Should UF Require Students to Own an iPhone?
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pimg src=http://www.appleiphonereview.com/images/iphone-uf.jpg alt=iPhone required at UF align=right class=imgright //ppA friend of mine at the University of Florida in Gainesville is starting at pharmacy school this fall and just found out she#8217;ll be required to purchase an a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a or a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=ipodiPod/a Touch for the curriculum. /ppAccording to UF, some of the pharmacy courses will have programs designed around the devices. The a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a has a number of apps that can aid students, including #8220;medical reference applications, blood glucose monitor accessories, and software that allows obstetricians to use their iPhones to remotely access virtual real-time and historical waveform data for their patients, are just some examples of the growing trend,#8221; according to a href=http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/07/01/florida_universitys_pharmd_program_to_require_ipod_touch.html class=extlink rel=nofollowAppleInsider/a./ppOn the one hand, an a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a could help emany/em student be productive. I use a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a#8217;s Calendar, Todo and WeDict apps to stay organized in school. However, I know from experience that the a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a can also be an incredible distraction, and a hindrance to learning if students aren#8217;t disciplined enough to use it for the right purposes. /ppSome of the benefits of UF#8217;s policy to require iPhones or a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=ipodiPod/a Touches for students:/pulliApp Store offers useful apps to aid medical learning/liliAiding distribution of classroom podcasts, such as lectures and other classroom materials/liliMore efficient communication #8212; everyone will possess the same device/li/ulpPotential downsides of mandatory iPhones or a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=ipodiPod/a Touches at UF#8217;s pharmacy school:/pulliHigh cost of purchasing the device, although it could potentially be covered by financial aid/liliDistraction in the classroom #8212; a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a is essentially an inconspicuous personal computer/liliDeterioration of learning if students rely on the device too heavily for information/liliIt#8217;s a covert endorsement by an educational institution of a select corporation #8212; sort of like when schools offer only Pepsi products throughout campus/li/ulh2What do you think?/h2pShould the University of Florida#8217;s pharmacy school require students to purchase an a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a or a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=ipodiPod/a Touch? I would love to hear your opinion in the comments./pdiv class=feedflarea href=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?a=z8c8L4VWgGM:_hUTLz1sdyw:yIl2AUoC8zA rel=nofollowimg src=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?d=yIl2AUoC8zA border=0 //img/a a href=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?a=z8c8L4VWgGM:_hUTLz1sdyw:D7DqB2pKExk rel=nofollowimg src=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?i=z8c8L4VWgGM:_hUTLz1sdyw:D7DqB2pKExk border=0 //img/a a href=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?a=z8c8L4VWgGM:_hUTLz1sdyw:qj6IDK7rITs rel=nofollowimg src=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?d=qj6IDK7rITs border=0 //img/a a href=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?a=z8c8L4VWgGM:_hUTLz1sdyw:V_sGLiPBpWU rel=nofollowimg src=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?i=z8c8L4VWgGM:_hUTLz1sdyw:V_sGLiPBpWU border=0 //img/a/divimg src=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AppleiPhoneReview/~4/z8c8L4VWgGM height=1 width=1 /
Trouble Finding an iPhone 3G S?
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pI spent all day yesterday trying to buy a new a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a 3G S, with no luck. Yes, the Apple Store had them in stock, but they don#8217;t let you buy an a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a unless the AT#038;T account holder is present. My dad is the account holder for our Family Plan, but he is over 300 miles away. /ppWhen I was in Miami, the Apple Store staffers told me I could buy an a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a 3G S at the AT#038;T store without the account holder present, but no AT#038;T stores in Florida currently have them in stock, including stores in Miami, Orlando, Ocala and Gainesville./ppI spent over an hour calling AT#038;T stores throughout the state. Why don#8217;t AT#038;T employees have the capability to tell me if there is an a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a in stock at a particular store???/ppI called an Apple Store in Orlando and asked how I could buy the a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a 3G S without the AT#038;T account holder present, and an employee told me the only thing I could do was sign up for a new contract with AT#038;T#8230; um, no thanks./pp#8220;No problem,#8221; I thought. #8220;I#8217;ll order one online.#8221;/ppSo I went through the checkout process on Apple.com, hesitating before clicking Complete and spending $543.36, including an extra $10 for 2-3 day shipping #8212; that is, after selling my 3G a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a on eBay for $315. /ppI finally placed the order and received an email confirmation that said my a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a should arrive between July 9 and July 13, twelve to sixteen days from yesterday. I#8217;m not willing to wait that long./ppSo I canceled my order, called my dad in Miami and asked him to pick one up for me and ship it up to Gainesville. Hopefully I#8217;ll have it in a few days./ppI think it#8217;s silly that I can buy an a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a 3G S on Apple.com without a problem, but if you go to a physical Apple Store, they won#8217;t sell it to you without the account holder by your side./ppHas anyone else had trouble getting their hands on an a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a 3G S? I#8217;d love to hear about your experience in the comments./pdiv class=feedflarea href=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?a=1JhqcEmKnMM:f47YgyovInI:yIl2AUoC8zA rel=nofollowimg src=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?d=yIl2AUoC8zA border=0 //img/a a href=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?a=1JhqcEmKnMM:f47YgyovInI:D7DqB2pKExk rel=nofollowimg src=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?i=1JhqcEmKnMM:f47YgyovInI:D7DqB2pKExk border=0 //img/a a href=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?a=1JhqcEmKnMM:f47YgyovInI:qj6IDK7rITs rel=nofollowimg src=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?d=qj6IDK7rITs border=0 //img/a a href=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?a=1JhqcEmKnMM:f47YgyovInI:V_sGLiPBpWU rel=nofollowimg src=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?i=1JhqcEmKnMM:f47YgyovInI:V_sGLiPBpWU border=0 //img/a/divimg src=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AppleiPhoneReview/~4/1JhqcEmKnMM height=1 width=1 /
Apple Blocks iPhone Video Camera App
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pThe makers of iVidCam, a video recording app for the a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a, contacted me about how Apple blocked their a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a app ahead of the release of the a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a 3G S, which features a video camera. /ppI regret not seeing this letter in my inbox earlier, but I think it´s worth sharing. Of course, stronga href=http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/06/08/curious-case-ividcam-wrongs-acceptance/ class=extlink rel=nofollowtake this with a grain of salt/a/strong. Here it is:/pblockquotepThis is our story of how we created a breakthrough video camera app for the a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a only to have our hopes unfairly crushed by Apple./ppIn October, we started development on iVidCam, a video recording app for the a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a. We invested a lot of capital and resources because we knew if we got a video camera app working, then it would be an instant hit. By January, we had finished the mp4 video encoding engine, but we needed a way to take multiple pictures per second to make video./ppIn February, our breakthrough came. Apple featured 25shot, an app that took 25 pictures in 5 seconds. The app used a custom camera view and took 5 screenshots per second. Our team studied the app and integrated the same function into iVidCam. We saw Apple#8217;s featuring 25shot on the front page of the App Store as a signal to developers that this function was highlighted and encouraged by Apple./ppIn March, we finished development of iVidCam and even added wireless transfer and YouTube upload functions to the app. We were confident that this app would go #1 in the App Store. It had everything users wanted #8211; a functional video camera app, mp4 encoding, wireless transfer, and YouTube upload of the recorded videos. We posted the app to iTunesConnect for Apple approval on March 27. Several days later we were shocked to discover Apple had rejected the app due to what they said was an #8220;unpublished API.