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Steve Jobs may wish he was dead over Apple’s iPhone 3G software, but no such luck

Hey, Jobs didn’t die, just AT&T’s 3G network connectivity when it comes to iPhone 3G

By Dave Porter

(AXcess News) Reno - Yes, the joke of the day Friday was a Bloomberg goof on Steve Jobs obituary being post online by mistake, but after the guffaw Jobs faced with problems relating to Apple iPhone 2.0.2 software, he may wish he was dead.

If anything, Jobs is haunted by the problems of Apple’s latest iPhone that he supposedly circulated an email memo to Apple employees in which he choked on iPhone’s newest 3G play saying perhaps it shouldn’t have been brought to market quite yet.  I believe the whole memo thing to be a hoax and I also think that Bloomberg didn’t goof, but that it was sarcastically placed online intentionally by - you guessed it - an unhappy Bloomberger who chucked up a couple clams and bought the latest Apple gizmo only to find it was about as useful as a boat anchor on a frozen lake.

If I were Steve Jobs and I wanted to reclaim my obituary, I’d call the nearest ambulance-chasing lawyer and sue the bytes off of Bloomberg considering Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) shares dropped $4.21, or 2.4%, to close at $169.53 Friday.  In fact, it could be a class-action suit just waiting to happen.  But the good Mayor of New York, Mike Bloomberg, might not lose sleep over it considering the problems Apple is having with its iPhone 3G.

AT&T (NYSE: T) says owners of the Apple iPhone 3G are sucking too much juice off of 3G networks and the only way to cure their $199 woes is to upgrade their software to iPhone 2.0.2.  Imagine, all the problems with connectivity iPhone users were having since it was launched in July were earlier software versions.  Maybe it wasn’t the software so much as AT&T.

Stingy ol’ ma bell didn’t like the amount of bandwidth being used on its 3G network and if too many users were texting up Steve Jobs obituary at one time, the network would just refuse to deliver the connection.  Perhaps Apple iPhone 3G is really a 4G network category handheld device?  Or, AT&T is the one with a software glitch!  But none the less, Jobs’ is back from the dead and his developer team has supposedly fixed the problem.  But if the problem is that the iPhone 3G is so powerful 3G networks can’t actually deliver, then the Networks need to revisit their own software to fix the problem.  Routing could also be there so let’s shuffle on over to Cisco and drop a dime on them too.  Or maybe its got something to do the number of hops to the server of a site page called up on Jobs’ latest iPhone.  Sort of turns into a soap opera doesn’t it?

[Thanks: http://www.axcessnews.com]

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Review – BlackBerry Bold 9000

The BlackBerry Bold is not, as some have hyped, an attempt by Research In Motion to respond to perceived threats from Apple’s iPhone 3G, nor is it an attempt to reinvent the cellphone or its role in the industry, but rather an effort to create the best BlackBerry possible, to take the design and concept that we are all very familiar with and produce a model with the best possible components, materials, and features. It’s a phone that could easily have been launched as part of an anniversary, to serve as a reminder of the company’s legacy, and will no doubt leave their engineers free to create the more experimental and risky designs needed to meet the industry’s current changes moving forward.

Design

The Bold is a larger, wider, and slightly heavier phone, enough to take most BlackBerry users by surprise, but necessary in order to house a larger screen. Today’s cellphones are driven towards big displays not just because of the growing popularity of mobile videos, but because it allows for a better layout of menu options, web pages, and applications. RIM has had to find a balance between serving that need and still keeping their physical keyboard. Give the Bold a few days of use and the value of that balance will become clear.

The QWERTY keyboard is wider as a result and will make it harder for those with small hands to type one-handed, not that it’s designed for that anyway. The keys are indented so that your thumbs will catch them as you run them from the middle outward, but will practically disappear as you run your thumbs back inwards, making it so you can quickly glide in and then find the keys you need. Instead of the usual plastic shell, the Bold has been given a black faux leather backing that’s comfortable and feels supportive for its two-handed typing purpose.

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