I was averaging about 15fps, which was normal for me in TBC. It was definetely playable–at least as far as what I was used to.

Nothing to see here. Just seeing how this works.

I’m thrilled for this. Very rarely do I sync my iPhone to my iTunes library — usually when I’ve just bought new music. I only subscribe to a handful of podcasts, but because of how infrequently I sync, I’m usually too far behind to make an effort to catch up.

It’s unknown right now if it will support EDGE, but my feeling is it will. According to that post, we’re under the same 10mb limit for for App Store and that works just fine over EDGE.

I can’t wait for this to be released.

I also think we’ll see a new iLife with improvements to Garageband. I’m 50/50 on a new iWork; a part of me thinks we’ll see that at Macworld, but since the 08 version got rolled out at last September’s showcase, it wouldn’t surprise me if we saw an update today.

What I’m hoping for is firmware 2.1 for the iPhone.

I think something is wonky with push. My yahoo account was set to fetch, but I think the push setting was overriding it . If  I’m not alone on this, it might explain why the APIs for push on non-Apple apps was yanked from the latest beta.

Since I don’t need my calender updating constantly, if it saves on battery life fetch is fine.

I’ll report back tommorow.

The problem is, getting the Google Calendar to the iPhone with a minimum of hops. NuevaSync is beta testing a service that will sync your iPhone and Google calendars via push. I signed up for it, and it works great. However, starting late last week I noticed my battery life went to hell in a hand basket. In the “I can’t make it through the work day” bad. Last Friday my battery died around 8pm. Sunday wasn’t much better. Yesterday it died at 5pm. While that sucks, it’s not difficult for me to work around. I can keep it charged at work, and my truck has a charger for it, too. However, next week at Dragon*Con, poor battery life is going to be a big, big problem.

I saw this thread over at Arstechnica, where someone was complaining about poor battery life with push via Exchange. There was a key line in there:

So, I asked one of our IS guys to have a look at our Exchange HTTP logs, and here’s where it gets interesting. My phone was hitting the web server every five seconds. Now, we have about a dozen staff with iPhones, and mine is the only one exhibiting this behaviour.

I began to wonder if I was having a similar issue. For now, I’ve turned off NuevaSync entirely — for the record, I don’t think this problem is on their end, but some wonkiness in the iPhone software. If I can get through the day with amazing battery life I’ll know at least where the problem is.

However, that poses a problem with calendaring. Given my dislike of iCal and iPhone’s calendar, getting my Google calendar to the iPhone is going to take some monkeying around. I tried using the CalDav Google linkup, but I can’t edit the calendar on the iPhone. There’s a few things I’m going to need to test:

• Do more testing and see if it’s just the push technology hosing things up, and set NuevaSync to fetch and not push — right now, push is completely disabled on my iPhone. However, that’s going to end up being a problem when they come out of beta and announce their pricing scheme — it may be too damn expensive.
• Look into a solution like SpanningSync to sync iCal to Google. While I’ve spent $25 on worse things, it’s another process running and another point of failure.
• Look into MobileMe. Given how crappy that’s running, and paying $100/year to just sync my calendars seems a little much.

It’s probably going to be either the first or third options. I just know as soon as I drop the money on SpanningSync, Google is going to announce some sort of push technology.

• The 3g iPhone will be announced, going on sale at the end of the month
• The App Store will be demoed, going live the same time as the 3g iPhone
• The 3g iPhone will also have a camera that can take movies, and will upload directly to YouTube. This functionality may be part of a software upgrade for the first-gen iPhone
• Most of the Jobsnote will be about the iPhone and the App Store.
• iPhone 2.0 will allow syncing of tasks, finally. I hope

• We will not see a consumer-class headless desktop
• Weill not see iLife or iWork upgrades; those will be during Macworld or a special event later this year.
• We will see a preview of 10.6, but I disagree with this TUAW report. OS X 10.6 will have new features, but I don’t know what they are

• Mobile Mac will be announced and will bring Enterprise-level syncing to the iPhone. I’m going to go out on a limb and say you can also sync over the cloud with Google calendars
• I’m going further on a limb and will predict Mobile Mac to be free for iPhone users