Earlier this week we brought you the video comparison of the iPhone 3G against the iPhone 3G. That is the advertisement iPhone and the real world iPhone. This was an eye opening video which let people know what they may be getting into in regards to connection issues.

This issue was nothing uncommon for the internet and forums and help centers have been lighting up with complaints and connection woes. There are a lot of people unhappy with Apple’s failure to deliver on the “twice as fast” connection speeds.

Carriers and analysts are blaming the iPhone’s hardware configurations, but Apple maintains that these bugs can be worked out with software updates which are currently in development.

Let’s hope Apple is right and that come the next software update we’ll be back up to “twice as fast.” These puppies still look and feel pretty cool though.

A short and poignant video review of the iPhone 3G has surfaced and is making it’s rounds on the viral video circuit. It features the infamous iPhone 3G ad which flexes the speed of 3G, side by side with a home video of a user using the phone in regular conditions with what is claimed to be a full strength signal.

If the video is as legit as it claims it is a pretty damning demonstration against Apple. The speed is nowhere near “twice as fast” and even though most people are already savvy enough to recognize overly slick advertising when they see it, Apple is falling short of its large claims.

Apple might want to be a little bit more careful with its advertising in future or the million or so customers they already have may be returning products “twice as fast.”

Check out the video yourself:

Santa is probably going to be pretty bored with the wishlists he’ll be getting this Christmas. They’re probably all likely to read: iPhone Nano!

According to industry sources the iPhone Nano is due to be released for the Christmas season. The differences of Nano version of the iPhone between the regular version iPhone will be similar to the onces between the iPod and iPod Nanos. It will be slimmer and have a few less features. One of the big missing features is rumored to be a less powerful internet browser.

The iPhone has definitely been a force to be reckoned in the high end phone market, but they’re still missing out on the large number of consumer who are looking for more simple “Pay As You Go” phones. With the release of this streamlined iPhone they will have a competitive, affordable phone for the people who are looking for more simple features and a smaller cost.

No dates or specs have been officially confirmed, but if this Nano sized iPhone comes out for Christmas you’ll be sure to see giga sized lines to buy it.

The Apple juggernaut hit a new high recently after announcing that there have been over 60 million software downloads from the App Store. These downloads, after being up for only a month, are apparently generating $30 million in revenue. Bare in mind this is just as the iPhone is picking up steam.

Steve Jobs is obviously ecstatic and he confirmed so in a Wall Street Journal interview. The other bit of information he also confirmed was the presence of the rumored and highly controversial ‘Kill Switch’ for non approved applications. We brought you this news previously.

Jobs says “Hopefully we never have to pull that lever, but we would be irresponsible not to have a lever like that to pull.” There isn’t much elaboration upon why it is so irresponsible, but we’re it will put many hackers out there to work against this kill switch. When do you think the hack will be out?

All that aside Apple still seems like it’s on the path to mobile phone gold and maybe we should turn our portfolios to those stats and not the apps we aren’t supposed to be running.

11 iPhone 3G Useful Tips

1.Scroll to Top of Screen: iPhone users can automatically scroll to the top of the page by tapping on the “top bar”

2.Domain Resolution : When typing a URL in Safari, you don’t have to type the “www” or the “.com”.For instance, for www.cnn.com just type “cnn” in the URL box. Note: Your search engine must be set to Google, not Yahoo
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3. Domain Suffix : Hold down the “.com” key for “.net, .edu, .org” keys. Note: Slide your finger from .com to .net/.edu/.org.

4. Press & Hold For Alternate Characters: Hold a letter for a popup of various versions of the character

5. Click & Hold URL’s : In Safari, hold a link to see the URL and site name.

6. Soft Reset : Press and hold the Home button and the Sleep button to restart your iPhone. A white light will flash, the screen will shut off and then turn back on. Keep holding until the screen turns back on.

7.Take a Screenshot : To take a screenshot, hold the home button and click the sleep button. The screen will flash white and the screenshot will be stored in your camera roll.

8.Set Parental Controls : You can enable certain restrictions or parental controls on your iPhone. You can block explicit lyrics, Safari, YouTube, iTunes, or the App Store. Just go to Settings, General, Restrictions.

