Today’s iPhone has a nice article on adding bookmarklets to mobile Safari: TiPs & Tricks: Add bookmarklets to mobile Safari However, with iOS5, I found that the steps are a little more convoluted: Add a dummy bookmark using the [->] button in the middle of Safari Copy the code for the bookmarklet Tap the Bookmark [...]
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My experience with the Starbucks Mobile Card
When I initially heard about the Starbucks mobile card test only being expanded to Target stores, I wondered if the reason was because of infrastructure. After all, there are west coast tests of the mobile card in full scale stores. After trying to use it, I now believe that the choice of Target Starbucks as [...]
Initial Impresssions of the iPad
Initial verdict: I like the iPad itself. However, the price is at least $100 more than I can tolerate. In reality, it’s $200 too much, but I’m giving the benefit of the doubt because of the screen size. I would probably pay $500 for an iPad with contractless 3g, but for WiFi, it seems like [...]
iPad opinions and articles
The Truth About the iPad [It Replaces the iPhone?] 2010.04.08 Ars Technica reviews the iPad 2010.04.07 iPad Teething Problems 2010.04.06 paidContent – The Numbers on the iPad’s Debut – 2010.04.04 As Expected, No One Wants Those Expensive Newspaper Apps – 2010.04.04 Mashable – Analyst: 700,000 iPads Sold [REPORT] – 2010.04.03 3 Businesses the iPad can [...]
Calendar functionality on a smartphone?
It seems that calendars should respond to time zone changes more gracefully. I don’t have another smartphone for reference, just an iPhone, but the combination of automatic time zone updating and calendar appointments should be handled more gracefully. Now, I know there’s a time zone support option on the iPhone, but not all appointment sources [...]
Smartphone users disappointed with handset and application performance
From Fanfare: Research reveals 57% of smartphone users disappointed with handset and application performance Closer examination reveals that only 155 members of the public responded to the survey. One interesting “key finding” that I noted was that whether a problem with the device or the network, 53% blame the device for the issue. If Apple’s [...]
Signs of a dying business model. $S $VZ $T
My wife doesn’t text short-codes for jokes of the day, ring tones, or backgrounds. So when I started getting recurring charges for Thumbplay, I was puzzled: thumbplay.com Complaints – Unauthorized charge. It seems that the carriers enable Thumbplay to latch onto a user’s account without a reasonable opt-in process. The only recourse is for the [...]
More rumblings of AT&T iPhone exclusivity ending…
Apple to End AT&T iPhone Exclusivity Within a Year? | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD. I love the first comment: I’d pay to end my AT&T contract, and I’m only two months into it. I get a small discount on my AT&T/iPhone service w/ unlimited text messages, and I’m looking at a bill [...]
Yelp Easter egg gives an accessible look at augmented reality on iPhone [3G S]
It was a little difficult to get the compass to respond correctly indoors, but you can see the results of pointing in the direction that the restaurants / businesses are below. The camera image is superimposed with the business that are in the direction that the phone is pointing in:
Does anyone know someone who uses text on a phone that has no internet browsing capability?
I was completely unaware of the disappearance of the basic cell phone… It looks like even Go Phones are mobile internet ready now. Smart phones reach 28% of U.S. Mobile Sales Feature phones are 72% of new handsets sold (in America) Both articles draw these statistics from an NPD group report on Q2 2009 Mobile [...]
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