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Apple Rumored to Have $99 4GB iPhone At Walmart
According to rumors over at Engadget, Walmart is expected to start carrying a cheaper model of the iPhone 3G for only $99 with a 2-year subscription contract. The phone will be offered in a 4GB model for the lower price rather than the 8GB or 16GB offered directly from Apple and AT&T or Best Buy. Rumors about the deal flew earlier this year with a guess at a November 15 launch date at Walmart but that date has long passed. Pictures floating around of a iPhone Reference guide with AT&T and Walmart’s logos on the front inidicating that they will be training employees on activating the phones. A commentator on the Engadget article claimed to work at Sam’s Club (a sister company to Walmart) and said that the iPhone was coming just after Christmas, on December 28. It would make sense for Walmart to not release the product in their stores until after Christmas (after all, Black Friday’s already over), but the date is purely off a commenter’s word. Bringing a smaller model to Walmart could boost sales for the device and bring it to those who couldn’t afford the larger models.
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Dec 5th, 2008
iPhone 2.2 Firmware Released
Apple has released its 2.2 version of the firmware for its iPhone and iPod Touch. The iPhone has been hit hard over the past few months over some security issues and this release addresses several of them including: emergency calls not being restricted to actual emergency numbers, SMS messages can be revealed before unlocking the device, VPN encryption too low, browser vulnerabilities, and malicious Excel files being able to execute arbitrary code. The update is made available to iPhone and iPod Touch users via iTunes.
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Nov 21st, 2008
Google iPhone Search App Problems with British Accents
On Monday, Google’s new voice search application for the iPhone hit the iTunes AppStore. It’s a free application that allows users to speak their search text to perform Google searches. The application works great.. as long as you have an American accent. It’s been reported to be returning especially strange results for users with British accents. The Daily Telegraph, a newspaper in the U.K. has reported that users had the device interpret the word “iPhone” for several different words including “sex”, “sledding”, “my sister”, and “Einstein” (I hope they’re not related..). Google has stated that the application is available in U.S. English only so far, but there were definitely some confused users before the clarification was made. The application actually works quite well with an American accent but has made for some confusing and funny search queries.
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Nov 19th, 2008
Adobe Bringing Flash to More Platforms
It seems that Adobe is seeing the threat of Microsoft Silverlight to its Flash platform and is taking Flash to more platforms. The two most noticeable platforms that Adobe is missing in its lineup are 64-bit Linux and iPhone support. Yesterday, news reached the blogosphere that support for both platforms was coming. An alpha for the 64-bit Linux platform has been announced and Adobe will finally support both 32 and 64 bit versions of the “big three” desktop operating systems: Windows, OS X, and Linux. Adobe support for the iPhone rumors have been flying for some time, but yesterday Adobe announced it would be focusing on a build for the ARM platform. Of course, the iPhone isn’t the only phone that runs on ARM processors, but it’s evidence that Adobe is focusing its efforts on mobile phones, possibly the iPhone. Steve Jobs has said a few times that Flash was too heavy for the phone to handle and that Flash Lite was too stripped down to be useful. The lack of Flash and Java support were the two biggest complaints that Apple received in its lawsuit in the U.K. over its ads claiming you can get to “all the Internet”. Microsoft’s Silverlight platform is still missing on the iPhone and is sounds as though that won’t happen for the time. Flash support on more devices and platforms will help Flash remain the dominant platform in multimedia web content, no matter what technology comes out as being the easiest and most efficient.
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Nov 19th, 2008
Googles Do It Too
Silver bullet syndrome has struck again. This time in the form of Google Android fans. Apple has taken a lot of flack from the media and blogosphere lately over its attempts to control what applications can be installed on its devices. Of course, this all comes just before the release of the Google Android-based phone. For months we’ve been listening and reading about how the Android will be an answer to the iPhone after all this controversy. It would seem, however, that Google either hasn’t learned from or drinks the same Kool-aid as Apple. The Register points out that Google states very clearly in the terms and conditions that Google has the capability to remotely remove applications from the phones:
Google may discover a product that violates the developer distribution agreement … in such an instance, Google retains the right to remotely remove those applications from your device at its sole discretion.
Okay, so Google was a bit more open about its policies. I’ll give them that. Unfortunately, it doesn’t matter if you walk in to a bank with a gun in plain sight or steal the money secretly over the web: you’re still guilty of the crime. I’m tired of hearing about the Android as the answer to everyones woes. Please don’t take this as an anti-Google entry.. I am simply becoming tiresome of people claiming the Android as the iPhone but without the limitations. Just like the Apple iPhone, yes the Google Android is less than completely open. I’m sorry to those who thought the grass was going to be greener on the other side.
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Oct 16th, 2008
