We get the strangest e-mails in the MobileCrunch tips line. Sometimes people will write in to tell us about their day, using us as an archaic, vacuum-esque livejournal. Other times (and quite often), internet newbies fail to realize this isn’t a store, and ask us when we’ll have such and such item in stock. Less often, we’ll get random little gems of self-created goodness that I’m never quite sure what to do with; they’re not news, per se, but they’re still rather interesting.
Such is the case with this concept video (after the jump) from Swedish design house Ocean Observations. It looks rather flashy and neat, but I’m left wondering: would anyone use it? It’s like OS X’s Expose feature, tweaked for iPhone app screens. Tap the home button, and up to 9 pages of homescreen are shown in a grid. Tapping any of the displayed pages will jump you directly to that page, allowing you to skip from page 1 to page 8 without swiping 7 times… Read on at techcrunch.com
Mobile Safari joins AndroidAndroid and BlackBerry browsers in getting location awareness with GoogleGoogle, using GPS or Wi-Fi triangulation to figure out what food, stores, or other goodies are nearby when you search. As with its counterparts, the location setting sticks with the browser until you hit update, or it happens to notice you’ve moved locales. Google says it doesn’t pull location data unless you allow it at the prompt – two prompts on an iPod touch, actually – and the location feature can be disabled from the Preferences link at the main Google page… Read on at Lifehacker.com
After being scarce for the first couple of weeks following the new iPhone 3.0 software rolling out, apps with Push Notifications are now rolling out at a healthy clip. And that’s great, because the feature is really useful. To a point. Read on at TechCrunch…
We don’t work like this on our computers — why does Apple think we want to work like this on our phones? Well that’s the thing — maybe they don’t really care about how we work. Maybe they don’t want us to work at all. At the end of the day, it’s nice to stick the “we love business users” line into your PR, but it’s quite another thing to make it real. Details…
face recognition, text filtering, smarter messaging, voice alteration…
Apple guys do keep themselves busy thinking up new ways how to improve their iPhone OS software. And Apple’s patent applications give us a glimpse of how they may go about it. Details…
The iPhone Dev Team just released updates to their cross-platform jailbreak and unlocking tools redsn0w and ultrasn0w, and while unlocks are definitely good news for folks who want to use an iPhone on non-sanctioned carriers, we’re wondering: Do you still jailbreak? Details…
We get the strangest e-mails in the MobileCrunch tips line. Sometimes people will write in to tell us about their day, using us as an archaic, vacuum-esque livejournal. Other times (and quite often), internet newbies fail to realize this isn’t a store, and ask us when we’ll have such and such item in stock. Less often, we’ll get random little gems of self-created goodness that I’m never quite sure what to do with; they’re not news, per se, but they’re still rather interesting.
