Technically Speaking

Some of the iPhone and iPad applications which needs high-bandwidth are disabled by default while running on 3G network. These applications would only run on high-speed Wi-Fi connections. Some VoIP apps including Skype charge extra when running over 3G.  Now there is an applications called “3G Unrestrictor” which enables these applications to run over 3G that is recently updated with iOS 4 and iPad support.

From the Digium Blog

Digium’s Switchvox Mobile is a freely available application for the iPhone and BlackBerry smartphones. Switchvox Mobile seamlessly integrates your Switchvox SMB phone system with your smartphone, unifying your communications no matter where you are.

Even if you don’t have a Switchvox phone system yet, you can see how unified communications can work for you by using Switchvox Mobile’s Demonstration Mode. In Demo Mode, you’ll find a sample account that shows you what Switchvox Mobile has to offer.

Requirements

• Switchvox SMB 23120 (4.5.2) or later
• Appropriate network access to Switchvox (more information)
• iPhone OS 3.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.
• BlackBerry Device Software 4.2.1 or later. Compatible with Bold, Tour, Curve, Pearl, and Storm devices.

Download / Availability

Switchvox Mobile for iPhone is available through the iTunes App Store.

Switchvox Mobile for the BlackBerry is available through the BlackBerry App World.

As if websites going down around the world due to the iPhone wasn’t a sign for a company that has not learned that they need increased capacity on launch day – then again you could make the argument that the crashing servers might just be a marketing ploy.

But now it seems that the “iPhone 4 Order Security Breach Exposes Private Information”  Even if it is an AT&T issue like the iPad breech last week, Apple picked AT&T, not the iPhone customers.  Apple needs to step up.

Read more here

The latest iPhone from Apple, iPhone 4, allows for video conferencing through a front facing camera.

Video conferencing on this iPhone  is not news to anyone that has been paying attention, all the leaks told us about this capability.  Apple is calling the feature, ‘Face Time’, a brilliant name.

What makes me excited is deaf people can use it to sign with someone else.

That really gets me going, drastically improving the quality of life for someone through the application of technology.

I tend to agree with him, the iPad is a fun device, but the input system will not allow it to overtake the laptop/netbook space.

“The iPad is a great device, but what’s it for, really?

Logically, it doesn’t make a lot of sense for most computer owners. In reality, if you needed a laptop before, you probably still need one. If you want to read novels, the Kindle is still a much better device for that. If you need a small computer for ancillary tasks that’s always connected and always with you, an iPhone is better (and you probably already have one). And, even though it’s a great deal for the hardware, most people will have trouble justifying the $500 entry price.”

Read the rest here

A lot of people are talking about the recent Mobile Beat story claiming that Android outsold the iPhone in Q1 2010.

Since at least 2000, it has been the year of the Linux Desktop….as you know that never happened – why not?

1. GUI was never good enough
2. Drivers for new hardware were not included, users did not want to compile from source, let alone learn what gcc is and where to get it
3. Printing is/was always a problem
4. No real support from major manufacturers

Here is an article that speaks to the death of the year of the Linux desktop

I would like to be the first person to proclaim ’2010 will be the year of Linux on the phone’

There is no question that Google has produced a fabulous product in Android.  It is responsive, stable, good with battery life, and resource responsible.

In three years there will be room for three major phone OS’s

1. Android will have 50% of the market
2. iPhoneOS will have 20% of the market
3. HP-Palm/Microsoft/RIM will have 10%
4. The remaining will be generic OS’s running on basic phones – perhaps a slimmed down version of Android

When we look back, we will see 2010 as the year that Linux invaded, our phones that is.

Mobile Beat has a story that claims Android Sales Surpassed iPhone sales during Q1 2010.

Stories like this bring up more questions than they answer:

1. Are people not buying iPhones because they are waiting for the iPhone HD?
2. Is this a story of open source triumphs over locked down closed source?
3. Does Apple even care?
4. Does Google care?
5. Should I care?!?
6. Is Android going to become the Windows of mobile phones, everyone sells it on different hardware – but Apple does it ‘better’?
7. It is the fact that Google gives Android away for free lets the hardware manufacturers focus on awesome hardware?
8. Is it just a flawed survey…people do tend to fib.
9. And on, and on, and on.