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iPhone, 3G and battery life

Posted in english, iphone, mobile, tagged , , , on May 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »

The rumours are getting ever louder. The new version of iPhone is coming out and it has 3G capabilities.
Many have expressed their concerns that this will seriously affect the iPhone’s already relatively short battery life time. 3G chipsets certainly drain the batteries faster than 2 or 2.5G (i.e. GSM, GPRS and EDGE) chips. Most 3G [...]

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Google, gPhone and the disruptive business model

Posted in english, gPhone, mobile on August 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »

Rumors about Google’s upcoming mobile phone – dubbed gPhone – are becoming ever louder.
If you thought Apple’s iPhone business model was disruptive for the wireless industry (demanding 10% of the operator’s revenues from iPhone users – voice and data) – just you wait for Google entering the scene.
There’s not much confirmed information on the [...]

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iPhone: APIs, 3G and “nothing new”

Posted in english, iphone, mobile on June 26, 2007 | 3 Comments »

News flash: iPhone is coming out on Friday!
(oh – you knew?)
I’ve been moaning about it (in Icelandic) since it was only a patent and do not doubt that it will be a major success.
In my evangelism since I’ve heard three main things criticized:

It’s not a 3G phone
It doesn’t allow 3rd party applications
Other phones have all [...]

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iPhone therefore iAm

Posted in iphone, mobile, tölvur & tækni, íslenska on January 12, 2007 | 3 Comments »

Ég skrifaði í haust um orðróminn sem hefur gengið undanfarið hálft ár eða svo um nýja símann og sjónvarpsgræjuna frá Apple.
Á þriðjudaginn gerðist það svo. Steve Jobs steig fram á sviðið af sinni alkunnu snilld og heillaði tækniheiminn upp úr skónum. Hamagangurinn í kjölfarið er svo mikill að AppleTV (sem gekk undir vinnuheitinu iTV) hefur [...]

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