Apple updates Gallery for iPhone 4, iPad version still AWOL

Filed under: iPhone, MobileMe

Apple has pushed out a new version of MobileMe Gallery, a free app for people who post pictures to the MobileMe service and want to access them on their iPhone or mail them to friends.

Apple says the app now higher resolution images on an iPhone 4 when connected to a Wi-Fi network. Apple also says, with no specifics, that there are 'various bug fixes'.

What's missing from all this is that iPad owners have to use the same Gallery app and scale it up, making their images look precisely like crap. You'd think that with the beautiful iPad screen Apple would support it with a universal app. Well, maybe someday.

Apple updates Gallery for iPhone 4, iPad version still AWOL originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Apple updates Gallery for iPhone 4, iPad version still AWOL originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Motorola Droid X ad punches iPhone 4 in the antenna

Motorola’s full page New York Times ad takes a swift jab into the tenderest regions of iPhone 4 antenna issues.

most importantly, it comes with a double antenna design. The kind that allows you to hold the phone any way you like and use it just about anywhere to make crystal clear calls. You have a voice. And you deserve to be heard.

In our minds (and tweets) it played out like the original Karate Kid, with Droid X getting it’s iPhone 4-bloodied nose seen to by the Moto Kai sensei who mercilessly whispers “sweep the leg” “go for the antenna”.

Whether or not iPhone-san can pull out an iOS 4.0.1 crane-kick of a software fix and get its victory-from-the-jaws-of-defeat Hollywood ending remains to be seen…

“Send in a bumper case, yeaaaaaaah!”

[@sarahintampa via Android Central]

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Jobs Says Over-The-Air HD Video Uploads Coming ‘In The Future’

One of the key features of iPhone 4 is its ability to record high-definition video in 720p. Users have found, however, that getting the HD video off of the device requires connecting it to a computer for...

LogMeIn Ignition updated for iOS 4

LogMeIn Ignition has just been updated for iPhone and iPad specifically with iOS 4 support.

Normally, this would not necessarily be too exciting, except I just got done testing this release. I am very excited to report that I was able to log in to my remote desktop, then check mail and other apps. Put the iPhone to sleep, come back minutes later and open LogMeIn Ignition and… my desktop was still there!

They’re no doubt using iOS 4 multitasking’s task completion feature (the same one that lets uploads finish in the background). It won’t let you keep the connection open forever — more like 10 minutes — but it’s still fantastic and I can’t recommend this app enough. This is very exciting to see developers adopting iOS 4 so quickly and in a useful manor.

Oh, and here is a tip. If you keep LogMeIn “running” in the background for a while, and want to make sure you don’t get a timeout error when you return to the app, check the setting on the client machine. It needs to be more than iOS 4’s 10 minute task completion limit (the default on mine was 20 min.)

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AdMob: iOS Platform Continues to Lead in Mobile Data Usage, But Android Surging

As it has done on a monthly basis for the past several years, AdMob today released a new Mobile Metrics Report for May 2010. The report highlights worldwide trends in mobile requests to its ad network from over 23,000 mobile websites and application...

iPhone live tonight, 6pm PT, 9pm ET, 2am BST

Due to crazy summer schedules our newer, later time-slot seems to be sticking around for a while.

And guess what? We have tons to talk about as well. It’s our first show post iPhone 4 release, post iPhone 4 review, and post iPhone 4 antenna, proximity, and other bugs. Like we said, tons

We’ll be taking over the home page 15 minutes or so before the show, and yes:

Well be giving away iPhone 4 accessories… live.

Be here, and be ready to chat.