#8221;/ppThe same day we called the highest management person at Apple we knew, John Geleynse. We met him at the L.A. Tech Talk last year and he appeared to be the main a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a evangelist. We thought that he could surely help us. On the phone, he was cordial and even agreed with us that talking to the regular reviewers was not going to do anything. He told us to email him an email stating our case with specifics and that he would forward it to Lead of the App Review Team. He assured us this was the way to go./ppWe emailed John Geleynse the same day. And this was the beginning of almost 2 months of being ignored, neglected and overlooked by Apple. Our emails to the Lead of the App Review Team were not being directly responded to. We asked for dialogue, and they gave us no personal replies but sent us form letters intead. Throughout this process, we were committed to working with Apple and not complaining publicly. We wanted to give every opportunity for Apple to address our concerns. Apple deeply disappointed us by ignoring us for months./pp* March 31-May 18 correspondence with Director of Tech Evangelism, John Geleynse/ppBy mid-May we had reached the point of exasperation. Our efforts to dialogue with Apple, their main a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a evangelist, and the Lead of the App Review Team had led to nothing. We decided to try one more time with Apple, this time writing to the highest management possible, Steve Jobs. Here#8217;s our May 18th letter to Steve Jobs that we asked several high management people at Apple to make sure it got to him:/pp* May 18 letter to Steve Jobs/ppWe ended up getting a reply from Senior VP Phil Schiller, who ironically is going to be giving the keynote speech at June 8, 2009 WWDC where Apple could announce their own video camera app for the a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a. Phil Schiller#8217;s email and following correspondence ended up to be another big disappointment. Apple never took us seriously and refused to dialogue with us on the issues we brought up./pp* May 18-27 correspondence with VP Phil Schiller/ppAfter two months of being unable to dialogue with Apple, we learned that perhaps we were just too insignificant in Apple#8217;s eyes. Even though we had published hundreds of a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a apps in the App Store, we were just one developer with a complaint in Apple#8217;s eyes. We decided to draft a petition letter to end the unfair practice of rejecting custom camera view apps by Apple./pp* Petition Letter from Photo App Developers/ppAnd finally, we#8217;ve decided to share our story publicly. Maybe Apple will change if enough people let them know they don#8217;t agree with how they#8217;ve handled this situation. We can no longer do it by ourselves, we need your help./pp* Please email Apple to let them know you#8217;re unhappy about their actions (appreview@apple.com and schiller@apple.com)./ppIn closing, this saga has seeded many doubts about the partnership that Apple has with developers like us./pp1. Our company has been damaged and devastated./ppWe#8217;ve spent the majority of our resources on iVidCam, only to see it unjustly rejected and Apple closed to dialogue. It#8217;s frustrating especially since we were big fans of Apple and our company of 6 a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a developers has been committed to developing a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a apps and working with Apple. We were counting on iVidCam sales. Now our company is struggling to break even and we#8217;re at the unenviable place of deciding whether continuing to develop for the a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a is sustainable or not./pp2. It doesn#8217;t feel good to be disrespected, neglected, and misled as a developer./ppIt#8217;s been a stressful process because we#8217;ve tried our best to communicate and reach out to Apple, only to be ignored and not treated as a true dialogue partner. If Apple treats developers like this now, what is the future of Apple-and-developers relations? In our case, we feel like Apple misled us, changed the rules arbitrarily, and punished us for trying to be good a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a developers that work within the system. Ironically, our company has been committed 100% to developing for the non-jailbroken a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a, only to be punished by Apple. And if Apple comes out with their own video camera app on June 8, 2009 at WWDC, it will be a sad day for us and also thousands of developers. The App Store is not a good system when the people in charge can do whatever they want with no accountability, even at the loss and damage of other parties./pp3. What#8217;s a published API?