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Monday, 30 August 2010 |
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Australian mobile operator Vodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA) has increased the amount of data in contract caps for Vodafone and 3 Mobile customers. The operators have also introduced a promotional offer of AUD 59 per month with an iPhone 4 or Sony Ericsson X10 on a 24-month contract. The 59 Promo Cap includes AUD 650 worth of call value, 2 GB of data, and unlimited standard SMS and MMS. The offer is available until 25 November. The companies have increased data in all postpaid caps from AUD 19 to 99 per month for new and upgrading customers, with at least double and up to four times the amount of data included on all caps except the AUD 99 Unlimited Cap, for the same price. |
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Monday, 30 August 2010 |
SMH: Apple iPhone 4 users are reporting that a problem the company's chief executive, Steve Jobs, pledged to fix in the next software update has not been fixed.
The glitch concerns the iPhone 4's proximity sensor, which is supposed to turn off the display when it is placed against a user's face but which has not been working.
The sensor is meant to detect when the phone is held up to the ear so that it can turn the screen off to stop the keypad from being pressed during calls, but users have reported it does not work, causing calls to be ended. It also leaves other buttons on the screen vulnerable to being accidentally pressed, causing annoying beeps.
Last month Mr Jobs was forced to speak to the media on another problem involving the signal strength of the phone's antenna. He said the sensor problem would be fixed in the next software update. But while that update fixed a security vulnerability it did not fix the sensor.
Apple Australia spokeswoman Fiona Martin acknowledged the company had yet to fix the problem. |
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Thursday, 26 August 2010 |
Apple has announced that it will be holding a 'Special Event' on September 1st in San Francisco, according to an invitation received by Engadget.
Apple is rumored to be announcing a new iPod touch with dual cameras, a new Apple TV dubbed the iTV, $.99 TV Show rentals, and an iTunes streaming service. |
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Wednesday, 25 August 2010 |
Apple iPhone 4 users are reporting another issue with the smartphone: photos obscured by an annoying coloured tinge.
Fan forums have been littered with users who say their photos are being tainted by blue, yellow and green splotches.
Apple has already had to address user concern over an antenna issue with the device, which, if held a certain way, degrades the iPhone 4's network performance when connecting to mobile towers.
To address that issue, dubbed "Antennagate", the company decided it would give its users free cases, which it predicted could cost the company $US175 million ($200m) in revenue. The free case, or "bumper", fixes the issue.
Just weeks after the Antennagate controversy, Mark Papermaster, the Apple executive in charge of iPhone engineering, left the company.
Australian tech blog Techau.tv today reports that the image issue appears to only occur when taking images with the rear-facing camera under fluorescent indoor lighting conditions.
It says the problem causes photos to "have a blue tint that appears as a circle from the centre of the photo".
"The tint is so bad it renders photos under these conditions effectively useless," it says.
The issue also appears to affect the front-facing camera, although not as severely. [ SMH ] |
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Thursday, 19 August 2010 |
Spencer Webb, President of AntennaSys, says the iPhone 4 antenna can't be fixed by a coating and it's unlikely Apple will redesign the antenna for Verizon, according to ComputerWorld.
"I've called Apple's antenna design 'bold' and 'risky,' but they won't change it [for a CDMA-based phone]", Webb says. "The antenna design is architecturally fixed in the design, and it would take them a while to make whatever the next design is."
Interestingly Webb also notes that applying a non-conductive coating is not a viable solution since it can't be thick enough.
"There's no coating that's thick enough to make a difference," he said. "It's all about getting the lossy conductor, the human, away from the iPhone." It's less about the material that separates skin from the steel band than it is about the thickness of that material. Scotch tape, for instance, is worthless, as is electrical tape unless several layers are applied.
This contradicts a post-doctoral biochemistry fellow at a leading American university who says that an electrically insulating organic hydrophobic layer atop the bare metal would solve reception issues.
However, Webb does believe they will address the issues somehow. "You can bet your bippy that they're going to be addressing this issue somehow," said Webb. "They want to be the smartest guys on the planet, which is what comes from adversity like this." |
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Sunday, 15 August 2010 |
When Adam Savage, host of the popular science program “MythBusters,” posted a picture on Twitter of his automobile parked in front of his house, he let his fans know much more than that he drove a Toyota Land Cruiser.
Embedded in the image was a geotag, a bit of data providing the longitude and latitude of where the photo was taken. Hence, he revealed exactly where he lived. And since the accompanying text was “Now it’s off to work,” potential thieves knew he would not be at home.
Security experts and privacy advocates have recently begun warning about the potential dangers of geotags, which are embedded in photos and videos taken with GPS-equipped smartphones and digital cameras. Because the location data is not visible to the casual viewer, the concern is that many people may not realize it is there; and they could be compromising their privacy, if not their safety, when they post geotagged media online.
Mr. Savage said he knew about geotags. (He should, as host of a show popular with technology followers.) But he said he had neglected to disable the function on his iPhone before taking the picture and uploading it to Twitter.
Read more on New York Times. |
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