I noticed a crack in the back of my iPhone, between the mute button and the metal bezel. It just appeared, not caused by a drop or anything. Looking online, this is happening to a lot of people. The reason why this is happening, I think, is that Apple bonded a plastic back to a [...]
Among the myriad problems the 2.1 firmware was supposed to solve was poor 3G reception. How did Apple achieve this? Apparently by simply artificially displaying more bars, at least in part: In their release notes for the update, they list “improved accuracy of the 3G signal strength display.” That’s just corporate speak for “we can’t [...]
I had plenty of time to write this, because I missed class today. The reason I missed class was that my iPhone’s alarm never went off.
When I woke up this morning, my first thought was “You know, I feel way too good for a guy who’s only gotten four hours of sleep.” I then clicked [...]
Thought I’d try posting directly from the iPhone for the fun of it. I can see this being useful if I actually did interesting things with my life. As it stands, however, I’m currently sitting in Newtowne park in the square, and here’s what’s going on at the moment:
In ten easy steps:
Purchase an ’R’ rated movie from the iTunes music store.
Pause movie during particularly noisy sex scene, preferably one involving farm animals.
Turn off phone.
Go to important meeting with your entire staff, including boss.
Turn off ringer using mute switch and put phone to sleep.
Think you’re safe.
Innocently pull out headphones from jack, momentarily shorting out badly [...]
Last Friday (through means which I’m too embarrassed to publicly discuss) I got an iPhone 3G. Here are my initial impressions after using it for a couple of days.
Screen. Visually, it’s near perfect. Bright and with sufficient field of view. The only problem I have with it is that sometimes my finger just won’t slide over [...]
