One thing I do right on this blog, iPhone 4S 1080p video storage predictions [Confirmed]
by Justin Horn on Oct 12th, 2011 @ 3:15 amI recently predicted the iPhone 4S 1080p video storage “requirements”.
Turns out (surprise!!!) I was right.
Jim Dalrymple from The Loop responded to my Tweet asking about real world 4S video size (he’s famous enough to get a review unit…but not too famous to talk to small time bloggers via Twitter):
Me: @jdalrymple how close am I to the 1080p files size for the 4S? [Link to the above link ^]
Jim Dalrymple: @justin_horn 4:33 of video is 814.2MB
Doing some math…give me a minute (or 178.9MB) here… comes out to…
178.95 MB/Min actual vs my estimate of 177.98 MB/Min.
I say…close enough.
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Apple Television Set?
by Justin Horn on Jun 22nd, 2011 @ 12:28 pmAccording to the source Apple plans to “blow Netflix and all those other guys away” by bundling Apple TV + iTunes inside physical television sets. According to the source Apple is teaming up with a major supplier (our guess would be Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.), to provide the physical televisions, which will be rebranded as Apple television sets.
I used to have this in the same rumor bin as the iPhone nano, so a few months ago when a friend told me Apple Television sets were coming out in this year, I just nodded and said, “we’ll see”. I hadn’t read any rumors about an Apple Television set at all and that made it even more far fetched. There were rumors flying around for years about an Apple tablet before the iPad was unveiled.
He said an acquaintance (not sure if it’s a family friend or what, it was a while ago and don’t remember the details) that works for Apple told him about it. I told him the Apple retail employees don’t know anything about unreleased products, but he said it was someone on a higher pay grade. Since then I haven’t really thought about it much.
Now after reading this, I’m starting to come around. Guess I’ll have to see if my friend can get any more info out of this “source”.
(via modmyi)
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Steve Jobs health takes a turn for the worse?
by Justin Horn on Feb 16th, 2011 @ 6:12 pmHas confirmed Jobs, 55, has been attending the Stanford Cancer Center in Palo Alto, California, where Swayze sought radical chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer before his death in September, 2009.
The skeletal-looking Apple boss was photographed outside the clinic in images set to be published in the next edition of The National Enquirer.
NY Magazine adds:
But the National Enquirer, who broke the news, talked to critical-care physician Dr. Samuel Jacobson, who said, “Judging from the photos, he is close to terminal. I would say he has six weeks.” We sincerely hope he’s wrong and wish Jobs all the best.
Steve Jobs did go on medical leave again in January, so that does lend some truth to these reports. If true, hopefully he can pull through this next round and Dr. Samuel Jacobson is incorrect in his assessment.
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Details on the Verizon iPhone antenna death grip fix
by Justin Horn on Jan 13th, 2011 @ 5:16 pmAntennaSys believes the new Verizon iPhone utilizes a new design to avoid the old, “non-existent”, I have no bars when I hold the phone in my left hand issue.
Spencer Webb from AntennaSys:
The SIM slot is gone, since it’s not a GSM phone. That frees up a bunch of real estate on the PC Board. Did Apple move the WiFi antenna (and probably also the GPS antenna) to the PC Board, under the rear glass? I think so.
In their FCC filing, Apple describes the WiFi antenna as a “PIFA”. This stands for Planar Inverted-F Antenna. I would never describe the “frame” antenna using those terms. So, this seems to support the theory.
Spencer also believes that with the extra space on the antenna band, from moving the WiFi and GPS antenna to the board, the band could now support two GSM antennas, to utilize ”antenna diversity”.
From the Wiki on antenna diversity:
Any one of several wireless diversity schemes that use two or more antennas to improve the quality and reliability of a wireless link.
This would allow the phone to switch between the two antennas, depending on which one has a stronger signal…the side that isn’t touching your greasy palms.
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iOS 4.2.1 GM released to developers
by Justin Horn on Nov 18th, 2010 @ 2:59 pmNew iOS 4.2.1 GM release means there definitely was a last min show stopper bug somewhere in the software. It’s logical to assume Apple will not release iOS 4.2 to the public and rather delay the release to iOS 4.2.1 sometime next week. I’ve noticed running the 4.2 GM that my phone seems to slow down significatly at random times. Not as bad a 3G running iOS 4.0, but it has been a bit annoying. Hopefully iOS 4.2.1 fixes that.
We’ll update the blog if anything interesting pops up.
(Thanks to @daveizzle for the tip)
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iOS 4.2 release changes some built in app process names
by Justin Horn on Nov 2nd, 2010 @ 12:44 amNothing big, just something I noticed. The Contacts and Maps apps are now called Contacts~iphone and Maps~iphone.
iOS 4.1 iOS 4.2
At first I thought it was due to the fact iOS 4.2 is the first unified release with the iPad, but why would apps like MobileMail not have the ~iphone extension? Also, not sure why it’s necessary at all since each iOS package is specific for each device. I can’t think of any better explanation, so I’m sticking with my first thought, even though I’m not sure why.
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