iPhone’s Dirty Little Secrets

Our Editor in Chief breaks through Steve Jobs’ Reality Distortion Field to point out some serious flaws with the world’s fastest selling mobile phone.

iPhone has “most satisfied” users: study

JD Power finds the battery is the smartphone user’s only complaint, while dumbphone users want GPS, aren’t as likely to cut their landlines.

Apple’s new iPhone to please jocks, budding filmmakers

Nextgen iPhone users may be able to actually hear the gym TVs.

Pointui 2: Pointless if you’re Canadian

Programmer and Windows Mobile enthusiast Jeff Hainsworth warns us a great update to the interface on WinMo phones ain’t so great in the Great White North.

Windows Mobile-based cellphones have notoriously bad interfaces. It’s like Bill Gates crammed all the existing Windows interface ideas designed for keyboards and mice onto screens too small to be functional. It’s led to a series of alternative interfaces, including Pointui. After pointing Jeff (hah, get it?) in the direction of this update, he installed it onto his HTC Touch Diamond. Here’s his assessment:
Weather screen does not contain Canadian cities and it doesn’t seem like they can be added.
You can’t remove the above mentioned weather screen that isn’t showing any info if you are Canadian so you’re wasting ~60% of the screen space.
It’s full of ads – that can’t be removed
Luckily the touch interface that they built is much quicker than Touchflow 3D. Uninstalled.
It appears Redmond, Washington has woken up to the ass-kicking it’s receiving from Apple’s iPhone interface. WinMo 6.5 will apparently be more touchscreen friendly.
Source: Windows Mobile 6.5 Announced, Leaks Confirmed, Gizmodo.com
Source: Ten reasons why Windows Mobile 6.5 misses the mark, Engadget.com
Link: PointUi.com Beta CAB download

Why 1984 Won’t Be Like 1984

We clear up a misconception about this ad, and find out who the hot chick is here.

Apple Macintosh Turns 25

The way you use a computer today is the direct result of something that happened 25 years ago today. And we clear up a misconception about a famous Apple ad (video included).

I’ve always said that I was never more productive than when I was using my first Macintosh. I used to to create fancy assignments for College and swear it had a lot to do with the high marks I received.
The world was introduced to the Macintosh with a very unique advertisement, 1984, that promised to smash the IBM/Microsoft dominance in the personal computer industry at the time. It never happened, but Microsoft’s dominance with Windows today is the direct result of Apple’s forward thinking on interfaces.  The editor in chief of MacWorld UK, Mark Hattersley points out the Mac changed everything:
It was a hugely popular machine. It took desktop computing away from IBM and back to Apple for a good number of years,. It brought the notion of the desktop graphical interface to the mass market.
It’s been said that the award winning ad by Chiat-Day itself aired only once during the Superbowl, but that’s not true: it aired a month earlier at 1AM on a small town television station in Idaho so it could qualify for a Clio award — and it won. (Video after jump)