/ppOne of the key issues in our story is what constitutes a #8220;published API#8221;? We#8217;ve stated this over and over to Apple, but we believe that one of the strongest publishing mechanisms they have is the front page of the App Store. Apple appears to meticulously choose which apps to feature. The featured apps encourage users to buy them and developers to develop them. In this case, Apple featured 25shot in February and QuadCam in May, along with approving dozens of custom camera view apps in between. These featured apps appeared to millions of a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a users on their desktop and also on their iPhones (AppStore). If these apps were using an #8220;unpublished API#8221;, then why were they featured multiple times on the front page of the App Store? And why were dozens of these apps approved? If Apple was wrong in featuring these apps, then they misled developers like us to spend tons of capital and resources in development. Regardless, by featuring these apps, Apple clearly implicitly published the use of these APIs to millions of users and developers. And by continuously featuring these apps, Apple strengthened their published position of the custom camera api usage./ppPlease share this story with your readers./ppyours,br /David and Susan Leebr /GP Apps/p/blockquotediv class=feedflarea href=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?a=Op8-xujrWfc:Ydwxzn1Cet8:yIl2AUoC8zA rel=nofollowimg src=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?d=yIl2AUoC8zA border=0 //img/a a href=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?a=Op8-xujrWfc:Ydwxzn1Cet8:D7DqB2pKExk rel=nofollowimg src=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?i=Op8-xujrWfc:Ydwxzn1Cet8:D7DqB2pKExk border=0 //img/a a href=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?a=Op8-xujrWfc:Ydwxzn1Cet8:qj6IDK7rITs rel=nofollowimg src=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?d=qj6IDK7rITs border=0 //img/a a href=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?a=Op8-xujrWfc:Ydwxzn1Cet8:V_sGLiPBpWU rel=nofollowimg src=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?i=Op8-xujrWfc:Ydwxzn1Cet8:V_sGLiPBpWU border=0 //img/a/divimg src=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AppleiPhoneReview/~4/Op8-xujrWfc height=1 width=1 /
Apple Blocks Video Camera App
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pThe makers of iVidCam, a video recording app for the a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a, contacted me about how Apple blocked their a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a app ahead of the release of the a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a 3G S, which features a video camera. /ppI regret not seeing this letter in my inbox earlier, but I think it´s worth sharing. Here it is:/pblockquotepThis is our story of how we created a breakthrough video camera app for the a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a only to have our hopes unfairly crushed by Apple./ppIn October, we started development on iVidCam, a video recording app for the a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a. We invested a lot of capital and resources because we knew if we got a video camera app working, then it would be an instant hit. By January, we had finished the mp4 video encoding engine, but we needed a way to take multiple pictures per second to make video./ppIn February, our breakthrough came. Apple featured 25shot, an app that took 25 pictures in 5 seconds. The app used a custom camera view and took 5 screenshots per second. Our team studied the app and integrated the same function into iVidCam. We saw Apple#8217;s featuring 25shot on the front page of the App Store as a signal to developers that this function was highlighted and encouraged by Apple./ppIn March, we finished development of iVidCam and even added wireless transfer and YouTube upload functions to the app. We were confident that this app would go #1 in the App Store. It had everything users wanted #8211; a functional video camera app, mp4 encoding, wireless transfer, and YouTube upload of the recorded videos. We posted the app to iTunesConnect for Apple approval on March 27. Several days later we were shocked to discover Apple had rejected the app due to what they said was an #8220;unpublished API.#8221;/ppThe same day we called the highest management person at Apple we knew, John Geleynse. We met him at the L.A. Tech Talk last year and he appeared to be the main a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a evangelist. We thought that he could surely help us. On the phone, he was cordial and even agreed with us that talking to the regular reviewers was not going to do anything. He told us to email him an email stating our case with specifics and that he would forward it to Lead of the App Review Team. He assured us this was the way to go./ppWe emailed John Geleynse the same day. And this was the beginning of almost 2 months of being ignored, neglected and overlooked by Apple. Our emails to the Lead of the App Review Team were not being directly responded to. We asked for