now with iOS folders, you can download even more apps on fewer home screens.

Jailbreak For iPhone

iPhone Dev team have just released PwnageTool 4.2 for iOS 4.2.1 that incorporates the untether exploit used by Chronic Dev Team in greenpois0n that was
released few days back. PwnageTool 4.2 will allow iPhone users to safely restore to a pre-jailbroken iOS 4.2.1 firmware and retain their current baseband
so that they can use Ultrasn0w to unlock their GSM iPhone. PwnageTool 4.2 also includes fixes for iBooks issue that we had reported earlier and Wi-Fi
problem on Apple TV 2G.

greenpois0n to jailbreak

Chronic Dev Team has just released greenpois0n to jailbreak iOS 4.2.1 for Windows for iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPod Touch 4G,iPod Touch 3G and iPad.
In this guide, we will take you through the step by step procedure to jailbreak your iPhone 4 or iPhone 3GS on iOS 4.2.1 using greenpois0n.

Here are some important points to note before you proceed:
•Please note that jailbreaking your iPhone may void your warranty and hence proceed with caution and at your own risk.
•This guide is meant for iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS users only. iPod Touch 4G and iPod Touch 3G, iPod Touch 2G users can checkout this step-by-step guide and iPad users can checkout this step-by-step guide.
•Greenpois0n supports iOS 4.2.1 and iOS 4.1. So you need to first update your iPhone with iOS 4.1 or iOS 4.2.1 to use greenpois0n. Please do NOT upgrade to iOS 4.1 or iOS 4.2.1 if you want to unlock your iPhone.
•Please note that this guide is only meant for Windows users. Mac users can refer to this step-by-step guide.
•greenpois0n does NOT hactivate your iPhone, so your iPhone should be activated via iTunes first.
•Do not forget to backup your iPhone before you proceed. You can refer to this post for instructions on how to backup your iPod Touch.
•Please ensure you are running latest version of iTunes, iTunes 10.1 or later.
•After the jailbreaking process is complete, do not forget to checkout our article on tips to keep your iPhone secure.
You can follow these step-by-step instructions to jailbreak your iPod Touch:

No more Intel chip in iPhone

Apple is going to Abandon Intel Chips In Next Gen iPhone

Hon Hai Group and Foxconn are going to manufacture 5th gen iPhone.  This edition will be replacing Intel chips by Qualcomm baseband chip.  It’s expected to land just under a year from now. It will be drastic change if Apple drops away from the Infineon chips who are behind the baseband for the iPad 3G and all iPhone model since 2007.

How To Save and Read Your iPhone Text Messages On Your Computer

This presentation will help you save all those important and juicy text messages on your iPhone to your computer for later reading.

If you followed my previous tutorial, “How To Recover Your iPhone Files, Photos, Contacts, Notes, SMS, Call History, Etc.”, you learned how to recover iPhone files from a backup on your computer to restore back to your iPhone. By now you should already downloaded and installed two free applications called DiskAid and iPhone Backup Extractor. For this tutorial, we only need DiskAid to transfer your text messages or SMS from your iPhone to your computer, but we need another one to read those messages from a database and save them in a file format that can be read and properly formatted by an application like MS Excel or any other spreadsheet. This is where we need SQLite Database Browser.

Fall asleep listening to iPhone

Now, there are several applications from the App Store that can help us relax and fall asleep by listening to the sound of nature, instruments, or other soothing sounds with timers to automatically turn-off the sounds at a pre-determined time. The applications reviewed here are Ambiance, iChillout and aSleep, all for $0.99 each. You don’t have to buy all of them. Their features are almost the same, and what’s more important is finding the sound that will help you relax and fall asleep.

Recover Your iPhone Files, Photos, Contacts, Notes, SMS, Call History, Etc.

For some reason, if you lost some important information on your iPhone, whether from 3rd party applications, your photos, contacts, notes, SMS, call history, calendar, etc., and doing a restore from iTunes is futile, don’t give up yet! As long as you have performed a backup in iTunes recently, your data is safely tucked away in a database in your computer—but you need another tool that can read and extract the data so you can copy it back to your iPhone.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~In case you want to know, your iPhone backups are located in your Mac (~Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup) or on a PC (c:\Documents and Settings\Application Data\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup).~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
What You NeedDownload and install the following:
DiskAid for Mac (http://www.digidna.net/products/diskaid)or Windows (requires a jailbroken phone to access the Root Folder)
iPhone Backup Extractor for Mac ( http://supercrazyawesome.com/ ) not sure if there is a Windows equivalent)

Use iPhone Backup Extractor

 (1) Open iPhone Backup Extractor

(2) Click Read Backups
(3) Select from Device Name or Date where you want to retrieve your backup data and click Choose.

Sync your iPhone to a New computer

How to Sync your iPhone to a New computer without deleting your iPhone Apps
Synchornize iPhones to another (or a new) computer without having iTunes delete the apps they already have on the iPhone. Well, the answer is quite simple really.

