http://www.allaboutiphone.net all iPhone, all the time (well, mostly) Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:25:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.allaboutiphone.net/2008/08/apple-store-after-sales-service/ 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 ... http://www.allaboutiphone.net/2008/08/bbc-iplayer-goes-one-better/ A warm welcome all, to this week's Carnival. Make a mug of tea, get your comfy slippers on, and settle in, because we have some treats for you. We start off with Wap Review - Dennis takes a thorough look at Nokia's new S60 Widget Library. This directory enables you to ... http://www.allaboutiphone.net/2008/08/carnival-of-the-mobilists-136/ Schmap are releasing a public beta of a new service today to enable your website for the iPhone. Add Schmap's javascript snippet to your website, and it will additionally display contact and address information formatted in a very iPhone-friendly way. Here's how it looks on their featured site, Pure Food ... http://www.allaboutiphone.net/2008/08/schmap-makes-existing-sites-iphone-friendly/ 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 ... http://www.allaboutiphone.net/2008/08/mms-sending-coming-to-your-o2-iphone/ 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 ... http://www.allaboutiphone.net/2008/08/mobilesafari-also-auto-completes-com/ Remember when I said that awesome and innovative games were coming? Well, that doesn't just mean complex, graphics-heavy games, but those that make use of the fusion of capabilities that the iPhone has. Labyrinth is fine example: it's a very simple version of the wooden box game that makes great use ... http://www.allaboutiphone.net/2008/08/labyrinth-le/ 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 ... http://www.allaboutiphone.net/2008/08/a-provocation-and-a-benchmark/ Having finally managed to track down a 16Gb model, I was looking for a case for my new iPhone. I wanted something similar to my original iPhone case, which was made by XtremeMac. This case has fared fairly well in my hands, but had been destroyed by those of a ... http://www.allaboutiphone.net/2008/07/carphone-warehouse-silicon-case-for-iphone-3g/ When I upgraded to my new iPhone last week I was warned by the O2 sales rep about not taking out any insurance. "If you lose your phone, that's it. You can't buy a new one, at least not until the PAYG version is released at Christmas". It turns out ... http://www.allaboutiphone.net/2008/07/replacement-cost-of-a-lost-iphone/