dialogue, and they gave us no personal replies but sent us form letters intead. Throughout this process, we were committed to working with Apple and not complaining publicly. We wanted to give every opportunity for Apple to address our concerns. Apple deeply disappointed us by ignoring us for months./pp* March 31-May 18 correspondence with Director of Tech Evangelism, John Geleynse/ppBy mid-May we had reached the point of exasperation. Our efforts to dialogue with Apple, their main a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a evangelist, and the Lead of the App Review Team had led to nothing. We decided to try one more time with Apple, this time writing to the highest management possible, Steve Jobs. Here#8217;s our May 18th letter to Steve Jobs that we asked several high management people at Apple to make sure it got to him:/pp* May 18 letter to Steve Jobs/ppWe ended up getting a reply from Senior VP Phil Schiller, who ironically is going to be giving the keynote speech at June 8, 2009 WWDC where Apple could announce their own video camera app for the a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a. Phil Schiller#8217;s email and following correspondence ended up to be another big disappointment. Apple never took us seriously and refused to dialogue with us on the issues we brought up./pp* May 18-27 correspondence with VP Phil Schiller/ppAfter two months of being unable to dialogue with Apple, we learned that perhaps we were just too insignificant in Apple#8217;s eyes. Even though we had published hundreds of a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a apps in the App Store, we were just one developer with a complaint in Apple#8217;s eyes. We decided to draft a petition letter to end the unfair practice of rejecting custom camera view apps by Apple./pp* Petition Letter from Photo App Developers/ppAnd finally, we#8217;ve decided to share our story publicly. Maybe Apple will change if enough people let them know they don#8217;t agree with how they#8217;ve handled this situation. We can no longer do it by ourselves, we need your help./pp* Please email Apple to let them know you#8217;re unhappy about their actions (appreview@apple.com and schiller@apple.com)./ppIn closing, this saga has seeded many doubts about the partnership that Apple has with developers like us./pp1. Our company has been damaged and devastated./ppWe#8217;ve spent the majority of our resources on iVidCam, only to see it unjustly rejected and Apple closed to dialogue. It#8217;s frustrating especially since we were big fans of Apple and our company of 6 a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a developers has been committed to developing a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a apps and working with Apple. We were counting on iVidCam sales. Now our company is struggling to break even and we#8217;re at the unenviable place of deciding whether continuing to develop for the a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a is sustainable or not./pp2. It doesn#8217;t feel good to be disrespected, neglected, and misled as a developer./ppIt#8217;s been a stressful process because we#8217;ve tried our best to communicate and reach out to Apple, only to be ignored and not treated as a true dialogue partner. If Apple treats developers like this now, what is the future of Apple-and-developers relations? In our case, we feel like Apple misled us, changed the rules arbitrarily, and punished us for trying to be good a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a developers that work within the system. Ironically, our company has been committed 100% to developing for the non-jailbroken a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a, only to be punished by Apple. And if Apple comes out with their own video camera app on June 8, 2009 at WWDC, it will be a sad day for us and also thousands of developers. The App Store is not a good system when the people in charge can do whatever they want with no accountability, even at the loss and damage of other parties./pp3. What#8217;s a published API?/ppOne of the key issues in our story is what constitutes a #8220;published API#8221;? We#8217;ve stated this over and over to Apple, but we believe that one of the strongest publishing mechanisms they have is the front page of the App Store. Apple appears to meticulously choose which apps to feature. The featured apps encourage users to buy them and developers to develop them. In this case, Apple featured 25shot in February and QuadCam in May, along with approving dozens of custom camera view apps in between. These featured apps appeared to millions of a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a users on their desktop and also on their iPhones (AppStore). If these apps were using an #8220;unpublished API#8221;, then why were they featured multiple times on the front page of the App Store? And why were dozens of these apps approved? If Apple was wrong in featuring these apps, then they misled developers like us to spend tons of capital and resources in development. Regardless, by featuring these apps, Apple clearly implicitly published the use of these APIs to millions of users and developers. And by continuously featuring these