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- Poll: How important is one-handed ease of use to you on the iPhone?
- Forums: iPhone 4 reassembly, Outlook email setup, iMessage phone numbers
- New iPad app Projectbook merges note-taker with task manager
- Remains of the Day: Something to talk about
- Qmadix iharmonix Q-i-sound Stereo Bluetooth Speakers review [Giveaway]
- iPhone and iPad chip designer, Jim Keller, leaves Apple to return to AMD
- Massive iPad Sales Make Apple the World Leader in PC Shipments
- Tonight, on the world's greatest iPhone and iPad podcast...
- Price Drops: All of Readdle’s iPad Apps Up to 70% Off Today & Tomorrow
- MobileMe: 2008 to 2012. Or, the deconstruction of failed sync
- Review: Vanatoo Transparent One speakers offer flexible input, clean sound
- Apple may split its stock and become a member of the Dow Jones Industrial Average -- but it doesn’t matter
- Up close with Mountain Lion: Power Nap
- Opinion: Apple's ads preach to new customers, not the choir
- What’s on Your iPad: Jim Secord
- Bluetooth 4.0 device pairing rumored for iOS 6, 8-pins for new Dock connector
- The Daily Cuts Staff, Goes Portrait Only
- Readdle is having a huge 5th anniversary sale
- AMD hires Apple platform architect to head processor group
- Amazon Instant Video arrives on iPad in the U.S., brings tons of movie and TV fun
| Poll: How important is one-handed ease of use to you on the iPhone? Posted: 01 Aug 2012 08:53 PM PDT Let's keep this one short and sweet -- on the iMore Show tonight I argued with Rene and Seth about how big the next iPhone screen should be. Rene doesn't want it much bigger than 4-inches so he can reach all the corners with his thumb and use the iPhone single handily when he needs to. Seth was in the middle, willing to deal with an iPhone that was over 4-inches but not by too much. Me, I want the biggest screen Apple can put on an iPhone without making it a phablet (yeah, I said it!) My hands are already too small to reach every corner on an iPhone today, and I don't mind one bit that I have to use a second hand to do certain things at certain times. I also want the same 3:2 aspect ratio to remain the same. I realize that's not likely to happen with the 16:9 rumors running rampant, but I don't just want more pixels on a screen with the same density. I want a bigger screen so I can see it more easily too. Apple will do what Apple will do, but what about you? If you could have it your way, how important is one-handed ease of use to you compared to the benefits of a bigger screen? Vote up top and give me the reasons why below! 
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| Forums: iPhone 4 reassembly, Outlook email setup, iMessage phone numbers Posted: 01 Aug 2012 06:22 PM PDT
Found an interesting article you want to share with iMore? Have a burning question about that feature you just can't figure out? There is ALWAYS more happening just a click away in the forums. You can always head over and join in the conversation, search for answers, or lend your expertise to other members of our community. You check out some of the threads below: - How is Verizon and AT&T LTE on the iPad If you're not already a member of the iMore Forums, register now! 
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| New iPad app Projectbook merges note-taker with task manager Posted: 01 Aug 2012 05:20 PM PDT  Launched on the App Store Wednesday, Projectbook lets you take notes and turn the information stored in the app into to-dos and tasks. The new release works on the iPad 2 and third-generation iPad but Mac and iPhone versions are in the works. | ||
| Remains of the Day: Something to talk about Posted: 01 Aug 2012 04:30 PM PDT  Samsung gets a talking to from the bench, almost two-thirds of the App Store's software might be silent (but not deadly), and there's more chatter about a new iPhone dock-connector port. | ||
| Qmadix iharmonix Q-i-sound Stereo Bluetooth Speakers review [Giveaway] Posted: 01 Aug 2012 03:45 PM PDT Want a chance to win the Qmadix iharmonix Q-i-sound Stereo Bluetooth Speakers for your very own? Subscribe to our YouTube channel and leave a comment on the video above!The Qmadix iharmonix Q-i-sound Stereo Bluetooth Speakers are a set of A2DP speakers for your iPhone, iPod touch, iPad (or non-Apple mobile device) are different than similar offerings like the Jawbone JAMBOX in that each speaker comes in a separate housing so that you can direct your sound independently, in any which way you wish.
