Roger's Tethering policy As of 01/01/2010 Changes (All plans effected)
As of 01/01/2010, Thethering off the iPhone will be charge extra on the Roger's & Fido networks! Regardless if you have 1mb or 6GB, you will be effected.
Kinda sad to see this happening, especially for those who have the 6GB plans ... you pay that much and you'll never hit that amount w/o tethering.
One way to avoid this ...
iPhone Jailbroken Units, install PDANet from Cydia and the network won't know your tethering, since it's not coming from the IPCC system update from 3.0.
This method was made way before 3.0 and proven to work.
Stilez
I wasn't sure if I should post this in the Cellular/Voip thread or this one, but since it concerns the iPhone w/ Telus, I guess it should be fine here.
I became aware yesterday, while I was helping a friend set up his iPhone with Telus, that Telus does not have an EDGE service. So naturally, I was curious and started wondering just how good Telus’s 3G+ network coverage is? Since there’s no EDGE service to fall back to, we asked the phone rep if the phone would switch/default to a Rogers/Fido network if 3G service was not available, and he said yes. What we quickly found out was that turning off the 3G on his iPhone resulted in absolutely NO network service, PERIOD! and did not automatically default/switch to the Rogers network. A bit concerning, and just a heads up for anyone who's thinking of getting an iPhone with Telus.
Stilez
INSANE!!!
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You’re now approved to DJ with your iPhone. Or at least the app is. I’m not sure if I can take credit for getting Apple’s attention, but Apple has approved the TouchDJ application from Amidio. That’s big news, partly because developer Amidio has consistently been at the forefront of musical development on the platform, including their Noise.io synth and wild hexagonal JR Hexatone Pro.
This also is a big blog to the theory that Apple is intentionally blocking DJ apps — and a big boon to the theory that the App Store is just plain clogged, even if it may be disproportionately affecting more sophisticated applications.
Features in the release:
* “Visual mixing,” with a clever interface that uses overlays atop side-by-side waveform views
* Pre-listening using a special left/right adapter
* Faux vinyl and spin effects
* Real-time scratching, looping, positioning, EQ, effects, re-pitching
* Onboard sampler with 3 WAV sample slots, recording from the mic
* Uses a separate MP3 library with companion apps, since it isn’t possible to DJ from the library you sync from iTunes
Now, to me, that last point is a fairly significant one. You have to load tracks you wish to DJ separately, in MP3/M4A format. And I’m sure that this will start various debates about whether you’d want to DJ on your iPhone in the first place. But don’t look at me — I just work here. I’d be remiss if I started out the week talking about apps stuck in iPhone limbo, only to ignore them immediately becoming available. And I will say, Amidio is one of the smartest mobile music developers out there, so it’s worth checking out the range of what they’re doing.
smuncky
lol wut!
monishb
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Originally posted by Stilez
I wasn't sure if I should post this in the Cellular/Voip thread or this one, but since it concerns the iPhone w/ Telus, I guess it should be fine here.
I became aware yesterday, while I was helping a friend set up his iPhone with Telus, that Telus does not have an EDGE service. So naturally, I was curious and started wondering just how good Telus’s 3G+ network coverage is? Since there’s no EDGE service to fall back to, we asked the phone rep if the phone would switch/default to a Rogers/Fido network if 3G service was not available, and he said yes. What we quickly found out was that turning off the 3G on his iPhone resulted in absolutely NO network service, PERIOD! and did not automatically default/switch to the Rogers network. A bit concerning, and just a heads up for anyone who's thinking of getting an iPhone with Telus.
telus doesnt need edge they have blanketed their entire existing coverage with HSPA+ so there is no need to fall on anything else unlike rogers your forced to switch to slower speeds on EDGE. Telus does NOT have a roaming agreement with rogers wont ever have it and besides surfing on EDGE is super slow
E2EK1EL
Edge is NEEDED until someone comes up with a new battery break through and when 3G is covered every square inch of the country. If your one of those ppl who only use 3G, think about this .... when you dont have a 3G signal or when it drops, EDGE takes over and your back to kicking ass again. If there's no EDGE, you might as well power off you phone until whatever you hope will happen "soon".
Even when you have a full signal on 3G, due to network issues on all carriers ... you ain't gonna go anywhere if you don't have type of backup.