apps, Apple strengthened their published position of the custom camera api usage./ppPlease share this story with your readers./ppyours,br /David and Susan Leebr /GP Apps/p/blockquotediv class=feedflarea href=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?a=Op8-xujrWfc:Ydwxzn1Cet8:yIl2AUoC8zA rel=nofollowimg src=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?d=yIl2AUoC8zA border=0 //img/a a href=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?a=Op8-xujrWfc:Ydwxzn1Cet8:D7DqB2pKExk rel=nofollowimg src=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?i=Op8-xujrWfc:Ydwxzn1Cet8:D7DqB2pKExk border=0 //img/a a href=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?a=Op8-xujrWfc:Ydwxzn1Cet8:qj6IDK7rITs rel=nofollowimg src=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?d=qj6IDK7rITs border=0 //img/a a href=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?a=Op8-xujrWfc:Ydwxzn1Cet8:V_sGLiPBpWU rel=nofollowimg src=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?i=Op8-xujrWfc:Ydwxzn1Cet8:V_sGLiPBpWU border=0 //img/a/divimg src=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/AppleiPhoneReview/~4/Op8-xujrWfc height=1 width=1 /
Beware of eBay iPhone Scammers: True Story
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pSo I a href=http://www.appleiphonereview.com/reviews/my-16gb-3g-iphone-for-1/ rel=nofollowlisted my iPhone/a on eBay this past Monday hoping to sell it and buy the new a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a 3G S. I went to bed that night and when I woke up, I checked my email to find that someone had committed to #8220;Buy it Now#8221; for $450. /ppThe buyer, whose alias was strongkammanns828287/strong, had a 0 feedback score on eBay. After contacting this person all day and receiving no reply, I received an email the next day from a so-called #8220;Stella Jones#8221; claiming to have paid me via PayPal and asking me to ship the a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a to her son in Nigeria:/pblockquotedivGreetings to you. I am Stella Jones from US. I#8217;m contacting you concerning your item on EBay, I#8217;m presently in London on a business trip and intend sending this item to my son who works with the United Kingdom Embassy in Nigeria as a gift, I checked through USPS (WWW.USPS.com) website and found out that the postage cost to Nigeria is $100, so i have just made a swift payment to you via PayPal./div/blockquotepa href=http://www.appleiphonereview.com/scam-email-from-iphone-buyer-on-ebay/ rel=nofollowRead the full iPhone scam e-mail here/a./ppAfter that, I received a fake PayPal email, with subject PAYPAL PAYMENT CONFIRMATION ID#30688737FG3075722, claiming #8220;You have an Instant Payment of US $550.00 from Stella Jones to your account for an eBay item through PayPal.#8221;/ppThere was, in fact, no money in my PayPal account. So I have relisted the a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a and reported the user who scammed me so that eBay doesn#8217;t charge me the fees I have been billed. /ppIt concerns me that on my current a href=http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem#038;item=220436978488 class=extlink rel=nofollowiPhone auction on eBay/a, there are a couple of persistent bidders with 0 feedback scores. I want to sell this a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a already, because I#8217;m leaving on a trip tomorrow for a week, but I have little confidence that I won#8217;t be scammed again./ppA search on Twitter confirms that I#8217;m a href=http://search.twitter.com/search?q=ebay+iphone+scammers class=extlink rel=nofollownot the only one/a who has been scammed on eBay trying to sell/buy an a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a./ppHas anyone else been scammed on eBay when trying to sell OR buy an a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a? Please share if you have had a similar experience./pdiv class=feedflarea href=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?a=me9vkLlBy14:kUEZe8otWAo:yIl2AUoC8zA rel=nofollowimg src=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?d=yIl2AUoC8zA border=0 //img/a a href=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?a=me9vkLlBy14:kUEZe8otWAo:D7DqB2pKExk rel=nofollowimg src=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?i=me9vkLlBy14:kUEZe8otWAo:D7DqB2pKExk border=0 //img/a a href=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?a=me9vkLlBy14:kUEZe8otWAo:qj6IDK7rITs rel=nofollowimg src=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?d=qj6IDK7rITs border=0 //img/a a href=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?a=me9vkLlBy14:kUEZe8otWAo:V_sGLiPBpWU rel=nofollowimg src=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?i=me9vkLlBy14:kUEZe8otWAo:V_sGLiPBpWU border=0 //img/a/divimg src=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/AppleiPhoneReview/~4/me9vkLlBy14 height=1 width=1 /
Voice Memos on iPhone 3.0 [Video Demo]
