Is Google Surpassing Apple With New Android 2.2 (Froyo) OS?: “Not A Chance”

Posted by Alan Vazquez on May 23, 2010 in iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch | 1 comment

Today, Steve Jobs replied to a question from a random person (as he does, and is doing more of recently) and this time, they asked a question as to regards to a Gizmodo article that claimed that Google had “leapfrogged” and “surpassed” Apple, the iPhone, and the iPad with Android OS version 2.2 (AKA “Froyo”).

Steve Jobs simply said “Not A Chance.”. He tends not to say much (well, sometimes he even gets into full arguments) but these words are very reassuring. This means that the iPhone HD (or whatever it’s going to be called) and iPhone OS 4.0 are going to ensure Apple’s top spot in the heated smart phone market.

Here’s the conversation:

Dear Steve,

Brian

On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Steve Jobs wrote:
Not a chance.

iPhone Voted #8 Most Important Invention In Human History

Posted by Alan Vazquez on May 22, 2010 in iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch | 5 comments

Well well, the Brits have sure stirred things up again and pissed off Google, Microsoft, and their poor confused followers (sorry Apple haters, I had to do it ).

In a survey of 4,000 British people, they ranked the top 100 most important inventions/creations in human history, now, some no brainers like the wheel, which was ranked #1, and I love the iPhone, iPod, and iPad and I agree that it’s one of the important inventions in human history, but ranked #8? Not sure that it’s ranked above flushable toilets, but hey, it’s all good still.

BTW, I love how the iPhone is more important than Google or Mobile Phones. Period. (Also, where’s the iPad? It’s “revolutionary” and “magical”) On a final note, finally, what about Apple? Apple has changed the world in the last 20 or 30 years and influenced every major piece of technology that we use today, keep that in mind…

Here’s the list:

1. Wheel
2. Aeroplane
3. Light bulb
4. Internet
5. PCs (Macs included)
6. Telephone
7. Penicillin
8. iPhone
9. Flushing toilet
10. Combustion engine
11. Contraceptive pill
12. Washing machine
13. Central heating
14. Fridge
15. Pain killers
16. Steam engine
17. Freezer
18. Camera
19. Cars
20. Spectacles
21. Mobile phones
22. Toilet paper
23. Hoover
24. Trains
25. Google
26. Microwave
27. Email
28. The pen
29. Hot water
30. Shoe
31. Compass
32. Ibuprofen
33. Toothbrush
34. Hair straighteners
35. Laptops
36. Knife and fork
37. Scissors
38. Paper
39. Space travel
40. Kettle
41. Calculator
42. Bed
43. Remote control
44. Roof
45. Air conditioning
46. SAT NAV
47. Wi-Fi
48. Cats-eyes
49. Matches
50. Power steering
51. Tumble dryer
52. Bicycle
53. Sky+
54. Tea bags
55. Umbrella
56. iPod
57. Taps
58. Crash helmet
59. Wristwatch
60. eBay
61. DVD player
62. Nappies
63. Ladder
64. Sun tan lotion
65. Lawnmower
66. Make-up
67. Chairs
68. Sunglasses
69. The game of football
70. Sliced bread
71. Sofa
72. Razor blades
73. Screwdriver
74. Motorways
75. Head/ear phones
76. Towels
77. Push-up bra
78. Binoculars
79. WD40
80. Mascara
81. Hair dryer
82. Facebook
83. Escalator
84. Hair dye
85. Wellington boots
86. Spell check
87. Calendars
88. Cheese grater
89. Buses
90. Post-it notes
91. Gloves
92. Satellite discs
93. Pedestrian crossing
94. Baby’s dummy
95. Curtains
96. Bottle opener
97. Food blender
98. Dustpan and brush
99. Desks
100. Clothes peg

Apple Now Accepting Cash For iPad: Here’s My Hellish Story

Posted by Alan Vazquez on May 20, 2010 in iPad | 6 comments

Well well, its about time. Apple is FINALLY accepting cash so you can buy an iPad. I can’t tell you the HELL I went through to get my iPad almost 3 weeks ago. It was insane. (I got mine at the iPad 3G launch, but I just got a Wi-Fi one, I went a few hours before they closed to set up for the 3G iPad launch)

Let me tell you a little story of my experience. Well, first of all, let me just say that Apple employees are big fat liars. I called ahead asking to see if they had the 16GB Wi-Fi iPad in stock before I went, and they said “no.. Sorry, we dont have them, but we can put you on a waiting list”. I said “okay, fine, sign me up” and they are like “sorry, her is the kicker, you have to come into the store and do that”. I’m like “ugh! Fine, ill be there in an hour or so”. Now, this is at about 11:30pm.