Upon opening the box I noticed what looked like a treatise on clicks and commands handily arranged on a reference sheet. Since I ignore instructions, I never looked at it. And I didn't need to. The Qmadix iharmonix Q-i-sound Stereo Bluetooth Speakers were easy enough to control, and since they're separate, I could easily arrange them to fit almost any area, including corners and cramped workstations. If you want sound where you want sound, that's a huge plus. The Qmadix iharmonix Q-i-sound Stereo Bluetooth Speakers come with a decent leather-like carrying case that does look a little like a 1950s hosiery package, which was... disturbing. But it's convenient none-the-less. The box also contains a charging cable, wall plug adaptor and a user manual that I will never look at either. Just plug the cable into the Qmadix iharmonix Q-i-sound Stereo Bluetooth Speakers and they charge, and their built-in lithium-polymer batteries hold that charge about as long as they claim -- 8 hours of play time, 240 hours of standby. It does take about 3.5 hours to charge them, however, so if you have a long trip or big party coming up, make sure to plan your charging accordingly.
The left speaker has a power button, mic, volume, and skip forward and back buttons, while the right speaker only has a power button to activate it. Bluetooth setup is as easy as you've come to expect from iOS, and straight forward once you put it into discover mode by holding the power button for 5 seconds. They have the same range as other Bluetooth devices, about 30 feet, and the speakers themselves can be positioned up to 15 feet apart. Now here we come to sound quality -- the Qmadix iharmonix Q-i-sound Stereo Bluetooth Speakers isn't bad except that there is quite a bit of distortion at high volume levels and there is no bass to speak of. That turns me off to these speakers. Granted the Qmadix iharmonix Q-i-sound Stereo Bluetooth Speakers are significantly cheaper than the Jawbone JAMBOX, but we're living in a post-JAMBOX world now and we no longer put up with small sound from small Bluetooth speakers. Expectations have been set. They have a mic, so you can have Qmadix iharmonix Q-i-sound Stereo Bluetooth Speakers serve double-duty as speaker phones for conference calls as well. As expected, they sound better than the tiny iPhone and iPad speakers both for telephone and for FaceTime and Skype.
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The conclusionIf you want separate speakers so you can position your right and left channels just exactly where you want them, the Qmadix iharmonix Q-i-sound Stereo Bluetooth Speakers are the ones to get. However, if overall sound quality is more important to you than a lower price or independent speaker placement, the Jawbone JAMBOX remains a better choice. Bottom line, while they won't shake the house, if you want a fairly cheap, really flexible sound system for anywhere from the kitchen to the pool, the Qmadix iharmonix Q-i-sound Stereo Bluetooth Speakers willl do the trick. $149.95 - Buy nowGiveawayWant to win the Qmadix iharmonix Q-i-sound Stereo Bluetooth Speakers for FREE, for your very own? Easy! Just subscribe to our YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/iMoreVideo and leave a YouTube comment at the bottom of the the Qmadix iharmonix Q-i-sound Stereo Bluetooth Speakers video! We'll pick a winner and that winner will get the Qmadix iharmonix Q-i-sound Stereo Bluetooth Speakers! Ready, set, enter now!! 
