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I made it my mission to discover the specific reasons for iOS battery drainage. This article is a product of my years of research and anecdotal evidence I gathered in the hundreds of Genius Bar appointments I took during my time as a Genius and iOS technician, as well as testing on my personal devices and the devices of my friends.
This is the definitive guide to increasing iPhone battery life. Read it and share it.
Rumor: Design of Apple’s new big-screen iPhone will be cross between iPhone 5c & 7th-gen iPod nano
I bet it’s going to look like an iPad Mini or an iPod Touch. Basically, curved metal.
Reporter is a new application for understanding the things you care about. With a few randomly timed surveys each day, Reporter can illuminate aspects of your life that might be otherwise unmeasurabl
I’ve been using it for a few weeks and the result is amazing (the visualization part, especially). It’s not connected to the Internet so no worries about privacy.
Dan Counsell discusses three different pricing strategies for apps. Paymium: paid at first, with paid premium features. Interesting stuff.
Apple investigating built-in solar power converters for iPhone, MacBook
Some interesting new tech. It makes me remember that the only thing I want my iPhone to do is to last longer. If the iPhone 6’s only new feature is a much longer battery life, I would be the happiest man on earth.
If you own an iPhone 5S and you use Touch ID to unlock it, you may have noticed that it sometimes displays a “try again” message, indicating that Touch ID did not recognise your finger.
A beautiful tip shared by Lun Esex on Monday Note offers an elegant solution:
Register that one finger twice with TouchID, as if it were two different fingers. It will then have twice as many datasets to compare against that finger when using it to unlock the device.
But as Grignon drove north, he didn’t feel excited. He felt terrified. Most onstage product demonstrations in Silicon Valley are canned. The thinking goes, why let bad Internet or cellphone connections ruin an otherwise good presentation? But Jobs insisted on live presentations. It was one of the things that made them so captivating. Part of his legend was that noticeable product-demo glitches almost never happened. But for those in the background, like Grignon, few parts of the job caused more stress.
This is the story behind the unveiling of the first iPhone on June 9th, 2007. A nice read on the NYT.
Here is the video if your memory is failing you.
This is a map of NYC by MapBox showing smartphone usage according to Twitter data. iPhone is red, Android green and Blackberry purple.
Canabalt, the story of a great iPhone game
Hundreds of metres above a burning city, a businessman crashes out of an office window. He arcs across the sky before curling into a stuntman’s tumble. He loses no momentum as he lands on the roof below and straightens into a sprint, his suit jacket flapping in the quickening wind. He leaps over a gap, his arms rotating like helicopter blades as he soars across it. He lands, and, accelerating again, continues to bolt from the unseen terror in pursuit. He miscalculates the next gap and leaps prematurely, then falls in slow motion toward a grisly death on the sidewalk below. A postmortem appears on the screen: “You ran 1533m before hitting a wall and tumbling to your death.” This is what it’s like to play Canabalt, a video game that has sparked an entirely new genre of play for mobile phones.
Amazing story, amazing game.
Dots – a game about connecting
Are you playing Dots? If not you should. Here’s the strategy guide, courtesy of Quartz. If you think you can beat my high score, follow me on Twitter and compare (what? a cheap technique?)