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Filed under: Home Entertainment, Storage, Networking
Firmware update brings file conversion, iPhone access to HP's MediaSmart ex485 / ex487 originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 13 Apr 2009 00:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Do you have post-CTIA-syndrome? Feel like all the hot new smartphone news happened two weeks ago and not much has happened since? Wondering if you have the strength to make it through another day without a pithy overview of everything that happened in the smartphone world last week? Easter feast have you feeling too lazy to do anything but peruse enough smartphone news to fill out a short novella?
Fret not, our best of SPE news roundup has you covered. Get clicking!
It was a pretty big week for T-Mobile over at Android Central. We first caught word of T-Mobile developing an Android-powered Tablet Device AND an Android Home Phone for 2010. Then we leaked the list of T-Mobile 3G cities for 2009. We also found out that T-Mobile was market testing some terrible names for their next Android phone which may or may not be announced in a private April 21st launch event. In software news, the Gmail and Google Calendar web apps got a significant update and the NBA released an official application just in time for the playoffs
It was a crazy week of software at CrackBerry.com. We saw that BlackBerry Bold OS 5.0.0.90, OS 5.0 for the Curve 8900, and OS 4.6.0.259 for the Pearl Flip all found their way onto the net. If official is more your flavor (and to be safe, it probably should be), the official 4.6.1.206 for the Curve 8900 and OS 4.7.0.122 for the Storm landed as well. All of the above was followed hard upon by BlackBerry Desktop Manager Software 5.0. We also got a look at the Amazon App for BlackBerry.
On the hardware front, we are looking forward to the Storm 2 mere months after the original hit the scene, the Storm 2 rumors are flying in like mad!
It is Nokia E75 week at Nokia Experts as the device started shipping in selected countries. Matt has one in his hands and gives you a walk through the setup of the new Nokia Messaging 2.0 software integrated in the E75. The Nokia N97 is the flagship product coming soon from Nokia and we had a chance to get some hands-on time with it at CTIA.
The long slog towards the Pre Release Date continues, with May 17th holding the ‘optimist’ slot for the time being. Meanwhile we hear that Sprint employees are already training up on the Pre — not to mention that Sprint is feature the Pre in a snazzy new ad campaign. We also learned a bit more about how the ‘Pre’ got its name Since we’re not ones to twiddle our thumbs, we published an article explaining How to copy your PalmOS apps and data onto the Pre.
Previously on theiPhoneBlog.com: Steve Jobs himself oversaw the iPhone 3.0 interface, but is he also behind the next gen iPhone patent for an aluminum unibody casing? Push Notification just went live for developers and video recording, voice control, auto-focus camera, and compass are now double confirmed. Could we see 32GB? How about FM radio and Bluetooth 3.0?
Meanwhile: Apple is approaching one BILLION downloads on the App Store, and to celebrate they’re giving away a $10,000 iTunes gift card. They might need those numbers to, what with the $1.29 price hike, followed up by Amazon MP3 and Walmart, driving purchases down. What else could go wrong? Verizon and AT&T cracking down on our data, of course!
Checking in over at TreoCentral, we learn that the Treo Pro is now available in Canada at TELUS for as low as $149.99 (with qualifying 3-year service plan). Plus we find out that Americans really love to text, seeing as they’ve sent over 1 trillion text messages in 2008. And in other news, we learn via our sister site WMExperts that AT&T’s 3G MicroCell enters the trial phase, testing in selected, signal deprived homes next week. And finally, we have the latest Smartphone Experts Roundtable in which Dieter, Kevin, Rene, and Phil discuss CTIA, along with other big news coming out of the smartphone world in the past few weeks.
We were in full CTIA hangover mode last week but did manage to find some new Windows Mobile 6.5 themes, unearthed new deets about the HTC Snap (aka T-Mobile Captain) and watched T-Mobile’s 3G network grow. The HTC Touch HD got a ROM update and the Verizon Touch Diamond finally was released. We also played with Twikini, a new Twitter client.
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ReaddleDocs Forum Review by msbaylor. (Visit the thread for video and more pics. For more Forum Reviews, see the TiPb iPhone App Store Forum!)
ReaddleDocs is a document viewer that basically covers all the ways of getting the document onto you iPhone – so there is no way that you cannot have your documents on hand.
When you purchase ReaddleDocs, you also receive 512MB of storage space on their server. This allows you to upload any documents to the server via any browser and then sync them with you iPhone via any data connection (EDGE/3G/WIFI).
When you tap on the “Online” tab, you select the server you want to connect to and then you have the ability to sync with the server so that any new documents that you have retrieved via the iPhone will backup to your server and vice versa.
Besides using your Readdle Storage space, you can also connect to your MobileMe iDisk or connect to a WebDAV enabled server.
A second way of getting documents onto your iPhone is by forwarding your attached document in an e-mail to you ReaddleDocs e-mail address (given to you when you create your online account). Then, again, you sync you iPhone with your account.
A third way, is to use the built-in browser and navigate to a document then tap on a button to download the document to your iPhone.
A fourth and final way is to transfer the documents from your computer to your iPhone via WiFi.
When viewing your documents, you can edit them - delete, move, create folders, rename folders, rename documents, mail documents, and add a document to a zip achieve.
All documents that can normally be viewed on the iPhone can be viewed via this application as well.
