Photo Sharing & Blogging with Your iPhone
The strive for publicity and public recognition is something natural for people. That’s why people make photos. Of course, you can send the good shots to all your contacts from your iPhone’s contact book, but it would be much easier and useful to publish such shots in a your own blog so that a lot of other users besides your contacts could see them.
For these reasons there are mobile photoblogging services out there. I’ll speak about the world’s most popular one – Flickr.
The first thing you need to do if you want to use flickr is setting up Yahoo ID. The photo blog doesn’t work with other mail services.
The next step is registering at flickr.com. By the way, the login is not anyhow connected with that of your Yahoo ID. Each new user is given its unique email address which can be accessed at Your account => Email => Your Flickr upload email. You don’t have to keep that email in mind as you are planning to post photos only in blog, but not on your personal flickr page.
After the previous steps are completed you need to set the photos’ redirect to the blog. Cross-posting settings are located at Your account => Extending Flickr => Your blogs.
I’m absolutely sure that similar services will spring up like flies in the near future.
Why? They are very simple to use – you don’t have to install any kind of software, set parameters manually. Moreover, the audience is likely to appreciate the possibility to post photos straight off: make a shot – make a post, and you don’t have to rush to your PC with a USB cable and copy the photos on the hard drive. At the same time, the pleasure of having a personal photo blog is not incredibly expensive – all you need to pay for is the GPRS traffic (or other traffic according to which Internet connection plan you use.
Cell Phone Classifications: Alcatel, Siemens, Benq –Siemens, LG, Motorola, Nokia, Panasonic, Pantech, Philips, Samsung, Sagem, Sony Ericsson. Part 2
The phones are marked by letter-digit names. Moreover, the higher the digital index is the more sophisticated the device is
- A – Budget class
- X – Image phones
In both the classes the phones can have various functionality: from a basic phone to a smartphone, plus there is a huge variability in price range.
As the model line of the manufacturer is constantly growing, the novelties fall under the following categories:
- SC – Middle-class devices
- VS – Slim models
- SA – Sport and active lifestyle phones
- MX – Bigger phones with high-capacity batteries
The markings of the company illustrate the segment in which the phone is positioned
- GF – Stylish devices
- GB – Budget phones
From 2005 the new marking system was introduced: now the phones come under G series and have different digital markings.
- 100 – Budget models
- 300 – Image phones
- 600-800 – High-end devices
Samsung uses letter classification. The abbreviation SGH stands for GSM network support; SCH – PMA support.
- P – Multimedia devices
- E – Exclusive phones
- D – Business-class phones
- X – Youth segment
- C –Middle-class devices
- I – Smartphones
- Z – 3G network phones
The models like R210, N620, T400 are named according to the previous classification which is not used any more.
All the phones of this manufacturer come under the index My. The third letter stands for the segment the phone is positioned under.
- V – Classic form
- C – Shell phones
- Z – Slider
- S - Smartphone
The first digit stands for the segment of the phone: 1 – budget model, 2-5 middle class, further – more expensive models
The digit after the dash stands for the generation of the model. At the end of the digital index might stand a small letter which shows the difference of the given model from the basic one: j – Java, w – WAP, m – MMS, v - Video
This company also uses letter classification, and the price category is indicated by the order number: the more the number is the more expensive the phone is. The budget models cannot be higher than 500.
- J – Basic-level devices
- K – The main phone line which substituted the T series. Under this category fall the devices with various functionality degree.
- W – Musical Walkman phones
- S – Multimedia phones
- Z – Shells
- P – Smartphones
So what devices can theoretically compete with the iPhone? I arrived at this conclusion:
- Siemens SV
- Benq-Siemens P series
- LG L series
- Motorola MP
- Pantech 600-800
- Samsung I
- Sagem S
- Sony Ericsson P
I deliberately excluded Nokia from the list of manufactures as I’m planning to make a thorough report on comparison of Nokia devices an the iPhone.
Cell Phone Classifications: Alcatel, Siemens, Benq –Siemens, LG, Motorola, Nokia, Panasonic, Pantech, Philips, Samsung, Sagem, Sony Ericsson
Recently I’ve got very interested in comparing iPhone to its probable (or better to put it like this – potential) competitors. In order to find which devices can compete with my all-time favorite I decided to learn the classification of phones by the major manufacturers: Alcatel, Siemens, Benq –Siemens, LG, Motorola, Nokia, Panasonic, Pantech, Philips, Samsung, Sagem and Sony Ericsson.
