My wife has an iPod Touch and she’s always behind in updates and new features because she feels she’s like a red headed step child when it comes to update from Apple. She is not alone. I don’t understand why Apple treats the iPod Touch so much different from their more hyped iPhone. Sure it makes them more money and gets all the media attention. Add a built in mic and bluetooth and the iPod Touch can be a phone too, via Skype.
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SMS (short message service) can be expensive. My carrier charges 15 cents a message…incoming or outgoing. Before I signed on a contract with built in messaging, I would wake up and hope that no one would text me so I can save a few cents a day. Even with my current plan, I am always careful of the messages I send and monitor my text message limit regularly.
For those who do not have unlimited Text Messaging, here is a great way to save on one half your text bill. Send outgoing text messages via email.
Sprint – phonenumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com
Verizon – phonenumber@vtext.com
T-Mobile - phonenumber@tmomail.com
AT&T – phonenumber@txt.att.net
AIM – +1phonenumber
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From early reports on the net, it looks like the new iphone will be called the iphone 3G S. It also is revealed that it will come in many colors. Black, White, Orange, Blue, Plaid, Green, and yellow seems to be the new flavors it will be available at launch. Also in unrelated news, Steve Jobs will be returning to work this month.
I know this years WWDC will have many things revealed. I am particularly excited about OSX Snow Leopard and Iphone SDK 3.0.
This is a little late in writing but if you have an iPhone and you make lots of international calls, Skype for iPhone is a great fit. The application is free from the Appstore. It only requires your iPhone to be connected to a wifi to make voice calls. When calling from Skype to Skype, the call was clear and in some instances better than the average cell phone call. Calling to a landline was not so great but functional. When I first used this app, I thought it was broken because I did not put a ‘+’ in front of each number. The test call would work great but anytime I called anyone, it kept saying the party was not reachable. I could not find that issue anywhere on the net. It finally hit me that I needed to add that prefix. After that everything was great. If you purchase Skype’s monthly rate for unlimited calls then theoretically you can use your iPhone to make calls without a contract!