So, I go to my only Apple Store (it is about 1:30 at this point) the Jordan Creek Apple Store which is about 15 min away from Des Moines. So we go, and, just for the hell of it I told my friend, whom I had with me, “Hey, let me see if they have an iPad, hell, mabe they lied or whatever”. So I asked the guy and he left for about 5 minutes.

When he returned, he had an iPad in-hand, there it was, that beautiful white box containing the even more beautiful iPad. I was so excited, (I am a HUGE APPLE GEEK) so I was speechless and my friend said jokingly “calm down, its gonna be okay”. So he goes to start ringing me up, and I said “I’ll be paying cash”. He’s like “cool, sounds good, let me ju…, wait, cash?”. I’m like “ummm… Yeah, see (showing him the $540 I had with me, the $540 that took MONTHS to accumulate)”. Then the employee told me something that just made my heart sink “sorry, we can’t take cash for this”.

I said in panic mode, “huh?! What do you mean you can’t take cash?!”. I had been looking for an iPad for about a week, checking Best Buy every day and the Apple Store, so I was like (in my head) “noooo!!!!! Ive come so far, I cant turn back now, what the hell am I gonna do?!”.

So he goes and says “ugh, I don’t even know, it seems stupid to me too man, I’m really sorry, I’ve had to turn away a couple people today alone because my manager says we can’t accept cash”.

So I started telling him what I had been through to even get to that point, and he was very sympathetic and helpful. I’m like (to my friend and the employee) “god damn it. It’s not like I’m gonna sell this damn thing on eBay or anything, it took me forever to even have the capability to buy this thing, why the hell would I want to sell it?” I said this because I was almost sure that this was the reason why.

He said “well, I know on launch day, we were allowing people to go to the RadioShack upstairs to get one of those visa prepaid cards”. So I begged “can you PLEASE put this on hold?! Well run there and back, just give us 10 minutes! Oh, and, with tax, how much is it gonna be?” He replied with “yes! of course, I’m going to put this in back, just give me your name so someone can get this for you, its almost time for me to leave, and with tax, it’s gonna be $528.81″ I said “Alan Vazquez, and thank you soo much! We’ll be right back!”

So me and my friend ran across the mall and up the stairs (now, like I said before, I’m a huge Apple geek, and I really wanted the iPad, also keep in mind that I’m not thin by any means, lol, I’m a heavy dude) so we make it to RadioShack, and we go in there and I tell them my story about how Apple wants a prepaid visa.

Now, the RadioShack people were VERY friendly and helpful. We mingled while the transaction was bring made. I payed my $540 (due to costs of the “visa card”.) it was a reciept that had numbers that would let me use it as a card until they mailed it to me. Now, this transaction had a 30 minute safety net so that if there were any issues, they can stop the card, because it was non-refundable. So I said my “thanks! And goodbye!” to the RadioShack employees and they said “good luck!”…

As we were making our way for the door, the Apple employee that helped me and put the iPad in back ran towards us in his jacket (leaving for home). He had some bad news. He said that he had spoken with his manager and he had told him that they were not accepting the RadioShack cards anymore.

So I had to go get my money back, and they graciously did, and everyone, including the employee, had a sudden “WTF Apple” moment, and for a brief minute, we all hated Apple for all of this bullcrap.

So I went downstairs to the Apple Store, and I wanted to speak to the manager face to face. So I did. We spoke for a while and I came up with the idea to ask my mom to use her bank card to buy the iPad (I’m 16, gimme a break, I can get a credit card or anything).

So I called her, and she understood, and she said “fine, after work, well go to Apple and get it”. It’s about 2:30pm at this point. She got out at 3:30ish. So I asked them to keep the iPad in the reserved pile. They told me that they could hold it for 24 hours, then it would go to the first person who wanted it.