Connecting your iPhone to the new computer :
SInce you are connecting your iPhone to the computer for the first time, iTunes will ask you to authorize the computer. You are only allowed to authorize your iPhone to 5 different computers. Here’s what happens when I connect my iPhone to a PC for the first time and launch

 iTunes:

Application available for iPhone 3G S in internet



iPhone 3G S GPS system



1. HeyWay – HeyWay uses GPS to locate your current position to share or send it to your friends through Push Notification. Which mean you don’t need to have the application running all the time.

 

2. Video Downloader iWoopie Lit – iWoopie Lite can search global video portals (Youtube/DailyMotion and match more), watch and download videos to your iPhone.

3. Trapster – Trapster will notify you of red light cameras and speed cameras around you. It also stores location where Police Often Hide. As you drive, it will notify you by voice when you are approaching any of those camera or police hide out location. Pretty cool application, just imagine your mobile telling you that you are moving towards speed traps.

4. Joost – Watch over 46000 videos from Joost on your iPhone or iPod touch with this free app Store app download from Joost.

Apple iPhone 3G S: Worth Standing in Line For?

Apple iPhone 3G S: Worth Standing in Line For?
The iPhone 3G S has better battery life, power and speed compared to the 3G, and provides hardware-based features that enhance existing apps and functions on the phone. If all that matters to you, then upgrading is worth it, but if you're more of a casual iPhone user, then you can probably afford to wait a little while before you upgrade.
That's because most of the new features come from the OS 3.0 software update. These include copy and paste, landscape keyboard for text and email, Spotlight, the new Voice Memo app and changes to the Safari browser.

iPhone Activation

AppleInsider and MacRumors  reported that Early iPhone 3G S adopters are having difficulty activating their iPhones, reports.  Apple’s iPhone service activation servers were unprepared to deal with the influx of new registrations from today’s iPhone 3G S launch, leaving the zero-day adopters with a potential two day wait.

Those who were lucky enough to purchase them in the early morning hours – or dedicated enough to wait in line overnight, like one Macworld intern – have been able to activate their new iPhones without incident. Other users are experiencing initial activation hiccups that can be solved by restarting the phone or taking the SIM card out and putting it back in. (No word yet on whether blowing on the iPhone like an Nintendo game cartridge helps anything.) Everyone else may have to wait for the servers to process the backlog. Ironically, some customer service representatives have been able to help out with activations, but that doesn’t help those who were relying on their new iPhones for telephone service.

Three times faster

Apple's supports claims that iPhone 3G is two to three times faster overall, a just-completed teardown. Its hardware, including a faster microprocessor and a faster graphics processor than those in last year's model.

When Apple unveiled the iPhone 3G S recently, the company bragged about its performance, saying that the "S" stood for "speed," and that the new model was "up to 2x faster and more responsive than iPhone 3G."

Many people reported that they are unable to access Apple's servers due to unusually high traffic. They were trying to download the latest iPhone update, with But Apple's servers are now up to scratch and everybody should have the 3.0 software update installed on their iPhone and iPod Touch.

White iPhone

How would you like to see white  iPhone in your hand? Yes, the white iPhone 4 may be landing in late February according to the Best Buy’s SKU (Stock Keeping Unit) system.  Two separate stores—Best Buy and Vodafone—now show SKUs for white iPhones in their systems, with Best Buy’s system showing a launch date in late February i.e. February 17.
Anyway recent leaks and talks give a hint that the Device is going to hit the Market soon. The white iPhone 4 release date has still yet to be announced. Many Apple iphone fans were expecting the white iphone 4 to be released only a few weeks after the original iPhone 4. However, hindrances have delayed the release date until Spring 2011 according to some sources and even then other sources are suggesting Apple bosses have scrapped the idea of a white phone altogether.
 

iPhone 4 Most Successful

iPhone 4 'most successful product launch in Apple's history:

Steve Paul Jobs chief executive officer of Apple. iPhone sales figure went up to 1.7 million units in just two days, and could break 2 million.  Sales figures could have been larger still if Apple had been able to keep up with demand. Apple sold 600,000 smartphones during a one-day preordering period day in early June. It was the biggest one-day sale for the company and a 10 fold increase from the iPhone 3G.

Pentalobe screws in iPhone

You must have heard that Apple changed the type of screws (iphone 4 bottom had a +) that is used before. Tech Giant Apple now wants to keep out customers as well. The consumer tech pioneer is replacing screws on iPhone4s brought in for servicing with tamperproof screws to prevent anyone else from opening the device. The standard screws in iPhone 4’s are now being replaced with similar to Torx.

iPhone 3G

Handy user experience of iPhone is one of the selling point. But not so many people do realize that there are several shortcuts, tips and tricks available on the iPhone which is able to make daily life much easier in handling iPhone. We believe every single iPhone users would like to know all of the tips and tricks for every features. In fact, if you search you will find lot more on your iPhone. With these lesser-known goodies, you can easily get the most out of your iPhone.  Some really amazing tips from Web and collection of experiences to present you 25 most famous tips for iPhone 3G.