Apple iPhone news

[Dryden]

what is the app called that allows picture sharing without connecting between two phones? (is it free?)

i downloaded "bump" (the one that allows you to swap contact info (name, number, email, e biz card, etc) by merely tapping two phones together, really good idea, imo. def one that every iphone owner should have.

If you're talking about the photo app from the commercial, it's named "Mover."

There is a free version (Mover) and a $1.99 version (Mover+).

 

[matz2]

Any word on the MMS yet? Tried google and keep hearing late summer to EOY...

 

[Basebuck]

Any word on the MMS yet? Tried google and keep hearing late summer to EOY...

I'll look for the link but AT&T has commented that they have the functionality in place they are just waiting for Apple to release 3.1. Speculation is that the release date will be 9/8.

Usually a pretty credible source of information even though they have an AT&T Ninja as a source.

http://www.funkyspacemonkey.com/

 

[jwinslow]

Uh Oh: iPhone OS 3.0 Never Fully Deletes Your Emails (UPDATED) - iphone security - Gizmodo

The iPhone is no stranger to gaping security flaws, but this one's a doozy: You know how when you delete emails, you expect them to be, well, deleted? On iPhone 3.0, that's just not how things work. This is bad. You can watch the whole insincere deletion process play out above, but here's a handy guide so you can follow along at home. Turn off your device radio and Wi-Fi connection for maximum OH GOD:
1.) Find a message with a memorable subject line, and delete it.
2.) Go to your trash, and remove the message from there.
3.) Check whatever IMAP folders may be listed on your device?this works with POP too?and make sure your message is really not
there.
4.) Flick over to the main Spotlight search screen, and search for the subject line on that message that shouldn't exist
5.) Be shocked and confused when you find that not only can you see the subject line in a simple search?you can still view the entire message. Your email-based illicit affairs are ruined.
I've tested this, and it works. I even restarted my iPod for good measure, and the message was still in the index, and still accessible by search, despite not appearing anywhere in the main Mail interface. As far as I can tell, there is no way to completely delete emails from iPhone OS 3.0, which isn't just strange, it's a disastrous security flaw.
Still, a few things don't really add up here. The video submitter says he can find emails from months ago, but surely this would result in creeping storage consumption, and has to stop sometime. I mean, doesn't it? And even if these messages are just hiding out in some secret folder or something, and can be deleted by some obscure method, this isn't how a mail client should behave, at all.
Try this yourselves and see if you can find any clues as to what's going on here: I'm as alarmed as I am stumped.
UPDATED: An internal tipster has provided us with proof that Apple is fully aware of this issue and will probably be including a fix in iPhone OS 3.1.

 

[Basebuck]

For promoting themselves as the smart company they sure have some serious security flaws monthly.
I just wonder what would happen if hackers ever turned their attention to Apple

 

[Dryden]

Test #1:
Just emailed myself from one email account to another using my PC, then closed Thunderbird and checked my email on the iPhone. I deleted the message, then went to search using the subject line. The message showed up in my search results as being a message in my Trash. So I clicked, deleted it again from the Trash, went and researched for it, and it does not show up.

It is also purged from my server, which is how it should be. This bug does not occur for me on my IMAP servers (CMU Cyrus). Everything works exactly the way a person would expect.

Test #2:
I emailed my Gmail account from another account, checked on the iPhone, delete, did the search, and it showed up, again in the Trash. I deleted it from there, searched again, but the message still appeared in search results. So I check my Gmail account using my Web browser, and sure enough, the message was still in the Trash there too, so it would appear that there is a disconnect between the IMAP implementation of the purge command between the iPhone and Gmail. I emptied the Trash on Gmail, went back to the iPhone, and the message still shows up in the search results, but if I click it it hops to the mail software, begins to display the message pane without any text in it, hangs for a moment, then crashes back to the app menu.

In this case, it's like the search result itself is cached, but the message is most certainly deleted, even my iPhone won't show it.

IMAP commands are interpreted pretty loosely (Microsoft Outlook is horrible for heavy IMAP users, for example) so I'm sure this has a lot to do with how the move and purge commands are being handled on the iPhone. Again, I didn't test POP or Exchange. I wouldn't run Exchange if Microsoft paid me to do it, and POP just doesn't make any sense anymore in this day of mobile devices and broadband connections.

