New iPhone Plans

February 3, 2011 By

I recently had to find an individual iPhone plan for the U.S. I didn’t need many monthly voice minutes, so the plans I mention basically represent the cheapest iPhone plans by carrier. These plans are for people who already own their iPhones and don’t want a phone contract or a subsidized iPhone. AT&T is now about $75/month*, Verizon $80/month**, and TMobile is $60/month*** (Feb 2011). The TMobile 500 minute plan dropped approx. $20 since last year. All the prices above do not include taxes and career’s standard “phantom fees”. It is possible to have slightly cheaper plans with all these carriers, but this would require signing up for metered text and data options, which come with heavy penalties for over usage, so beware.

*AT&T/450 minutes/1000 Texts/2GB Data/unlimited AT&T hotspots
**Verizon/450 minutes/500 Texts/unlimited Data
***TMobile/500 minutes/unlimited Texts/unlimited Data (EDGE only)

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Zion

September 22, 2010 By

"W" is Zion Narrows, Red "X" is Imlay canyon

Google Earth v_3.1 for iOS has been updated for the iPhone 4′s retina display. The screenshot above came from the Google Earth app on my phone. The wow-factor from this app on the retina display is quite high. The “W” marks Zion Narrows and the red “X” marks Imlay canyon this weekend’s canyoneering objective. My first thought seeing the Imlay terrain: no one is going to find us soon.

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Pano App Review

September 17, 2010 By

I use Pano alot for outdoor photography but I want more from this neat iPhone app. My iOS is version 4.01 (jailbroken) so I believe it does not work with Apple’s HDR technology which is too bad because blown out skies occur frequently with panorama shots. Pano is also brutal to line up the overlay area in bright light situations (developer request: maybe widen the overlay area in the future). The touch screen square box tonal adjust feature does not work in Pano like the default Apple camera app. Retinal resolution compatibility is easy on your eyes with iPhone 4 models and Pano v_4.0.4. Hoping the iOS firmware upgrade to 4.1 and HDR will make Pano even better. Would be great to see some Photoshop tips from Pano developers on repairing the frame seams that sometimes appear on Panoramas that did not merge well. Still giving this app 4 out of 5 stars in my Apple Store review.

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