iPhone
Browser Speed Tests: iPhone’s Mobile Safari vs. Opera Mini – Browser speed tests – Lifehacker
Apr 13th
It’s pretty clear that, while Opera Mini features seriously impressive page load times, it’s still behind Mobile Safari on several levels—some of its disadvantages are due to Safari’s advantaged position as the system default, some of them probably have more to do with the youth of Opera Mini on the iPhone platform. You will, however, notice the considerably faster page loads when you’re using Opera Mini, and with the web, speed is everything. If Opera could keep the speed and fix some of the rough edges, it could be really impressive.
via Browser Speed Tests: iPhone’s Mobile Safari vs. Opera Mini – Browser speed tests – Lifehacker.
Porting an iPhone App to Windows Mobile
Aug 3rd
MSDN has this detailed case study on how an iPhone application developer ported his iPhone app to Windows Mobile.
Porting the Amplitude Application from the iPhone to a Windows Mobile Device – a Case Study
Google Contacts and iPhone Sync – Birthday blues
May 13th
So, I was all excited that Google finally introduced the birthday field in the standalone version of Google Contacts. The official Google Apps post announced this yesterday. Alex Chitu, who maintains the wonderful blog, Google Operating System also mentioned this in his blog post.
Luckily, my Google contacts were synced to my iPhone and I immediately went ahead and updated the birthday fields of all my friends on Google Contacts. I just wanted to make sure things were fine on my iPhone, but to my surprise – iPhone was showing all birthdays a day earlier.
Google, please fix this soon!
I’ve moved to Google Voice!
Mar 20th
So, finally Google decides to upgrade me from Grandcentral to Google Voice. And then what did I do?
All the contacts on my phone are synced to Google Contacts, so I had no problem in accessing them through Google Voice. So, I sent an email to all my friends about my Google Voice number!
You can call me from right here!
iPhone OS 3.0 Preview
Mar 17th
New features
- 1000 new APIs
- In-App Purchase – Purchase additional levels from inside the App
- Peer-to-Peer Connectivity – For multi-player games
- Accessory support over bluetooth or dock connector – To connect third party accessories which could use the iPhone 3.0 APIs
- APIs support to use maps, email in any application
- Enhanced Maps API so that developers may develop turn-by-turn apps!
- Push notifications
- Cut, Copy and Paste! Also, shake to undo paste, support for web content.
- Text -> Messages
- Message Forwarding and deleting
- MMS! You can send and receive Photos, Contacts (VCard), Audio files, or your location – right over the network.
- Voice Memos
- CalDAV, ICS support for Calendar
- Enhanced ‘Stock’ App
- Search! Search in most Apple-developed apps.
- New home screen for Search – Spotlight! To the left of regular home screen
- Landscape mode in all Apps
- Stereo Bluetooth