Blogs

I’ve moved my blog over to http://ambiguiti.es from now on. Over there I’ll be talking about web and mobile development, and maintain a more general blog relating to events, conferences, job postings, and other such news in the industry.

According to Forbes, Apple “has been quietly positioning millions of units of a mysterious new product-almost certainly the new iPhone-in key markets since March.” Despite this, there has been no public announcement or images released of this new device.

It will almost certainly support 3G – a faster mobile internet system (so you’ll finally be able to actually watch those YouTube flicks while on the bus). Probably the storage capacity of the device will be increased too. If we’re lucky they’ll have done something about battery life too – although that seems doubtful with the demands of the 3G circuitry and any additional storage they intend to cram on there.

Mobile devices from Apple in the future may have the ability to draw power from the sun for longer battery lives. This revelation came to light today as people at Trade the News (a better article is here) noticed that recent patent applications from Apple included technology to harness sunlight.

While it may be a ways off in the future – photovoltaic cells beneath the touch-screen could add hours to battery lives – making devices like the iPhone much more practical for business users – who have been complaining about the limitations of the small battery for users who are constantly on the go. This is one of the major reasons consumers won’t be leaving Blackberry anytime soon for business communication.

Of course the bigger story here is that with solar energy and using other types of micro-energy devices we could one-day take our mobile devices completely off-grid. It has some appeal, if you can get over the idea that you’ll never again have the excuse ’sorry my iPhone battery was dead.. wasnt receiving any calls’.

This is from a while back but I dont think it made it on my blog.

Saw some exciting news today about the possibility of iPhone opening itself up to 3rd party developers for native-run applications. (http://www.news.com/8301-13579_3-9798932-37.html). I think this was innevitable, but I’m really glad its happening so soon. I think for companies like Nitobi this will create a lot of opportunities to create mobile applications for business users – especially when you combine that with the facility for photos and sound recording, geo-tagging, and web.

http://timesonline.typepad.com/technology/2007/07/chinese-iphone-.html

This speaks for itself.. my reaction: holy cow that was fast.

UPDATE: 4:11pm.. iPhone is now WORKING! I did “something” and now it works.. no questions! Well no actual phone capability, but wifi and mp3. See the bottom of this post for my glorious ’syncing’ photo.

Ok this is a LIVE event folks.. I am OPENING MY NEW iPhone box.. this is a momentus event and with Jake’s help I will be documenting the entire experience for y’all to savor (uhh yeah).. ok here goes.. First the unopened box:

Next.. we carefully unwrap things..

ooooohh.. look at the nice box.. its a piece of art. Jake’s impressed..

Tadaa!

Look at all the bits.

D’oh! Gotta activate

Downloading itunes in IE7.. arggg! Javascript error??

Ok I’ll try on Firefox.

.. update: so I tried activating with my Canadian credit card because I heard there is a route to doing that where you do the pre-paid thingy.. no go. Here’s the ominous email I got:

Called AT&T.. no go. They wont do it, and AT&T will not activate my phone from Canada. I’m pooched unless I hack the phone or get my US buddy to help me out.

UPDATE: 4:11pm.. iPhone is now WORKING! I did “something” and now it works.. no questions! Well no actual phone capability, but wifi and mp3. Note: make sure have the right version of iTunes.