He did it again, and with his usual style we’ve gotten used to. Steve Jobs has replied to a customer mail regarding the future support for the iPhone 2G (do you even remember it?) and clearly said:
“Sorry, no.
Sent from my iPhone”
So, the first generation iPhone won’t be supported anymore from Apple. And this is quite fair, as technology moves forward and old models are left behind. We didn’t get any confirmation about this at the latest Apple event, except that iPhone OS 4.0 isn’t entirely compatible with the iPhone 3G and old iPod Touch. But now, Steve himself said that not only the iPhone 2G won’t run OS 4.0 as it should, but that Apple is officially dropping support for it.
You should upgrade your phone, folks. iPhoneicandi will still support it…

Epi App for iPhone

Throwing a party this season? Want to impress your guests? Let the App Store  plan your next soiree.  Buried beneath all those 100,000 apps are several clever apps that will guide you through the tedious party planning.  Fromage will help improve your cheese plate.  This handy pocket guide disguised as app gives you tons of helpful information. It has 380 cheeses from around the world. You can search by name, region, texture and even milk type.  The app also gives you cheese and wine pairings, in case your unsure.

Speaking of vino, Wine PhD is all about the grapes.  It will impress the amateurs and sommeliers (fancy word for wine-os) alike.  It has wine ratings, recommendations and wine pairings.  It also provides news articles with the latest trends from winemakers, vineyards and tips on popular wine regions and best values.

As you start thinking about your menu, you at might consult the Epi app.  The Epicurious Recipes & Shopping List, its full name, will present you with 25,000 recipes to browse.  These recipes are all from professionally tested kitchens, top gourmet magazines and top recipe sources.  So, go ahead amaze your dinner guests and take all the credit.  Whole Foods Market Recipes is another dinner app that provides meal options with all natural and organic ingredients.  For a casino approach to dinner planning, All Recipes Dinner Spinner and Big Oven Shake both equip you with meal ideas and recipes for any occasion. All Recipes is set up like a slot machine with categories like dish type, ingredients and even prep time. Big Oven Shake has over 170,000 recipes donated and shared from over 100,000 contributors and fans.  If your unsure about what to make, give your phone a shake and it will randomly pick something for you.  Grocery IQ app will help you with your grocery list and even has predictive text and a favorite’s list history.  You can even email your list to someone and  have them do your dirty work, I mean grocery shopping.

So,  save your energy for your guests,  let your iPhone do the work for you.  These are only a few of the apps you can use to your party planning advantage.  You’ll have more wine time and less whine time. These apps are all available through iTunes.  All are free except Wine PhD, which is $4.99,  Fromage is $1.99 and Grocery IQ is $.99.

Prototype "4306" iPhone 2G

Well we finally have some progress to show on this project. This is the prototype for this iPhone 2G project and we are experimenting with the different paints for the black finish. If you look at this iPhone with a quick glance, you would think that it is a 3G but it’s not.  The black finish really came out good and this is without a final buff or clear coat on the iPhone.

We also wanted to see how the iPhone would look without adding filler for the seams at the bottom by the attenna case and also how the indented Apple logo and “iPhone” words would look. On the final finished project, these will be filled and the iPhone will be completely smooth with now traces of the Apple logo, lettering, or the seam at the bottom. We should be wrapping this up in another 2 weeks tops. We will keep you posted. Here are some more unrelated works of art by our partner Ruben Rios at PairADiceCreations. This guy is awesome. These are Nitrous tanks. Look at the detail. Can you see that on the back of your iPhone?!!

PairADiceCreations

PairADiceCreations 2

Another customer project in the works here at iphoneicandi. We actually had the opportunity to see the ring-leader at his best on this one guys. These iPhones are for one of their clients, and obviously, a very important one. Anything that warrants the boss getting his hands dirty has to be pretty heavy stuff. These are a series of 4 1st generation iPhones that have been totally restored internally (all new OEM hardware ) to their former glory, and running on OS 3.0 platform. The concept here is to make the iPhones into a membership card graphically for a select few who will be platinum alumni at a very exclusive members only club based in Texas. The task is daunting due to the custom font that is used for the letters on the original membership card. It entails rich detail and includes gold lettering on the phones that is actually  18kt gold dust mixed inside of the actual paints. That’s right, REAL GOLD! Who ever the recipients of these masterpieces are, must be some real heavy weights.

“This project is my personal baby and I have uttermost faith in my staff, but it is such unchartered territory that I wanted to get in on it myself”, said Eric Patterson owner of  PMI, the parent company of iphoneicandi. “Spraying with real gold is a bit of a challenge when you are using mini guns due to the malleabilty of gold itself. We had some complications with the gold dust clogging up our brushes. One we figured that out, it became a very interesting project. We are near completion of the first prototype. Once we receive approval from our client, we should be able to wrap the project up in a couple of days”.

This project can mean alot for iPhone users who crave individuality and exclusiveness for their prized mobile device. “If all goes well, we may start a series of precious metal customs. I’m interested in how platinum, rhodium, and silver will look mixed with the proper mediums”, Eric went on to say. The mere fact that iPhone customisation is possible is a nice alternative, but these guys are taking it to a different level. Keep you eyes peeled people. Who knows whats next with this bunch…

iTunes 8.2.1 Now Available

Well, iTune 8.2.1 is out and available for download. For all you people out there with jailbroken iPhones running on the 3.0 firmware, I would advise that you not upgrade to this version until the dev teams see what the differences are in this new version. It has been verified that the new iTunes will not sync with the Palm Pre, which was one of the features that was possible with the iTunes 8.2 version that was released on June 1st. That was inevitable in my opinion. Apple doesn’t want anyone but Apple using their features.

Apple claims that there are some minor bug fixes, but I’m quite sure there is alot more than that going on. They are on the losing end of the cat and mouse game being played with the iPhone hacking community, even though software has been created that is totally independent of  iTunes’ use to jailbreak iPhone 2G, 3G, and 3G S. It has been rumoured that the new software being released will send information about the iPhone to Apple. I’m quite sure that the information will tell Apple if your iPhone is unlocked or jailbroken. That feature could be present in the iTunes update as well as the 3.1 firmware which will be released soon. I advise that you steer clear of both until we can found out what Apple has up their sleeve.