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Android is growing exponentially according the the latest Millennial Nedia report. Although Apple’s iPhone is the top mobile phone at 24.32% it’s follwed by the BackBerry Curve and Motorola Droid. Shopping app usage increased, most likely for Back-to-School shopping and smartphones usage increased.

The Android OS continued its huge growth on the Millennial network, and grew another 47% month-over-month. Since January, Android has grown 690%. Android also officially became the number two OS on the Millennial network (surpassing RIM.)

The Motorola Droid moved into the top three in July’s Top 20 Mobile Phones with 5% impression share. The Motorola Cliq Android device also entered into the Top 20 for the first time this month.

Apple ad requests increased 24% month-over-month, but are actually down 15% since January.
iPad ad requests grew 327% month-over-month.

BlackBerry apps represented 11% of the US Developer Platform Usage
Mix. This was a increase of 9%, and represents the increased importance
app developers are placing on the RIM platform.

Shopping and retail apps entered into the top 10 Mobile App Channels, perhaps reflecting a potential back-to-school trend.

Smartphones and connected devices increased their impression share
7%, and now represent 68% of the total impression share. This is an
example of the continued demand consumers have for a rich media
experience they cannot get on a feature phone.

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Has your iPhone died?
Want to restore but not upgrade?
Since you have an iPhone 3g or earlier you can restore your phone to an earlier version. This method will notnwork with a 3rd generation iPod Touch or iPhone 3gs as apple must digitally verify all iPhone restores. They as of this writing are not verifying any firmware but 3.1.3 on these two newest iDevices.

(Btw, for a great resource on jailbreaking I recommend checking THIS BOOK out, it’s an awesome reference manual!

If your phone is in the “connect to iTunes” screen then it likely isnt actually in DFU mode.
DFU mode has to be entered by a user. More on that in a minute.

1. The first thing you need to do is download the appropriate firmware for your device.
You can get a list of firmware downloads from:
http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=750

The file you want is:
3.1.2 (3G): iPhone1,2_3.1.2_7D11_Restore.ipsw
(or earlier)

Download that file. They are large so be patient. Also take note of where it is saved as you need it later on.

Now you are ready to put the phone into restore mode if it isn’t already:

Step 1. Turn off your iPhone.

Step 2. Hold down the power and home button.

Step 3. When you see the Apple logo, release the power button but continue holding the home button down.

Step 4. Open iTunes and wait for it to tell you that its in restore mode.

At this point you will see a message in itunes telling you that an iPhone in recovery mode and that it needs to be restored.
Click ok to dismiss this dialog box.

Next on the iTunes screen hold SHIFT and click the restore button.
Instead of downloading the newest firmware it opens a file dialog box.

Navigate to the file you just downloaded and select it.
The rest of the process is automated and will take maybe between 15-20 minutes.

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Although the iPhone 3gs natively takes spectacular video, you cannot simply take a frame grab but there is an easy solution that involves no jailbreaking or hacking.

Step 1:
select the video you want a frame from in your camera roll and turn your phone on its side to enter landscape mode (so it’s wider than tall) the video automatically fills the entire iPhone screen.

Step 2:
use the scrub bat up top to skip to the frame you want to capture. Pause the video on this point

Step 3:
tap on the screen anywhere to make the video controls dissapear and all you can see just the video.

Step 4:
hold the sleep/wake button on top of the phone and then press the home button on the front of the iPhone and a screenshot is taken and saved to the camera roll.

You now had a still image of the frame on the movie you want!

I isn’t the same an iPhone photo though the resolution is less and it’s in PNG format but unless you get the photo on a computer and use a professional video editing program it’s the closest you can get.

Also the iPhone video is only 640×480 resolution so it won’t create anymore than a VGA resolution still from a video.

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So your iPhone died and was restored and needs to be activated? Follow these simple steps to get back into business:

You may activate the phone at a AT&T store however the staff there does the same thing you can do at home which is connect the phone to iTunes and do it online.
Apple store employees also simply use iTunes to activate the phone.

