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I hate to be the iPhone fanboy this week, but it is so hard to hate something that is so damn sexy. And apparently gives good talk time, if you get my drift.

5 hour and 38 min to be exact.



People's biggest 3G iPhone complaint or at least main complaint has been battery life, but when compared to the rest of the pack (sans Nokia) it still is better, so why are people complaining so much?

Me? I think the rumor mill just got hold of this issue and now it has a life of it's own... The truth is the iPhone's battery life does sucks...but it is still better than all the others.

Relevant links:
Full story at PC world

enjoy!

Apple announced 1 million 3G iPhones sold and 10 million applications downloaded from the fledgling App Store this past weekend.

The App Store currently has ~800 applications available and this shows just how popular the iPhone SDK has been with developers. This is a critical turning point for the iPhone, no other phone OS (Symbian, Windows Mobile or Android) is even close to this level of integration and success with 3rd party developed apps.

Welcome to a whole new world of personal computing. Apple is leading the way and easily has first mover advantage. It will take several years for the competition to put together an SDK and HW solution that is as tightly integrated, polished and well though out. If Apple keeps up this pace of development and innovation, no one, not even Google will be able to catch them for some time. Steve Job's is a master of the game.


Here are the lines at the Apple Store on 14th st in Manhattan on opening morning.










Relevant Links:

• Full story at ArsTechnica.com, link here...
• More photos of the long lines at the AT&T and Apple Stores here.

Despite common wisdom, I did not buy the new 3G iPhone today.

So, why did I not get the latest version of the iPhone. Well, it is not for lack of effort. No, I did not get the new iPhone today cause lines are around the block at *ALL* locations.

I rode my Ducati Hypermotard to several Apple and AT&T locations and snapped these photos.


AT&T store at 6th Ave and 17th st. - SOLD OUT at 11am, got a second shipment around Noon and then sold out again shortly after. Line winds around the corner to the left.





Apple Store Prince St. SoHo - Sell Out imminent. The line extends down the block all the way to Houston St.

 



AT&T store at Union Square. - SOLD OUT at Noon.

see videos, nuf said!

multiplayer pong


Multiplayer Quake

The mystery behind why the new iPhone is so cheap may be solved, with market researcher iSuppli saying it costs just US$173 to make.

Full story here...

The native iPhone app is called "band" and created by the developer MooCowMusic.



Need I say more?

Youtube link here for visitors on iPhones.

When a grain of salt won't do it.

I love industry websites like fiercewireless.com and theregister.co.uk. They keep us up to date with the goings on across wide swaths of the telecom and technology industries. However, I am rarely impressed with the accompanying analysis of many tech bloggers/writers. It seems that more and more the tech media lacks the broad technical expertise required to see much past press releases and industry hype. Often, some products are so over hyped that they have credibility bestowed upon them that they have not earned (i.e.: WiMax).  In other instances, truly ground breaking and industry shifting products get labeled as over hyped, as is the case with the iPhone.

I am a strong believer in the Apple way of doing business. I make no secret of that and after a spending a good deal of time researching it has become clear to me that the new additions to the Apple SDK to include support for rapid iPhone development is a death blow to the rest of the Smartphone industry, but it appears that it is not as obvious to my friends and colleagues why.

FTW is a common internet abbreviation of "For The Win" and it best describes what the iPhone SDK means for Apple.

Walt Mossberg speaks up about Internet TV...
But who's listening?
Worth the 7mins.



As a person who has not owned a TV in over 5 years, partly cause I have an unusually negative physical reaction to both advertising and the 5 o'clock NEWS, but strangely, I enjoy NPR, HBO and PBS, go figure. Mossberg's comments on the idiocy of forcing users to watch irrelevant TV ads for product they will never purchase resonated deeply with me.