Tuesday, August 24, 2010

How to calculate Data usage for iphone

AT&T has revised its unlimited data plans for iphones and have created a tiered data plans in which users can select the dadata plans based on the monthly usage

here are the revised AT&T's plans

$15/month for the DataPlus plan which includes 200MB of data transfer. If customers exceed 200MB in a monthly billing cycle, they receive an additional 200MB of data for $15 until the end of that billing cycle.

$25/month for a 2GB data plan. If subscribers exceed 2GB during a billing cycle, they will be charged $10 for an additional 1GB of data.

Most of us are confused about which will plan will be economical.For thats its better to check your usages so far and choose a correct one
Steps to find your data usage on iphone

Go to AT&T's website http://wireless.att.com/ and login with your account.
Choose Bill & Payments.
Now Click Create a Billing Report. It’s under the Billing Reports heading.
Choose Data Usage Trend from the Report pop-up menu. You can also set a date range to see your data usage for different time periods.

The Usage report will show you , how much data you have used per month (uploads,downloads).

Iphone App
You may find the data usage using the iphone app also- AT&T’s iphone app

The New iphones and ipads will also be having this new data plan.Its better to check out the usage trend to select the plan.
You can also use AT&T’s data usage estimator web application to view the data usage based on your requirement

Apple iphone 4 hands on pics

Apple just released new iphone 4 today.It has a new slim design which differs a lot from iphone 3G.See the hands on pics of iphone 4 in two colors (black and white).

Image courtesy ARS technica and Engadget

We have live blogged the launch event.You may see the indepth specs as said by steve jobs.

Monday, August 23, 2010

iphone 4 review - complete list of specs

The next version of the revolutionary iPhone is launched by Steve jobs today at WWDC (World wide developer conference ).The new phone is Iphone 4 with the renamed OS called iOS 4.

iphone 4

The wwdc 10 is iphone specific this time ( we covered the live event).After too much rumours and leaks (Gizmodo’s) iphone still got the speculation.Here’s the complete specs of iphone 4

New look

This phone is 34% slimmer than 3GS/3G versions.It is covered up with stainless steel rim.

Physical size
The iPhone 4 is 4.5 x 2.31 inches, and 0.37 inches thick. It weighs 4.8 ounces (137 grams- three grams heavier).Apple says its the thinnest iphone ever.The volume buttons are splitted unlike the 3GS.

Steel frame

Forged to be five times stronger than standard steel

Face time - Video calling

iphone to iphone video calling with help of wifi.

Retina display

The 960-by-640 backlit LCD display boasts a pixel density of 326 pixels per inch, making it the highest-resolution phone screen ever. The actual pixel length is 78 micrometers across — that the human eye can’t distinguish individual pixels.

A4 processor

Gyroscope

Gyro sensors will provide advanced motion sensing

5MP camera

With Flash!! There's a front facing camera, with standard VGA resolution.It has illumination sensor with HD recording feature too on 720p at 30fps.

Multitasking

imovie

Builtin Movie editor for iphone 4.You can make HD movies right from the iphone.

Battery Life

7 hours 3G talk time , 6 hours browsing, 10 hours WiFi, 40 hours of music, and 300 hours of standby time.

Pricing

The Phone 4 will be available in black or white on June 24, and will cost $199 and $299 for 16 and 32GB.

Check apple website for pre orders

More pictures of iphone4

Courtesy

1.Hardware specs GSM arena

2. Images Engadget , gdgt

WWDC 2010 - Apple’s World wide developer conference [ updated-3x ]

The Apple World Wide developers conference abbreviated WWDC is a conference held annually in California.This conference is mainly for apple to showcase its upcoming technologies and products for its developers.
Apple has released major products during this WWDC10 like Mac OS ,Iphone OS,Iphone 3GS and many software updates.Since 1995 Apple also started Apple Design Awards ,is meant to recognize the best and most innovative Macintosh and iPhone OS software and hardware produced by independent developers, as well as the best and most creative uses of Apple's products.

At the beginning of the conference Steve jobs ( CEO of apple) will deliver a Key Note address popularly known as Steve Notes.Check out the video of his recent presentation at ipad launch.

WWDC 2010

WWDC 2010 was announced on April 28, 2010 and will be held at Moscone West, San Francisco from June 7 to June 11, 2010.^. For the first time since their introduction, there might be no Apple Design Awards for Mac OS X applications. Only iPhone and iPad applications could be nominated. Apple reported that the conference was sold out within 8 days of tickets being made available, even though ticket price had risen from $1295 in 2009 to $1599 in 2010.

Its a 5 day conference which has some special events. see the list here
There are many rumours about the products to be revealed in wwdc 2010 in many blogs.Here are some list which are expected most probably
From Apple’s Press Release

The five-day conference includes the first ever iPad development sessions and hands-on working labs for iPhone OS 4, as well as Mac OS X core technology labs.

Rumour #1

Iphone 4G will be revealed on WWDC .Though we have the pre release at gizmodo it has to be official now.

Rumour #2

To compete with chrome and Firefox.Apple may launch updated version safari 5.

Rumour #3

MAC OS X 10.7-Much needed update expected by developers and Mac lovers.

Rumour #4

Steve Ballmer at WWDC – This rumour is broken as Microsoft conformed in its tweets that Steve not going up anywhere.

Rumour #5

There might be a refresh of the MacBook Air with either an Intel Core i3 or i5 processor and 4 GB of RAM standard.

As an Internal policy Apple wont allow live video streaming of the Event (not as Google did ).However you can watch at some blogs which provide the live coverage

@macrumors

@arsWWDC

Start Timing of WWDC 2010 on June 7th
07:00AM – Hawaii
10:00AM – Pacific
11:00AM – Mountain
12:00PM – Central
01:00PM – Eastern
06:00PM – London
07:00PM – Paris
10.30 PM – Mumbai
See the time remaining for the event for your time zone

We will be live blogging wwdc 2010.Watch this page for more updates.

UPDATE 1

Live stream of WWDC available at ustream http://www.ustream.tv/channel/applelivekeynotes

Apple's Multitouch trackpad via Engadget added to rumour list

UPDATE 2

OUR LIVE BLOGGING STARTS Visit our live blog page here.

UPDATE 3

Steve jobs's key note video is now live at apple's website

FIFA worldcup live updates on twitter

The football world cup fever is currently trending worldwide.The 2010 football world cup is scheduled from June 11 to July 11.

Here are some helpful ways to find live updates of FIFA 2010.

Twitter worldcup

Twitter has added a dedicated page for world cup fans and also facilitated the fans to follow the tweet updates specific for a team as well as the specific match.

http://twitter.com/worldcup

Google’s doodle for FIFA worldcup 2010

Live streaming video you can watch live streaming videos of matches in ESPN3

ESPN’s youtube channel

Live tweet updates on Tweetbeat.

Sunday, August 22, 2010

Google Earth is now available for ipad

Google earth is now available for ipad.This navigation application from google is a remarkable experience as same as like iphone.

The new app is versioned as 3.0 you can navigate with your fingers, One finger to move the globe and two fingers to change your viewpoint. a single finger double-tap to zoom in and a two-finger double-tap to zoom out.

Google Earth for iPad is one of the best ways yet to experience Google Earth. With the combination of an intuitive touch interface, a large screen, and the snappy A4 processor, you a great new way to explore the globe and share your adventures with your friends.

Google Blog post