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How to Buy an iPod or iPhone for less than full Price

November 7th, 2009 iphone News and Updates

If you’s refer not to pay full price for an iPod or iPhone, consider the alternatives:

  • Buy a fefurbished iPod or iPhone from Apple: Apple sells refurbished iPods and iPhones at a discount – sometimes up to a third off the normal price. To find them, search the Apple store for refurbished iPod or refurbished iPhone. These iPods and iPhones have a one-year limited warranty, which you should read before buying one. You can also buy AppleCare to extend the coverage, although this is typically worthwhile only for the most extensive models.
  • Buy a reconditioned iPod or iPhone from another vendor: eBay and other sites carry reconditioned iPods and iPhones. However, you will not normally get a warranty, and it may be hard to determine the quality of the reconditioning.
  • Grab an old iPhone or iPod when a relative or sibling upgrades: If you know someone who simply must have the latest technology, get ready to jump in line for their existing device.
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Choose the iPod or iPhone that’s best for you

November 6th, 2009 iphone News and Updates

By ruthlessly discounting earlier iPod models even when they were selling strongly, apple has made the process of choosing among the different iPods pretty straightforward:

  • If you need a mobile phone that includes an iPod(or vice versa), buy an iPhone.
  • If you need the smallest player possible, or a player for active pursuits, get an iPod shuffle.
  • If you want the cutest medium-capacity player, go for an iPod nano. The iPod nano is great for smaller libraries, or for carrying only the newest or most exciting songs and videos in your colossal library with you, but its lower capacity makes it a poor value alongside the iPod classic.
  • If you want to carry as many songs and videos as possible with you, buy the iPod classic model.
  • If you want to watch videos, send mail, surf the web, and run applications on the iPod, but you don’t want to pay for an iPhone contract, get an iPod touch.
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App sorting improved with iTunes 9.0.2

November 2nd, 2009 iphone News and Updates

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Apple released iTunes 9.0.2, an update that included additional improvements to app sorting for the iPhone and iPod touch.

In early September, Apple offered a bug fix for arranging apps on iTunes after the release of iTunes 9.0 and later that same month Apple released iTunes 9.0.1. Progress was made in squashing some of the bugs Apple found, but the app sorting feature was still pretty tedious to use and nearly impossible to use if the number of apps on your iPhone exceeded 176.

Apple has resolved this problem by displaying the apps past the first 176 onto home screens that are grayed out. These home screens, numbered 12 or higher, will not currently display on your iPhone, but at least now you have a chance of grabbing apps from these screens and moving them to another visible screen. You should keep in mind that any apps on the home screens past the first 11 will only be accessible via a Spotlight search.

Problems sorting apps were not completely resolved by this iTunes update if all the home screens and the extra ones are completely populated. In this case, you lose any chance of moving the apps around effectively. However, there is a work-around–simply sync one more app back to your iPhone and iTunes will add another grayed-out home screen. The exception being that this screen will now be mostly empty giving you the work space you need to get your apps sorted the way you want them. When you are done, make sure that extra app is the only one left on the extra home screen and delete it once you are satisfied with the way your apps or home screens are arranged.

iTunesThis last step is optional; however, I recommend you perform it to prevent apps from accidentally being placed onto this screen. If you add more apps by syncing or purchases iPhone OS will recreate it.

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The iPod touch and what it does

November 2nd, 2009 iphone News and Updates

iphoneThe iPod touch resembles an iPhone without the phone, the camera, and the waistline. Like the iPhone, the iPod touch has a large, touch-sensitive screen that you use to control most of its functions, from playing back songs and videos to surfing the web via a wireless network and sending mail.

The iPod touch has an on/ off button on the top, a volume rocker button on the side, and the Home button below the screen. It has a minimailst built-in-speaker that’s just about adequote for games, but you’ll want to use headphones or exiternal speakers for listening to any audio you want to hear well

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The iPhone and What it Does

October 31st, 2009 iphone News and Updates

The iPhone is a cell phone that includes all the features of an iPod. Apart from playing music and video, the iPhone’s capabilities include:

  • Making phone calls, including conference calls.
  • Checking your voicemail messages either in the order received or out of order
  • Connecting to the Internet either via the call network or via a wireless network connection.
  • Browsing the web with the safari browser
  • Sending and receiving e-mail messages via your existing e-mail account
  • Taking pictures with the built-in camera -and sending them immediately via e-mail if you so wish.
  • Watching videos from YouTube
  • Getting maps, weather reports, stock quotes, and other handy information
  • Running application you download from Apple’s App Store – everything from productivity-enhancing business tools to brain-bending study tools and entertaining games.