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iPhone 4’s antenna problem looks worse than it is, but it’s still bad

The iPhone 4's antenna issues have sparked off a firestorm of debate as to the root cause -- Apple says holding the phone differently or buying a case are the best answers, while other are going down a more voodoo path -- but our friends at AnandTech have done some more scientific testing of the problem and come up with a few interesting results. Turns out the iPhone 4 actually performs slightly better inside a case than a phone like the Nexus One, which has had similar issues crop up, but it's slightly worse when held in the hand, reporting an average signal drop of 20dB. Here's where it gets a little wacky, though: the signal meter in iOS 4 is logarithmic, so that 20dB drop can either leave you looking steady at five bars or drop you all the way to zero, depending on what the actual signal level in the area is like. Take a look at the chart above and you'll get it: the range of values between one bar and four spans just 23dB, while the range for five bars is 40dB. That means holding the phone in an area with a strong five-bar signal will have no apparent effect -- you can lose 20dB at full signal and still see five bars -- but holding the phone in an area with weaker coverage will easily drop the meter to one bar, since the 20dB signal drop covers almost the entirety of the remaining 23dB scale. Oops.

Of course, that's just the on-screen display, which Apple can and likely will tweak in a future iOS update. The real question is whether the reported signal has anything to do with performance, and Anandtech agrees with our general experience, saying that the iPhone 4's improved signal to noise ratio means it actually does a better job of hanging onto calls and using data when there's low signal than the iPhone 3GS. In their words, "this iPhone gets the best cellular reception yet, even though measured signal is lower than the 3GS." However, there's no getting around the fact that we've definitely dropped a couple calls with the iPhone 4 by holding it the wrong way, and Anandtech says the only real solution to the antenna issue will be for Apple to either subsidize free bumpers or add an insulative coating to the antenna band. We'll see what happens -- we've got a feeling an iOS update is on the way, but we'd definitely love to see Apple pursue a more aggressive solution to this problem.

iPhone 4's antenna problem looks worse than it is, but it's still bad originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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iPhone 4 Reception Issues: Detailed Analysis

iPhone restaurant apps: Six UrbanSpoon alternatives

Feeling a little hungry? UrbanSpoon is far from the only iPhone restaurant guide in town. Check out these six lesser-known options.

Jonathan Ive discusses iPhone 4 design

Core77 spoke with Apple Senior Vice-President of Design, Jonathan Ive, about iPhone 4’s including the Retina Display, custom stainless steel antenna array, aluminosilicate glass front and back, and even the microSIM tray.

“A big part of the experience of a physical object has to do with the materials. [At Apple] we experiment with and explore materials, processing them, learning about the inherent properties of the material–and the process of transforming it from raw material to finished product; for example, understanding exactly how the processes of machining it or grinding it affect it. That understanding, that preoccupation with the materials and processes, is [very] essential to the way we work.”

Jonathan Ive focuses extensively on the importance of real material in an increasingly virtual world and seems driven by just how far he can push the manufacturing process to achieve his goals. For design aficionados and anyone wanting some insight into the mind behind iPhone 4, check out the link below.

[Core77 via Daring Fireball]

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Five little-known features in iOS 4

Filed under: Tips and tricks, iPhone

Whenever word gets out about a potential software update, as it did for iOS 4 back in January (then called iPhone OS 4), you don't have to look far to find speculation about features or functionality the new version will include.

This is especially true for major revisions of the OS, which is ironic when you consider that developers get access to beta versions of the OS for testing purposes -- most smaller updates are kept under wraps right up until they are released.

When Apple does officially announce a major update, it usually is quick to list the big changes that the update brings as a way to persuade developers to get in and start updating their apps to make use of the new features. Quite often, everyone focuses their attention on these main features, and discussion moves to whether or not the new OS will support things like dashboards and today screens or whether or not Feature X will live up to expectations. This discussion usually continues well after the OS has been released, and it tends to overshadow many of the smaller changes that have been made throughout the OS.

Whether these changes are minor tweaks in how something works or the addition of new functionality that subtly enhances the users' experience, they often go unnoticed for one of two reasons: either they "just work" so well that the user doesn't need to know they exist, or they require the user to do something extra to enable or locate the feature. Since both of these involve the user not being aware of something, we think it's safe to assume that bringing these little-known features to light will help.

Read on for a list of five little-known features in iOS 4 that we think deserve more attention.

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Five little-known features in iOS 4 originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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iPhone 4 availability check: Good luck

It's been nearly a week since the iPhone 4's debut. Is it any easier to get your hands on one?

