Further proof that the iPhone is the greatest phone on the planet…First a little back story, my girlfriend teaches a drama class, and said drama class was preforming a series of one act plays. At the last minute they realized that they didn’t have all of the sound effects they needed. Enter the iPhone.
They needed a dog barking. The iPhone has a ringtone of a dog barking.
They needed an old telephone ringing. The iPhone has it (actually named Old Phone).
They needed an old car horn. And you guessed it, the iPhone has it.
So using nothing more than default ringtones and an iPhone held up to a wireless mic I was able to provide sound effects at the last minute for a theatrical production. And that ladies and gentleman is why the iPhone is just so amazing.
For the life of me though, I cannot figure out why anyone would choose to include a dog barking as a ringtone…
After two days at the factory, Apple has informed me that they could not reproduce my problem. I knew I should have included brightly colored stickers and instructions. Now I’m stuck driving two hours to my nearest Apple store and hopefully having them replace my iPod for me.
In previous episodes we’ve seen how our intrepid (Apple) customer service reps have battled malfunctioning iPod Nanos and Macbook Pros, overcoming obstacles to please their ever needy customers (Aaron and I). In this installment we’ll face them with a new problem. What happens when you take the touch out of an iPod Touch? Find out after the jump.
There have been a series of ultra portable computers that have been graced with some sweet Leopard action, thanks to some ingenious tinkering, including the Eee PC and the Samsung Q1 Ultra, now you can add OQO’s 02 to the list. This seems to be one of the more complete installs out there, WiFi, sound, power management and Bluetooth all seem to be working.
While the OQO is a little clunky, it’s still a pretty sweet proof of concept. I’m definitely looking forward to the release of the full instructions on how to get it running, even though I don’t own a OQO.
oqotalk.com member trf has posted a short video demoing the OQO running Leopard, check it out after the jump.
Foxconn (aka Hon Hai Precision Industry) has supposedly won the bid for the assembly of the elusive 3G-capable second generation iPhone. They are expected to deliver up to 3 million of the next generation iPhone in June, with a total production run expected to be 24-25 millions throughout the life-cycle of the device.
This is all according to a report by the Commerical Times, who fanboys may remember accurately reported that Foxconn had won the contract for the original iPhones.
Salesforce’s contract with Dell is about to expire, and according to an insider at the company they’re opting not to renew it. Instead they plan on outfitting all of their 4,000+ employees with shiny new Macs. Cha-ching.
The tipster cited security as the primary reason for the switch:
“And why, you ask, Security! The resources it takes to defend against all the stuff the baddies throw at a PC, it’s just cheaper/easier to pay a few bucks more for a Mac and not have any of those issues.”
At least in the UK… According to an O2 memo that Engadget got their hands on:
“Due to the highly successful sales of the Apple 8GB iPhone, supply chain have today run out of stock & will not be replenishing stock of this product as it has now gone to end of life.”
Yet another piece of the 3G puzzle seems to be failing in place.
Engadget is also reporting that the 3G iPhone will be sporting full fledged GPS, though breaking rank from the current trend, they’re reporting it could ship as “early as July”. Where analysts and fanboys alike are leaning more towards a June release.
Geeksugar is reporting that Apple is set to unveil an update to their iMac lineup as early as next week, and other industry insiders seem to agree. The ever modest folks over at Geeksugar were very quick to point out that they did correctly predict the last MacBook/MacBook Pro refresh, so this has to be legit…
Details of what the update includes are merely speculaive at this point, but it would seem logically that they would include the new Penryn processors, as well as larger hard drives.
Hot on the heels of their earnings call, Apple released the fourth version of the iPhone SDK beta. The SDK now supports OpenGL ES for the iPhone simulator.
The fourth beta version of the iPhone SDK includes Xcode IDE, iPhone simulator with Open GL ES support, Interface Builder, Instruments, frameworks and samples, compilers, and Shark analysis tool.
You can grab the update by logging into the iPhone Developer Center and clicking the download link.