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| iPhone and iPad chip designer, Jim Keller, leaves Apple to return to AMD Posted: 01 Aug 2012 02:00 PM PDT
Jim Keller, up until now the head of chip design operations at Apple, is leaving to return to one of his past employers, AMD. At Apple, Keller was primarily responsible for the A4 and A5 system-on-a-chip lines that are used in iOS devices, including the iPhone and iPad. So yeah, important. Keller will join AMD as corporate vice president and chief architect of AMD's microprocessor cores. Arik Hesseldahl reports for AllThingsD:
Apple picked up Keller back in 2008 when they paid $278 million to acquire Keller's employer, PA Semi. Interestingly enough, Keller's boss at AMD will be Mark Papermaster who also left Apple about 2 years ago. Keller's previous position was senior vice president of iPhone engineering. Back in 2010 Apple also lost another one of their key chip executives, Dan Dobberpuhl, to a chip startup Agnilux who was later acquired by Google. Dobberpuhl was originally a co-founder of PA Semi, and and came to Apple through that acquisition along with Keller. Keller's main position will involve taking some of the technology we see in mobile processors and bringing it back to the PC arena. Apple will no doubt get someone talented and passionate to take over system-on-a-chip design. But this also marks yet another fairly prominent departure in the last few months, including senior vice presidents Bertran Serlet and Ron Johnson. Others who joined Apple through acquisition, like Andy Miller of Quatrro Wireless (iAd) and Dag Kittlaus of Siri have left as well. Some have retired, some have changed companies. It's possible we're just hearing more about these lately, and certainly major executives like Tony Fadell, Jon Rubenstein, and Avie Tevanian left years ago. Is this just the normal comings and goings of any large company, or with new CEO Tim Cook on board, could we also be seeing a changing of the guard? Source: AllThingsD 
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| Massive iPad Sales Make Apple the World Leader in PC Shipments Posted: 01 Aug 2012 02:02 PM PDT
Wow, here's a table you don't expect to see. It shows Apple as the clear leader in global PC shipments, by a clear margin. As 9to5Mac reports, the latest Q2 2012 data from Canalys shows Apple with a little over 21 million shipments for a 19% share of the world market, ahead of HP who have around 13.5 million shipments for a 12.5% share. This data includes what Canalys calls 'pads' so the iPad is by far and away the biggest portion of the Apple numbers. If Canalys' Q2 matches up to Apple's financial Q3 reported just recently, we know that 17 million iPads and 4 million Macs were sold – which matches up nicely with the numbers above. Counting iPads as PCs doesn't seem outrageous either, particularly with Microsoft calling their upcoming Surface a PC and a tablet. It's incredible to think that two and a half years ago the first iPad hadn't even hit the streets yet – and now its sales outstrip all PCs sold total by any PC manufacturer last quarter. © patrickj for iPad Insight, 2012. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us | ||
| Tonight, on the world's greatest iPhone and iPad podcast... Posted: 01 Aug 2012 01:39 PM PDT The iMore Show returns LIVE tonight and we'll be talking all about the rumored September 12 iPhone 5 event (to say it'll be a big show is like saying Apple has a few bucks in the bank). Add to that iPad mini, iOS 6, Mountain Lion, and your questions answered, and we're in for one jam packed hour. So join Rene, Georgia, and Seth, and the best damn chat room in mobile, LIVE tonight at 6pm PDT, 9pm EDT, 2am BST for all the action. Seriously. Set an alarm. Bookmark this page. Be there. (We'll also have a fresh ZEN and TECH for you tonight immediately thereafter, so stay tuned!) Want to go full screen? Head to iMore.com/live. Want to watch via iPhone or iPad? Grab the Ustream app and search for "mobilenations"! 
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| Price Drops: All of Readdle’s iPad Apps Up to 70% Off Today & Tomorrow Posted: 01 Aug 2012 01:04 PM PDT
Readdle Apps are celebrating their 5th birthday and have put all of their iPad and iOS apps on sale at up to 70% off for today (August 1) and tomorrow. Readdle publish some superb iPad apps that we've covered often here – including PDF Expert, one of our picks for the Best iPad Apps of 2011 list, ReaddleDocs, Remarks, Printer Pro, and more. These are some great bargains on some stellar iPad and iOS apps – check out all the details at Readlle's page for the sale. © patrickj for iPad Insight, 2012. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us | ||
| MobileMe: 2008 to 2012. Or, the deconstruction of failed sync Posted: 01 Aug 2012 12:08 PM PDT
This is how MobileMe ends, swallowed in iCloud but not in darkness. Our information and documents will live on -- the stored and pushed and streamed content of our iPhones and iPads and Macs, unto the next generation. Apple has created the service we would have wished for MobileMe. And now its servers spin down for the last time. (With apologies to J. Michael Straczynski) 
