News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
Telstra has finally relented and is now offering greatly improved, although in no way market leading, data plans for all its NextG customers including iPhone users. It's a huge leap forward although Telstra is still lagging behind their opposition, particularly Optus.
I'm somewhat stunned at the fact that many of my iPod accessories are now either nobbled in some way or completely useless with the iPhone 3G. For example, I purchased an iPod Remote Dock a couple of years ago and have used it with my various 5th generation iPods, an iPod nano and an iPod touch. Incredibly, this simple accessory doesn't work with the iPhone 3G. Surely an Apple-issued Dock should "just work".
Despite gaining the inside running on iPhone 3G with pricing plans generally agreed to be the best value on offer amongst Australian telcos, Optus has today announced unlimited voice plans that can be used with any handset including the iPhone 3G. Depending on how you use your iPhone the Optus "Timeless" plans offer better value than the plans announced before the iPhone's release.
By now, you’ve probably heard about the handy little trick you can do with Safari’s “.com” key in the iPhone 2.0 software. If you’ve missed out, it’s simple: hold down the .com key and you’ll be presented with options for a number of other common top-level domains (TLDs): .org, .edu, and .net (in other internet-address fields, such as a To: recipient in Mail, you can hold down the period key for the same options).
Apple has announced that over one million iPhones were sold over the opening weekend. When the first iPhone was released it took several weeks to reach that milestone but given that iPhone 1.0 was a US-only event it's hardly surprising that record didn't stand up long once the 3G iPhone hit 70-odd countries at once.
It's the not-so-secret weapon that turns the 3G iPhone into a utility powerhouse. It's the App Store, and Apple unveiled it early Friday morning — or late Thursday night, if you happened to have an iPhone by then, which means that those who queued up in Sydney's chilly climes outside the Optus store could jump right in straight away. That also applied to those who had early access to the iPhone. I fit into that category, and spent some time perusing the App store at length on an iPhone 3G. Canny AMW forumites also spotted at around the same time that the iTunes 7.7 (which came through as an update) gave access to the Application store, albeit only for browsing purposes initially.
Telstra has released The Official AFL App to coincide with the start of the 2010 football season, but while this is likely a welcome addition to any footy fan’s iPhone, t...
As I type these words, I am waiting for Apple's Developer Connection web site to ease up sufficiently for me to download the long-awaited Software Developer Kit for the iPhone (and iPod touch, just by the by). In a way, I hate developer-oriented announcements — "here's a really cool thing we're working on, and it's available now, and hoi polloi can have it in about six months". Actually, it's the six months I hate.
