Boy Genius Report is posting what appear to be some of the new iPhone OS 4.0 features. in short expect:
Apple iPhone OS 4.0 features detailed! Also, Apple calling tablet the iTablet? « Boy Genius Report.
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Livestation have released an app on the App Store a few days ago in partnership with Five and UEFA to allow purchasers to watch the Europa League matches shown live on Five in the UK on their iPhone/iPod touch devices.
The app retails for a one-off fee of £3.99 and it will give access to all the games up to the final on the 12 May 2010. Additionally, highlights from all the games are also made available on the app a few hours after the end of the games.
If you have iTunes installed and live in the UK, click here http://tinyurl.com/lx233z
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I am writing this post from my mother in law house using my new Mac Netbook from Dell. Yes, you are reading this right, I am using a Dell Mini 9 Netbook running OS X 10.5.6 coupled with my Apple iPhone running Nullriver Netshare app as my portable 3G internet access.
The whole thing run exceptionally well. I have been following threads from mydellmini.com to come up with an effective way of installing OS X 10.5.6 on the 8GB SSD drive of my Dell Mini 9. I decided to buy the unit at my local Best Buy store as they had it on sale for 379.99 (in white like all Apple MacBooks). This is probable like 299 US$ for an Netbook running OS X. Really not bad.
My biggest challenge was to find a way to make the OSX install to fit in the 8GB drive of the Dell… (I wish Best Buy had the 16GB version in stock). Believe it or not but the OS require 37MB more than is available on the Dell so a straight install from a retail OS X DVD is not possible on the 8GB Dell Mini.
I had to use my Apple iMac to install a bare minimum OS X 10.5.0 on an external USB drive. I then booted back on my iMac and applied the 10.5.6 combo update to the USB drive installation. The size of the whole thing was well beyond the 8GB limit.
I removed all the applications and utilities I never used, all fonts I never used and all voices and screen background (with the exception of one). That still was not enough to get enough headroom on the 8GB SSD.
I decided to buy a very useful application called Xslimmer. This application remove all non intel binary and undesired languages from the applications on your Mac. Using it I was able to reduce the installation by another 1GB or so.
As I write this post my Dell Mini 9 Mac Netbook sit at a comfortable 5 GB of disk usage with about 2 GB of free space for other applications and other goodies. Why 5 plus 2 does not make 8? Because there is roughly 1 GB lost in the conversion between HD vendor advertised disk space, the way the OS calculate actual GB and the overhead of the journalized HFS+ file system.
The current state of OS X hacking required to make this work on the Dell Mini 9 is pretty advanced. The state of the art solution is known as a Type11 installation and involve a bootable DVD that act as a boot loader to the retail OS X DVD. With this method you essentially use an unmodified Apple DVD to install the OS. The boot loader merelly provide a way to boot the retail DVD on the Dell Mini 9.
Because the Dell is so close to an actual MacBook most of the features are working flawlessly… thanks to a lot of research and development made by the OSX86 community out there.
The Dell Mini 9 is, in some aspect, a better Macbook than the real one I also own. For example, opening a CIFS share take quite a while to do on my real Macbook… but on my Dell Mini 9 Mac netbook it almost happen instantly… I really can’t explain why but it is a fact.
Most things work flawlessly… but others are not yet perfect… for example after resuming from sleep the sound no longer work. I am sure a solution to this will be found in the next few weeks. It is the price to pay for a 300$ Mac Netbook… and at that price I am willing to leave with it.
Is the Dell Mini 9 a threat to Apple? Most likely not. It is in fact more likelly to accelerate the coming out of a real Apple netbook as Apple might start to notice that people are hungry for such a thing.
Until then I will keep enjoying my self made version of it.
Update 20090109:
I figured out why me shares where faster on the Mini… My iMac was installed with 10.5.0 then with all the subsequant incremental up to 10.5.6… somehow lingering network issues of 10.5.0 never went away. I did a fresh install of 10.5.6 last night and now my real iMac is as fast as my Dell Mini for CIFS!!! Yeah!
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As you know I am currently testing an alpha copy of Livestation for the iPhone. I can tell you that so far I am pretty happy with it and and that it will be a keeper!