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pWatch the video below to see the new Voice Memos app in a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a 3.0. /ppobject width=425 height=344param name=movie value=http://www.youtube.com/v/Y7TVaTlK7-k#038;hl=en#038;fs=1#038;/paramparam name=allowFullScreen value=true/paramparam name=allowscriptaccess value=always/paramembed src=http://www.youtube.com/v/Y7TVaTlK7-k#038;hl=en#038;fs=1#038; type=application/x-shockwave-flash allowscriptaccess=always allowfullscreen=true width=425 height=344/embed/object/ppVoice Memos is a simple, useful a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a app. But frankly, I don#8217;t know why it was necessary for Apple to create it, since there are other recording apps in the App Store that closely resemble Voice Memos. I use Griffin#8217;s iTalk, for example./ppThis raises the question I asked over a year ago before the App Store#8217;s debut: a href=http://www.appleiphonereview.com/news/will-apple-borrow-features-from-developers-iphone-apps/ rel=nofollowWill Apple compete with its App Store developers/a?/pdiv class=feedflarea href=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?a=wo7Jwxag-b0:fcWcUTgVvW4:yIl2AUoC8zA rel=nofollowimg src=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?d=yIl2AUoC8zA border=0 //img/a a href=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?a=wo7Jwxag-b0:fcWcUTgVvW4:D7DqB2pKExk rel=nofollowimg src=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?i=wo7Jwxag-b0:fcWcUTgVvW4:D7DqB2pKExk border=0 //img/a a href=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?a=wo7Jwxag-b0:fcWcUTgVvW4:qj6IDK7rITs rel=nofollowimg src=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?d=qj6IDK7rITs border=0 //img/a a href=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?a=wo7Jwxag-b0:fcWcUTgVvW4:V_sGLiPBpWU rel=nofollowimg src=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?i=wo7Jwxag-b0:fcWcUTgVvW4:V_sGLiPBpWU border=0 //img/a/divimg src=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/AppleiPhoneReview/~4/wo7Jwxag-b0 height=1 width=1 /
iPhone 3.0: Now With Text Message Privacy
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pimg src=http://appleiphonereview.com/images/sms-privacy-iphone.jpg alt=iPhone 3.0 SMS privacy class=imgright align=right //ppOne of the problems I used to complain about most was a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a#8217;s #8220;SMS Preview#8221; feature, which prompted you with an excerpt of any incoming text message you received. You can imagine #8212; or maybe you#8217;ve actually experienced #8212; the awkwardness when a raunchy text message from your significant other pops up on your screen while a relative or coworker is using your a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a. /ppSMS Preview and the lack of text message privacy on the a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a caused a href=http://www.appleiphonereview.com/news/how-has-iphones-sms-preview-gotten-you-into-trouble/ rel=nofollowembarrassment for a lot of my readers/a, who left comments about inappropriate text messages popping up on their screens at the worst times #8212; pretty funny, you should a href=http://www.appleiphonereview.com/news/how-has-iphones-sms-preview-gotten-you-into-trouble/ rel=nofollowgo read them/a./ppAfter TWO YEARS of complaining about this extremely irritating issue, Apple has finally heard our pleas and given us the option in a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a 3.0 to turn off SMS Preview for incoming text messages./ppJust go to Settings Messages to turn SMS Preview on or off. That#8217;s it, no more unnecessary text message drama./pdiv class=feedflarea href=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?a=Yev_sArzKvM:oyVQpA3KkHw:yIl2AUoC8zA rel=nofollowimg src=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?d=yIl2AUoC8zA border=0 //img/a a href=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?a=Yev_sArzKvM:oyVQpA3KkHw:D7DqB2pKExk rel=nofollowimg src=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?i=Yev_sArzKvM:oyVQpA3KkHw:D7DqB2pKExk border=0 //img/a a href=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?a=Yev_sArzKvM:oyVQpA3KkHw:qj6IDK7rITs rel=nofollowimg src=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?d=qj6IDK7rITs border=0 //img/a a href=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?a=Yev_sArzKvM:oyVQpA3KkHw:V_sGLiPBpWU rel=nofollowimg src=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?i=Yev_sArzKvM:oyVQpA3KkHw:V_sGLiPBpWU border=0 //img/a/divimg src=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/AppleiPhoneReview/~4/Yev_sArzKvM height=1 width=1 /
iPhone 3.0 Shake to Shuffle [Video Demo]
