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Vonage Mobile for iPhone
Sort of a plug, but here it goes: Vonage, the VoIP phone company, released an interesting app for iPhone, iPod touch, and Android (iPad coming soon).
It works like this: you install the Vonage Mobile application on your phone and log in using your Facebook account. Once you do that, it will show all your friends that also happen to have this application installed. You can then call them and talk to them, over both 3G and WiFi. And it’s free – even if they are in a different country – because the call goes over the internet.
The app is far from perfect. For instance, it does not yet support multitasking on iOS 4. But it works, and it’s free, and it’s convenient. Hopefully they work the kinks out soon. Try it out, and if I am your Facebook friend, then I will automatically show up on your contacts list. However, be careful if you are using this on 3G and have a limited data plan.
iPhone users have more sex
Deep down I already knew it… but now there is some numerical data backing up the claim. The good people of okcupid, an online dating website I don’t use – but whose super interesting blog I do read, analyzed millions of their user photos in order to draw some conclusions. Some of them:
- iPhone users have more sex than other smartphone users.
- Photos taken with more complex cameras make their subjects appear more attractive, which explains why I look so good on my World Cup photos.
- Read more, if you care.
New killer iPhone app
I’m eligible
Yep, looks like I’m already eligible to upgrade to the new iPhone 4 for the $200 base price. To upgrade or not to upgrade: that is the question. But a really easy one.
I really want an iPhone 4
Or should I say… iWant? It was just announced.
Why AT&T’s new data plans suck
By now you must have heard about AT&T’s new data plan pricing: Instead of paying $30 for unlimited data, you can pay:
- $15 per month for 200MB or
- $25 per month for 2GB
AT&T claims that 95% (but I can’t find the source) of their data users use less than 2 GB anyway, so most people will see savings! Sounds like a good deal, right?
Wrong. The problem with the new data plans is that, although most users will be fine with 2 GB a month today, they won’t be ok with it tomorrow. This explains the timing of the announcement: make it seem like they are loweing the prices, fully knowing that data intensive phones are right around the corner. Next week Apple is expected to release iPhone OS 4.0, which supports background services. Yes, people will be using Skype and Pandora for hours on their phone. And they are also expected to release a new iPhone model that will likely support video conferencing. These are data intensive applications that will eat through 2 GB very quickly. We should expect other smartphones to similarly steer toward more data intensive applications. It’s a ripoff: customers will be paying over $25 or will have to start carefully watching their habits.
And don’t get me started on that $20 charge to allow tethering (without providing any additional data)…
What is iPad/Newton
The resemblance between the old Newton ad and the new iPad ad is uncanny but not coincidental, a homage if you may. If you think the iPad is futuristic or ahead of its time – or magical even, then you probably didn’t get to play with a Newton when it first came out. My brother owned two and it was the coolest piece of technology. But it didn’t do as well: In it’s five years of existence, 200,000 Newtons were sold. In its first day, 300,000 iPads were sold.
iPad in the news
Above are some news items from the iPad launch day. Sure, you’ve seen it a hundred times. But if you look closer, you’ll see that the blonde bombshell in the photo and video is none other than Julieta Pessah Kirsch, my cousin and official representative of the Kirsch family at the iPad launch.
I was there only in spirit.
The Tablet
And here I am thinking that the tablets were supposed to be received in Shavuot, not Passover. Still, the image seemed appropriate. The iPad lands today. (image source)