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Saving images from email attachments supported in iPhone Firmware 2.0 Beta 3

ashoperon — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:24:05 +0000

While poking around the the iPhone 2.0 firmware Vincent got a hold of, he noticed not only can you save images directly from Safari, but you can save images from email attachments. The saving of images from an email attachment works much like it does when you save an image from Safari. Video of it in action after the jump.

Just as in Safari, it is very simple to save and store images from an email attachment to your iPhone. You hold your finger over the image for a few seconds, and a menu will come up and offer you some options for saving the image. The image is saved in your camera roll. More and more, the iPhone 2.0 firmware is appearing to make the iPhone a very formidable opponent to Windows Mobile and BlackBerry devices.

Once again, iPhone Buzz has gotten you the story on the new iPhone firmware 2.0 to you first. If you want to be the first to know when a new feature drops, keep checking back. You will know when we do.

Save images attachments directly from iPhone Mail
by Slashgear

Analyst calls iPhone significant rival to RIM, Palm & ‘inept’ Windows Mobile

Chris Davies — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:32:35 +0000

Many iPhone-addicts have been saying it for a long time already, but analyst Charlie Wolf from researchers Needham & Co. has issued a strongly-worded note to his clients suggesting that both RIM and Palm will continue to feel pressure from Apple’s cellphone, particularly as the consumer smartphone market develops, with results visible in the place it hurts most: their bank balance. In two separate pieces, Wolf described a maturing user base viewing smartphone functionality as relevant to home, rather than business, life; however, different priorities are being expressed, with push email (a RIM strength) seen as less important compared to, say, media functionality (which the iPhone has in spades).

RIM – which has recently revealed healthy 2007 performance figures – has been successful primarily due to the “simply inept” offerings of rivals, primarily using the Windows Mobile OS. Wolf suggests Microsoft’s smartphone software is unnecessarily difficult and off-putting to home users. Palm, meanwhile, is hampered by the absence of a strong OS or of a well-performing device, with Wolf describing the Centro – one million of which have been sold – as a “cushion” to soften the blow until Palm’s new range emerges, a range the company has already admitted will be delayed until the Summer.

And the argument for the iPhone will only get stronger once Firmware 2.0 is released in June; then, Wolf highlights, the enterprise functionality and security RIM has so-far led with will be available on the far more appealing Apple handset, at which point not only the whims of home users will affect the BlackBerry bottom line.

[via Electronista]

IFA 2007 – SlashGear Exclusive With LG KS20 HSDPA Smartphone Prada

Staff Editor — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 23:33:31 +0000

Not to long ago SlashGear brought you an article about an LG phone they saw that looked like the Prada running Windows Mobile. Well it turns out that’s pretty much exactly what it was, only know its been officially released, with a name, the LG KS20.

Essentially it looks like the Prada you all know, and some have come to love, but with a few nice additions, namely the smartphone functionality. On the hardware side it has HSDPA and twin cameras as well as a generous screen.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H8Zcj2Y_sc[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq0Lo8w-gtQ[/youtube]

There is no keyboard, instead its on the phones touchscreen. For more on the SlashGear article from February click through to here.

IFA 2007 – Exclusive video hands-on of LG’s KS20: the HSDPA Prada [via SlashGear]