Archive for August 14th, 2007

Facebook on the iPhone

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by
Elliot Lee
on 8/14/2007
in Apple, Ideas, Neat Stuff and Social Networking
. 1 Comment

I hand my iPhone to a friend and invite her to try the web browser, Safari. What’s the first site she visits?

Facebook, of course.

When I was at the movie theatre, and I wanted to tell people where I was, what was my only choice?

Facebook, of course.

Unfortunately, the Facebook interface is not iPhone Safari compatible. I couldn’t set my status, either from the Home page or my Profile.

Luckily, I was able to set my status by using Facebook mobile and sending an SMS message to Facebook’s phone number. But this is a hack at best, when really I should be getting a much richer experience on the iPhone. Additionally, I only get 200 SMS messages a month, so I need to be careful how much I use it.

So it was good news when I saw that Facebook was finally going to be optimized for the iPhone:
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iPhone Chinese Clone

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Elliot Lee
on 8/14/2007
in Entertainment and Geek Stuff
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This is simply amazing. Popular Science reports that cloning operations in China have already created a fake copy of the Apple iPhone.

“The country’s ability to produce indistinguishable replicas of any moment’s must-have item is legendary: Manufacturers have serviced knockoff air conditioners as if they were their own; stores have refunded bootleg purses without batting an eye. Perhaps the only thing trumping the clones’ quality is their speed. The hotter the product, the quicker the bootleg.”
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