In a letter to the FCC, Apple specified that it hasn’t actually rejected Google’s Voice application for the iPhone — rather, it’s still under consideration. The letter was a response to an FCC inquiry on why exactly the Google Voice application has not yet become available to users. Apple denied consulting with AT&T on the [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Apple’
July 29, 2009
Apple and AT&T Has Pandora’s Box Been Opened?
if Apple is going to constantly tell me what I can and cannot have on MY phone, the flashy interface and features may not be enough for me to tell Steve Jobs to shove that flashy phone up his rear and go elsewhere.
July 28, 2009
Google Voice…
I was looking forward to playing with Google Voice, the new service that gives you one telephone number that can ring your home, work and cellphones at the same time. Also provides voicemail, etc. Lots of interesting features.
To take advantage of it on the iPhone it would help to use an app. One has been [...]
July 18, 2009
Decided to give MobileMe a try
In my quest for good personal email on my iPhone, seperate from my work account, I’ve decided to give Apple’s MobileMe a try.
Yahoo! offers push but to be able to use my various desktop email clients they wanted $20.00 a year. Yes, cheaper than MobileMe but I wasn’t entirely sold on Yahoo for spam [...]
July 17, 2009
Which email service would you use?
When I was given a Blackberry for work the one thing I fell in love with was my emails pushed to my phone and I instantly knew someone sent me something. I also liked the fact that whatever I did on phone or my work desktop, my item was there at either place when I [...]
June 25, 2009
IBCNU APRS iPhone App has updated.
The IBCNU APRS iPhone app has finally been released by the Appstore. After field day weekend I hope to sit down and check out the new gui interface and features and finally put out that review I have been promising.
Right now the new update isn’t connecting to the APRS servers. Got to figure out what’s [...]
June 15, 2009
Way to go Steve Jobs!
For people that do not own an iPhone you have to use iTunes to sync music, etc to your phone. The one thing that always ticked me off is you cannot make a ring tone from a CD that you own that you have loaded into iTunes to play on your phone. So I never [...]
May 21, 2009
Testing out the iPhone APRS software.
I have downloaded the iPhone APRS software mentioned in my previous article. So far I see some interesting things and I see some possible problems. I hope to have more details after I have played with it tomorrow. However, if you would like to track me on APRS my call is KG4ZXK-11 for the iPhone. [...]
May 21, 2009
Aprs now on iPhone
http://ibcnu.us/ This site is the home of new iPhone software that allows you to use APRS on your iPhone. If you do not know APRS, Amateur Position Reporting System, allows you to track stations or objects in real time via packet and GPS and also send short text messages like you do in Twitter. However, this data [...]
March 19, 2009
iPhone 3.0 OS update.
Well. It looks like Apple finally listened to the masses. Here are a few of the new features that will be available on OS 3.0:
* Search your iPhone
* Cut, copy, and paste
* Send photos, contacts, audio files, and location via MMS*
* Read and compose email and text messages in landscape
There is still no [...]
