Aussie Machead

Top 10 Touchscreen Devices: iPhone Drives 159% Growth

I realised yesterday how far the iPhone has taken us into new territory. My partner is a dinosaur and has a Motorola for which we got a 3G SIM card to replace the old SIM. I activated it with the Telco and they didn't remind me to transfer data first and had of course forgotten to transfer his minimalist addressbook to the phone. Also as a dinosaur he would not want the huge directory of addresses from my Mac Address Book. So step two try and get the data from his old SIM card into his phone.... Scrolling through screen upon screen I couldn't find where to transfer his old SIM info.. Also when I did try to put the old card back it wouldn't accept the SIM password. So I went through the laborious process of re-entering the individual phone nos of the people I knew he would want. What a process and how I realised how much I hate the numeric keypad entry method.. This is NOT simple.. Added to my disdain was how FILTHY the inside of the phone was when I had to remove the battery to get to the SIM card. YUK.. I know someone who might find a brand new iPhone in his Christmas stocking.. The experience with an iPhone is JUST so different and lets face it most of the other smart phones are just tinsle on an artificial Christmas Tree but the iPhone is a live and growing Apple Tree..

J.D. Powers: Apple Best Among Consumer & Business Smartphones

What other phone includes handset features such as the new EYETV - lie in bed or even in the bathroom - you can watch the EYETV shows delivered over WIFI from EyeTV on the computer. By the time I have read books on Stanza, watched live TV or EyeTV recordings!!!, done my dieting (better than Weighwatchers and 10% of the price), mapped a series of facility locations linking an email with addresses to the inbuilt GPS Google Maps, edited a few Word Documents, added genealogy material to the computer based Reunion when visiting relatives, skyped friends and colleagues around the world, used Tom Tom on the road, listened to radio from anywhere in the world, made postcards to email on the run, found the time of the next Tram or train... The other phones just don't know what features are.. The iPhone and inventiveness of the thousands of developers is just amazing. NO WONDER THIS IS NUMERO UNO

RIM Is on a Quest to Remain Competitive

In Australia we are in a better position with 4 carriers and phone plans which don't integrate data so you can purchase and change data plans as and when needed. I feel sorry for my friend in Connecticut who would love to get an iPhone but is in a Verizon area and can't receive AT&T. Seems access is really restrictive in the USA. The sooner Apple in the US gets some other carriers the sooner we will see the market place working as it should. If four carriers in Australia can offer packages as low as $30 a month phone plan and if you add data its from $10 a month, how is the AT&T deal so attractive to Apple??

Three Strikes from Apple and Palm May Be Out

The also rans competing with the iPhone also miss the point that this isn't just a phone it is an integrated system with a powerful computer.. the ease with which the iPhone communicates with your computer via Mobileme. All the computer Safari Bookmarks are just there on the iPhone which means you have access to hundred of items - a link to what you do all day and every day whilst out and about. Copy and paste will be brilliant in iPhone OS 3.0 - but I think having MMS is a beat up by the phone companies. They charge per MMS when email can do everything much better and for free.

Will the iPhone Be Taken by Storm?

Wish I hadn't looked up about the Storm as I'm obviously included in statistics about being interested in a Storm when I don't think it is a patch on the iPhone..