The advantages and disadvantages of Flash Memory

Except for the iPod classic, which uses a hard drive, all iPods and the iPhone use flash memory chips for storage.
Flash memory has two main advantages:

  • Flash memory is shockproof, so the iPod won’t skip unless you damage it badly enough to prevent it from playing.
  • Flash Memory uses far less power than a hard disk – around 1/30 of the amount a hard drive takes – so the iPod or iPhone can run a good time on a smaller battery than it would otherwise need.

The disadvantage of flash memory is that it is still much more expensive per gigabyte than hard disks. This is why there is such a vast difference in capacity between the iPod classic(120GB) and the next-most capacious iPod, the iPod tough(32 GB)

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iPhone tips

October 29th, 2009 iphone News and Updates

If you change your mind about turning the iPhone off, tap the Cancel button, or do nothing. If the iPhone decides that you’re not paying attention, it dismisses the “slide to power off” screen automatically.

The iPhone can demand a password each time it wakes up, if you like.

You can’t use any other company’s SIM card in the iPhone – it’s not an “unlocked” GSM phone (at least, not officially; there are some unauthorized ways). Other recent AT&T cards work, but only after you first activate them. Insert the other card – it fits only one way, with the AT&T logo facing up – then connect the iPhone to your computer and let the iTunes software walk you through the process.

Geeks may enjoy knowing that the screen is 320 by 480 pixels.

On the iPhone 3G, you can use any standard headphones with the iPhone – a welcome bit of news for audiophiles who don’t think the included earbuds do their music justice. But on the original iPhone, the molding around the iPhone’s audio jack prevents most miniplugs from going all the way. You must be able to get your headphones to fit by trimming the plastic collar with a razor blade – or you can spend $10 for a headphone adapter (from Belkin.com, among others) to get around this problem.

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Knowing an iPhone

October 29th, 2009 iphone News and Updates
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iPhone is one of the most incredible handheld devices. Of course, the iPhone is one heck of a wireless telephone, but it’s actually four awesome handheld devices in one. In addition to being a killer cell phone, it’s a gorgeous widescreen video iPod, a decent 2-megapixel digital camera (original iPhone and iPhone 3G) or 3-megapixel camera/camcorder (iPhone 3GS), as well as the smallest, most powerful Internet communication device yet.

The iPhone has many best-of-class features, but perhaps its most unusual feature is the lack of a physical keyboard or stylus. Instead, it has a 3.5-inch super-high-resolution touchscreen (160 pixels per inch if you care about such things) that you operate using a pointing device you’re already intimately familiar with: your finger. And what a display it is. We venture that you’ve never seen a more beautiful screen on a handhelf device in your life.

iPhone has another feature that can knock your socks off – built-in sensors. An accelerometer detects when you rotate the device from portrait to landscape mode and adjusts what’s on the display accordingly. A proximity sensor detects when the iPhone gets near your face, so it can turn off the display to save power and prevent accidental touches by your check. And a light sensor adjusts the display’s brightness in response to the current ambient lighing situation.

The iPhone as a phone and digital camera/camcorder
On the phone side, the iPhone synchronizes with the contacts and calendars on your Mac or PC. It includes a full featured QWERTY soft, or virtual, keyboard, which makes typing text easier than ever before – for some folks.

Granted, the virtual keyboard takes a bit of time to get used to. But we think that many of you eventually will be whizzing along at a much faster pace than you thought possible on a mobile keyboard of this type.

The 2-megapixel (iPhone and iPhone 3G) or 3-megapixel (iPhone 3GS) digital camera is accompanied by a decent photo management applications, so taking and managing digital photos (and videos on iPhone 3GS) is a pleasure rather than the nightmare it can be on other phones. Plus, you can automatically synchronize iPhone photos and videos with the digital photo library on your Mac or PC. Okay, we still wish the iPhone camera took better photos and shot better video but it is still much better than most other phone cameras.

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