All Posts Tagged With: "The Wall of Technology"

If you’re eagerly awaiting the new iPhone App Store then read this found on the PC World Blog earlier today . . .

Chatter on Apple-centric sites points to the long-awaited iPhone App Store launching by 12PM EST on July 10. Apple has not confirmed any exact launch time for the App Store, but this theory …

Have just been reading about this on Techncrunch. Talk about ditching the school books for the Internet

Looking to get tutored in a language by an actual native speaker? New startup eduFire offers one-on-one sessions from hundreds of experienced tutors around the world. The site soft launched earlier this year, and has just enabled “On-demand” tutoring, allowing users to hook up with teachers on a whim.

Lets face it, we all love those social networking sites like facebook, myspace, bebo etc.  And, we all like to see what everyone else is doing - what blogs they are posting to, what they are bookmarking, what pictures they are uploading.  The list goes on.

One of the problems at the moment is that all these “social” sites are fragmented and don’t talk to each other.  It means if you really want to see what your friends are doing you need to be visiting all the different sites.

Well, I finally gave in to the allure of its beauty and functionality and shelled out £340 on a 16gb iPhone last Tuesday.  So after a week’s use how is it working out?

To be honest I think it’s really good.  It is such a joy to use and so intuitive that I keep switching it on and opening and closing things just because I can.  I think I may have finished the Windows Mobile phase of my life.

The key highlights for me are:

The touch interface - Wow, it works brilliantly.
The clarity of the screen - it is just so sharp and everything looks good on it.
Safari (web browser) - this is the way to browse the web on a handheld device.  It is almost the full internet in miniature and is so easy to navigate and zoom in on pages.
BBC iPlayer - the BBC have just released a beta version of their iPlayer for use on iPhones.  You can now catch up on all your favourite BBC shows but only over a WiFi connection.
SMS - this is displayed in conversation format so you can trace the whole conversation with individuals.  Important if you are a serial texter or are trying to piece together a drunken evening!
Google Maps - yes, you can get this on most phones these days and a lot of phones have built in GPS, but do they look as good as this?  No, they do not.
The keyboard - it does take some getting used to and it is very easy to hit the wrong keys BUT it guesses what you were trying to type and gets it right a surprising amount of the time.

On the downside (yes, there are some):