I personally think that Apple is not ready and has not been prepared for mass success. Even the kill-switch and 3G connection problems will piss off the most zealot Apple fan boys and girls:

From the Slate (full story here):

The half-price fib has been obvious for some time: When you add the price of AT&T’s required two-year contract, the new phone costs slightly more than the old phone. In a lawsuit filed last week, an iPhone owner named Jessica Alena Smith argues that Apple hasn’t been honest about the phone’s speed, either. Smith, echoing thousands of complaints logged on Apple’s Web site, says that her iPhone rarely connects to AT&T’s fast 3G network, instead staying fixed to the pokey EDGE service that was the bane of the first iPhone. Smith’s iPhone doesn’t just fail on tasks like downloading e-mail and surfing the Web, she says. It also drops many of her voice calls.

Smith lives in Birmingham, Ala., but I’ve had the same problem with my iPhone 3G in cell-tower-rich San Francisco—more dropped calls than I’ve ever had on a cell phone (including on the original iPhone) and terribly spotty 3G service. Last month, I raved about the great third-party programs available on the iPhone’s fantastic built-in App Store. But I’ve since soured on that system, too. As many iPhone owners have noticed, the phone often mysteriously refuses to load these apps, rendering them useless. Smith is asking a judge to grant her lawsuit class-action status. I hope it’s approved. Apple has reluctantly acknowledged flaws in the iPhone and has , but there’s no sign that it’s taking the complaints very seriously. The lawsuit might be just the kick it needs to fix the world’s broken iPhones.

But the company’s troubles go beyond the iPhone. Last month, Apple launched MobileMe, a $100-per-year online service that aimed to sync documents and e-mail across computers and Internet devices. MobileMe failed spectacularly in its opening weeks, with some users reporting losing years of saved e-mail. In a widely circulated post, Techcrunch’s Michael Arrington claimed last week that Apple’s PCs aren’t doing so well either. Arrington, a longtime Apple fan, says he’s had four new Macs break in different ways—one refused to connect to Wi-Fi networks, one suffered a keyboard flaw, and two shut down mysteriously…

Do go read it all, it is an interesting POV.

Come on Samsung Instinct, it’s time for a “I’m a iPhone and I’m Instinct” commercial parody.

I have not been a fan of Sprint commercials but this one is pretty good.

Sprint is really pushing the Samsung Instinct for good reason. It’s a great mobile device (via Gizmodo) and they need to get some traction against AT&T and iPhone 3G release.

With the new 3G iPhone having issues connection to the AT&T network and the recently release Apple “kill switch” Sprint and others should attack while the press is a little sketchy on the iPhone, which I’m sure they will figure out shortly.

Here is another story that went out today:

The Best Sprint Commercial

I think this one was Nextel first, before the merger.

It’s not new but I think it’s still the best even if it’s a borrowed spot.

I know we have posted it before, here on DHADM or Transbuddha. I don’t care, it’s that good.

Well, I’ve heard the horror story of the century on this one.  A brand new customer of AT&T hoping to get his grubby little hands on the new and improved 3G iPhone is thwarted by crappy customer care.  Seriously folks that happened.

I was talking to my older brother yesterday about why he didn’t have his new iPhone and his fiance did.  He tells me that he got screwed out of one by the manager and one irate customer.  Now he has to wait until the new shipment comes in, and hope that the manager actually remembered to put one aside for him again.  Oh and also hope that another bitching customer doesn’t demand for his device.  Does he get a discount on his iPhone?  He most certainly does not!

Best of luck to all those who didn’t get their iPhone on time.

Oh, and Apple sold 1 million of their devices in the first three days, Woo!

A couple of weeks ago Apple announced plans for a new iPhone.  Word is that they filed a patent to have solar cells on portable devices.

Outfitted with such technology, Apple’s devices, like the iPhone, could have photovoltaic cells stacked underneath LCD touch screens, thus maximizing the area available for harnessing the sun.

You’ll be able to see your device’s solar cells performance information on the main screen next to the battery power, text message alerts and clock.

 

One related product is the 6.4-ounce Solio Mg, $200, from Better Energy Systems. Its three magnesium blades fan out to reveal solar panels, which can store enough power to charge most phones and PDAs twice; an hour of clear sun will give most cell phones 25 minutes of talk time or an iPod an hour of playing time. It takes ten hours of direct sun to fully juice the device. (See Off The Grid But In The Game)

Also, the world’s first solar bag–the Voltaic Systems’ Generator laptop bag–is covered in solar cells and can charge a laptop. It generates up to 14.7 watts after a day of direct sunlight, can carry a 17-inch Apple Powerbook and comes with adapters that allow other electronics, such as cell phones, to be charged.

 

So go off-the-grid with Apple’s new patent, which is said to be out on the market with their new generation of iPhones.

Link

These three chaps got together to make a gadget band using the Nintendo DS and the fine products by Apple.  The applications used are: iAno, Pocket Guitar and a game called Electroplankton for Nintendo DS.

Pretty neat so I posted, plus I had talked about the iAno yesterday.  These three consider themselves the first iBand, so challengers thinking they were first get out there and YouTube it!

Check out their homepage here.

Here is a simple video for one of Apple’s iPhone applications.  Pretty neat application, but there are far better uses for your $500 iPhone.

You can find more webapps on Apple’s website.

Sorry about all the videos here, just thought they were worth seeing if you haven’t already.

This particular one is David Lynch giving some iNsight on the Apple iPhone. He obviously is a writer, director, producer and many other things in the film industry, so you can see why he is not in favor of watching films on your “fucking telephone.”

I loved this video, it’s short and sweet. Plus his rude way of telling it how it is, just cracked me up.

I simply just wanted to show you this video, I thought it was funny.  The guy actually covers all of the iPhone features, so if you are having problems figuring yours out, you should probably watch this.

I know I have posted numerous other iPhone videos, but this one is just a music video, so hit me on my iPhone.

Here are a couple of the iPhone commericals

iPhone Street Commercial | Bryce “Delay”
iPhone Street Commercial | Blogger; The Winger
Apple iPhone Street Commercial | Internet
Apple iPhone Street Commercial | Visual Voicemail

I am a huge fan of Apple, but disappointed to see their new MacBook Air.

Here is the advert for their ultra-slim, ultra-portable but ultra-lame. If you just look at the notebook then it appears to be awesome, but if you look between the lines you’ll see that it really isn’t all that its cracked up to be.

The new notebook is nearly $1,800 for a basic MacBook Air, which seems a little high for the specs. Is the idea to get the most money for the least amount of power? All you are paying for is the wedge-shaped device that, “weighs about 3 pounds, and sports a thickness of 0.16-0.76 inches. It’s 12.8 inches wide and 8.95 inches deep.”

I mean, there are neat things involved in the whole MacBook Air like the built-in iSight webcam, a full sized backlit MacBook-style black keyboard, an ambient light sensor that automatically adjusts brightness, and a trackpad that recognizes multi-touch gestures, like on the iPhone or iPod touch.But… It lacks the power that even the basic model of the MacBook includes in their machine. They also did not include an internal optical drive, but I suppose that Apple covers up that short coming by offering a $99 USB 2.0-based add-on SuperDrive.

Overall, not impressed with their new ‘innovative’ notebook.

Not convinced?  Check out a point-by-point comparison prooving the suckage.