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Rogers Announces Abusive iPhone Rates in Canada

27 June 2008 / 12 Comments

Today, Rogers has announced its data plans for iPhone 3G. With no surprise they all suck pretty bad.

No Unlimited Data, No Flexible Voice Plan

The iPhone 3G comes with 4 plan. None of them include unlimited data, which is quite dissapointing.

The premium plan, comes at $115 per month with a cap of 2GB and 800 minutes […]

Apple Accepting iPhone Apps

26 June 2008 / 0 Comments

I received this email notice from Apple. Apparently, the App Store is now open to submissions.

A pre-release of iTunes 7.7 and the iPhone SDK beta 8 are available for download on the iPhone Developer Center.

The video of the “Publishing on the App Store” session from WWDC 2008 is also available on the site.

Concrete 1 – iPhone 0

19 June 2008 / 5 Comments

Yesterday nite, I dropped my iPhone on the street and it had a violent encounter with concrete. The phone works fine but the glass is completely broken.

I can’t replace the glass part, because it’s glued to the LCD screen. You have to buy the whole unit that cost almost $300.

I was about to buy a […]

The Empire Strikes Back

11 June 2008 / 0 Comments

The dust has settled after Steve Jobs announced the iPhone 3G during the WWDC 08. The event has sold out for the first time in history and been incredibly covered y the tech press.

The iPhone 3G adds (1) fast 3G networking, (2) GPS support, (3) affordability and (4) more services.

It’s About the Platform

People pointed that […]

iPhone Developer Program

9 May 2008 / 2 Comments

I received this email asking me to complete my enrollement to the iPhone Developer Program. I’m in Canada so that means Apple has now agreed to open the program to countries outside US.

I had to order the program on the Apple Store for 99$. I don’t know if I’m supposed to receive something by mail […]

TwitterDroid Is Free

8 April 2008 / 1 Comment

Last year, I’ve released a little Twitterific clone for the Google Android platform. It was more to have a quick taste of Android than to build a feature-complete app.

Today, I’ve decided to release TwitterDroid in open source and I’ve setup a git repository for you to clone and play.

$ git clone http://git.fredbrunel.com/pub/twitterdroid.git

I’ve ported the code […]

5 Reasons Why the iPhone Is a Great Platform

23 March 2008 / 6 Comments

The iPhone SDK was released a couple of weeks ago and I waited for the dust to settle before posting anything about it.

Having read every possible article and tutorial about it, I strongly believe this device has everything to reshape the mobile landscape and define new quality standards.

Mobile Developer Meetup in Montreal

21 March 2008 / 2 Comments

The release of the iPhone SDK, a couple of weeks ago, has raised a lots of attention especially amongs developers, attracted by the quality of the platform as well as by the business model of the App Store.

After having some discussion about mobile projects on Twitter, Heri from Montreal Tech Watch started the Mobile Developer […]