Oh dear, more bar problems for Apple, first they lose a phone in a bar now they screw up the way they calculate the bars. Apple have posted an explanatory note regarding the iPhone reception problem, and apparently it’s a problem in the way they calculate the signal strength, and it’s really all right really,…
Tag: iphone
News
Distimo releases the first Apple iPad app data
Distimo have launched their latest report on app usage for May 2010 and it now includes Apple iPad App store usage as well as the usual list of usual suspects. The average price of all paid applications and the 100 most popular paid applications in the Apple App Store for iPad ($4.65) is higher than…
News
iPad owners are rich, posh and southern
According to Hitwise’s latest stats round up, potential iPad and iPhone owners are rich, West London liberals. The latest Hitwise findings show UK Internet traffic to the official iPad website increased significantly in the run-up to the launch. Over 30% of visits to the site during the 4 weeks ending May 22 came from London…
News
Google Docs goes mobile
Google has launched via their Googlemobile blog a mobile website version of its Google Docs viewer, which lets people read PDFs, PowerPoint presentations and Word docs in their browser. The site works for Android, iPhone and iPad, and lets people pan and zoom within pages, and use pinch-to-zoom on the iPhone and iPad. This is…
News
1.7 million people can’t be wrong
Apple has said that it sold more than 1.7 million units of the iPhone 4 in the first three days, making it the most successful product launch in the company’s history from the standpoint of sales. A quick back of the fag packet calculation shows that the iPhone 4 has given Apple and the Apple…
News
Three to start selling iPhone 4 in July
We just got a text from Three telling us when we can expect the iPhone 4 they have reserved for us and they’ve been texting us about for the last week, and guess what ? It’s the 19 July. Yes you read that right July 19, almost a full month after the launch and it’ll…
News
comscore outlines iPhone/smartphone demographic and usage
While the perception and the influence of the iPhone are huge, it is only a small part of the phones out there and Ex-Rapid Mobile CEO and now vp of mobile for Europe at comScore, Jeremy Copp has the figures to prove it According to the latest figures from comScore the iPhone currently represents just…
News
Three’s iPhone 4 pricing
Three have published their iPhone pricing and it’s certainly competitive, the only problem is they don’t tell us when the devices are going to be in stock. The web site says “coming soon” and rather confusingly has some 3GS versions available now on £25/£30 and £35 a month tariffs but it’s only available on the…
News
iPhone 4 mania hits the UK
Seems like the UK has gone compeletly iPhone 4 mad as queues of, mostly men, form all around the UK to get the best thing since sliced bread iPhone 4 in their sweaty little mitts. Vodafone have sold out, and it looks like the rest are also sold out judging by Twitter accounts. And while…
News
iPhone 4 now at Tesco
Tesco have finally launched their iPhone pricing and the pricing is keen as always, with pay as you go it will be cheaper to buy an iPhone 4 with Tesco than Apple. As with the better networks Tesco have gone with a 1Gb monthly allowance and the 1Gb monthly wifi allowance at BT’s Openzone. When…
News
Bad news O2 iPhone users it’s first come first served
Not content with telling new users that they’re not going to get an iPhone until after the normal O2 users get their go – which could mean a wait until the end of July (see below) – they’re also letting existing iPhone users fight it out in the queue. O2 has announced that it will…
News
Three already reserving iPhone 4s for users
Three have just texted us here at Bmob with an upgrade offer to iPhone 4. The text starts Great news; You’ll get an iPhone 4 upgrade and we’ve already reserved one for you” The text then relays you to a web page which says; “Your iPhone 4 coming soon Following your interest in iPhone ,…
News
Apple and O2 are the perfect combination
If you have an iPhone and you’re on O2 you’re a lucky person. You think that O2 is the best network in Europe by a long chalk, and you think the iPhone is incredible. Customer experience business Satmetrix, released its 2010 European Net Promoter Industry Benchmarks for the mobile phone carriers and mobile phone handset…
Video
Spoof iPhone 4 video
It’s supposedly a TV promo for the iPhone 4 that they banned, but you’d have to be very stupid to believe that. However it is funny, and it is friday.. [ad name=”Google Text half banner advert “]
Comment, News
100 million Apple devices by 2011
The FT has published a blog piece with some outrageous interesting speculation from analysts that Apple’s IOS devices could number 100 million in the next 18 months. The piece looks at some of the Wall Street analysts, who seem to be wanting to outdo each other with who can up-chat the iPhone/iPad sales the most.…
News
Argos app hits 500,000 downloads in three weeks
Argos has revealed today that “strong consumer demand” and above-the-line marketing support – a TV ad and a iPhone press ad – for the Argos iPhone app has resulted in more than 500,000 downloads in just three weeks, and on one day Saturday 28 May 2010 the retailer had over 40,000 downloads. The Argos app…
News
WorldLenns augmented reality app for iPhone 3GS
New York and Shanghai tech developers QderoPateo have launched a really interesting app that combines augmented reality, music, the arts, and social networks. 3G users unfortunately aren’t going to be able to use this as it requires the digital compass only available on the 3GS iPhone 4. The free app allows users to take photos…
Comment, News
O2 get nasty with their new data plans
On the June 24 O2 are to bring in a new set of data plans for their mobile users and they’re going to make a lot of iPhone users very unhappy. O2 are obviously tired of being castigated for their slow data connectivity, and have decided that the only answer is to make their heavy…
Analysis, News
Mobile app revenues to exceed $30 billion by 2015
Analysts Juniper Research www.juniperresearch.com forecast that, the combined revenues from apps funded by pay-per-download (PPD), value-added services (VAS, including “freemium” and subscription) and advertising, including apps on portals and dedicated app services like iTunes etc is expected to rise from just under $10 billion (£6.9 billion) in 2009 to $32 billion (£20.7 billion) in 2015.…
News
Britain says no to paying for online news
Media lawyers Wiggin’s annual look at how we use digital media in the UK shows that we hate paying for news content online, we like online magazines, we’re obsessed with social media particularly Facebook, and we’re all dying to make Steve Jobs the happiest man on Earth. According to the survey while TV watching still…