Is this where the iPhone 3G should lay to rest?
Wired recently wrote an article called “What’s Wrong With the 3G in iPhone 3G?” It’s a great article that details the poor reception on the iPhone 3G, specifically on the AT&T network. This leads us to some obvious questions: Is it something to do with the 3G chipset? Is it specific to the AT&T network?
First, we’ll breakdown Wired’s roundup of opinions surrounding the issue, then I’m hoping QuicklyBored readers will add their own anecdotes about the iPhone 3G’s reception.
Continue reading the debate about the iPhone 3G’s poor reception
Ok so maybe it has something to do with the fact that I tweaked and hacked my iPhone until it wasn’t even really an iPhone but an NES/internet hub super computer slightly resembling an Apple product. Or maybe it was just a design flaw on the part of Apple because I’ve completely reset the phone back to factory settings and it still barely makes a phone call.
All of the applications refuse to load and the phone resets itself about every 10 seconds. Also, my “back” button sicks 9/10 times I use it. I also can’t sync with iTunes. What a bummer. I’ll keep everyone updated on my attempts to fix the problem.
MotionX Poker by Full Power is the latest in 15 minute distractions
MotionX Poker on the iPhone is a good example of the type of mobile games we enjoy at QuicklyBored.com. Please stop sending us game submissions that are built for the lowed handset market because they aren’t even worth playing. MotionX Poker, on the other hand, is a game I’ll play over and over.
Click though for more details and pics of MotionX Poker
Do not download every single free app all at once
I have had the iPhone 3G for 6 days now and we have developed an intense love/hate relationship. It is exactly what I want in a phone when it comes to multimedia browsing but there have been some serious drawbacks.
Click here for more pictures, video and opinion regarding the iPhone 3G
Not even a White Squall can stop us from getting our iPhones!
So I showed up at the Rogers Plus store on Bank and Glebe in Ottawa Canada to buy the iPhone 3G. I had called 30 minutes earlier to discover 2 people were already waiting in line so I hauled ass over to the store.
After a couple of hours a few more early adopters showed up and the line started to gain some size. At first we were bummed that Rogers wouldn’t let us use their bathroom or their WiFi, but then people got to socializing and we remembered we were all about to own the slickest device on Earth.
Click through to read more of this epic journey
Paying for incoming SMS will likely lead to huge bills and angry customers.
You can’t stop someone from texting you. There aren’t any spam filters for your mobile phone just now, at least to my knowledge, so getting texts is almost completely out of your hands. Today, we got wind that Bell and Telus will start charging customers for INCOMING SMS. Outrageous, no?
Bell Mobility will begin charging customers 15 cents per incoming text message on Aug. 8. Telus Mobility is moving to the same billing practice effective Aug. 24. Until now, their pay-per-use customers who send text messages have been charged a 15-cent fee per message, but it hasn’t cost anything to receive them.
I understand that NA operators are jealous of their European counterparts but charging you for messages you can’t control isn’t reasonable. Rogers has said that it will not be charging for incoming messages and therefore we might see a lot of customers shift operators. Will Bell and Telus start showing the same subscriber loss as Sprint has been seeing these past months? I hope so.
[Via The Ottawa Citizen]
Can anyone tell me what this is all about? Nokia has launched the site www.openatownrisk.com, a flash based site that is counting down to something special. The site makes strange references to a secret that has been kept for years and only the likes of Da Vinci and Edison knew what it was. Mmmkaye.
A question to QuicklyBored readers: What do you think it is? A new handset or service? Is Nokia about to unleash some evil demon spirit that’s been dormant for millions of years? I must know!
Now that we know what both Rogers and AT&T are offering in terms of pricing and plans for the iPhone, it’s time to compare. Rogers has released 4 new iPhone 3G-specific plans and they are the following:
$60/month - 150 anytime minutes, 75 outgoing SMS, and 400 MB data
$75/months - 300 anytime minutes, 100 outgoing SMS, and 750 MB data
$100/month - 600 anytime minutes, 200 outgoing SMS, and 1 GB data
$115/month - 800 anytime minutes, 300 outgoing SMS, and 2 GB data
Now lets compare these rates with that of AT&T:
$69.99 - 450 anytime minutes, (+$5) 200 outgoing SMS, and unlimited data
$89.99 - 900 anytime minutes, (+$5) 200 outgoing SMS, and unlimited data
$109.99 - 1350 anytime minutes, (+$15) 1500 outgoing SMS, and unlimited data
$129.99 - Unlimited anytime minutes, (+$20) unlimited outgoing SMS, and unlimited data
There is definitely something wrong with Canadian telco’s in that we don’t have the competition to gain access to unlimited data plans. We are all fully aware of the fact that Rogers, Bell and Telus are all sitting together in a conference room and shaking hands on not offering “all you can eat” data plans because it will make them tons of money. The Canadian courts seriously need to step in and break up these behemoths in the hopes of fostering more competition.
Vodafone UK is fully supporting the HTC Touch Diamond and saying that it is a superior device to the iPhone. Here at QuicklyBored, we do recognize that the HTC Touch Diamond has some qualities that make it superior such as a higher resolution display, smaller size, a higher resolution camera and a tilt sensor but Vodafone has gone a little far. Here is the quote:
Feature rich Windows Mobile 6.1 device utilising HTC’s new Touchflow UI. This device is in a tablet form factor meaning it is touch screen only. The Diamond surpasses the iPhone in all aspects, the key differentiator is the inherent flexibility of the Diamond. It comes loaded with Vodafone Email Plus and the Vodafone Sat Nav program.
[Via MSmobiles]
Engadget Mobile has a great in-depth look at Dashwire, a digital content sharing from mobile to desktop application.
Dashwire is completely free and it’s broken into 2 parts: the web component, which supports any OS you choose and a Windows Mobile 5 or 6 client. The product will basically sync your entire life between both your mobile and computer. Pictures, SMS, ringtones, Visual Voicemail, contact management and social networking statuses are all synced with Dashwire.
[Via Engadget Mobile]