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| Review: Vanatoo Transparent One speakers offer flexible input, clean sound Posted: 01 Aug 2012 12:05 PM PDT  Newcomers to the speaker world, Vanatoo have released a solid set of bookshelf-style powered speakers that will accommodate just about any variety of input. | ||
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There's an interesting story over at Businessweek talking about the possibility of Apple splitting its stock price, and possibly even earning a coveted spot as one of the 30 stocks that make up the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA). This is all due to a research piece that Toni Sacconaghi, the Apple analyst at Bernstein, published recently. The gist of the story? Sacconaghi makes the interesting point that Apple is the only dividend-paying company with a market cap over $215 billion that isn't included in the Dow. But if it were included in the index, its would command a large weighting. This is because the DJIA uses stock price as the weighting mechanism. The solution is for Apple to split its stock in order to improve its chances of being added to the index. Other technology companies in the index include Cisco, Microsoft, HP, IBM and Intel. Given that Apple is the largest company in the world (by market cap), shouldn't it be included? You know what? Maybe Apple should be added. But I just don't see why it matters beyond the short term gyrations of the stock market. Does being included in an index make your company more valuable? Not really. Smaller companies that get tossed into the S&P 500 might get more credibility for being part of a serious index. But a company of Apple's size and stature? Nobody is going to buy a Mac or an iPad because Apple's in the Dow. It doesn't change a darn thing with respect to the business. And how about a stock split? Same thing. There is no long term evidence that a stock split creates value for shareholders. If you're reading this and wondering what a stock split really means, think about ordering a pizza and getting it pre-cut into 12 slices. If you took that same pizza and cut each slice in half, you'd suddenly have 24 slices. Does it change the size of the pie? Rhetorical question. Stock splits used to matter when stock exchanges were less electronic and stocks traded in 100-share lots. These days if you want to buy a single share, you place a buy order online and it gets done in a nanosecond. Stock splits are essentially irrelevant unless the price of a single share goes beyond the reach of a potential shareholder. I haven't seen the Bernstein research note discussing this whole concept, but I hope it contains more than just a discussion on stock splits and DJIA participation. Because, honestly, none of this really matters at all to shareholders beyond a bit of short term waves created as index funds buy into a newly-added stock. It isn't exactly what I would consider value-added research. I'm signing off to open a cold drink. Perhaps I'll pour the contents into two glasses. Then I get more, right? #sarcasm. Source: Businessweek 
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| Up close with Mountain Lion: Power Nap Posted: 01 Aug 2012 10:45 AM PDT  For laptop users, one of Mountain Lion's big new features is Power Nap, which can automatically update and sync your Mac while it sleeps. Dan Frakes takes a closer look at how to use this iOS-like feature. | ||
| Opinion: Apple's ads preach to new customers, not the choir Posted: 01 Aug 2012 09:30 AM PDT  Technology critics may not adore Apple's new ads. But if they reach the audience the company's targeting, that's all that matters. | ||
| What’s on Your iPad: Jim Secord Posted: 01 Aug 2012 09:10 AM PDT
What's on Your iPad? A simple question but one that leads to some fascinating answers. This is another installment of our now-regular series of What's on Your iPad posts. I enjoy these a lot because I love seeing how people put their iPads to use – and I find them a great resource for discovering new apps. Today's answers are from Jim Secord – the head honcho behind Kashoo, a very promising looking, full-featured accounting app for the iPad. Here's a little more bio info on Jim:
Here are Jim's answers – questions are in regular text, Jim's answers are in block quotes: Which iPad model do you use? (original or iPad 2, WiFi or WiFi + 3G, storage size) Any particular reasons for choosing this model?
Do you use any sort of case with the iPad? If so, which one/s and why?
(...) © patrickj for iPad Insight, 2012. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us | ||
| Bluetooth 4.0 device pairing rumored for iOS 6, 8-pins for new Dock connector Posted: 01 Aug 2012 09:00 AM PDT
Apple is rumored to be working on a way to pass data between iOS devices over BlueTooth 4.0, allowing everything from notifications to communications to be seamlessly transferred from iPhone to iPad, or theoretically even an iPod nano watch... This type of connectivity has been dreamed of/speculated about for over a year, but now iLounge's Jeremy Horowitz says it could be planned for as early as iOS 6 this fall.
