This week on the show:
iOS 5 feature YAYS and NAYS
iCloud thoughts.
Deconstruction of Engadget’s iCloud editorial.
The emergence of communication services and Nelay Patel’s anti-phone number editorial.
Apps: Nebulous Notes, Reeder for Mac, Pages for iPhone.
Direct download: iouzer33.mp3
This week on iOS UZER:
iPhone 5 design rumors, courtesy of Josh Topolsky @ This Is My Next.
Geniuses don’t know how iOS multitasking works.
New game uses Javascript engine.
iPhone 6 rumors.
Android VS iPhone marketshare.
Apps:
FastEver Snap, BananaTunes
…and as always deconstructing the week’s iOS news cycle.
The white iPhone is finally upon us, or so it seems. More rumors coming out from suppliers about how the iPhone 5 will be coming out later than expected. Apple hires a carbon fiber expert, what does this mean for its products? Adobe releases three photoshop companion applications for iPad. A component supplier states they are having problems with their chips and some speculate what effect this will have on Apple. The Flip is dead and what does that mean for the industry?
App Picks: WWE Slingshot, SleepUp & Tweetbot.
This week on iOS UZER we discuss a top 12 list of the best user interfaces this year and the list includes some of our favorite apps from the iOS ecosystem. The iPhone 5 rumors just won’t stop these days and there’s more chatter this week about the potential NFC capabilities of the next iPhone. Google appears to be having a change of heart on how open it really is with the newest releases of Android. We talk about the evolving looks of Reggie Fils-Aime the President of Nintendo of America. Does Nintendo have the mojo to compete with the iPhone in the mobile gaming arena?
Our Apps this week are GV Mobile+ (again), and Time Warners latest cable app.
This week Reece and Mike discuss some iOS 5 and iPhone 5 rumors that keep pouring in every week. iPhone 5 to have a bigger screen? No NFC technology? Mike also gives his impressions of Garageband for iPad now that it’s out. iPad 2 smokes the graphics benchmarks on anandtech.com. Microsoft stops making the Zune and nobody will miss it. Windows Phone OS updates don’t seem to be going smoothly at all. We discuss how to get mulitouch gestures on your iPad with Xcode. Is hot spot tethering plans on your iPhone worth it? We discuss the pros and cons. Twitter decides it wants to be more like Apple with it’s new developer rules. We also discuss some rumors about Motorola Xoom sales in Verizon sales. iOS data sharing is discussed as a frustration to iOS users.
Updated iOS apps we talk about this week include: Infinity Blade, Real Racing 2 HD, Flipboard, The Daily, & Instapaper.
This week on iOS UZER we discuss the official announcement of the iPad 2: Mike doesn’t understand weight, iMovie and Garageband for iPad, Photo Booth, and Smart Covers. We discuss the validity of some early iPad 2 benchmark claims. Was the idea of the Smart Cover stolen? Random House is now on the iBooks Store. iOS 4.3 details, does personal hotspot make the iPad 3G insignificant and will the Verizon iPhone ever get iOS 4.3? We discuss human versus computer multitasking and the idea that people have no idea what specs mean. We also discuss pants. Yes pants.
This week on iOS UZER we predict what will happen at the already past Apple iPad 2 announcement. We also discuss the possibility of an iOS 5 announcement. We also discuss new methods of notifications on iOS using MobileNotifier as an example. Why Mike thinks the iPhone 5 is the iPhone Nano, and Tim’s Cooks discussion on a cheap iPhone. All that and more this week on iOS UZER!
This week on iOS UZER we mainly talk about the competition. Specifically we have a long chat about WebOS and HP’s new products the Pre 3, Veer, and TouchPad. We also discuss the idea of the iPhone Nano, a potentially smaller iPhone. Have you ever wanted to run an Android app on your iPhone? We discuss an upcoming jailbreak application to do this called Alien Dalvik.
App Time: Google Translate
Pick of the Week: Monter iBeats by Dre.
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With all the rumors and “insider sources” I thought I’d share my perspective on why this “iPhone Nano” IS the iPhone 5. Lets start with the obvious, we heard a while back that the iPhone 5 would have a total redesign. When you have something like the iPhone 4, what more can you really do in terms of design? With Apple investing so much in their tough-as-nails glass, I don’t see them changing materials.
Instead we can make it thinner, lighter and “smaller”. When I say smaller I mean the physical footprint of the device. The screen size of the iPhone will not change. I am convinced it will never change; even if 4.5″ screens become an overbearing, outselling standard on Android.
How will we make it smaller? Edge-to-edge design, which is a point I agree with in the rumor mill. This is a great way to significantly reduce the size all around. Thats right all around! A small bezel at top and bottom for the receiver and mic is enough. You know what that means? Bye bye home button. Not sure how well it will work, but full on gesturing is ready for primetime. I’d say volume and mute buttons can remain. Insert proc and RAM upgrades here.
Why do I think this is true? Because I don’t see Apple supporting a third form factor. It would further fracture development. As we’ve seen, increasing resolution on an iPhone doesn’t give you more real estate, but pixel density. The point to point ratio of the iOS UI on mobile (iPhone & iPod touch) cannot change, unless iOS adapts a webOS-like dynamic scaling. But there are not hints of that as far as I know. I could be wrong.
As for the “cheap” price, a low storage entry level version of the iPhone 5 sounds good. Perhaps 4 or 8 GB models. Question is does that mean no $99 iPhone 4? Who knows? This is my brain thinking in JFK airport.
Mike Giannas
I wrote this on my iPad.
Update 2/18/2011
So I guess the NY Times took two days more to figure out what I did from common sense.
Via MacStories
On this episode of iOS UZER we chat about the shipping Verizon iPhone, our impressions on the newly launched “The Daily” a daily iPad only magazine. We ruminate over the pros and cons of having iPads in hotel rooms. Will the iPad 2 come out in February? Who knows, but we talk about it anyway. NYC starts allowing you to track buses using GPS so you can know when they will arrive. Mike talk about his experience helping his mom use a dumb-phone from AT&T. All that and more this week on iOS UZER!
App Review of the Week: Portal, an iPad browser.
People Like Us podcast 