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pHere#8217;s another feature that#8217;s new to a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a 3.0. Shake your a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a and it shuffles your a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=ipodiPod/a. Watch my video demo of a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a 3.0#8217;s shake-to-shuffle feature:/ppobject width=425 height=344param name=movie value=http://www.youtube.com/v/9zbfWt12yKM#038;hl=en#038;fs=1#038;/paramparam name=allowFullScreen value=true/paramparam name=allowscriptaccess value=always/paramembed src=http://www.youtube.com/v/9zbfWt12yKM#038;hl=en#038;fs=1#038; type=application/x-shockwave-flash allowscriptaccess=always allowfullscreen=true width=425 height=344/embed/object/ppThe a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a will shuffle once shaken regardless of whether you have the a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=ipodiPod/a app open. Stay tuned for a full review of a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a 3.0./pdiv class=feedflarea href=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?a=Ph64D8i7GZI:DX7kBOndx0I:yIl2AUoC8zA rel=nofollowimg src=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?d=yIl2AUoC8zA border=0 //img/a a href=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?a=Ph64D8i7GZI:DX7kBOndx0I:D7DqB2pKExk rel=nofollowimg src=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?i=Ph64D8i7GZI:DX7kBOndx0I:D7DqB2pKExk border=0 //img/a a href=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?a=Ph64D8i7GZI:DX7kBOndx0I:qj6IDK7rITs rel=nofollowimg src=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?d=qj6IDK7rITs border=0 //img/a a href=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?a=Ph64D8i7GZI:DX7kBOndx0I:V_sGLiPBpWU rel=nofollowimg src=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?i=Ph64D8i7GZI:DX7kBOndx0I:V_sGLiPBpWU border=0 //img/a/divimg src=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/AppleiPhoneReview/~4/Ph64D8i7GZI height=1 width=1 /
Caution: iPhone 3.0 Could Brick Your iPhone
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pLots of people on Twitter are reporting that their a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a 3.0 software downloads have been interrupted, leaving them with bricked iPhones. /ppApparently, the rush to download a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a 3.0 is #8220;clogging the pipes#8221; at Apple and causing many users to get error messages that read: #8220;We could not complete your iTunes Store request. The network connection timed out.#8221;/ppYou can a href=http://search.twitter.com/search?q=we+could+not+complete+your+itunes+store+request class=extlink rel=nofollowkeep track of this issue on Twitter/a./ppIf you#8217;re concerned about bricking your phone and can wait until tonight or tomorrow to download a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a 3.0, then maybe you should postpone the download. /pdiv class=feedflarea href=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?a=Qjj2SpKc8Sk:-I0t4oZJRd8:yIl2AUoC8zA rel=nofollowimg src=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?d=yIl2AUoC8zA border=0 //img/a a href=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?a=Qjj2SpKc8Sk:-I0t4oZJRd8:D7DqB2pKExk rel=nofollowimg src=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?i=Qjj2SpKc8Sk:-I0t4oZJRd8:D7DqB2pKExk border=0 //img/a a href=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?a=Qjj2SpKc8Sk:-I0t4oZJRd8:qj6IDK7rITs rel=nofollowimg src=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?d=qj6IDK7rITs border=0 //img/a a href=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?a=Qjj2SpKc8Sk:-I0t4oZJRd8:V_sGLiPBpWU rel=nofollowimg src=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?i=Qjj2SpKc8Sk:-I0t4oZJRd8:V_sGLiPBpWU border=0 //img/a/divimg src=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/AppleiPhoneReview/~4/Qjj2SpKc8Sk height=1 width=1 /
iPhone 3.0 Spotlight Search [Video Demo]
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pYou can now search through your a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a in one place. To use Spotlight Search, simply flick the home screen to the right when you#8217;re on the first page of your apps. Watch the brief video demo below:/ppobject width=425 height=344param name=movie value=http://www.youtube.com/v/rmJ0o-p8Xf4#038;hl=en#038;fs=1#038;/paramparam name=allowFullScreen value=true/paramparam name=allowscriptaccess value=always/paramembed src=http://www.youtube.com/v/rmJ0o-p8Xf4#038;hl=en#038;fs=1#038; type=application/x-shockwave-flash allowscriptaccess=always allowfullscreen=true width=425 height=344/embed/object/ppIn the video I use Spotlight to search for a Radiohead song, and then to find the details of a meeting. /ppStay tuned for a full review of a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a 3.0./pdiv class=feedflarea href=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?a=xXr-7RipIRY:IzPIUIwAykw:yIl2AUoC8zA rel=nofollowimg src=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?d=yIl2AUoC8zA border=0 //img/a a href=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?a=xXr-7RipIRY:IzPIUIwAykw:D7DqB2pKExk rel=nofollowimg src=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?i=xXr-7RipIRY:IzPIUIwAykw:D7DqB2pKExk border=0 //img/a a href=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?a=xXr-7RipIRY:IzPIUIwAykw:qj6IDK7rITs rel=nofollowimg src=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?d=qj6IDK7rITs border=0 //img/a a href=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?a=xXr-7RipIRY:IzPIUIwAykw:V_sGLiPBpWU rel=nofollowimg src=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?i=xXr-7RipIRY:IzPIUIwAykw:V_sGLiPBpWU border=0 //img/a/divimg src=http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/AppleiPhoneReview/~4/xXr-7RipIRY height=1 width=1 /