Engadget has posted the first good photos of the HTC Dream, running Google’s Android OS. The phone is clearly branded for T-Mobile, and we’re hoping these photos mean that it’s coming very soon. Enjoy!
The further out they push this thing, the less excited I get. We first mentioned this phone back in February, then expected it in mid-September, then pushed it back for an October release.
Now it appears the phone won’t be out until December or January. According to IntoMobile, the reason for the delay is issues with Windows Mobile 6.1. Hopefully they can get their act together soon, because it still looks like a pretty cool phone.
Photoshop Mobile is coming next month, but the news about it so far is quite disappointing.
First, I’ll only be available for some Windows Mobile phones — no S60, no iPhone. It’s presumed that those will be supported in the future, but no one knows for sure.
Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, there won’t be any photo editing tools. None. Just upload and share. We can already do that with a plethora of apps on every device, so I fail to see why this is so special. They give you 5GB of space, which is nice, but most folks have piles of space already (add up your Flickr, Facebook, Picasa, MySpace, etc accounts and see what you have).
Maybe I’m missing something, but this just seems kind of boring…
We presumed that September 7 would be the launch date, and that has proven to be correct. According to iClarified, the phones will be in over 900 stores on the 7th.
There will be a limit of one phone per customer, and pre-orders will not be taken.
This is kind of a shame. The first projector phone, the Epoq PP01, looks pretty sweet. It can project an image up to 640×480, and can hook up to a DVD player or laptop to show a movie. It’s a great little device.
The problem is that the interface is a total rip-off of the iPhone UI. Not similar, but stolen. This will certainly make it more difficult for this phone to come to market, since Apple certainly won’t let it fly. Hopefully they’ll get their act together so we can someday get our hands on this cool phone.
It’s just a rumor right now, but it appears that a tethering plan may be coming to the iPhone after all.
Despite being up in the app store briefly (a few times), NetShare app was eventually pulled because it didn’t comply with the TOS. Now it seems that AT&T may be in talks with Apple to provide this service to their users. Gizmodo has the brief e-mail exchange between a Gizmodo reader and (allegedly) Steve Jobs. In short, Jobs says they’re working on it. We’ll see…
It appears Google will have an app store of their own, dubbed the “Android Market”. For all intents and purposes, it will likely be very similar to the iPhone app store (download apps for your phone).
When it initally launches, it will be for free apps only, though they plan to launch paid apps at some point in the future. It will also feature much less control than the iPhone store, instead putting it on the users to flag bad apps. The hope is that this will allow apps to be released (and updated) much more quickly, and I think they might be right.
What’s with all of the blogs killing Apple about this latest iPhone bug? Granted, it’s certainly an embarrassing situation to have another bug on their hands, but is it that big of a deal?
For example, here are some of the headlines:
Wow, this must be a major bug! Is my data at risk!?! Yeah, probably not.
This bug allows people to bypass the passcode lock on the phone. That’s certainly a problem for some people, but how many people do you know that set the passcode on the phone and then leave it unattended very often? I personally know eight people with iPhones, and none of them use the passcode — they just keep the phone on their body.
In addition, there is a very simple workaround. If you set your “home button double-click preference” to either “Home” or “iPod” instead of the default “iPhone favorites”, the problem is fixed. Also, MacRumors has been told that this problem has already been fixed for a future firmware update.
I guess any story with “apple” and “security” in it must be major news, even when it’s not.
Despite all of the buzz we’ve seen lately, including a hastily-assembled firmware update, it seems that that hardware in the iPhone 3G is pretty solid.
A Swedish company decided to find out, and took their iPhone to a test facility made for this kind of thing. They ran a variety of tests on the phone, as well as on a Sony Ericsson P1 and a Nokia N73. The testing confirms that they’re all about equal.
So what to make of it? It seems to me that we might be looking at some software issues, a fact that Apple essentially gave away when pushing out the 2.0.2 update. Hopefully their next update can continue to improve on it, since the hardware appears to be in good shape.
I was never a big Myst fan, but it’s one of the best-selling PC games of all time, so apparently I was in the minority.
As part of a post in the Myst Online forum, Cyan announced that “iMyst” was in the works and coming soon. Priced well enough, and I’m guessing they could find a lot of customers looking to dust off the classic. Given its very simple mechanics (full-screen image, click, full-screen image, etc), it seems like it’d be a pretty easy port.
No word yet on a release date or price point.