iParadise Lost

Well there you go iPhone users two years down the line you get cut copy and paste, but hats off to Apple the phone is really at a tipping point of functionality when it come to different usage and they have probably made this stuff work better by waiting.

I do fear though the lack of things like flash support really means this summer we will have a new iphone probably same form factor but a lot swapped out under the hood just to drive all this stuff it can do faster. How long will it be until phones have a Ghz rating - actually come to think of it why don't they have one now ?

So we are going to get a peek at what's in the works with the 3.0 release for the iphone next week. This will probably be rolled on the this summer just in time to quash the release of Palm's Pre no doubt. This may mean an ability to switch apps without closing, cut and paste and push notification will be a sure thing ?

No doubt Apple will have one of two new tricks up their sleeve and that must leave the likes of the traditional mobile makers like Nokia, Samsung and Sony a little nervous about their summer vacations being cancelled this year.

The 3.0 software is still a work in progress so don't expect an upgrade next week.

As for me I could do with a better battery metre and a more robust mail programme. Alas speed improvements will need a new chip set installed as at the moment I fear the current model just has not got anymore under the hood to run any faster.

What's the bet on iphone 3g V 2 by the end of the year ?

So the third gen iPod shuffle is here it's so sleek it only has one button on it, in fact you could almost miss the Apple logo all together on the clip but I think it has two major downsides. The one that most people are already picking up on is that now the controls are on the earphones, you will be stuck with the Apple ones for quite a while to control the thing. But for me the real downside is this thing is so damn small. I have now twice washed my current ipod shuffle (it still works !) and am constantly trying to find it in pockets or buried in other tech wires and stuff. Maybe it's just me or perhaps one should always clip it to the outside of jackets. But hold on, I think I have the solution now that is has voiceover technology built in perhaps Apple could upgrade the firmware so in automatically answers here I am when you scream - Has anyone seen my bloody iPod ?

To really get the next ebooks thing I think it will all be about a generational shift.

People will read books on devices sometime soon but they will grow up doing that, they will be used from school onward to seeing text on screen.

All the razz this about the Kindle software on the iPhone seems so overblown - granted you can get a book wherever you are (in the US) on to your phone but who really wants to read a book on a 3.5 inch screen , maybe news sites like ZDNET (do they have an iphone app yet anyone?) but a novel or long book I just don't think anyone of the current generation will want to read like that.

On the other hand my daughter who is 3 can even pinch text and flick pages on an iPhone (Kindle software doesn't do pinching by the way). When someone take a photo she says show me and when she sees a laptop screen she asks to speak to her Grandad on Skype.

Seems those slippery smooth iphone back may be a thing a the past as reports are coming in of a slight change to a future iphone release, check out this friday snippit for the new look iphone back panels

http://poprl.com/II9