iOS features are typically harder to predict than hardware specs, since Apple doesn't have to worry about manufacturing or supply chain leaks, but iLounge has a good track record and Apple needs a couple iPhone 5 specific features to show off at their rumored September 12 event. We've previously speculated that Phil Schiller snapping fancy panoramic photos could fill one slot and, If NFC is on board, easy payments at Starbucks or Target could fill another. Direct device-to-device data sharing, however, would not only make for a great, geek-centric demo, it would further increase the combined value of Apple's multi-device platform. Increasingly it's no longer about what your phone can do, or tablet can do, but about what everything working together, from software to hardware to services to content, can do. iLounge is also offering an alternate take on the new, miniaturized Dock connector iMore reported on back in February. We learned it was getting significantly smaller, but didn't learn anything specific about the pin configuration, post 30. Recently John Biggs of TechCrunch offered 19 pins as the new normal. Horowitz is now saying 8. Likely the rumors will only get more intense from here on out, what with the big day just under a month and a half away... Source: iLounge 
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| The Daily Cuts Staff, Goes Portrait Only Posted: 01 Aug 2012 08:44 AM PDT
The Daily, the first iPad-only newspaper, has announced that it is making major staff cuts and stripping away features. The announcement comes not long after reports that the title is in danger of being shutdown – and the cuts being made are certainly significant ones. As AllThingsD reports, 50 full-time employees of The Daily are being released – that's nearly 30% of the full-time staff. Two other big cutbacks are these: – There will be no more separate Opinion section – occasional opinion pieces and editorials will be included within the News section (and clearly identified) and the Sports section is being partly outsourced: "Sports reporting will now be provided by content partners, like Fox Sports, while existing features like photo galleries and the ability to track favorite teams via a customizable sports page will remain." – The Daily now supports only portrait mode, though videos can still be viewed in landscape. (...) © patrickj for iPad Insight, 2012. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us | ||
| Readdle is having a huge 5th anniversary sale Posted: 01 Aug 2012 08:00 AM PDT
Readdle is celebrating their 5th birthday, and to celebrate, they're having a huge sale on all their apps beginning today! The sale is only for 48 hours, but the sales are good (up to 70%). Because we know how much you love highly discounted apps, we've gathered up some of Readdle's best apps for you!
To see all of Readdle's apps, visit their developer page in iTunes. Happy Birthday Readdle! 
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| AMD hires Apple platform architect to head processor group Posted: 01 Aug 2012 08:00 AM PDT  Advanced Micro Devices has lured Jim Keller from his role as platform architect at Apple to head its processor group as the struggling company tries to reshape its chip strategy and stem a loss in processor market share. | ||
| Amazon Instant Video arrives on iPad in the U.S., brings tons of movie and TV fun Posted: 01 Aug 2012 07:32 AM PDT
Amazon Instant Video is finally -- finally -- available for iPad in the U.S., and with it comes the entire movie and TV catalog. That catalog includes over 120,000 videos available for purchase or rent, thousands of which can be streamed for free if you're an Amazon Prime member. Here's the official blurb:
Thanks to Amazon's WhisperSync, the same thing that keeps all your Kindle books on the same page, you can start watching on iPad and keep watching right where you left off on Kindle Fire, PS3, Windows, Mac, and compatible TVs and entertainment boxes like Blu-Ray players. Or vice-versa. Sadly, there's no iPhone or iPad version yet, and Amazon's content availability outside the U.S. remains pathetic. (Meanwhile Apple's making billions internationally -- go figure?). There's also no Apple TV version yet or even AirPlay support, though given Hulu Plus' recent move to the Apple TV, hopefully Amazon's appearance isn't too far behind. Also, Phil Nickinson of Android Central says not all episodes of some shows, like West Wing, are currently available on iPad the way they are on Kindle Fire. Since Amazon reportedly doesn't even break even on Kindle Fire sales, and their business model depends on content sales, this might simply be an issue of them not getting their virtual shelves stocked fast enough for iPad. Still, it is nice to see all these content deals line up before the rumored "fall product transitions". If you load up Amazon Instant Video on your iPad, let me know how it works for you. How's the Amazon experience on iPad compared to Kindle Fire, and compared to Netflix on the iPad? Free - Download now
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