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Sprint’s Policies Updated – iPhone Owners Beware! | xda-developers
03 months ago
I will let the anonymous quote from Sprint speak for it’s self:
iPhone
Apple considers jail breaking an “Unauthorized Modification” which puts the device in the
Red Defect category.o If the jailbreaking and modification are so extensive that the device cannot be used or
triaged by the normal processes, then the device must be flagged as Red (Not
Repairable) and are therefore not eligible for exchange.
• In eTicket, select Non Repairable Damage as the complaint type, iPhone Jailbroken as the complaint detail and close the ticket.
• Ensure your eTicket notes contain thorough details on your findings and that rooting was suspected.
o If the jailbreaking modifications can’t be detected thru the normal processes, proceed as
normal and allow an exchange, classifying the device based on other damage noted.
Sprint’s Policies Updated – iPhone Owners Beware! | xda-developers.
Steve Jobs, RIP.
04 months ago
Steve Jobs – His name will be placed along side of greats like Henry Ford and Albert Einstein when future generations look back on his passing, October 5, 2011. He helped revolutionized the computer industry, drive innovation, and breathed new life into his company when he returned in 2001.
As it has been said already I will just quote some of the comments:
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/10/05/gates-i-will-miss-steve-immensely/
Bill Gates:
The world rarely sees someone who has had the profound impact Steve has had, the effects of which will be felt for many generations to come.
For those of us lucky enough to get to work with him, it’s been an insanely great honor. I will miss Steve immensely
Tim Cook:
No words can adequately express our sadness at Steve’s death or our gratitude for the opportunity to work with him. We will honor his memory by dedicating ourselves to continuing the work he loved so much.
Even industry rival Google has placed a link in remembrance of his passing.
Here was a man who rose from nothing and truly put a dent in the universe. RIP Steve Jobs!
No iPhone5…is anybody really surprised?
04 months ago
In what is apparently a very surprising move Apple announced the next iphone, but not the 5. As was expected by some they announced the 3G iPhone4S with some various other hardware improvements.
Personally this did not come as any surprise. Without 4G the iPhone5 would not be able to compete with the latest Android offerings. Plus there was reference in the code to the 4S, not the 5.
I would expect to see the 5 in 1st quarter 2012 once 3G coverage has expanded and they work out some of the battery issues.
October 28, the day iPad defects
01 year ago
The great migration from AT&T has begun. The iPad is scheduled to make the trip over to Verizon wireless and its CDMA network this month.
Will it mean profit losses for AT&T or new iPad owners who have been waiting…FOR YEARS??
More importantly this signals that the iPhone will soon be making the trip over. Rumor has it that by Christmas we may be seeing Verizon iPhones under the tree.
PPCGeeks.com » iPhone 4 Reception Issues (Updated w/ Official Response)
01 year ago
Apple sez “Your doin’ it wrong!!”
As reported yesterday the new iPhone has what many people are seeing as a glaring flaw. If you hold it in your left hand with your palm over the corner it will drop your call.
PPCGeeks.com has Apples official response to this and it is along the same line of “If it hurts when you laugh, don’t laugh”
PPCGeeks.com » iPhone 4 Reception Issues (Updated w/ Official Response).
PPCGeeks.com » iPhone 4 Record Pre-Orders!
0Apple released a press release stating that more than 600,000 iPhone 4s were pre-ordered yesterday, June 15th.
“It was the largest number of pre-orders Apple has ever taken in a single day and was far higher than we anticipated”
Apple also commented on the trouble some would-be customers had in getting through online
“Many customers were turned away or abandoned the process in frustration. We apologize to everyone who encountered difficulties, and hope that they will try again or visit an Apple or carrier store once the iPhone 4 is in stock.”
This suggests that even more pre-orders could have gone through.
Read the full article here:
Apple Strikes Back!!! iPhone 4 info is out!
01 year ago
Barely a week from the hot release of the HTC Evo, and with Froyo looming in the wings Apple has announced their latest entry into a market that they helped to revolutionize.
Meet the iPhone 4
We are iPhone, resistance is futile.
And they pulled no punches with the hardware, giving the current heavyweight a run for it’s money.
Height: 4.5 inches
Width: 2.31 inches
Depth: 0.37 inch
Weight: 4.8 ounces
Yes, it is really that thin, most impressive as Darth Vader would say.
