Phone-stuff

Things I am discovering about mobile phones

Browsing Posts published on August 21, 2010

Facebook recently released their 3.2 (and subsequent 3.2.1) update which fixed bugs and introduced the Places feature (USA only at the moment). After writing about this update and then installing it on my iPhone 4, I encountered a problem instantly–I could no longer login to Facebook on my iPhone! Thanks to the iPhoneinCanada.ca community, here [...]

Saskatchewan customers have some more good news this week, this time from Telus. With SaskTel launching their new 3G+ network and opening up access to the iPhone on SaskTel, Telus now seems to want a piece of the action. While there has been no official announcement yet, it seems that Telus will soon be launching [...]

This week Shaw has launched a Video On Demand app for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. The new VOD app gives users access to the Shaw On Demand library of movies, TV shows, and sports events. Users can also order videos through the app and send them to their Shaw TV, at which point the [...]

FastSnap allows you to snap pictures or video via the Camera app with the volume button on the iPhone. Pretty sweet, eh? FastSnap also gives you the ability to mute the shutter sound when snapping a picture… something you can easily do yourself by setting your iPhone to vibrate-only. This is rather useful for taking [...]

This week, a new email from Apple CEO Steve Jobs confirms that a software update will soon be released to address issues with the performance of iOS 4 on iPhone 3G. In late July, Apple acknowledged that they were “looking into” user reports of the lags with iOS 4 on iPhone 3G. The latest email [...]