How to activate iPhone:

1. Download the latest version of iTunes from http://www.apple.com/iTunes
install it

2. Connect your iPhone to the computer. After a few minutes any drivers needed are installed on your computer (windows version only not mac) and the phone is recognized

3. The iPhone will come up in the iTunes window and is automatically activated.

4. You are asked if you want to set the phone up as new or restore a backup

from here on just follow prompts.
If you do nit have an active Internet connection this does not work and you will need to bring the phone in to an stt or apple store.
Do not go to an att retailer but an actual corporate store. They deal with customer service type issues.

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iPhone apps for profit?

Do you want to develop the next “big thing” in the iPhone world? That would be the next app… The apps you see in the apple iPhone commercials were made by someone, many people with no computer programming experience at all. So why not you! Why can’t you make that BIG MONEY?

THERE’S AN APP FOR THAT

The past few years has witnessed a change in the ecosystem of the wireless world.
Time was that cell phone companies were responsible for selling games and applications to their customers.
These apps were programmer in the java language using J2RE. Not only were these apps hard to develop, they were also severly limited due to several different factors:

- compatability with multiple phones
- limited hardware
- small screen size

When apple launched the iPhone in 2007 and the AppStore a year later, the world of mobile development forever changed.

A GAME CHANGER

The AppStore is an integrated distribution system for developers to sell applications on the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. It is pre-installed on all of these devices and is dead easy to use.

Since it’s launch in 2008, in only a year and a half over TWO BILLION APPS have been downloaded from the AppStore and the numbers keep increasing day by day!

And it will only GET BIGGER with the iPad coming in the next few months!

THE APPLE METHOD

Ultimately apple makes it relatively simple to become an app developer. You need to join the apple developer program and program your apps.

You need three things:

1. An idea
2. An annual subscription to Apples development program
3. A computer to program your app on (Windows or Mac will do)

After you write and code your app, submit it to Apple for approval and wait to get listed on the Appstore and the money to start to come in.

BUT I’M NO COMPUTER PROGRAMMER!!

Fear not because I’m about to tell you the secret of how anyone can learn to write and sell an app on the AppStore.
It makes it NEARLY GUARANTEED that you will be able to

A. Make BIG $$$
B. Start on a real career as an app programmer.

Who knows, maybe you will be the next big thing! Most downloaded apps do make a profit.
Even selling an app for a dollar and making .50 profit after your comission still NETS YOU 00.00!

HOW TO GET STARTED:

If this sounds good to you, and you found this article useful, then you need to check out the secret so many app developers know but don’t share…

I know it can be done and you don’t need to be a computer genius either!

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How to reinstall apps on iPhone when the AppStore tells you an app already exists, and it doesn’t.

Is iTunes acting up?
Does your iPhones AppStore tell you that an app is installed when it isn’t?

There is a solution for that:

The iPhone is not perfect and sometimes these strange things happen.
Try the following to straighten your phone out:

Sometimes when you sync your phone apps are installed by iTunes on your computer. To see if fabecook is already installed:

First, press the home button twice. The first time sill bring you to the first home screen, the second time brings up search. Type the first few letter of the app you are looking for. Do you see what you are looking for? Great, it’s already Installed.

If not try:

1. Restart the phone.
Hold down the top button you usualy turn the screen off with and the front button on the face at the same time for about ten seconds until th phone restarts and you see an apple logo appear

try and see if the phone let’s you Install your app now

2. Connect the phone to your computer. Open iTunes and on the main screen where you can manage you iPhone see under “applications” and make sure the box is not checked for the the app you want to install. Check this box and click sync below. iTunes will install the app for you.

Hope this solves your problem!

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Apple had mentioned Nokia in their press conference today regarding the iPhone 4. Nokia issued a statement on it’s own antenna design and function. They say that they have studied how people hold their phones, use specific materials and location of antenna. Just a few years ago it was common to see mobile phones with visible antenna, this style has been changed so that the mobile phone looks nicer.

*Nokia has invested thousands of man hours in studying human behavior, including how people hold their phones for calls, music playing, web browsing and so on. As you would expect from a company focused on connecting people, we prioritize antenna performance over physical design if they are ever in conflict.

In general, antenna performance of a mobile device/phone may be affected with a tight grip, depending on how the device is held. That’s why Nokia designs our phones to ensure acceptable performance in all real life cases, for example when the phone is held in either hand. Nokia has invested thousands of man hours in studying how people hold their phones and allows for this in designs, for example by having antennas both at the top and bottom of the phone and by careful selection of materials and their use in the mechanical design.

As you read through that, you probably noticed a few gems. Like how Nokia was “the pioneer of internal antennas.” We’re not going to say that they weren’t, not by any means, but let’s just try to stay focused. A comment that’s more on track would be something like this: “we prioritize antenna performance over physical design if they are ever in conflict.”

Steve
Jobs’ held a press conference today in which he offered free cases and
returns.

Consumer

Reports is not giving the iPhone their seal of approval and also
found Apple’s claim that the signal bars were
wrongly calculated was bogus.

Wireless and Mobile News’ “Review of
Reviews” of the 
iPhone 4 (AT&T) showed many good features, but also concerns
for the limited data plans as well as signal attenuation.

The
iPhone 4 had problems with
slow uploads.  Apple reported that they were stunned with the
south-paw attenuation/death grip and there was problem with signal bars
that would be fixed with a
software update. On almost every cell phone there can be signal
degradation from hands
blocking the antenna. We posted several videos that show

signal attenuation.

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If the iPhone iOS 4 has one “killer app” it was supposed to be the multitasking feature that was built in.
It took apple such a long time to implement that people reasoned surely it would be a perfect elegant solution…

So why were we given such a “broken” mess with no true multi threaded application support?

When you close or switch almost any app made for any version of iOS prior to 4.0 you are simply closing the app and leaving the icon in the tray.
iOS 4 ready apps can stream music or give directions in the background or can complete a task and send you a notification when done, but never truly stay running (only the apple built apps stay running in their entirety)

But why? Now we are left to micro manage a tray full of icons. Not so elegant apple!

Truthfully the tray full of icons needs to be managed or else you have literally dozens of icons down there and have to hunt around to find what you want.

A better solution is to allow users to specify if they want 3,5, or 10 recents in addition to what’s already running. Make the recents a dim sort of appearance so we know they aren’t running and mak them stay to the right of whatever is always running.

Apples main concern here FYI is memory. On the iPhone 4 with 512 megabytes or ram it’s less of an issue but as someone who has jailbroken and seen the size of mobile safari with a system profiler app I can tell you safari takes up to 150 megs of the 256 in most peoples iPhone 3GS models.

Low ram effects an iPhone just like any other computing device, this is why they do not allow endless apps running.

This is not in defense of apple, these are just logical explanations.

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No Verizon iPhone till 2011 says an analyst.

Look for the iPhone to be exclusive to AT&T for at least the rest of 2010 and first half of 2011 says an analyst.

According to Brian Marshall, a Wall Street analyst at BroadPoint AmTech, “AT&T had to do something dramatic to get the iPad.” So what they did was to give Apple the rock-bottom pricing it wanted for 3G data. No other US 3G carrier can touch the .99 all-you-can-eat plan, and so, Marshall told Computerworld’s Gregg Keizer, “AT&T was able to negotiate a six-month extension on the iPhone exclusive.”

So it seems that all those people who thought that .99 iPad unlimited data plan was “to good to be true” were right. However true as it is, it was a business decision to extend AT&T’s exclusivity through the key Christmas shopping season.
Consider this a loss leader for AT&T who may lose money on the iPad data plan on some customers, but who will gain new subscriptions and customers looking for phones over the Christmas season.

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