Why will I keep this one application and why did I got rid of joost iPhone app? Because it make me smarter and Joost… well! How come may you ask… because I can now watch various news channels live as I ride the bus to and from work every day. This is about 1.5 hours I can spend educating myself about what is going on in the world while sitting on the bus bench.
And because there are many news channel I can watch various perspectives on things… like from Russia, France, UK, etc.
I wish more channels would be available, news channels from Canada in french for example… but those will certainly come if Livestation becomes a popular iPhone application.
Did I mentioned that I am watching Livestation over 3G while moving down the street on the bus with almost perfect reception? Yep! Good thing I took the 6GB plan from Rogers because at 100MB an hour I could be in for a major hurtal!
Livestation are cautious to tell you that you are about to consume a lot of bandwidth when they sens that you are running over a 3G network connection. This is very sensible of them.
The application still need some work before being ready fro prime time. Livestation is also working on different way of encoding the video stream… so some will play beautifully over 3G and others will look like digested dog food!
So am I pleased with the application? You bet! I bet it will have a huge success. I really wish Livestation network will be up to the task awaiting because it will be a flood gate of bits flowing out from it to thos iPhones. Their desktop application was popular but this will be at least 20 times more popular… and I am sure it will be more like 100 times more popular very soon.
Given the difficult economics one can ask how will they survive this huge bandwidth usage given very low publicity revenue…
I really hope they have the solution!
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Image via WikipediaSorry folks, not much Joost news those days… so I will keep covering topics that are of interest to me. Hope you don’t mind.
Apparently Apple has been telling it’s Canadian stores not to sell the glorious 3G Phone this friday July 11th 2008! This is really a major blow to Rogers. Again, thank’s to rogers we must be the only ones with Apple stores that won’t sell the iPhone this coming friday (out of all the country where the iPhone is made available)!
All this thank’s to Rogers silly iPhone plans! Apple is apparently taking some serious notes about the 50,000 name petition at ruinedipgone.com. Apparently they do not want the Apple brand name to be tarnish by associating to a 3 year contract binding of Rogers Canada. Apple know that 3 year contract is not in it’s customers interest… so it won’t sell the iPhone tied to a Rogers contract in it’s store! Take this Rogers!
Seriously, a 3year contract is unaceptable. And those little 400MB base plans with not unlimited options is retarded. Come to your sens and at leas offer a two year contract with a fair priced unlimited data plan will you?
There could be an easy way to fix this mess up in Canada between Rogers and the outraged potential Apple iPhone 3G customers… force every providers to offer unlimited data plans. Wouldn’t it make sense?
Think about it! The iPhone 3G is all about fast data access rivaling WiFi, new applications download capabilities, push mail/contacts/meetings, geo location. Without an unlimited data plan all this pretty much becomes futile. Who want to worry all the time that the new app they just installed will drain their data plan limit and cost them 10,000$ at the end of the month? This might very well happen if you use an iPhone 3G in Canada. Read more…
Rogers Canada finally unveiled it’s iPhone 3G plan. It would have better kept it in the garbage can if you ask me! What is it with Canadian cellular phone carier? Are they gouging Canadians or not? I mean, the iPhone 3G is all about fast internet browsing, being connected all the time, staying connected all the time, installing applications from the app store over the air, downloading iTunes songs over the air, watching Youtube video and god knows what else is to come.
But Rogers in their great Canadian greed have decided to cap data plan on their most expansive plan (115$) at a miserable 2GB! And let not even talk of the entry plan for 60$… 400MB! OMG! I would constantly be worried that I would exceed the data plan limit by simply leaving the phone on!
Rogers, it must be nice to have the monopoly of the iPhone 3G! What happen to your 7$ all you can eat data plan on Fido? Are you affraid people would install some VoIP software to escape your silly voice plan? I guess you might be! Don’t tell me those data bits are costing you a terrible amount of money! We all know it is not true!
I will tell you one thing: I will not be getting an iPhone any time soon! Rogers, I would have bought one on July 11th if you had offered a 30$ all you can eat data plan… but don’t count on it anymore! OK!
Thank you Rogers for making Canadians #1! Longest lock-in contract in the world (3 years) and most expansive plan in the world! There is one thing I am sure… you won’t sell nearly as much as other carriers in other country per capita! You really know how to make a good technology a bad choice!
