Tag: iPhone

A good smartphone comes but once a year

I thought this chart from The Verge was terrific. Focus and restraint breed quality. (via Shawn Blanc)

The Hit List sync

It’s no secret that I love The Hit List. The app serves as my carefully organized digital brain. Sometimes it’s the really little things that make an app fantastic.

This morning I opened it up for the first time since Friday. I had already left my apartment so I was out of WiFi range. To pull data, many other apps, including Mail and Tweetbot, prompt if you’d like to connect to WiFi.

This is a pain because it makes syncing my data a two-step process. The Hit List does it right. It recognizes that I’m on 3G with data and just syncs. No prompting. Let me figure out WiFi later.

I love this because it shows that the developer considered the fastest way to let people get their data synced and get working. When I open an app it’s because I want to do something. The sooner you let me do that the happier I’ll be with your software.

Cleaning… iOS 5 introduces a terrible change to cache management that prevents apps like Rdio and Instapaper from storing persistent data on a device. Totally ruins Rdio’s offline storage mode. Sad Christmas.

The Last Rocket

The Last Rocket. A super addicting new game from Shaun Inman. 8-bit games are my favorite iPhone genre.

Status

Rdio streaming to speakers over AirPlay via my phone makes me feel like I’m in the future.

iPhone home screen

Because Daniel made it seem like a good idea. 🙂

From iPhone to Palm Pre: a comprehensive review. Ian Beck reviews his Palm Pre with an eye toward the devices HP recently announced for this summer. Ian’s observations about hardware and the webOS software match my experience pretty closely.