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My $837.20 iPhone bill and how to avoid it

As I was preparing for another trip to London in late May, I decided to take along my iPhone this time instead of using a UK SIM card in my old Sony Ericsson phone. I called AT&T the day before my trip and activated the AT&T World Traveler dialing plan for $5.99 for cheaper voice [...]

iPhoneDevCamp 2 Announcement

iPhoneDevCamp 2
August 1-3, 2008
Adobe Systems, San Francisco, CA
iPhoneDevCamp 2 is an upcoming not-for-profit gathering to develop applications for iPhone and iPod touch using both the native SDK and web standards. This is a follow-on event to the first iPhoneDevCamp, held in early July 2007. We are pleased that Adobe Systems has agreed to provide the [...]

iPhone SDK Media Coverage

Thursday was the public launch of Apple’s iPhone SDK and I spent several hours on the phone with the media after the launch event. Here are links to my published comments…

Los Angeles Times, “Apple to give outsiders access to its iPhone“
San Francisco Chronicle, “iPhone announcement Thursday“
Technology Review, “What to Expect from the Open iPhone“
PC World, [...]

iPhone SDK

Thank you, Apple!
Apple iPhone Developer Program

Raven at iPhoneDevCamp

Taken at iPhoneDevCamp, July 2007, by Adam Tow.

No Power Management?!

My colleague at The 451 Group, Tony Rizzo, covers mobile technology. With all due respect to Tony, I have to disagree with his comment to Red Herring on the lack of power management in the Apple iPhone.
From the Red Herring Article:

While many pundits give the iPhone design kudos, some believe the thing is a dog [...]

The curse of the early adopter, part two

In late November 2006, I posted a blog entry entitled “The curse of the early adopter.” Unfortunately, this story did not end in November, as I had hoped. Since my posting, I’ve had two additional complete hard drive failures - one in my cursed MacBook Pro and a follow-up one in my replacement MacBook Pro [...]

Cingular doesn’t want iPhone ’switchers’ just yet

If you’re thinking about switching to Cingular before the iPhone is released in June - think again. What I discovered is that Cingular isn’t interested in your business…just yet. Read on (the short answer - wait until June).
I’m a long-time Apple user, since the Apple ][ in 1981, and I have tried a number of [...]

The iPhone - almost perfect

I am composing this blog entry on the flight back to Portland from San Francisco. I was able to make it to MacWorld again this year, mostly due to the fact that the company I work for, The 451 Group, has an office in San Francisco, and this year, MacWorld corresponded with some work meetings. [...]