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iPhone owners, like users of most Apple products, are a fairly passionate, elitist group of people.I think an iPhone-only social network, if it had the right features,would be a huge hit with these users. Actually, I think any mobile social network would be a big hit, if it had presence awareness and was able to tell you both where your friends are and what they are up to. And also let you meet new people around you who were open to it.I wrote about some of the early experiments with mobile social networks last September (see our more recent coverage of LimeJuice as well). The big social networks, of course, aren’t ignoring mobile, either. But even Facebook’s iPhone app is just the desktop version optimized for that phone. It doesn’t leverage the device itself to tell you when friends are close.The goal here isn’t just to let users see where their friends are and what they are up to. The killer app is to facilitate meeting new people - either for dating (see a picture of everyone around you who’s single and looking, along with their basic bio), or business (see the professional bio and picture of everyone at the cocktail party). Subject to privacy controls, of course. More—> |
Every day, it seems, developers come up with nifty new ways to use the iPhone to do this or that. The latest creations allow you to use your iPhone as a full touchpad remote for your PC, zoom through applications on the iPhone using CoverFlow, and LoJack your iPhone.
The Unofficial Apple Weblog is a gold mine of applications and ideas for the bold and brave who decide to unlock their iPhones and install third-party 
TouchPad Remote
An enterprising TUAW reader sent in this
There’s a week to go before Apple’s commitment to release the iPhone Software Developers Kit in February runs out of room. I’m hearing from one source that its going to be late. I’m not yet hearing any reasons why, and it’s sounding like the official release date could slide by anywhere from one to three weeks.
Apple had no comment, and as yet there’s no word on any events related to an SDK release next week. However I’m also hearing that the situation is fluid, and a lot of last-minute decisions are close to being made about what precisely will or will not be disclosed next week, if anything. There are, apparently, a lot of moving parts to something this complex. More —>
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December 28th 2007 Newly available via Installer/AppTapp is iSMS, a native text messaging Though very much a beta, officially only a “preview release”, iSMS
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Not buying it when the pilot tells you weather is holding up your flight? iPhone to the rescue! By Patrick Smith
Nov. 16, 2007 | If you’ve been watching TV at all, you’re by now familiar with Apple’s iPhone It goes like this: An airline pilot tells us about the time he was |
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November 14, 2007 12:11 PM
Concluding its third study of Apple iPhone users, usability market researcher User Centric has found business users typically will have a tough time with the mobile phone while consumers will adapt to the device smoothly and quickly. “It’s very clear,” said Gavin Lew, User Centric’s managing director, in an interview Wednesday. “Business users, people who use e-mail a lot, will take a tremendous performance hit. Even with all the nice features.”
On the other hand, typical consumer users will find little difficulty in switching from a conventional 12-key mobile phone to the iPhone and maybe even find a slight ease-of-use improvement.More —>
Nov 12
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A 160MB update has been posted by Apple for its iPhone device, thereby upgrading its software now to version 1.1.2. The latest 1.1.2 update is the very first iPhone software
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An iPhone hacker, known as Core, has managed to finalize an AppleTalk
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As expected, Apple has posted a new iPhone firmware today. With the European iPhone launch well underway, the new firmware is now an official part of the iPhone community. As you’ll probably recall, the iPhone v1.1.2 firmware basically adds extended language support with special character sets and keyboards. More notably, the iPhone v1.1.2 firmware gives UK iPhone users access to The Cloud WiFi HotSpot network. Oh, and it patches that TIFF security hole that’s been exploited by all jailbreak solutions. More —>
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