I’m sure that you are aware of the fact that all phones fall into different categories or classes: from simple devices to highly sophisticated smartphones. So what is the classification of phones?
Initially the classification of this manufacturer featured 5 classes:
- A – budget phones (are real rear phones)
- A+B – youth-oriented phones of the series 30x and 31x
- B+ - middle-class phones of the series 50x and 51x
- C – expensive 70x series phones
- G – image phones which planned for production
From 2005 the company introduced the new system which features 3 classes:
- OT-E – budget phones
- OT-C – middle class
- OT-S – image class
- A – budget models
- C - consumer-level devices
- E – economical devices
- M – Active lifestyle phones
- S - Business class
- SL – Image phones
- SV – smartphones and multifunctional devices
The scheme of giving names to phones of the young brand Benq–Siemens has been left unchanged: the indexes of phones are named by letters and digits, but the meaning of the symbols proper have changed and t he digital sequence has been violated:
The new names:
- P – Smartphones with qwerty keyboard
- E – Under the letter the company released a number of devices which fall into different classes, so iti s hard to say anything certain
- S- it is the only letter that was left unchanged; these are still business-class devices
The devices are classified according to one feature and it is possible to encounter phones of different price category in the same class
- B – Basic level devices
- W – WAP-enabled devices
- G – GPRS-enabled phones
- V – 3G phones
- F – Image models
- L – Multifunctional phones
- C – Middle-class devices
Motorola uses letter designations:
- A – High-tech devices which feature the latest inventions of the company
- V - Image phones
- T – Business-class phones
- E – Entertainment and youth phones
- C – Cheap models
- MP – communicators and smartphones
Digits also carry information:
- The 1st digit stands for the price category
- The 2nd digit – The generation of the phone in the given model line
- The 3rd digit – the place of the phone in the given generation
- The index “i” stands for modified devices
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Tuning For iPhone: “Stealth iPhone” from ColorWare
If you’re willing to go the extra mile (and paycheck) to customize your gadgets, but you’re not a big fan of the flashy colors, the new custom edition matte black iPhone (Stealth iPhone) may be the ticket.
ColorWare has been making drastic hue adjustments on iPhones for a while and recently announced that their color-customizing services were available for the MacBook Air. While they’ve offered a gloss black before, the new “stealth” iPhone’s matte black finish is a departure from their usual eye-catching pigments. It seems to be more appealing to a good number of people.
The customization is only available on new phones purchased from ColorWare, and with the matte black customization your new iPhone will run you $675 for the 8GB iPhone, $775 for the 16 GB. A 1-year warranty is standard, but you can extend that to two years for an additional $149.
You can find more details on the ColorWare site.
Widget Directory for iPhone users By WidgetBox
Apple has created the site with its own directory of iPhone Web applications mainly for desktop users, not taking care of people on the portable handset. It is still easy for Apple users to bookmark Web applications by adding a quick link from inside of Safari Mobile, but the official directory is still not for iPhones, only if they are not on speedy Wi-Fi connection.
Widgetbox appears to be cleverer and issued a directory of iPhone friendly widgets. Those mini Web applications can be set up on the home screens. The mobile Safari web browser is built in all iPhone and iPod Touch and uses the same Safari desktop technology that is supported by Widgetbox.
By tagging your work with iPhone you can add converted widgets from Web content to the directory. There is even a widget-building wizard for inexperienced users to make their own iPhone widget application.
The limitation is on the maximum widget width that should be 290 pixels with any height. Also all references to Flash files will not image.
Widgetbox thumbnail images of web gallery are 96 x 96 pixels. The icon of each installed widget is 56 x 56 pixels. In this case the images more than 56 x 56 pixels cannot be seen.
Another indignation is that iPhone widgets don’t take up the entire screen and reveal themselves like in the directory with most of the examples. They also have Widgetbox branding and links back to the directory, and you have not much time to load while on EDGE 2,5G connection, so try to minimize the amount of data for widget to transpher.
Anyway, that’s the whole lot better than to load the entire Web page. Three-fold load time decrease was observed in comparison with BART’s home page with Quick Planner for local Bay Area trains.
Just take your iPod or iPhone and travel to iPhone.Widgetbox.com to go to the directory. Here is also the official docs.