iPhone battery drain--'Setting Time Zone' may be culprit | Apple. Having initially pointed out customer complaints about subpar battery life in the iPhone 4S, the U.K.'s Guardian newspaper has followed up with a report about a possible culprit and a possible temporary fix. The Guardian said yesterday that some 4S users who had griped on Apple's support Web site about the power drain were being contacted by the company and sent diagnostic files that could be sent back to Apple for analysis. Numerous users have been saying their phones are lasting just a few hours, even with minimal use, the Guardian said. Now the paper reports that a location-based feature in the phone that detects when you've physically moved to a different time zone and then resets the phone's clock accordingly may be the problem. Apparently, the "Setting Time Zone" feature is polling cell phone towers constantly to determine the phone's location rather than doing so only on occasion.
The Guardian quotes Oliver Haslam, of iDownloadBlog: CNET's Josh Lowensohn contributed to this report. How to Save Your iPhone 4S' Crappy Battery. IPhone 4S Conceals Sheer Magic - Pogue. iPhone 4S: Which is the best carrier? | iPhone Atlas. The recently announced iPhone 4S will be available not just for AT&T and Verizon, but also for Sprint.
This means that for the first time, an iPhone will be available on three of the four major U.S. carriers. The iPhone 4S has a few notable improvements over the iPhone 4, including a faster dual-core A5 chip and an 8-megapixel camera capable of 1080p HD video capture. If you're a Sprint customer, you might be happy that you have an iPhone at all, 4S or not. The iPhone 4S will have the same hardware across all three carriers--the same processor, same camera, and same dual-mode CDMA/GSM chipset, even if that chipset isn't activated for all carriers (see AT&T section below). We're also still watching to see how the world chip plays out in terms of global cellular coverage, if Sprint and Verizon will unlock the GSM portion of the chipset so you can easily slide in a GSM SIM card when you travel abroad (GSM will not work on Verizon and Sprint in the U.S.). iPhone 4S data plans AT&T iPhone 4S.
Sprint bets it all on iPhone: Strikes $20B deal with Apple. For Sprint, the iPhone could be its savior, or its doom. The company has arranged to buy at least 30.5 million iPhones over the next four years, a deal worth around $20 billion today, the Wall Street Journal reports. Such a bold move could be worth it if the iPhone finds success on Sprint’s network and attracts more subscribers, as it has on Verizon and AT&T. But if Sprint can’t sell all of the iPhones it has agreed to purchase, the deal could spell disaster for the No. 3 U.S. carrier. “This is a bet-the-company kind of thing,” a person familiar with the news told the WSJ. Even if Sprint manages to find buyers for all of its iPhones, it will still have to subsidize every unit by $500 to offer them at the low prices consumers expect. It will take a while for Sprint to recover that cost, the WSJ says, despite the expensive subscription plans that iPhone users adopt. Sprint had some 52 million subscribers at the end of the second quarter this year.
Trimit Summarizes Emails, Blog Posts, And More With A Shake Of Your iPhone. Attention spans are short these days, and some might even say the Web isn’t helping this phenomenon. Regardless, time is money, and people are ever-looking for more useful ways to maximize what time they have. Many have little tolerance (or time) for long-form digital content, and we’re seeing the proliferation of the “tl;dr” (too long; didn’t read) mentality as it sweeps the Internet nation. And, for those addicted to Twitter, content that comes in 140 character chunks is the norm, if not the preferred way, to express something shorthand.
(Other than emoticons, of course.) Enter the Trimit time-saver. And this is pretty nifty feature: Trimit can summarize your text just by shaking your device — like the opposite of mobile Boggle. Today, Trimit gave TechCrunch a little piece of exclusive news, announcing a bookmarklet for the Web, (which is currently in beta and will be available for download within the week) so that you can get all the benefits of the app on your browser, too. Apple iPhone, Google Android Devices: 11 Notable Smartphones of 2010 - Mobile and Wireless. By Michelle Maisto | Posted 2010-12-22 Email Print The best smartphone is in the hand of the beholder. During 2010, however, the 11 pictured here were all notable competitors for the title, highlighting emerging technologies and managing to stand out during a year that saw a flood of devices, all competing for consumer and enterprise attention.
Apple iPhone, Google Android Devices: 11 Notable Smartphones of 2010 by Michelle Maisto Michelle Maisto has been covering the enterprise mobility space for a decade, beginning with Knowledge Management, Field Force Automation and eCRM, and most recently as the editor-in-chief of Mobile Enterprise magazine. 10 Essential Websites for iPhone Photographers. iPhone photography is a growing medium, akin to Lomography in its cult status and the way it champions light-hearted, lo-fi, everyday shooting and off-beat effects. Like any good burgeoning artistic movement there are already a bunch of brilliant online resources aimed at iPhone photographers offering great galleries, talent showcases, app reviews, exhibition news and more.
Read on for 10 great sites from around the web that we've bookmarked for iPhone Photographers and photo-lovers alike. Your favorite not on this list? Please share any other great iPhotography sites you like in the comments below. 1. This site describes itself as a "gallery of the most beautiful and ground-breaking iPhone art on the web and home to an ever-increasing number of visionary pioneers in the exploration and development of this nascent and vibrant new medium. " 2. iPhoneogenic Run by Edgar Cuevas, an iPhotographer in his own right, iPhoneogenic is a lovely site to visit. 4. iPhoneography 5. 6. 7. iPhoneArt 8. 10. iPhone Glitch Temporarily Kills Alarms in 2011. Multiple users are reporting that alarms set within the iPhone's default clock application aren't going off as expected come January 1, 2011. Happy New Year! Here's hoping you'll wake up in time to enjoy the first morning of 2011, as multiple users are reporting that alarms set within the iPhone's default clock application aren't going off as expected come January 1, 2011.
However, the apparent alarm bug only affects those who go about setting their alarms in a very specific fashion on their phones. For starters, though, the bug in question only affects those running iOS 4—specifically, versions 4.2.1, 4.1, and 4.0.2 of the OS so far. And the bug doesn't affect alarms that have been previously set up to run as recurring elements on the phone.
You'll have to set a single alarm specifically for tomorrow or January 2 in order for your iPhone to completely ignore it. Why January 2? Apple hasn't commented on the issue nor has any actual patch or fix for the problem been released.