Linked List: June 30, 2007

Saturday, 30 June 2007

Scott Beale: ‘Sorry, No iPhones Today’ ★

WallyWorld is closed.

AT&T Says Almost Sold Out of iPhones ★

Selling like hotcakes.

Dissecting an iPhone Crash Log ★

Fraser Speirs:

There’s an image called liblockdown.dylib, whose name seems very interesting.

Yes, it does.

Viddler iPhone Giveaway ★

Video sharing site running a contest with two 8 GB iPhones as prizes. These guys were with me in line yesterday.

Additional iPhone Notes ★

If you read my iPhone First Impressions post earlier in the morning, I’ve updated it with a few additional observations, including my irritation with the top-posting/quote-the-entire-message Mail app, and the way the UI prioritizes scrolling performance even when it can’t render the drag in real time.

Kottke: Quick iPhone Review ★

Kottke has the low-down on the iPhone’s reader.mac.com RSS reader:

To read RSS, just put a feed address into Safari and Apple redirects it through their iPhone feed reader. But it’s very much of an a la carte thing, one feed at a time. What’s needed is a proper newsreader with its own icon on home screen. Workarounds for now: Google Reader looks nice or you could make a collective feed that combines all the feeds you want to read on your iPhone and use that with the iPhone feed reader.

I need NetNewsWire for this thing so bad it hurts.

PCWorld iPhone Scratch and Drop Test ★

Guy really beats the hell out an iPhone — tries to scratch it with keys, drops it on the sidewalk, everything. Takes a licking, keeps on ticking. The screen’s scratch resistance seems unreal.

Someone needs to forward this to Rob Enderle.

Braun ET44 Electronic Calculator ★

Designed by Dieter Rams and Lubs Dietrich for Braun in 1977. Beautiful inspiration for the iPhone calculator. (Thanks to Auteuil in the comments.)

Matt Haughey Got a Broken iPhone ★

Heartbreaking. Seriously.

iTunes 7.3 Source List Selection ★

Changed back to something more like a standard gradient selection. I like it. (Feel free to put quotes around “standard”.)

Impossible ★

Me, in August 2002, in the fifth post to Daring Fireball:

The article seems to insinuate that Apple could make Sherlock run on a cell phone; that’s impossible, unless the cell phone were actually running Mac OS X, which definitely is impossible.

Of course, it was impossible in 2002. (Thanks to Daniel Jalkut.)

iPhone User Guide ★

Not included with the iPhone itself — the only docs that come with iPhone are a quick start guide. (That’s not really a complaint — the quick start guide is good.)

Activation Delays for Some ★

Activation for our two phones — mine and my wife’s — was pretty quick and painless. We already had an AT&T family plan for our old phones; we upgraded with two $20/month data plans and that was it. Some people, however, are still waiting for activation five hours later.

iPhone Call Audio Quality ★

Gizmodo:

Wirelessinfo knows what they’re talking about when it comes to cellphone calls. They’re the Mythbusters of cellphones, pulling out all sorts of scientific equipment to determine whether call quality is good—not just doing a “oh, this sounds good” test. Their results for the iPhone? Best they’ve seen.