A couple of years ago my Nokia N93 took some damage to one of the microphones, after a visit to my local Nokia Service Center I patiently waited for my beloved N93 to return to all shiny and new. I waited, I waited some more, phoned the service centre and was told to wait a [...]

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A while ago I wrote about the BBC launching iPlayer for the iPhone. Well, they’ve now gone one better. The whole iPlayer site has been redesigned, as detailed in this BBC Internet Blog post. But when you log onto it from an iPhone, you now get an iPhone-optimised site.
As with many other successful iPhone-optimised sites [...]

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I can’t believe I haven’t mentioned this before. A little while ago, Ross McKillop developed O2 MMS, which enabled you to read multimedia messages on your iPhone, without going through O2’s torturous non-iPhone friendly website. It’s a donation-supported service with no jailbreak required, and is listed on Apple’s Web Apps directory.

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Here’s a little tip I haven’t seen anywhere else. MobileSafari auto-completes URLs with .com if you don’t specify a domain. For example, type in “yahoo” into the address bar, and hit Go. MobileSafari will add the leading “http://”, and then the trailing “.com”.

Adding the leading http:// reference is well-known, but I haven’t seen (or found [...]

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Articles by Marek Pawlowski of MEX are always interesting, and the latest one is no different. In “Moving from mobile capabilities to mobile compulsion“, he looks at what the impact of the iPhone and the App Store really is, and who’s best placed to suceed though understanding user experience.
There is some great insight in [...]

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Over the weekend, El Reg alerted me to a blog post at Omio which reckons Orange will be the next iPhone provider in the UK. The original iPhone was only launched in four countries - the US (AT&T), UK (O2), France (Orange) and Germany (T-Mobile) - and none of those carriers have so far [...]

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I’m a bit late on this one, but there are some great reads as ever. One article of interest to iPhoneistas should be Igor Faletski’s post about the 3G lifestyle. He writes about how his new iPhone is essentially a digital multimedia portal, and that in hours of usage, he hadn’t made a single telephone [...]

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Whilst some iPhone 3G owners have barely noticed the warmer hues of the new screen, others it would seem are becoming quite upset. In this video I take a quick look at the difference in colour temperature between both devices. What do you think? Is this something that Apple should ‘fix‘, or do you see this as [...]

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Multi-touch. Most people’s first introduction to this futuristic user interface was the 2002 Spielburg movie, Minority Report. Manipulating a computer generated 3D environment with ease is where multi-touch comes into its own. For many, seeing Tom Cruise’s character flip and spin those images around was a kind of eureka moment, a realisation of how things [...]

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I’m very happy to introduce a new contributor today - James Burland, of Nokia Creative and The Creative Life Blog.
James has put together a high quality video of the 3G iPhone, taking a close look at the external detail of the device.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eid3c1oVHio

It’s delicious torture for those of us who weren’t able to get their preferred [...]

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