Category: iPhone
Testing the AT&T EDGE Data Network Today
At the suggestion of Doug in DC, who posted a comment today in defense of AT&T’s EDGE data network, I tested the data speed of AT&T’s EDGE network, using the iNetwork Test for iPhones that Doug had suggested. My tests were conducted in northern Virginia, between Arlington and Fairfax, just outside Washington, D.C. Sitting within [...]
Apple Wins on Campus
At a time when Dell continues to define an old style of technology by announcing it would get into the online music business … trailing nearly everyone from Apple to Wal-mart … it seems as if Apple increases its rule on many college campuses. Today’s New York Times has a terrific story about how Freed-Hardeman [...]
iPhone Service: Here & There
Apple has taken a lot of flack in recent weeks over its simultaneous debut of the iPhone 3G-new iPhone software-MobileMe-iPhone Apps store. There is no question it was ambitious … but Apple is the kind of customer-focused company that will get any problems all resolved and make everyone happy. My issue is not with Apple [...]
iPhone Update + Two Weeks: Poor Crisis Communications
It’s now been two weeks since Apple debuted the new iPhone 3G and made available version 2 of iPhone software for owners of previous iPhones. Even though I am an Apple enthusiast, the new version of iPhone software has ranged from problematic to aggravating to a disaster. If you own an earlier iPhone and have [...]
Lack of Accountability at AT&T Wireless
AT&T Wireless, the cell phone company, is one of those big, faceless corporations that bumps along and manages stays in business despite itself, I believe. Case in point is the fiasco over the announcement on AT&T’s Web site that Apple iPhone users would get free access to AT&T’s 17,000 Wi-Fi hot spots around the country. [...]
New iPhone Apps
At the risk of gushing over the latest iPhone updates from Apple, I must write a few words about the exciting new iPhone feature, called Apps Store. It is a giant WOW! and blows the competitor, the Blackberry, away, in my opinion. A few months ago, Apple made its development software available at a reasonable [...]
Day 2: iPhone 3G & Software Update
A friend went by the ATT store in downtown Washington, D.C., today to buy an iPhone 3G … no joy because the store had sold-out. I suspect both ATT and Apple are celebrating with sales despite yesterday’s significant glitches with activating new iPhones and installing the new software on older iPhones. I had no problems [...]
MobileMe Rollout Stumbles
Apple’s highly anticipated rollout of its new MobileMe service to provide hopefully seamless syncing of calendar, email and contacts between your computers and iPhone is working … its first day … like a train wreck. The primary Me.com Web site (screenshot is left) has crashed, the older .Mac Web site has crashed and other Apple [...]
iPhone Day
The scene (left) at the ATT store in downtown Washington, D.C., this morning was similar to that at other ATT and Apple stores across the nation this morning – lines of people waiting to buy Apple’s new iPhone 3G. Apple has intentionally kept the iPhone off the market for the last month, both to [...]
iPhone 3G: The Earth Stands Still … Again
When it comes to hyping an honest-to-goodness fabulous new product, no one is better than Apple. The company’s newest iPhone – the iPhone 3G - is being released this Friday, and people are already camping out at Apple stores to be first in line to buy one. While the iPhone 3G is front-page news, more details [...]
