While there certainly was a lot of buzz about the Palm Pre, there wasn’t too much out there about it’s potential business implimentation. From my use in an extended test, I found that it really could hang with it’s only true competitor in the media device with smartphone functionality category,
Archive for August, 2009
Palm Pre, an enterprise class device?
August 12th, 2009What more with a Tour?
August 12th, 2009With the ever changing world of wireless smartphones why has RIM released a device which again, doesn’t bring anything new to the table. The BlackBerry Tour, which has been heavily marketed by Verizon Wireless and Sprint, has demonstrated RIM’s lack of ingenuity in the wireless marketplace. Keep it up RIM and you’ll end up like Motorola… » Read more: What more with a Tour?
Administer BES and GMM users with an iPhone…
August 9th, 2009Something you 24/7 BES and Good Admins are probably wishing you had is the ability to perform basic tasks when remote. Well, thanks to the advanced browser rendering of the iphone, and the Good Administration Center this is possible. Your organization would have to publish the url for the GAC over the internet, but it is in fact possible. Now there was rumors » Read more: Administer BES and GMM users with an iPhone…
How Voice Control makes Apple’s lock useless.
August 7th, 2009
Unlock the Lock
It’s pretty simple, really. Just like every other phone out now, the iPhone allows you enter a 4 digit pass code to lock the phone whenever the screen goes blank. This is quite useful in order to keep prying eyes and hands out of, say, some “personal” photos you took of yourself in the shower after manscaping, or risque emails, or whatever other sick things you do with you phone. However it’s also supposed to act a deterrent against someone who randomly picks up your from keeping because it would otherwise be useless to the. Thanks to the advent of voice operation in the somewhat new 3GS we are easily able to circumvent this protection with just a long and steady hold of the Home button. It should be noted that you can only do a few things with Voice Control, it won’t let you launch any apps or see the Spring Board. However you can dial any number you want or play music, albeit randomly. It’s a dilemma, you want to be able to access voice control without having to unlock (or look at) your phone to do so. However, one would assume that you want the lock to actually serve it’s purpose. I wonder if anyone can thing of a better way of skinning this cat.
iPhone OS 3.0.1 released… GMM around the corner!
August 3rd, 2009
iPhone OS 3.0.1 was released to “fix” the infamous text message vulnerability. This was expected and should have been done quite some time ago, but better late than never. While this patch doesn’t really change too much if anything else, it does move us one step closer to Mobile OSX 3.1…. With that comes buzz about background applications and a slew of other major impovements.
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