I pick EDGE over 3G anyday @ the current state our networks.
E2EK1EL
On Google ChromeOS, VoIP-only gPhones, and How the iPhone Benefits
When Google first mentioned ChromeOS, we figured it was their reaction to launching Android, then seeing Palm come out with webOS, and smacking their heads — they could have done that with V8! (What, too nerdy?)
Lame JavaScript rendering engine jokes aside, the very traditional Android never really seemed like the OS Google should, or even wanted, to give to the world. ChromeOS does. (For those unfamiliar, when I guessed what it would be before the unveiling yesterday — Brin and Page booting Linux which then auto-started the WebKit-based Chrome browser — that wasn’t a joke. It’s really what I — and many others — thought they’d do, and pretty much what they did. Casey at Android Central has a bigger write up on it if you want the details).
Now bear with me because this will be a little bit all over the place (yeah, what else is new, but the future is woven from many seemingly disparate threads). The business reason (and remember Google is a business) makes a lot of sense — booting in 10 seconds and getting into Chrome, and just Chrome, means users only have access to the web, and Google owns the web and most of its advertising revenue. Boot into Windows, Mac, or the *nix OS, and users may waste time in native apps, totally outside Google’s reach. That’s why targeting SSD-only netbooks on hardware approved by Google with mass storage access and (we’re guessing) internet-driven printing gives Google a chance to own ultra-small scale computing. Free as in Google indeed.
And that’s why it makes perfect sense for Mobile handsets in the coming age of ubiquitous connectivity. We’re not there yet but we will be soon. And maybe that’s why TechCrunch is following up their rumours of a branded Google gPhone with even more rumours that it will be a data-only VoIP device. That’s right, no voice plan, just cheap data with Gizmo5-fortified Google Voice and all those other cloud-based Google services like Gmail, navigation, docs, etc.. (It’s also suggested this device would run on AT&T, giving them some glamor back if they lose iPhone exclusivity next year).
Bringing this back to the iPhone, we all remember in 2007 when Steve Jobs announced the first “sweet” iPhone development platform — WebApps, and the resounding thud of that landing on unenthused developers and users alike. But Google isn’t Apple and next year is 2010. ChromeOS is, as Casey says, ambitious in concept if tame in current realization, but for iPhone users, that may not matter.
See, as iPhone users, we’re excited because we’re counting on all those Google ChromeOS WebApps to run just great in our iPhone Safari browsers as well, just like Google’s current cloud-based apps — which is something Android apps won’t do (they only run on Android devices). Microsoft going web-based with Office 2010, which we’re also looking forward to running in iPhone Safari, only makes it “sweeter”. Cheap or “free as in Google” gPhones for those who just want data and browsers, iPhones for those who want all that and more?
Could we be getting the best of all worlds again? Apple and 100,000+ apps native on our iPhone (or Windows, Mac, *nix desktop), Google and Microsoft filling up our cloud along with their own? Yes please.
Let us know what you think!
Jer
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Originally posted by Stilez
INSANE!!!
I was a tester for this App before it released, believe me when I say it's .
E2EK1EL
Gameloft: 13% of Revenue from iPhone, Nobody Making Money on Android
Gameloft — and other developers according to Gameloft — are cutting back on development for Google’s Android platform due to the “weakness” of the Android Market. According to Reuters, Gameloft finance director Alexandre de Rochefort said:
We have significantly cut our investment in Android platform, just like … many others. [The Android Market] is not as neatly done as on the iPhone. Google has not been very good to entice customers to actually buy products. On Android nobody is making significant revenue.”
Ouch. Harsh words. Meanwhile, with iPhone generating 13% of Gameloft’s revenue (400 times more than Android), we’ll no doubt see plenty more on the iTunes App Store.
While we’ve heard developers and pundits talk about the business advantage of the iPhone before, and while Android’s numbers may be rising and soon, in the short term the bigger houses like Gameloft might just stick with where the money is.
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Thats not good at all
haqq
Guys I need some help...
I got my iphone 2g and I want to jailbreak it I've done it before with my ipod touch so I'm not totally n00b.
Where can I find the latest ipsw/firmware for the 2g
and what should I use pwnagetool? Or is there anything better?
