Transfer Contacts From Your Old Phone Or Your Computer To A New iPhone.

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Now that you got your new iPhone, how do you transfer data from your old phone to new iPhone 4? It is pretty simple if you follow a few guide lines. You can also bring data from another phone, non iPhone too.

Getting ready to transfer your information to iPhone

As you may have found out, you need iTunes to anything with iPhone as iPhone uses iTunes to sync with the address book, calendar applications and other data like music, pod casts etc you already use on your computer:

• Address Book or Entourage on a Mac, or Microsoft Outlook Contacts or Outlook Express on a PC
• iCal or Entourage on the Mac, or MS Outlook Calendar on a PC
• Yahoo! Address Book or Google Address Book

If you don’t manage your contacts and appointments with any of the above applications, it might not be a bad idea to start with one, so you’ll be ready to sync your iPhone with your most up-to-date phone numbers, email addresses, and appointments. Also you will have your data in multiple locations. You can also enter your contact information directly into your iPhone Contacts or Calendar.
If you use Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync for your contact and address book management, you may want to get help from your IT staff or refer to this page to learn to configure iPhone to sync with Exchange ActiveSync.

Connect your iPhone to your computer with the USB cable and fire up you iTunes app. (You can aslo setup iTunes to start when the phone is plugged in). Select the iPhone under the devices as shown in the image below;

Now that you have to phone connected, you need to select which information to be synced, Go through the tabs in iTunes to specify which media and information you want synced from your computer to iPhone.
Click Apply in the lower-right corner of the screen. Your computer syncs with iPhone according to your settings.

The first time you sync iPhone, you are asked if you want to merge data, replace data on the service, or replace the data on your computer. After that, anytime you connect iPhone to your computer, iTunes opens and syncs with iPhone according to your settings.
If you do not have data from your old phone on your computer, If you’re using Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7, you can transfer data from your old phone to your PC:

Refer to the software that was included with your phone. Many phones include applications that will sync contacts, calendars, and other personal-information-manager data with a PC. You can install this software to get the contacts and calendars from your old phone and transfer them to your PC.
If you have just a few contacts or calendars on your previous phone, you may find it easier to reenter them manually into a supported Windows application or into iPhone itself.

You can also transfer your old data through your SIM card;

1. You can use your old phone’s SIM card (if your old phone is not an iPhone) to transfer primary phone number for each of your contacts from the SIM card. Additional numbers may not import, or may import as more than one contact.
2. Remove the SIM card from your iPhone and replace it with the SIM card from your old phone.
3. Your phone may need to reactivate. If so, connect to iTunes. 
4. Tap Settings, then tap Mail, Contacts, Calendars, and then tap Import SIM Contacts.
5. 

Remove your old SIM card from iPhone and reinstall the SIM card that came with your iPhone.

Windows Live Messenger For iPhone Is In The App Store.

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Microsoft has released it fourth free application for the iPhone, Windows Live Messenger For iPhone, an iOS app.

The application allows iPhone and iPod touch users to keep in touch via Redmond giants IM platform, used by millions all over the world. (The word is the app is not available, everywhere in the world!) You can get the app from iTunes.
The app brings;

Windows Live Messenger for iPhone and iPod Touch is the best way to connect with the people that matter most and keep up with the things they are doing across the web. Use your iPhone to instant message your friends list, view and comment on your friends’ photos and status updates from Windows Live, Facebook, and MySpace
, and at a glance, see what your Messenger friends are sharing from Flickr, YouTube, and many other social and photo sharing sites
. Make sure to visit http://profile.live.com/Services today and setup Windows Live to bring in your social networks. Messenger is simply the best way to connect with your closest friends. 

Chat:
Instant message with your Windows Live Messenger and Y! Messenger contacts on the go so you’re always connected to the people that matter most. You can even receive IM notifications when your app is closed so you never miss a message.

Social:
Windows Live Messenger gives you one place to view the updates your Messenger friends are sharing from social networks like Facebook, Flickr, MySpace and more, helping you cut through the clutter on the go.

Photos:
Upload photos right from your phone to share your favorite moments with the people that matter most. Create albums, add captions, and let your friends and family comment on your photos.

Hotmail:
Access your Hotmail account without leaving the app to read, reply to, and compose emails. Get email notifications within the application so you know when you have new messages.

Looks like Live Messenger fans with iPhones will be happy.

Facebook For iPhone 3.1.3, Is It A Hastily Done Job?

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The updated facebook for iPhone seems to a something done in a hurry without much thought put into it. Even though it is supporting facebook Video watching (if you can find any videos to watch), Photos 720 pixels wide and view and write on facebook event walls, there seem to be some gaps in the product and the process.
First of all there is no mention of iOS 4 support, not even fast app switching, the most simplest form of multitasking that the new iPhone OS, iOS 4, which being released today, is bringing.
On the iPad side, only thing facebook has done is demanding imitation apps (like Facebook Ultimate,) to be taken down. There yet to be a native iPad app from facebook. I would have thought, facebook would have done better with iPad, like it did with the iPhone app for facebook.

On top of that there seem to be a UI glitch, in some peoples eyes, and some may not even notice it, but it is still there like Techcrunch says;

this update has at least one glaring UI bug. Sure, bugs are a part of the game, but how Facebook overlooked this one is dumbfounding. If you have new messages or friend requests on Facebook, load up the main screen in the app. There you’ll find certain areas badged to let you know there are updates for you to see — but these badges have a dark upper area that clashes badly with the light background of the main screen. I mean, it just looks awful. How did that get through quality control?

I think ever since the developer Joe Hewitt left, facebook has not found the right replacement. Hope those millions of people who uses facebook from their iPhones are happy and those with iPads soon.
Insidefacebook via Techcrunch

Apple Is Cancelling A Bunch Of iPhone 4 Pre- Orders It Seems

UPDATE Apple released an statement and it could be found at the end of the article;
Apple Does Not Have Enough iPhones? http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
Apple and AT&T seem to have trouble with stores and iPhone 4 orders, continuously. Perhaps they should use Google Checkout! Because it seem to work so far unlike Apples own store and AT&T's store, under pressure. Both had enough of problems since Apple started taking Pre-Orders for iPhone 4. Google Store another option, for next device release.
Engadget tells us that Apple is sending out emails, a quite a bit, telling customers that their orders were canceled.

Dear Customer,

We were unable to complete the authorization process for your iPhone
order. As a result, we had to cancel your iPhone order. To complete the
purchase of your iPhone, please visit an Apple Retail Store or an AT&T
company-owned retail store.

We apologize for this inconvenience.

Sincerely,
Apple Online Store Team

If I got this letter after what people went through to get hteir order in, I will go get me a Droid Incredible.
Engadget

Apple Statement on the subject;

Yesterday Apple and its carrier partners took pre-orders for more than 600,000 of Apple’s new iPhone 4. It was the largest number of pre-orders Apple has ever taken in a single day and was far higher than we anticipated, resulting in many order and approval system malfunctions. Many customers were turned away or abandoned the process in frustration. We apologize to everyone who encountered difficulties, and hope that they will try again or visit an Apple or carrier store once the iPhone 4 is in stock.
Press Contacts:
Steve Dowling
Apple
dowling@apple.com
(408) 974-1896

Natalie Harrison
Apple
harri@apple.com
(408) 862-0565

Orange UK Launches Mobile HD Voice Trial In Bristol, Reading and Southampton

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Orange (O2) has done wonders to UK and other European countries communications. They usually come out with innovative ideas before most of the carriers. This time it is Mobile HD Voice. The company announced a trial of High Definition (HD) Voice across its UK mobile network in the South of England. A nationwide launch is slated for this summer if all is well with the trial;

The runs across the Orange UK mobile network between the locations of Bristol, Reading and Southampton, with those participating, having been selected to represent a range of demographic groups, including small businesses and early technology adopters, as well as more mainstream users. Levels of call quality and customer experience will be monitored, and upon successful feedback from the trial, Orange plans to roll out the service nationwide across before the end of the summer.

The company was very successful in what is deemed the worlds first Mobile HD Voice service in Moldova. THe company employs a wider speech bandwidth of 50–7000 Hz compared to the current narrowband speech codec of 300–3400 Hz in its deployments. HD Voice uses the WB-AMR (Wideband Adaptive Multi-Rate) speech codec to deliver significantly enhanced sound quality while utilizing the same network resources.

Tom Alexander, Chief Executive of Everything Everywhere, the company which runs Orange UK, was very upbeat about the event.

"The trial of mobile HD Voice is a significant milestone in the new company's goal of delivering the best service in the industry. HD Voice represents a huge advance for the customer experience, a great leap forward for the mobile industry and we're delighted to be at the forefront in bringing this innovation to the UK public."