Mobile Musings is a weekly column where I take my thoughts on several subjects and basically think out loud. LTE WINDOWS PHONES ARRIVING IN 2012 In a rather obvious “rumor” its astonishing to see tech bloggers reporting that LTE flavored Windows Phones would be arriving in 2012. It was already announced that the platform would … Read more
There is not doubt that Siri, Apple’s digital assistant that comes with the iPhone 4S, has made a huge impact in the mobility world and has swept across the country in conversations everywhere. Asking Siri questions like, “what is the meaning of life?” Which she responds: “Life: the condition that distinguishes animals and plants from … Read more
I don’t know why, or even when I realized it, but I can’t stand voice controls. In part because of its inherent limitations and also because it just doesn’t work very well for me. Some people complain about voice controls not understanding colloquial accents and I, hailing from southeastern North Carolina, can totally understand how … Read more
Back when the original iPhone 4 came out, there was a certain place that if you held your iPhone, it would drop a call, or most generally, lose bars of signal. This was only true if you were using your iPhone 4 without a case. Apple’s response to this was: "Gripping any mobile phone will … Read more
Apple has just released iOS 5.01, the first update to iOS 5 that will deal with the much discussed battery life issue. Even though there was some work arounds to save battery life, multitasking gestures for the original ipad, iCloud documents , and some “down under” Australian voice recognition when using dictation. So this is … Read more
For all those with shiny a new iPhone 4S, you may be like me and have not had the urge to Jailbreak it yet because of how nice it runs right out of the box. BTW, there was an untethered Jailbreak released today for iOS 5.0 that I will get to here shortly. Back on … Read more
Apple released the iPhone 4S on October 14th and while many waited in line to get theirs, others were already testing the limits of Siri, the “Voice Activated Personal Assistant” that is exclusive to the 4S. As you can imagine, there have been a flood of YouTube videos documenting the multitudes of ways you can … Read more
Everyone by now has heard of Siri, Apple’s new voice control office assistant that has captured the most attention on the new iPhone 4S. With no physical changes to the device other than camera and processor, which both performed well on the iPhone 4, Apple has had to rely mainly on iOS 5 to set … Read more
I have just been reading on several websites their Siri reviews and it seems everyone agrees just how cool Siri is, but there are some limitations to it. I have not had much time since getting my iPhone 4S to really test it out as I had to head immediately out of the country on … Read more
If you were not one of the ones in attendance at the Apple iPhone media even today at Apple Headquarters, then here are some of the videos that the attendees were shown. The first is a 5 minute run down of the iPhone 4S which was the only device released today and the changes made … Read more