iPhone in Canada

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I spent most of yesterday on Granville Island at BarCamp 2008 and it was a blast.

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Just found this app tonight and bought it on the spot.

CameraBag (iTunes App Store link) lets you play with any photos you have on your iPhone as well as take new ones in a number of unique ways.

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Today, Apple announced a number of new things at it’s “Let’s Rock” event and I have to say, I was a little surprised and disappointed.

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At MobileCamp Vancouver this past weekend, I thought it might be fun to try out Qik.com’s iPhone app. It’s currently only available for use on jailbroken iPhones (via Cydia).

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Here’s an inexpensive way to add a macro mode to your iPhone.

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I'm going to be doing a short interview with Global TV with my thoughts on the Blackberry Bold, which "launches" today on Rogers (apparently, reports say that the product isn't actually available in stores).

Of course, this is currently a GSM phone, so it's one more piece in Roger's arsenal vs. Telus and Bell, which both have the same set of CDMA phones. The newest phones are released on GSM first, and the CDMA versions lag by months, if they are available at all.

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Tonight I attended the launch party for the Samsung Instinct phone. I wanted to personally check it out to see if it lived up to the ‘iPhone killer’ label that has been floating around. Unfortunately it doesn’t but that doesn’t mean I hated it.

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Do you see this a lot on your iPhone 3G?

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A few people have been asking me about car chargers for the iPhone 3G so I thought I’d post a quick note about what I’m using.

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The iPhone 3G and the Apple App Store has been out for a few weeks now so I figured it would be a good time to talk about what I’ve got on my iPhone and hopefully show you a few things you might want to check out yourself.

First though, an annoyance I have about the App Store and it’s downloads: the icons keep moving around!

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Buzz was kind enough to include a quote and a link to me regarding the recently released Pwnage software tool for the iPhone.

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Automattic has released (and Apple has approved) their native iPhone app for managing your WordPress sites.

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Find the app on the iTunes App Store.

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I'm glad I waited in posting any sort of "the iPhone with Rogers will suck" commentary, as it seems they have somewhat come to their senses. As usual, John Biehler was my iPhone news source, and here's the link to the Roger's press release.

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This morning I woke up to discover that Rogers (and Fido) had released their pricing for the iPhone data/voice plans.

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Almost a month ago, I posted my predictions for the next version of the iPhone. Let’s see how I did:

Prediction #1: Details about the iPhone release in Canada will be announced on June 9th

I have removed ShoZu (to reduce memory consumption) from my phone until Car Free Vancouver is over on Sunday so these photos are being uploaded manually which s*cks.Can't wait to reload ShoZu.

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If you take a look at ebay or craigslist right now, you’ll see that people are selling off their ‘old’ iPhones left and right. The prices are dropping through the floor as the ‘new’ iPhone 3G gets closer to release.

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Today, during Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco, Steve Jobs announced the new 3G iPhone. It’s going to be available in Canada from Rogers and Fido on July 11th.

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A week from now, it’ll be old news.

We’ll know what Steve has up his sleeve and (hopefully) us Canadians will be activating our shiny new iPhones on the updated iTunes that was released.

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There is a new app on Installer is called Band from Moo Cow Music that lets you annoy everyone around you by playing instruments and samples on the iPhone’s touchscreen (also works on the Touch). It’s pretty slick with a number of different instruments, samples and settings to play with.

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Beginning tomorrow, Rogers will begin offering the Nokia N95 8gb smartphone to Canadians.

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Even though the iPhone SDK has been out for awhile now, there are still lots of people cranking out some cool apps for jailbroken iPhones. It’ll be interesting to see what happens in June when things get a lot more official from Apple with the availability of the SDK-developed apps. But until then, here are a couple of ones that I’ve been playing around with lately.

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Looks like I'll be on CTV Newsnet at 12:15pm today, talking about Rogers bringing the iPhone to Canada.

Of course, the funny thing here is that there are many many people in Canada who already have the iPhone, in its "unlocked" edition. John Biehler's iPhone category is my source for all the latest in unlocking and cool applications.

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It’s about time.

Unfortunately no details other than it’s coming ‘before the end of the year’.

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Okay, not really at all but I couldn’t think of a better title.

While I was lounging on the beach in Hawaii recently, two separate articles in which I was interviewed for appeared online (and possibly in dead tree form too - I actually don’t know).

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Just upgraded successfully from 1.1.1 to 1.1.3 using this tutorial.

Modified steps I used:

Since I've written about how expensive mobile data plans in Canada are, I should probably praise Rogers for finally getting some sane(r) pricing.

Mossberg has posted his review of the iPhone, calling it a "breakthrough handheld computer". What caught my eye was this statement: