Reid Burke

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iPhone UI Anti-Examples

Check out the screenshots of TripLog/1040, The Athlete’s Calculator, and Handy Randy, new iPhone applications from PalmOS developer Stevens Creek Software. Via Gruber, who points out that this really isn’t a joke.

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Posted July 6, 2008

iPhone: It’s the small things

Being without an iPhone, I’ve quietly wondered why the iTunes icon was placed on the right side on the home screen instead of the left like everything else. 37signals explains the genius of how the iTunes icon is placed on the iPhone… right above to the “docked” iPod icon. It makes a lot more sense now.

Equally interesting is how Apple seems to group icons by color according to their application’s function on the iPhone.

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Posted October 9, 2007

Solid Prediction

Verizon Wireless Chief marketing officer Mike Lanman on the yet-to-be-released LG Voyager: “We think it’ll be the best phone … this year. It will kill the iPhone.” Uh-huh. Personally, as a Verizon Wireless subscriber, I’d sooner drop my service and buy an iPhone before I keep Verizon and use the Voyager instead. (I’m waiting for iPhone revision 2.) [via PCPro]

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Posted October 3, 2007

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