So, then, we had to go find something to do while we waited for it to be time. So my friend was going to buy an iPod touch 3rd gen that same day when I buy my iPad, so he got the genius idea for us to walk to Best Buy. It was like a mile there, a mile back. No car, walking, and it was like 80 degrees that day. Like I said before, I’m a heavy dude, and we don’t enjoy walking 2 miles in 80 degree weather very much, lol. (I live in Des Moines, Iowa, and weather is very unpredictable)

So, we went there and back to get his stupid iPod touch, and when we got back to the mall, we decided to go to my mom’s work and wait for her to get off work, so we could go to Apple and FINALLY get my iPad.

So, we waited and finally left at 3:20pm. We arrived at Apple at 3:30pm (keep in mind the Apple Store was closing at 4pm that day to prepare for the iPad 3G launch that was gonna be at 5pm later that day).

So we went in, and I gave them my name and they went into the back, and we waited 10 minutes, and I got some very scary news. They said “sorry, we dont have any iPad reserves with that name”. Once again, my heart sunk.

Then I told them about the employee that did that favor for me, and they went “oooohhh!!!” and they came back with my iPad. I was so relieved, so we payed with the bank card.

That moment that I took my iPad to one of those gorgeous 27 inch iMacs to activate my iPad was just a “wow” moment. Its understandable, after all I had been through.

The employee brought a pocket knife to cut the plastic wrapper. He said “I’ll let you do the honors, want to open the box? ”. So I looked and said “hell yeah! After all we have been through today, hell yeah!”. Now, I was shaking, and when I opened that box, wow. I spent being hungry, tired, angry, frustrated, etc. all of that day and here is the reason.

Now, call me a fanboy if you want, I don’t care. I probably am, hell, I spent a day of hell to get my iPad. I use it every day, and I can never look at my iPhone 3G the same way. The smaller screen and tiny icons, look tiny to me now, all I use is my iPad at home.

So that’s my story. How’s that for a story? Now, the rest of the media are saying that it’s because of some handicapped lady? I think that is some injustice right there. Call me what you want, there wasn’t just 1 person that made Apple accepting gift cards and cash for the iPad possible.

So now I ask you a question Apple, where’s my free iPad?

GodFinger Review

Posted by Brandon on May 17, 2010 in Applications, iPad, iPhone, Reviews | 2 comments

OK what can I say about this game except for the fact that all of us here at LEI Mobile are hooked!

The idea of the game is that you start off as god of a barren dump of a rock in space from which you have to fill with life by giving it rain, sunshine, life, etc. As you progress through the game your planet will populate with beings that you turn into followers that you can use to make the planet even bigger, just don’t let them get into your nukes ok Bender? Lol

This is a Plus+ Networks game and you can use that to view other planets that your friends have created, which is why y’all should all add the LEIMobile gang to your galaxy

Mike is wittchow
Alan is appletimemac
Brandon is truehybridx

I pretty much give this game a 4 out of 5 since it’s addicting and from what i can tell on going, unless there’s a day limit and then the apocalypse leading ti the destruction of my planet but that seems unlikely.

Grab the iPad version from the US AppStore!

If you are interested in getting the iPhone version, check back later on for a tutorial on how to get access to the Canadian AppStore which seems to have it.

PRESS RELEASE: LEI Mobile + iPhoneSidekick

Posted by Alan Vazquez on May 15, 2010 in Applications, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Press Release | 67 comments

UPDATE 3: Please discuss the iPhoneSK in our forums: Click here for the Link

UPDATE 2: We Fixed The iPhoneSK Bug: For Real This Time

UPDATE 1:The app is now live! Refresh your sources and go download it now!

Good morning everyone. Today, is a very special day. Today, we are going to do something special.

A couple months ago, my data died. As you all know, I have the Sidekick prepaid ($1 a day) plan from T-Mobile (USA). This gives me unlimited data and unlimited texting for just $1 a day.

Well, I was among one of the few who had figured out a way to get cellular data even after T-Mobile killed data for the iPhone. I dubbed this “p1nksn0w”. Now, I wanted to share this with all of you, however, we never had the appropriate support from people who had servers. We didn’t have the backup of the community.

