Blog on iPod and iPhone

Back in early January, wireless optimization firm Arieso released a report on the bandwidth usage profiles of various smartphones and other devices. It noted a surge in download and upload usage for the iPhone 4S, moving the new phone ahead of the iPhone 4 and various Android devices to take over the top spot for [...]

“How Siri is ruining your cellphone service.” That’s the searing headline from the Washington Post in an article by Paul Farhi. Farhi claims that “Siri’s dirty little secret is that she’s a bandwidth guzzler, the digital equivalent of a 10-miles-per-gallon Hummer H1.” Where’s he coming up with this? Apparently, the “Siri eats bandwidth” claim is [...]

Pad & Quill has been making book-bound iPad and iPhone cases for a couple of years. By book-bound, I mean that the cases made using traditional book-binding materials and techniques. Like DODOcase, the cases have evolved a bit over the years to meet the requirements of new devices; unlike DODOcase, Pad & Quill has created [...]

We often hear about iPhone sales during Apple’s quarterly earnings report, but we don’t talk about secondary sales very much. This is the market where used iPhones in various conditions are bought and sold. I’ve been an active participant in this exchange, often selling my old iPhone or iPad to get the current year’s model. [...]

I have to say, of all the product names that I heard and saw at CES 2012 last week (and there were plenty of them), TourWrist was by far my favorite. And the app is pretty interesting as well. It’s a free download for iPhone and iPad that allows you to view the company’s interactive [...]

Third Rail Mobility, a case/battery system that our own Mike Rose reviewed (and liked), announced revisions to their iPhone 4/4S case and battery systems at CES 2012. Now they are available in colors aside from black, allowing you to customize your iPhone and keep it charged. Soon their line will include green, red, pink, white, [...]

Market research group NPD is reporting some good news for Apple ahead of the January 24 earnings call. The three models of the iPhone that are currently for sale — the iPhone 4S, iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS — accounted for 43 percent of US smartphone sales in October and November. Android phones saw a [...]

A new study by telecom network tech firm Arieso shows that owners of Apple’s new iPhone 4S are using almost twice as much data with their devices than iPhone 4 users, and almost three times as much as iPhone 3G users. The report, covered by Reuters, shows that the primary driver of the data usage [...]

You know who you are. It’s Christmas Eve, your stockings are yet to be hung with care, and there’s a dismayingly large gap in the “gift gotten” column of your personal Nice list — or maybe you haven’t figured out what the last three days of Hanukkah are going to look like when it comes [...]

I’ll ‘fess up — on our wish list earlier this week, I was the one who asked (reasonably, I thought) for an Apple Camera. I’ve been shopping for a DSLR lately, and while the quality of some cameras are great, the interfaces are pretty terrible. I really do wish that Apple would step in and [...]