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Cisco appear to have the love for the iPhone. During the 1st and second keynotes given at the Orange County conference center the Apple iPhone was put on the big screen to demonstrate cisco built application. The 1st one was demonstrated by John Chambers during tuesday keynote to show how a Cisco Webex customer can transfer a video call from the web browser to the iPhone. One can even use the accelerometer in the iPhone to throw a video session from one iPhone to the next.
During the second day key note Padma Warrior showed how a data center admin can monitor VMWare farm utilization and the create a new server to be added via an iPhone application. Read more…
Have you noticed the big announcement banner on Rogers Wireless web site?
Rogers is announcing Something Really Big for July 11th 2008? It is easy to know that the something big is… the Apple iPhone 3G. Read more…
Via ImportGenius.com : U.S. Customs Database and Competitive Intelligence Tools:
“Since mid-March, Apple Inc. and its logistics partners have imported 188 ocean containers of a product type never before declared on its shipping manifests.
With iPhones currently out of stock at many Apple stores, including its flagship outlets in New York City, rumors abound that the company is winnowing stocks in preparation for a new 3G version of the phone.
Last month Citi analysts Richard Gardner and Yeechang Lee predicted that Apple would announce the new 3G iPhone at its June 9th World Developers Conference in San Francisco. Meanwhile, Dvice.com reports that AT&T has told its employees that they cannot take vacation time from June 15 to July 12 to enable full staffing for an ‘exciting Summer Promotional Launch.’
Now data from U.S. customs records now seem to confirm this prediction, according to ImportGenius.com. By analyzing thousands of U.S. customs records for Apple Computer, employees of the search engine for container shipment data identified a major spike in imports generated by a new product type.
‘They have never before reported this product on their customs declarations,’ says Ryan Petersen of ImportGenius.com. ‘The fact that they are importing millions of units, combined with dwindling stocks of the first generation of iPhones, clearly supports the Citi analysts predictions.’
Two of Apple’s long-time manufacturing partners for desktop computers —Hon Hai Precision Corp. and Quanta Computer—have been rumored to be working on the newest generation of the popular cell phone.
On March 19 Quanta delivered 20 ocean containers of merchandise, described on the Bills of Lading as ‘electric computers,’ to Apple, Inc. Neither Apple, Quanta, nor any other company has ever used this product description for any shipments to the U.S.
The advanced features of the iPhone make it perfectly legitimate for Apple to declare the products as computers, rather than telephones. By doing this, the company may hope to avoid the attention that a massive influx of phones may bring about, while simultaneously maintaining secrecy as to the true identify of the phone’s manufacturers.
Over the last few months shipments of ‘desktop computers’ and other devices did not fall off, indicating that these ‘electric computers’ represent a new product for the company rather than a simple renaming for their Customs declarations.
The initial shipments were followed on March 27, April 28, May 6 and May 17 with an additional 44 containers—each containing an estimated 40,000 units of the new phone. The sixteen containers imported by Apple Inc. itself—as opposed to the Quanta subsidiary—were delivered on March 19 and 27 to the Jonestown, Pa. facilities of Ingram Micro, Apple’s U.S. distribution partner.
The Quanta Computer USA shipments were delivered to that company’s distribution center in Freemont, Ca. Meanwhile, on the exact same dates as the shipments above, Schenker AG, another of Apple’s distribution partners, imported a total of 67 containers of this new product type from an undisclosed manufacturer in Shanghai, China.
Several of those products carried the Apple computer name in what appeared to be an accidental disclosure on the customs record. With arrival notification addresses in Vancouver, Canada, many of Schenker’s shipments appeared destined for the Canadian market. Apple has thus far not made the iPhone available in Canada, however Rogers Wireless recently announced that it would begin offering the item shortly. They declined to offer more specifics about when they would start selling the phones.
Apple Inc’s most recent shipment of the new products, Bill of Lading # HLCUSHA0803FTFR8, arrived at the port of New York on the Vessel NYK Delphinus on May 17th. That shipment contained 504 cartons, weighing 7140 kg, of the vaguely described ‘electric computer.’
Where Quanta sent all previous shipments to Apple—including 828 ocean containers of ‘desktop computers’ since March—through a subsidiary, the new products were exported in Quanta’s own name. The change may reflect heightened secrecy surrounding the new products. “