Archive for the 'iPhone' Category

Apple “shrinks” the size of the iPhone (using a big-handed model)

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

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Did Apple shrink the iPhone just days before its release? No—but it certainly looks like they tried to. boingboing.net noticed that Apple has changed the size of the hand that holds the iPhone in their ads. With a quick comparison of the official Apple photos, you will see what all the fuss is about.

My view has always been that the iPhone is a bit on the large side. Sure, as a true PDA replacement the size is not so bad. But a replacement for my compact RAZR, no. Perhaps if they started with the bigger hand in the first place I could have been convinced. For now, it is still huge.

Opera Mini 4 beta is now available

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

The new Opera Mini 4 beta is out. Among a variety of new features, the most notable of these is content zooming—the ability to see an entire web page and zoom in or out (Does this remind you of anything—perhaps the iPhone?).

Here is a short video of the new browser installed on Cameron’s Sony Ericsson K750i showing nytimes.com:

Source: Cameron Moll

It’s official: No Flash support on the iPhone

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

Crying about the iPhoneSources at WWDC are reporting that there is officially no Flash support on the iPhone. Apparently, in the State of the Media address yesterday, the announcement was made that: “There will be no Flash support at the moment on the iPhone.” Developers are being told not to serve video via Flash, as there simply isn’t a player built for the phone yet.

Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog