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I’ve been reding various posts over the last few days about the mute switch on the iPhone and what it actually does. I’ve decided to chime in with what I think will work. The argument revolves around what the mute switch on the iPhone should actually do. Some think it should mute all sound, regardless of what triggers it. Others think it should work as it does now where it only mutes certain sounds but still allows alarms to sound when set. Source 1.

My own thoughts are that I want the mute switch to mute everything. If I switch sound off, I want no sounds at all to be made with just a single exception to Find My iPhone and setting it to beep remotely in case I want to track it down when lost. Continue reading →

Well, it seems we are perhaps a month or so away from Apple announcing details about the next generation iPad, the iPad 3. Thanks to digitimes, we’ve heard a bunch of rumours about Apple creating a smaller version (7 inches) as well as hearing shortly after that two versions are launching this year… an iPad 3 and iPad 4. Why they keep reporting things like this is not known as it breaks away from iOS devices being launched yearly (or there abouts). Anyway, I thought I’d share some of my “more sensible” thoughts on what the next generation iPad will include and what exactly we will see. Continue reading →

The iPhone launched this morning in the UK at 8am, but unfortunately a snag was to be found. In London a queue of over 150 people was formed (with some queuing over a day) which when the doors opened the on-line registration system refused to accept details or payments for the new phone. Oops. It is estimated that just a few dozen iPhones will be made available at launch today with others wanting to buy having to wait a few more weeks or months until the end of summer.

O2 were limiting the iPhone to just one per customer although if you are a business user then you are allowed two of the phones, assuming you were in the queue from early on today. A significant change over the first iPhone is that the UK will be offering the phone for free on some of it’s plans (those for £45 and above) which is a smart move and very welcomed move.

Source – Sky News

VoIP Weblog raised an interesting question today about the iPhone 3G and VoIP. They are wanting to know “Who will have the first VoIP over Wifi application on iPhone 3G?” What they are referring to is actual applications being built rather then Jajah and RingFree which are web based services.
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Coverflow was “kind of cool” when it came out, but at the same time it isn’t really something we enjoy using day to day as other methods of scrolling around your music tend to be quicker. An idea has now been put forwards that suggests Coverflow should be used for contacts on the iPhone. A picture of each contact with information on their current status could be flicked through like an address book.

The benefits of a Contact Coverflow or Contactflow could be to find those people you forget the names of but remember their faces. A quick scroll through your contacts would quickly find them… although if you don’t remember their names then why would you be asking them for a picture anyway?

Although on the surface it looks like a great idea, I could soon see it becoming a bit boring like coverflow. I still think contactflow should be included in the standard software though!

Via: TechAU