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Archive for January, 2008

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Who Dares Call The Garmin Nuviphone an iPhone-Killer? Wired News - 1 hour ago iPhone, iPhone, iPhone: nothing demonstrates Apple's impending dominance of the sector better than the fact that it's already the journalist's favorite ... Garmin Nüvifone takes on the iPhone VNUNet.com New smartphone from Garmin to rival iPhone Detroit Free Press Garmin Flashes An iPhone Killer -- Meet Nüvifone (GRMN, AAPL) Silicon Alley Insider TrustedReviews - Reg Hardware all 17 news articles

Customers in the Midwest and the Southeast regions "may be experiencing trouble accessing data on some devices" said a spokesman for AT&T. Not all of them, but the iPhone is included in the list. Voice calling is not affected. The issue began this morning at approximately 6:30AM EDT, and technicians are working to identify the cause and resolve it as quickly as possible. However, an insider who works on networks dropped me a line as to why AT&T's 3G network is having these sporadic issues today: apparentely, six GGSNs "rolled over". (GGSNs are gateways between wireless and regular networks.)

Business Tools for iPhone PC World - 1 hour ago HyperOffice has launched a public trial of its business collaboration tools that connect the iPhone to corporate email, contacts, calendars, tasks and notes ... HyperOffice announces iPhone corporate e-mail integration ZDNet Blogs all 8 news articles

O2 may put iPhone on business rates Register, UK - 3 hours ago At the moment the iPhone is only available on an 18-month consumer contract once you've passed a credit check. The iPhone tariffs are being changed from ... Grey market knows Iphone market better than Apple Inquirer O2 overhauls iPhone prices and says it is happy with demand Guardian Unlimited German iPhone sales disappointing Telecoms.com (subscription) Ovum - Media Guardian all 6 news articles

O2 may put iPhone on business rates Register, UK - 2 hours ago At the moment the iPhone is only available on an 18-month consumer contract once you've passed a credit check. The iPhone tariffs are being changed from ... Grey market knows Iphone market better than Apple Inquirer all 2 news articles

Business O2 tariffs for iPhone users in the UK iPhone World, Canada - 31 minutes ago British businessmen will be given a chance to use the iPhone in their offices. So far businessmen who wanted to use iPhone had to subscribe for a new ...

Some times when I take a picture on my iPhone, the force of my finger hitting the snapshot button makes the iPhone move slightly at the last second and cause blur in the picture. To make it much easier to prevent this from happening, just hold your finger down on the camera icon before you steady the iPhone. As long as you keep your finger held down, it won't take the picture. Steady the phone, release your finger from the icon, and the picture will be taken. This also makes it slightly possible to take a self-portrait. Hold your finger down on the snapshot button, turn the phone around and (try to) aim, then release your finger.

New smartphone from Garmin to rival iPhone Detroit Free Press, United States - 3 hours ago BY MIKE WENDLAND The GPS navigation company Garmin has announced a radical new expansion of its product line with a very iPhone-looking smartphone that will ...

Look, what our friend the crazy modder has done now: mixed a 1981 Octopus Nintendo Game & Watch with a cellphone with his bare hands, probably creating the best retro game handheld/cellphone combo ever. What makes this Octo-phone better than the WiiPhone is that, first of all, people won't think you're a recent release from the local Mentalist Correctional Facility who believes he is having a rational four-way conversation with God, Peter Sellers and Poon-tang the Seven-Legged Donkey on a Wiimote. And secondly, it's Game & Watch, the first game I ever had *goes all misty-eyed*:

As an 11-year-old, I managed to persuade my mum to buy a Double-Screen Donkey Kong Game & Watch for me when we visited NY, and then, what with the bleeps and the profanities emanating from my seat during the eight-hour return flight, she confiscated it. Between ordering a double whisky from the trolley dolly, and settling down with a Harold Robbins she'd picked up at JFK, she left my Donkey Kong in the seat pocket in front of her, tucked between the vomit bag and the safety instructions.

And there it stayed. When we arrived back in London, neither of us, groggy from the cloud of fug produced by the woman with the fuschia nails, tight perm and camel toe in the row behind us, who had chain-smoked a whole carton of fags during the journey while she chatted up the fat man next to her, thought to rescue the Game & Watch from its hiding place.

In the car I cried all the way home. And what made it worse was that when I got back to school and told my friends that Mum had bought me one, but we'd left it on the plane, none of them believed me and, between the bleeps of their Game & Watch consoles, accused me of being a fantasist. You know, the older I get, the more I think they were right. [Goteking via Gizmodo Japan]

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Can't say I ever really vibed with any of the default Growl styles (Music Video is cool for showing off your Mac, but a little too distracting for common use), and I've pretty much just stuck with Smoke, because it's simple and cool looking. But iPhonesque is nice enough to make me switch without a thought -- it's a Growl style designed to look like the iPhone's compact little dialogues. In other words, it's flashy enough to look cool, but minimal enough that it doesn't drive you nuts when messages back up in Growl.

Any other Growl styles that you all really like?

[Via DF]

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