9.Save Any Image from Safari: To save any image from the web to your camera roll, simply press and hold the image. A menu will appear asking “Save Image” or “Cancel”. Once the image is in your camera roll, you can set it as your wallpaper.

10. Fast Forward/Rewind Music & Video - Press and hold the skip forward/back arrows to fast forward or rewind rather than skip tracks. Also, press on the album art to manually FF/rewind.

11. Delete Emails - You can do both “bulk deletes” and “individual deletes” when browsing email. To do a bulk delete, simply click Edit, check off the desired emails, and then choose delete or move. To delete a single email, simply “cross it out” by swiping your finger across the email, then press delete.

Source: www.ismashphone.com 

People have been speculating about news from iPhone hacker Jonathan Zdziarski that the iPhone 3G has the ability to contact Apple headquarters and communicate what kind of apps you have on your system. From that there it is believed that Apple will be able to disable those apps thus “black listing” them.

The function seems to be tucked away deep in the iPhone’s programming according to Mr. Zdziarski, the author of iPhone Open Application Development, making it more suspicious and slightly sneaky. What else do they want our phones to send them covertly?

What are you trying to hide Apple? Remember, we paid for this iPhone 3G please let us use it as we see fit.

  

   

Samsung i900 Resolution 240 x 400 pixels VS. iPhone 3G’s 320 x 480 pixels

Samsung Omnia advertised battery is 5.80 hours, delivered 4 hours and 20 minutes of talk time VS. iPhone 3G advertised 10.00 hours, delivered 4 hours 27 minutes of talk time

Samsung has MicroSD card slot (iphone has none)

Much better 5 megapixel camera (better processing, higher resolution, face and smile detection, geotagging) vs. same old 2.0 megapixel camera.

TV-out (iphone lacks that)

TouchWiz user interface VS multi-touch interface.

Microsoft Window Mobile 6.1 Professional VS Mac OS X v10.4.10

Copy/Paste performance ( iphone offers none)

Omnia offers voice dialing and recording, but the iphone 3g still missing those features

Former Motorola executive Michael Fenger is taking some legal heat from his old employer for taking a job with rival company Apple. He left his former position with Motorola with a hefty bonus given specifically as incentive for not taking any jobs with rival companies. Less than a month later Fenger has found himself as the vice-president of global iPhone sales.

 Motorola is taking legal steps to stop Fenger from continuing the job over worries that he may reveal some of Motorola’s secret recipes. If successful Motorola will be able to prevent Fenger from taking any jobs for two years and thereby hopefully making all of his trade secrets null.

 Motorola here needs to get in for long fight and make sure to stake their place on this position. They don’t need to lose anymore ground to the iPhone juggernaut.  Get ready for a legal royal rumble.   

iSuppli, the electronics supply chain, confirmed previous estimates for the material costs of the 3G iPhone with their material tear down. The tear down analysis revealed an estimated material cost of US$174.33 which matches almost exactly the previous estimates of US$173.This analaysis only accounts for material costs and not for packaging, shipping, or software development. The analysis took a close look at the iPhone 3G’s use of an Infineon Technologies AG baseband chip. A technology that supports the HSDPA, WCDMA and EDGE air standards, plus the integration of three separate TriQuint Semiconductor tri-band WCDMA Power Amplifier Modules (PAMs). These features show that the Apple iPhone 3G is suited to go world wide.This reduction is significant from the original costs of US$227 for the first generation and confirms Apples ability to lower production costs. With estimates for production costs to fall even more in the near future Apple’s shares are only starting to look better and better. It’s time to get on board!

Often times I imagine myself as Luke Skywalker about to make that impossible shot that saves the Rebel forces from Darth Vader’s Evil clutches.

Of course my Datsun 180b is hardly an X-wing and the Brooklyn Bridge is no Death Star but still I can’t help but relive my Leia fantasies of youth when a cool iPhone App like PhoneSaber comes along.

The App uses you Apple iPhone’s inbuilt accelerometer to generate sound at the slightest movement of your projected lightsaber.

iPhone Phonesabre on 12seconds.tv If that’s not enough, and quite clearly its not, there’s also Star Wars: The Force Unleashed a multi-touch StarWars gaming fantasy writ large on the grins of nerds everywhere. Sorry honey I won’t be home tonight- there’s a universe that needs saving. Zhoom zhoom.