About three months ago the folks at OtterBox sent me the Defender series case for my brand new iPhone 3GS and it hasn’t been out of it’s protective cocoon since then.
I guess the question is, do you like your iPhone or love it? When I got my iPhone 3GS I knew that this phone was unlike any other phone I have ever owned and the thought is it getting all scratched up or having something spilled on it was out of the question. Having the OtterBox Defender case is nothing short of piece of mind for someone who truly loves their iPhone.
Let me start by describing the OtterBox Defender. It has a solid plastic inner shell that your iPhone sits in and then has a softer rubber exterior case that literally wraps around the plastic inner one. All exposed surface areas of the iPhone are completely covered, including the headphone jack, silent switch and bottom charging/interface plugin port, with soft rubber flaps. There is is even a clear covering over the actual screen area that in no way hampers the operation. As a matter of fact I don’t even realize it’s there.
This is not the first case we have reviewed for OtterBox but the thing that amazes us here at MobiMadness is the fact that the engineering is so exact on everything they make. What I mean by this is that everything fits together perfectly and after 3 months of use, I’m happy to say it looks and fits the same as the day I first started using it.
Even if you don’t own an iPhone yourself, this case makes the perfect gift for a soldier, firefighter, policeman or really any job that can be naturally rough on a phone. I for one have had all of these jobs in the past but now as a corporate professional I still love my OtterBox Defender case and get compliments on it every day.
To make it even more enticing the case comes in a variety of colors including black, white, yellow/black and even all pink for the ladies.
So what are you waiting for, get the first and last case your iPhone will ever need today!
Chevy announced today that they will provide an application for select smartphones (BlackBerry, iPhone and Droid) that will allow Volt owners to control their cars remotely. This works in conjunction with the OnStar system that is standard on select Chevy cars and allows the user to do tasks that previously required the OnStar customer to call a representative to do, such as unlock doors, charge status, and even remotely start the car.
What the heck is the Volt? Well it’s a new car from Chevy that will be launched in November of 2010 and will drive on battery power for up to 40 miles without a recharge.
To see a demo of the application and learn more about the Volt, visit the links below.
http://www.OnStarMobileDemo.com and http://www.thecarconnection.com/modelintro/chevrolet_volt_2011
[source: FoxNews.com]
According to an article over at Mac Observer, Apple has struck down an application that must have been to politically incorrect for their taste. The app in question was illustrated by Tom Richmond who is a contributing artist for Mad magazine and has some really cute caricatures of every member of the U.S. Congress.
Here is an excerpt from the Apple rejection:
Thank you for submitting Bobble Rep – 111th Congress Edition to the App Store. We’ve reviewed Bobble Rep – 111th Congress Edition and determined that we cannot post this version of your iPhone application to the App Store because it contains content that ridicules public figures and is in violation of Section 3.3.14 from the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement which states:
“Applications may be rejected if they contain content or materials of any kind (text, graphics, images, photographs, sounds, etc.) that in Apple’s reasonable judgement may be found objectionable, for example, materials that may be considered obscene, pornographic, or defamatory.”
Tom writes about the rejection on his blog and apparently was a bit perturbed by the strange rejection and the even more bizarre approval process for getting an app approved for the Apple App Store.
Personally, it’s my opinion that Apple is shooting themselves in the foot (face even) with the ridiculous number of legitimate apps that their draconian approval process is rejecting.
The thing that sets the iPhone apart from it’s competitors is the large volume of excellent apps, but if Apple continues down it’s on, they will drive people away from the platform and into Google’s “open source” arms.
iPhone application tracking service Apptism is reporting that the Apple App Store has officially reached the 100,000 App mark! This is a huge number considering that it was just September of this year that they reached 85,000.
As a note, most are predicting that by mid 2010 the App Store will have over 200,000 Apps available for purchase.
Although that may be the case, the App Store is in dire need of a major overhaul. Primarily a better system for searching and organizing the Apps. Having this kind of phenomenal growth means Apple needs to do something sooner rather than later about this issue.
According to an article on FierceWireless the Apple iPhone 3GS 32GB was the top selling phone in the country for the month of September 2009. But wait there’s more. Not only was the iPhone the #1 selling phone but it was also the #2 (3G 8GB) and #4 (3G 16GB) as well.
This is phenomenal when you consider that the Apple iPhone is on arguably the most disliked carrier AT&T. Imagine what will happen when Apple finally pulls it’s head from the sand and allows other carriers, mainly Verizon, to have a stab at selling it?
[source: FierceWireless.com]
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