I really like the icons that it uses to represent the type of file (red icon for pdf files, blue icon to doc files, etc.)
Within the app you can view all your documents, view your online documents (through whichever server,) use the browser, view recently opened files and adjust settings for the app.
I think for the most part those screen are self-explanatory.
I also like the document “reader” interface. When viewing files such as *.doc, *.rtf, the viewer is simple – you can scroll through your document like you would in the iPhone document viewer, however, you have and “add” button at the top, which allows you to insert bookmarks for that document. I find this incredibly convenient when reading a large document or e-book. The toolbar at the bottom of the screen allows you to view and edit bookmarks, e-mail the document, scroll through a document quickly using the slider and a full screen button.
If you turn the iPhone to the landscape position, it automatically goes to full-screen and rotates the document accordingly.
When viewing an *.xls document, you have all the same features as above. At the top of the document, you can change between the sheets. You might also notice that when switching between sheets, arrows will appear at the bottom of the screen. These arrows are much like the arrows you would use in the browser.
When viewing images, you can view them much like you would in your photo reel, just tap the arrows to move through the pictures within that folder. You can also mail the documents via this image viewer.
Besides viewing and retrieving documents, you can also view the device photos (which might prove a faster way of delete picture on your iPhone if you have to do it that way.)
In the setting screen, you have the ability to view or hide the “device photos” folder, setup mail settings – mail from and mail signature; allow WiFi network drive and apply username and password; several different viewing options including “view HTML as book”; you can also enable a passcode lock; and setup the document encoding.
There is no way to move the images to your iPhone photo reel or set as wallpaper functions, while the picture is on my iPhone in a sense, I cannot actually do anything with it unless I email it to myself and do it that way. I don’t always have a data connection when I am traveling so it would be nice to move the images over to do what I wish with them. When viewing the a PowerPoint document, the slides seems to form one large “page” (see screen shot).
In my opinion the Pros out weigh the Cons and the price tag of $9.99 is completely worth it. To have the ability of getting my document on my hand held and having them at my finger tips is worth it. I was on a film set when I was asked to operate a Sony F900 camera. Luckily, I was able to go to a website using the browser interface and download the manual on my iPhone and had the ability to quickly skim through it and figure out how to use the camera.
[ReaddleDocs is available for $9.99 from the iTunes App Store.]
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App Review: ReaddleDocs for iPhone
Filed under: Software, iPhone, iPod touch
TUAW would like to help take away a bit of the sting of tax week by giving away something for free. That's why we've teamed with Tapbots to give ten lucky US readers licenses for WeightBot and ConvertBot.TUAW giveaway: WeightBot and ConvertBot originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sun, 12 Apr 2009 10:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Elan Microelectronics demonstrates its eFinger multitouch tech running on Android originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 12 Apr 2009 10:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Along with the news yesterday that Steve Jobs had been particularly involved in the development of the iPhone 3.0 user interface, according to Engadget
The article also makes mention of a jumbo-sized iPod touch of sorts (an iTablet, if you will), but it’s hard to tell if that word is from these same people familiar with the matter, or if the WSJ is just picking up that perennial rumor from less reputable sources.
We think the answer to that is “both”. Apple no doubt has an iTablet in the vault deep beneath Cupertino. Indeed, the iPhone reportedly began life as the Safari Pad tablet. Steve Jobs simply hasn’t believed there’s a market for it yet. Perhaps he’s now changed his mind and Apple will finally release a modernized version very similar to a large iPod touch.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in!]
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iTablet Rumors: Steve Jobs is “Involved” Edition
TiPb loves answering your questions, but we also love sharing our answers with the community in hopes that more people will benefit, and even better answers will present themselves (hey, that’s why we have them forums!). Today’s question comes from Stupendoussteve on Twitter:
ever heard of iPhone finding you at a previous address, states away, where you’ve never even taken the phone (post restore)?
We have! And TiPb answers after the break!
The iPhone uses Location Services to determine where it is. Location Services uses three (3) distinct technologies, from the more gross to the more granular, and different iPhones (and iPod touches) support different levels.
The most precise, supported only by the iPhone 3G, is aGPS. aGPS uses cell tower-based GPS crunching to give you a fairly tight indication of your current position. In the middle, supported by iPhone 3G and the original iPhone 2G, is cell tower positioning. Google mapped all cell towers in the US (and other countries), recorded their GPS locations, and then tries to triangulate where you are if it doesn’t have — or can’t get to — an aGPS signal proper. The last — and the one causing your problem — is WiFi router mapping.
What happened was a company called Skyhook got into a bunch of vans, drove around the US (and other countries), detected WiFi routers in homes and businesses, and recorded their unique IDs along with their GPS locations.
For iPod touches, and for iPhones that aren’t getting good, this is the final and least accurate method Location Services uses to find out where you are. The problem you’re encountering is likely that Skyhook recorded the location of your WiFi router when you lived in another state, and now when your iPhone is finding it, it still thinks you’re at that old address, across town, or across the country.
Skyhook may eventually drive around and re-map your WiFi router, or you can go to SkyhookWireless.com and manually re-locate your WiFi in their system — though in our experience it can take a long time for them to update either way.
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TiPb Answers: Why Does My iPhone Think it’s in a Different State?
