iPhoneApalooza
Twitter and WWDC Effect
Monday is Apple’s World Wide Developer’s Conference and Geekdom anxiously awaits the rumored announcement of iPhone 2.0. If you’re thinking about using Twitter for something important, you might be up a &8$% creek. Twitter may have taken on 15 million business partners recently but probably not in time. If history is any indicator, the number of Apple geeks twittering WWDC will once again cause the Twitter service to buckle under the pressure. (Incidently, if you are thinking of using Twitter for something important, let me know. I would love to write a post about it.)
Update 6/10: C|Net had an article yesterday regarding Twitter going into “battle” mode for WWDC. For the most part it worked. I jumped around from MacRumorsLive.Com and Twitter. From what I’ve been told by people that followed the entire event on Twitter their were several instances of features that stopped working, but the overall Twitter service managed to go down only once and briefly at that. Good on Ya Twitter! (Oops, should have kept that down, their probably all still in bed)
Photos of iPhone 2.0 Leaked?
CrunchGear released today what they believe is a legit screen cap of an ad mock-up for the new iPhone that they, among others think will be revealed during the conference. Do I think there will be a tricked out video and exchange enabled, 3G sporting iPhone announced? Probably. Do I think the ad is legit? I doubt it. I noticed something about it and so did a commenter to the post. Anyone who has ever gone through the painstaking task of creating a clipping path in Photoshop will notice that the (RED) version of the iPhone in the screen cap does not include the locking mechanism on the top of the phone. A dead giveaway that someone with way too much time on their hands went to the trouble to create this. I could be wrong, but I certainly wouldn’t risk any dead presidents on a bet.
Update 6/10: Uh….Told Ya So 🙂
VOIP on My iPhone? Oh Yeah!
I found another fetching iPhone article on CrunchGear about a little company called iCall that has developed an app that will switch a standard iPhone cell call to VOIP (voice over internet protocol) if you are near a WiFi hot spot. T-Mobile has been offering something like this for some time now and I have really been looking forward to the day when I can do the same with my iPhone. I conduct a lot of business calls on my iPhone from my home based office, I would love to be able to kill those cell minutes from Ma Bell’s invoice.
Drew Meyers
Posted at 10:44h, 07 JuneSpeaking of the iPhone…you might have already seen them, but there are leaked screen shots of the new iPhone here.
Drew Meyers
Posted at 12:00h, 07 Junegeez – i somehow missed the fact that the link I left as a comment was in the post. I did see the link to crunchgear, but not the deep link to the screenshots.
my bad
mike price
Posted at 23:38h, 07 JuneI’ve also heard that a new version of iTunes will be released with an iPhone section for the download and purchase of applications. Should be a big day for the iPhone. It’s always fun to wait for Jobs to say “One More Thing”. It’s like Forest Gump’s box of chocolates, “You never know what you will get”.