The big Apple rumor of the day is they are working on two new Jesus Phones. If they hold to their pattern, they’ll probably announce brand new iPhones in June. The earth shattering news is the iPhone could finally come to Verizon this summer. I like my iPhone and AT&T well enough while I’m here in DC. My troubles start when I expect to use it for business while traveling. So far it’s almost never worked – it failed at CES, Comic-Con, while I was in Salem, VA for a few weeks, etc. It”s proved to be pretty frustrating. The problem is, I’m not entirely convinced it’s AT&T’s fault. Verizon’s service where I live is horrible, so that’s not an option. I’ll admit, I’m really curious to see what a new iPhone would look like, all I want is a 64-Gig version, bigger, better screen, multitasking and for god’s sake a screen lock function! The constant rotating for no reason drives me up the wall.
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This is one of those shameless a company sent me something, so I’m going to do a write up about it Posts. Or in other words, this is my “payola” post of the week – before oversensitive people yell at me, I use the word “payola,” as a joke. I wanted a new protective case for my iPhone, so I asked the fine folks at Otterbox to send me one. They sent their White Defender Case and it is one of the nicest iPhone cases I’ve ever used. It feels sturdy, solid and smooth, yet it doesn’t add any weight or girth to the phone. The case doesn’t really bend at all. My old case was flimsy and cheap as heck – even though it cost me $50 at the Apple Store. At first I was concerned I would get the beautiful white color dirty, but I’ve had the case for about 4 weeks now and not a smudge on it, it still looks like new.
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I’ll admit it, I’m now getting addicted to playing Bejeweled on my iPhone. Apparently I’m not the only one, the game is celebrating it’s 10th year anniversary and has sold over 50 million copies on various platforms worldwide. Pop Cap Games, the makers of Bejeweled is going to celebrate throughout 2010. PopCap will introduce new installments in the Bejeweled lineup, hold the first-ever community-wide competition for Bejeweled Blitz, and stage promotional activities such as the upcoming “Show Your Bejeweled Love” contest. PopCap also announced today that Bejeweled has now sold more than 50 million units, making it one of the top ten best-selling video games of all time — and the company continues to sell a copy of Bejeweled every 4.3 seconds.
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I’ve had an iPhone since last April, in my time with the phone I never experienced any problems with the phone or AT&T’s service. After 2 years on Cingular (which was horrible and yes I know it’s now AT&T), then two years of Verizon’s awful service I find AT&T to be pretty rock solid in my suburban DC area so when people complain about how bad AT&T I just didn’t see it. I was looking forward to using the Jesus Phone in Vegas this week. Now I understand why people are so upset with AT&T. My iPhone has been useless this week, it dropped every single call that I made, the internet connectivity was spotty to non-existant all week so I couldn’t check my calendar or email and don’t even get me started on the flaky accelerometer. I was so frustrated, I started to literally scream at the thing and people looked at me like I was crazy I wanted to throw it against the wall of the Convention Center. By comparison, I’m reviewing T-Mobile’s MyTouch and that phone has worked perfectly fine this week. AT&T usually gets the brunt of the complaints while no one is willing to admit that maybe the iPhone can’t handle data when there’s a large number of people. You never hear of other phones on AT&T’s network having these types of issues. If I traveled a often and covered a lot of large shows, there’s no way I would trust the iPhone to work.
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I’ve been a subscriber to Rhapsody for almost 4 years, primarily because they make it almost impossible to cancel the service. It’s another one of those services that let’s you sign up online but they make you call to cancel. When you call they put you on hold for more than an hour at a time, it’s an exercise in frustration so I just let the stupid service continue to bill my credit card which finally expired last month so I finally have this monkey off my back. I’ve always liked how the service was organized with their User Created Playlists, Artist Songs, and the fact that you can listen to full albums at any time. The problem was the cancellation procedure bugged the heck out of me, their player has been crashing a lot lately and frankly I just don’t listen to music enough to want to pay for this for the rest of my life. I didn’t like that in order to use Rhapsody on different mobile devices you had to have a separate account. How ridiculous is that? I’d been a subscriber for over 3 years had over a hundred playlist but if I wanted to use Rhapsody on my Verizon phone I would have had to create and pay for an entirely new and separate account? What crap. Rhapsody is now available on the iPhone. For $15 a month you can get full access to Rhapsody at a glorious 64kb (sarcasm) stream over Wi-Fi or cellular data. The iPhone is a great platform but until they actually get multi-tasking capability I’m not paying for any more music apps. I have Sirius and it’s a horrible app, constantly buffers and crashes and the minute I want to check email I have to turn it off. So I’m not going to bite on the Rhapsody App even though it’s something I’ve wanted for a long time.
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Here’s something cool – the folks at Syfy (I still can’t get the name Siffee out of my head) have created a really spiffy (get it, pun intended :)) little app for your Comic Con enjoyment. You can use it to follow all the cool Syfy panels (and before they email me, yes, I know it’s pronounced Sci-Fi) and other comic con events. Even though their rebranding is stupid, this is awesome marketing and a cool ap. Great job Syfy. The Full press release is below. Go to the App story and get it.
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I have Sirius in my car and I’ll admit at first I didn’t like most of the original music stations (at least their “hits” stuff), they always had pretty esoteric playlist, I am enjoying it more now that they use XM for their 80s, hits, and 90s stations. But what the heck, no more all Disco, or Old School Hip Hop. Anyway the new Sirius XM iPhone app is out today and it’s going to cost you, but the pricing is a mystery since Sirius isn’t UPFRONT about how much it’ll cost. You go to their website and all it says is you can get a free 7 day trial. It ticks me off when company’s pull crap like this. Before you register for any “free” trial the Price should be listed on the Registration page.
Take a look at this and tell me if you think they aren’t trying to hide the price? Not only that, but I recently got an email from Sirius telling me I’m going to have to pay an additional $2 a month to cover Radio Royalties, so my service will now be, $15.00 a month. From what I read months ago, to use the iPhone Radio app they are going to charge an additional $4.00 a month if you already have Sirius and I think $16.00 a month if you don’t have it. Now don’t hold me to this pricing, because I don’t know for sure, I just remember reading about it months ago when they first announced the app. And I’m not going to go around registering for something, just to see how much the darn thing is going to cost. Who am I kidding, I’ll get it because it is a really slick app and hey I’ll be able to favorite all my favorite stations and it’s a whole lot prettier than the piece of overpriced crap Sirius radio I have in my car. How about a little honesty in pricing, for once?
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Apple,
Cool Tech,
iPhone,
Sirius XM
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