Well, the personal server that I was using for about 7 months, died one day. I was chatting online, and all of a sudden, it died, never to be heard from again. This was from one of our readers, who graciously allowed me to use his private server for my data use. Well, all good things must come to an end.

Now, I was using random free servers to use data. They crashed often as well, they were slow, unreliable, and very difficult to configure. Well, I stumbled on a start up. A new kind of service. A paid service from a company that had also figured out what “p1nksn0w” was destined to be.

Now, I was personally very intrigued by them and their services. This company was, iPhoneSidekick.

Well, initially, our relationship with iPhoneSidekick was very much just a “seller-buyer” relationship. However, I saw huge potential in them.

Well, today, I am very excited to announce that we have an exclusive partnership with iPhoneSidekick to work together to bring some cool stuff to market.

This new deal not only means new, unexplored, territory for us here at LEI Mobile, but it also means great things for our readers and our customers. The LEI Mobile + iPhoneSidekick deal will allow you all of you on the T-Mobile Sidekick (as well as on other plans that don’t allow you to get data on, such as the AT&T GoPhone plan) to get data once more for a great low price, even better customer service, and a very easy to install method.

Well, first, let’s talk about the ease of use and installation.

Installing your new data renabler is incredibly easy! It’s very simple. You just have to hop onto our brand new “iPhoneSK” application and check out the details, and the plans.

The iPhoneSK app will be available later today. Just hop on Cydia and refresh your sources. You’ll see “iPhoneSK”, just install it to your iPhone and get going.

Now, these plans are prepay. You can cancel at anytime. Say you are going to use data one month, but not the other, yet you will the following month, you can cancel your service at anytime, there will be no cancellation fees, and you can start back up at any time.

So cancel anytime. No early termination fees. No contract, and you can choose from plans starting at just $0.99 and go to $9.99.

Now, let me talk a little more about the plans and what our new deal will bring.

Typically, iPhoneSidekick will have a $1 a month plan that just gives you very limited service. Only Safari will work. Then, their $1.99 plan will give you slightly more services, however, many applications just won’t work.

Most people, are inclined to purchasing their $9.99 plan. This gives you unrestricted access to any and all data services that the iPhone offers, super fast data speeds, that’s just $9.99 a month. Now, this would be great, however, I believe that $9.99 is a bit steep for most users.

So what do we do about this. Well, this is where our exclusive deal comes into play.

As part of our exclusive deal, we will be offering that same, unrestricted access, data plan, with unlimited data usage, the same as their $9.99 plan, for just $7.99.

Yes folks, just $7.99.

We are very excited to bring this to market. We believe that their previous $9.99 plan was great, however, the price was too steep for most customers.

So, as part of a breakthrough, revenue-sharing deal for us here at LEI Mobile, we will transfer the savings to you guys, and offer the same great features and benefits found on the $9.99 plan, but for just $7.99 a month.

So. LEI Mobile + iPhoneSidekick.

A breakthrough deal that is sure to boost revenues for both companies as well as doing what we set out to do from the very beginning of these talks. That is to make this more accessible and affordable for our customers.

Now, to recap on today’s announcements.

$7.99 a month unlimited data reenabler plan:

Unrestricted Web Access.
Push Notification Support
iTunes, App Store, and iBooks support
Full HTTP/HTTPS Access
All E-Mail Is Supported
All Apps Supported
Ultra Fast Speeds
Cancel Anytime
No Contract
Exclusively From Our Breakthrough Deal

iPhoneSK iPhone app:

Free Download
Cydia (BigBoss Repo)
Purchase, Manage, Change Data Plans
Fix Sidekick Data With Plans
Detailed Plan Info
Great Customer Service
Same Beautiful AVBE v2.8 Core
Access Full Services
LEIMobile.com Integration
Super Fast
Super Responsive
Available later Today

So there you go guys. Thank you very much for joining us today as we launch our partnership with iPhoneSidekick and the great end-user benefits.

I hope you all take advantage of this great new plan, and if you have the $9.99 plan, I strongly suggest that you switch over to our exclusive $7.99 deal, as you will get all of the same features of the $9.99 premium plan, for less.

Thank You!