Prompt-It iPhone teleprompter perfect for business meetings, Internet cranks

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Prompt-It iPhone teleprompter perfect for business meetings, Internet cranks originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:53:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Stripr Lite makes the New and Noteworthy list in the iTunes App Store

dBelement, LLC is excited to announce that days after launch, Stripr Lite has been chosen as a “New and Noteworthy” app by Apple. Stripr is an amazing webapp that allows you to access all of your favorite comics in one convenient place, offline. There are many RSS feed readers out there, but Stripr is designed [...]

iPhone OS 2 apps no longer welcome on the App Store

Apple hasn't been shy about dropping support for older hardware and software in recent years, and it looks like the iPhone and iPod touch are no exception: according to a short note on the iPhone developer site encouraging devs to get ready for iOS 4, the App Store will no longer affect apps that target iOS 2. That doesn't really mean much right now -- apart from a few iPod touch owners who didn't pay the $10 iOS 3 upgrade fee, we doubt there are many people out there still running iOS 2 -- but we can see Apple dropping support for iOS 3 apps next year when iOS 5 and a new iPhone are announced, and that'll effectively be the end of the original iPhone and touch, which can't be upgraded to iOS 4. That's a four-year shelf life, which isn't too bad considering the insane pace of mobile development, but we can still shed a tear -- especially since we paid $599 for the damn thing on contract way back when.

iPhone OS 2 apps no longer welcome on the App Store originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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iMovie for iPhone gets a cheeky hack for jailbroken 3GS, runs well-oiled

Not feeling hot about the trouble-prone iPhone 4, but still tempted by its optional iMovie app? Now you have a choice! Turns out to run said app on other devices (including iPod touch, supposedly) running iOS 3.0 and above, all you need are a jailbroken iOS device, iMovie for iPhone from the App Store, and two quick edits in the app's info.plist file -- change minimum system version to "3.0.0" and front-facing-camera to "false." Sounds easy enough, although we've yet to see the hacked app actually running on devices other than the 3GS demoed in the video after the break. And sorry, Redmond Pie's already confirmed that this sucker doesn't work on the iPad... yet.

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iMovie for iPhone gets a cheeky hack for jailbroken 3GS, runs well-oiled originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Review: Befuddled HD for iPad

Befuddled HD for iPad is a cleverly-implemented word game. Developed by Inert Soap, the game mixes elements of Boggle with Scrabble's letter weighting system, and throws in some nuance all its own.

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Jobs: Use multitasking “as designed” and be happy

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Old school Mac users like me were trained to quit apps that aren't in use. Finished with Explorer? Quit it. All done using Photoshop? Command-Q. This habit came from a time when computers shipped with less RAM than the iPhone 4, and is very hard to break.

Of course, your iPhone isn't running all those apps at once. When you double-click the Home button, you get a list of recently-used apps; they aren't all "running" in the Mac OS X sense. As MacDailyNews explains, some are in "suspended animation," much like Han Solo encased in carbonite. He's not dead, but he's not doing a whole heck of a lot, either. You'll find an excellent explanation of what's going on at TidBITS.

Conversely, Steve Jobs offered a customer a very brief explanation via email. "People shouldn't have to understand multitasking. Just use is [sic] as designed, and you'll be happy. No need to ever quit apps." In other words, the best option is not to think about it at all. iOS 4 knows what's its doing, so just leave it to its business.

Jobs: Use multitasking "as designed" and be happy originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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iFixit and Chipworks teardown the iPhone 4’s gyroscope

You didn't think the folks at iFixit would simply teardown the iPhone 4 and call it a day, did you? They've now gone the extra mile and done a detailed teardown of the iPhone 4's gyroscope with a little help from Chipworks. That's of course a MEMS (or microelectromechanical system) gyroscope and, according to Chipworks, nearly identical to an off-the-shelf STMicroelectronics L3G4200D gyroscope, which is actually what they used for the teardown. What's more, they also went even further and put another gyroscope (not used in the iPhone 4) under an electron microscope just to illustrate how incredibly complex and minute the structure of MEMS gyroscopes are. Head on past the break for a glimpse of that, and hit up the link below for the complete teardown.

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iFixit and Chipworks teardown the iPhone 4's gyroscope originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:47:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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