Hardware
Camera: Dual camera (Back and front) with 720p video resolution capability and 5mp still shots. Front is for video conferencing
Battery: Non-replaceable “Come on Apple!! You are killing us here”
Processor: A4 clocked at 1Ghz. Same chip as in the iPad
Display: Retina 3.5 inch, 960 by 640 at 326ppi. They are claiming it has better contrast than OLED.
Memory: 16gb or 32gb storage. No SD card “Le sigh! Missed opportunity apple”
OS: iOS 4.0
Nice specs, but some seriously missed opportunities to really put a hurting on the smartphone marketplace. Time will tell if this will be the Evo killer
That time will be June 24th.
IPad, revolution or flop?
4Ah, good old Steve Jobs. Pushing the envelope where one never existed before. Creating a niche when nobody else can see the need for one. Feeding the rabid fans with slightly new technology so they can feel better than the non-apple crowds.
Here at Ansaldo Computing, or as I like to call it my little corner of reality, we are equal opportunity computists. I, personally, have a MacBook G4 and work extensively with both Power PC (PPC) and Intel (um…Intel) core systems at work. I have learned to appreciate the systems for what they do good, but not to fear scorning them for what they do bad.
In this light we offer our first review of the latest Apple gadget to hit the market. Ladies and Gentleman, the IPad!!
The IPAD!!! Dun Dun DUN!!!!
Just look at it for a second.
Gaze upon it’s glory.
Marvel at the App store.
Wonder when the term App Store became commonly spoken.
Lets take a look at some of the specs as quoted from Apples own site:
Height:
9.56 inches (242.8 mm)
Width:
7.47 inches (189.7 mm)
Depth:
0.5 inch (13.4 mm)
Weight:
1.5 pounds (0.68 kg) Wi-Fi model;
1.6 pounds (0.73 kg) Wi-Fi + 3G model
Capacity
16GB, 32GB, or 64GB flash drive
Processor
1GHz Apple A4 custom-designed, high-performance, low-power system-on-a-chip
Sensors
Accelerometer
Ambient light sensor
This puts it on par with some of the current SmartPhones including HTC Incredible and Evo. One would think, being the bigger brother of the iPhone or Ipod Touch (iTouch if you want to annoy some Apple fanatics) it would function similar. Oddly this is not the case.
Review:
Short Review: If you currently have a collection of 12 iPods, 8 different iBooks and two iMacs then get this. Otherwise wait a generation.
Long Review: I know, I am going to pay for that comment. However it is not so much a bashing of the iPad, rather of the companies release schedule.
In hand the iPad feels much less like it’s cousins and more like something that does not exist, but should have. Almost like one of the pads that StarTrek officers would carry around, jotting down various useful bits of info, or whatever else they were doing.
Being both lightweight and of a very two hand friendly size it lends it’s self well to tasks that an iPhone does not. Reading newspapers, books, or magazines is very intuitive. It is worth nothing that, despite having the Amazon Kindle app as well as soon to have the Barns and Nobles eBook app it does not compete with ether of the pure eBook readers. It is close however.
Web Browsing is what the iPad seems to be made fore. Multi-Touch combined with the larger screen allows for much more intuitive browsing than on the smaller screens. At times I found it more enjoyable that most standard computer browser. Being Safari based it does suffer with some limitations (NO FLASH!!! AHHHHHH!!!) but overall I found it to be very enjoyable. (Side Note: I would expect Multi-Touch iMacs in the next year or two based on how smoothly web runs on the iPad. Also look out for 3D OS…but that is another Blog post).
But wait!! In your short review you said not to buy it? What the F*$K??
Glad you asked. The fault in the iPad is two fold
- Apple has a nasty reputation for releasing a product, then releasing a improved hardware version before the warranty runs out. Anybody remember the first iPhone? How about the update? Talk about fireworks from the community. There are many things the iPad does not do, namely have a camera. If you are looking at one but not sure, wait for Apple to release one with a camera before taking the plunge. It will not be that long down the road and you will have a much better product.
- Market. Apple is king of inventing a market that does not exist, closely followed by Sony and Nintendo. However to do such a thing requires several broken eggs. For all the successes Apple has many failures that slowly fall from support. A entry-level, end-user based tablet is a hard sell to the mainstream. Sure the Apple fans are buying them up, but they buy up any new iPod like they are gold. Let the fever die down a bit, then actually evaluate if it fits what you need. If all you are looking for is a method to read books and newspapers a eBook reader would be a much better option.
If Apple can manage to carve a market for this device it will be a revolution. It will become an extension of your personal computing, a way to interface with the digital world outside of your office but more effective than a SmartPhone.
If not, it will be another Newton.