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October 31, 2007

Shall we play a game?

Filed under: General News — Iphoner @ 11:38 am

Saturday, October 27, 2007 — 11:43 p.m. — in my living room

Tonight, iWife and I were watching TV when we saw the story on the news about the new iPhone purchasing rules.

That’s when she said to me … how come there aren’t any games?

To hear Steve Jobs tell it, the Touch and iPhone are different beasts under the hood and can’t run the games that the “regular” old iPods can.

Strange game. The only way to win is not to play.

Baloney, Joshua.

I mean, obviously Ms. Pac-Man wouldn’t be great on a touch screen, but even Professor Falken would agree that a nice game of chess would certainly be doable. As would Tic-Tac-Toe or even Tetris. You know that breakout game where you have a little ball and try to knock off all the bricks? That would be a great game for nimble fingers.

Yet there’s nothing. Was there no way to put a game on this thing? Battery power is already an issue, I know, but my wife is right … it would be at least nice to have a game.

I might actually blog less. Or not.

I know that we’ll see all this change in February when the software development kit is released, but it’s a long way off and there are quite a few dark winter hours between now and then.

Anyhow, what do you think? Any games that you really want to play on your iPhone? Sure you can do it now with a Safari app, but I was talking something with an icon at least.

Thanks for calling.

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Battery weirdness? Reboot

Filed under: General News — Iphoner @ 11:35 am

Saturday, October 27, 2007 — 11:31 p.m. — in my living room

For me, iPhone software 1.1.1 will not be remembered at the hacker’s nightmare. It will be remembered as Apple’s buggiest software to date — not just in a phone, but in anything.

Today, I charged my phone for about 2 hours and when I unhooked it from A/C power, the battery indicator was the same as before. Low.

This couldn’t be. Wi-Fi is off. Bluetooth is off. Screen is set to idle after 1 minute.

So in a near panic, I rebooted it. I was afraid my battery wasn’t responding to a charge.

And once I rebooted, the indicator was a much more believable 1/2 full.

So I plugged it back in and let it finish the charge. And it’s fine. Totally full and looks normal now.

Next, with those great power management settings we’ll see how long it takes for the battery to wear down. I’ll make sure it’s not abnormally quick or I’m going to go to the Apple store for a 2nd repair.

So … if you experience this symptom, reboot your phone. Apparently, the reboot clears out a lot of the goop that seems to be created in this update.

Let me know if you experience this — and how it works out for you.

Thanks for calling.