 

[jwinslow]

This Is How You Steal 23 MacBook Pros, 14 iPhones, and 9 iPods In 31 Seconds - Apple Store robbery - Gizmodo

 

[Mac]

This Is How You Steal 23 MacBook Pros, 14 iPhones, and 9 iPods In 31 Seconds - Apple Store robbery - Gizmodo

That's some skill...lol

 

[Dryden]

Craigslist: Wanted, 23 AC Power Adapters for late model Macbook Pros. Will Pick up. Prefer location with plate glass windows. Please be on the crapper when we call, feel free to come running in pulling your pants up after we leave. Thank you.
-Location: Sagemore
-it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests

 

[BuckNutty]

According to AT&T ... a software update will enable MMS for iPhone 3G and 3GS customers (original iPhone owners are, unfortunately, out of luck with the MMS feature). ... AT&T has finally answered the call for a due date: September 25.

 

[Basebuck]

Link with info for OS 3.1

OS3.1

 

[Bleed S & G]

Word from a client of mine who's a bigger wig at VZW "it's a done deal."

 

[jwinslow]

AT&T Nervous About Upcoming iPhone MMS Launch?

posted by Eric Slivka on Wednesday September 23, 2009 02:52 PM

DSLReports claims to have received word from a source noting that AT&T is extremely nervous about the impending launch of MMS for the iPhone scheduled for this Friday. Early testing of the service has apparently already placed a strain on the company's MMS servers, resulting in a test outage yesterday and a last-minute rush to beef up capacity beyond the measures already taken.AT&T and its MMS partners are already seeing "record traffic during peak hours of the night" with just the users selected for testing.

That early testing has been a little rocky, with AT&T seeing a fairly significant test outage yesterday that has them rushing to beef up their MMSC messaging servers. Estimates among those working on the project are that traffic on AT&T's wireless network will be about 40% higher all day on Friday as iPhone users fire pictures and video at one another.
The source also revealed AT&T's plans for rolling out the service on Friday, with deployments scheduled in groups to begin at 10:00 AM Eastern time and new groups being activated on an hourly basis after that in order to slowly ramp demand and gauge service performance."Starting at 10AM Eastern (on the 25), AT&T will send out a mass text to a group of iPhone users telling them that MMS now works on their phone," says one source familiar with AT&T's MMS plans. "They will keep doing groups of phones on the hour throughout the day" assuming all goes well, says the source.

No Netflix Streaming to iPhone in Near Future?

posted by Eric Slivka on Tuesday September 22, 2009 12:30 AM

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In a Q&A with Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, Reuters reveals that the company does not have any "short term" plans to bring video viewing and/or streaming to the iPhone and iPod touch. Netflix is instead continuing to focus its efforts on its core TV-based business and consumer electronics such as Blu-ray players and video game systems associated with that medium.Reuters: Any plans to work in partnership with Apple and the iPhone?
Hastings: it's something that's likely to come over time. But nothing in the short term. (With) movie watching, we are not focused on mobile yet, but (instead) on the TV, on Blu-ray and on the video game consoles. We will get to mobile eventually, including the iPhone.
Hastings' comments conflict with a relatively recent report claiming that the company would "soon offer" its streaming service, known as "Watch Instantly", on the iPhone and iPod touch.

 

[Redhawk]

Verizon to get iPhone for Xmas 2010 The Cody Word

Verizon to get iPhone for Xmas 2010

A report from research outfit OTR today says that Apple's quietly, finally, contracted out assembly for a Verizon-compatible iPhone that they say is likely to hit in the second half of next year. They're likely dead on.

continued...

 

[jwinslow]

If you're going to go all out like this, how about using a lens that isn't terrible?

iPhone Fitted With SLR Lens (It Was Bound to Happen) - Phone-o-scope - Gizmodo

ILM Research Engineer Bhautik Joshi disassembled his iPhone only to stuff in part of his DVD player, the laser pickup, which houses three miniature magnifying lenses. These lenses are what made it possible for the iPhone to accept the light/images beaming through the 18-55mm lens, which was carefully positioned through PVC pipe, duct tape and cursing.
The results?
(iPhone left, modded version right)

We've seen plenty of those tiny lens add-on kits for cellphones, but never before have we seen the equal of the Phone-O-Scope: 18-55mm glass attached to the iPhone. And it's no wonder, because the process was anything but simple.

The Phone-O-Scope doesn't take especially superb images, and it's a bit clumsy to handle. On the other hand, it's fun to shoot with and produces very analog (almost Holga-like) results.
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We're just glad someone did it, finally, so we didn't need to duct tape our iPhone to our dSLR Flight of the Conchords style. [captin nod via MAKE via OhGizmo!]

I strapped a toilet to my iPhone. I don't take especially superb dumps, and it's a bit clumsy to sit on. On the other hand, it's fun to shit with and produces very anal-log (almost Hot-Doglike) results.