Degutis Insights

It arrived yesterday.
The packaging was awesome:

Not only did it continue the “skeleton look” into the packaging but it wasn’t the standard hermetically sealed plastic that requires sharp instruments to open.  The cardboard outer packaging is easily removed and the inner plactic packaging pops open with your figures. Nice.
My white iPhone before:

and then transformed:

It fits perfectly, [...]

I’ve been one of the lucky ones. I’ve had pratically no problems with the 3G iPhone and only minor issues with a couple of apps since Day 1. Then I installed the iTunes 7.7.1 update when it came out. That’s when the troubles started. Luckily, the iPhone itself hasn’t been affected but the iPhone with [...]

I started using Twinkle, an iPhone app, on Thursday night (July 17th) and wrote this post about it. Here are my impressions and what I’ve learned about it after using it for few days.
Twinkle has it’s own network which it uses for its Nearby service. The Nearby service, also a section in the app, [...]

The other day Robert Scoble had a Qik video in which he interviewed on of the developers of Twinkle (web link, iTune link) a Twitter client for the iPhone. Yes, yet another Twitter client and yes for the iPhone. Twinkle caught my eye because it’s location-aware.
Unlike Twitterrific and Twittelator which can add a link to [...]

Like my previous post on this topic, here’s another batch of apps that caught my eye, but this time only focusing on free apps. (Note - links below are iTunes links, not web browser links)

Flashlight (a free version), FlatLux and MyLite - all free
Both are trying to steal market share away from the $1.99 Flashlight [...]

Probably not, especially if you’re not a tech-head or willing to bounce around to difference screens to enable and/or disable difference services (e.g. 3G, GPS, WiFi, etc) to manage the battery life on a regular basis.
Who is the iPhone for?
Answer the following questions:

Do you use social services like Twitter, FriendFeed, Brightkite, etc.?
Do you like to [...]

Take the poll and pass the word.

-Al

When Steve Jobs announced the original iPhone in January 2007, I said that it would probably be the first Apple product I’d own. That’s right, I don’t own an iPod even though my wife and kids do. A couple months later I purchased a 24″ iMac. When the iPhone came out, I just couldn’t pay [...]

The new iTunes Apps Store is now available via iTunes v7.7. I briefly browsed through some of the available apps and noticed the following.

Flashlight - ExactMagic $0.99
Flashlight is a simple tool to turn your iPhone or iPod Touch into a simple flashlight to help you find your way in a dark room or to see [...]