Cell phone wallpaper

Admittedly, i'm a wallpaper whore. It all stems from my love for art I guess...So naturally when I got my first phone that could properly display a sick picture I used the power of the internet to search for images that I liked. I quickly found that when it comes to cell phone wallpaper its best to have a homogeneous feel through out the image or one to two focal points. that being said there are always exceptions.
Here's but a teeny tiny fraction of some I have saved in a convenient enough spot on my hard drive to upload and they are yours for the taking my friends. of course now that I have a phone with a high res. display I try to stick exclusively to images with higher quality although none of these are HD some things are too badass to go unflaunted. steal as necessary...

It should also be noted that these images are all optimized for that iphone in particular but they shouldn't have a problem fitting on any other display properly, especially if you have the most basic of editing skills. enjoy, ill put more up another time i'm sure.

Demystifying the Iphone 4 Rumors

(photo via engadet)

Lets just jump right into this. The iphone 4's antenna is on the outside of the phone. It's the aluminum band that wraps around the side of the device itself ok? ok. there are three little black lines, one at the top towards the left and two near the bottom on either side. still with me? ok. the little black line at the bottom left seen in the photo above in front of the gentleman's ring finger is the one that's responsible for the shit storm that the media has unleashed on apple.

Here's the low down: every cellphone has an antenna, and when that antenna is covered by your hand YOUR RECEPTION DIMINISHES regardless of your make, model, or carrier. apple posted videos on their website demonstrating this with a blackberry bold, htc eris, samsung omnia 2 and even their own iphone 3gs. it's just physics. However, because the iphone 4's antenna is on the outside of the phone, the drop in reception is more than your average phone (i guess) but only if you're covering that black strip on the lower left side we talked about.

Before the iphone 4 no one cared but because the iphone is the iphone-or in other words the best phone ever people blew the whole thing out of proportion, and i mean way the fuck out of proportion. I heard some one ask if touching the strip made your phone SHUT OFF. not their fault. any combination of the media and stupid people can make things like that happen.

Of course more shit comes when Consumer Reports says that they cannot recommend the iphone 4 for that very reason AND they did some independent test experiments themselves to make sure. fine i guess thats fair but the one thing nobody seems to do is ASK PEOPLE WHO ALREADY OWN ONE. like me!

So is it as bad as they say? not on your insignificant little life it isn't. i got my I4 the day that shiz dropped son. straight pre-ordered it cuh-uh erm! anyway, heres some of my personal iphone 4 facts for you: the very first call i made DID drop (har har). I had an iphone 3G for two years and i'd say my dropped call rate started at occasional and slowly went to rarely. I have dropped others calls since but maintained just as many. or should i say just as few? what i mean is that i RARELY RARELY RARELY ever use my phone to talk. As a matter of fact I checked my minutes today and despite only getting 450 minutes a month i've managed to collect nearly 4,000 rollover minutes and thats not counting the couple thousand expired minutes that at&t has taken. this is my third year with at&t and although i don't care for the carrier (at&t) i'd put up with the worse for the iphizzle. also it is safe to blame at&t for dropped calls as well but not entirely.

Does that mean i'm not worth asking? fuuuuck naw, i still use the damn phone. i'm addicted to the internet and i'm constantly in my phone. i like my phone more than people and other than telephone usage I must say the whole "antennagate" thing is people trying to hurt the guy on top as with all number one competitors.

final words... iphone 4 is an EPIC win. the only other phone I can be happy with is the iphone 4x when or whatever that is.

heres a few or so videos showing other phones dropping bars when covering the antenna:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zft3-Lwh2bo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP67VXXJ79Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOVuf8WlBXo

ps. expect plenty of more iphone rambles!

77% of Iphone users plan to re-up

(photo courtesy of engadget)

Read today that 77% of iphone users are sticking with it for their next phone! why should you care right?! because the same articles (yes plural. I get my read on) said that a measly 20% of android users are willing to stay with that operating system or "OS" for those with a blank stare.

The funny part is that in an attempt to explain all of this (by one of the articles), they chalked it up to iphone users being distracted by the beauty of the phone and not caring about all of the problems it has... yeah no, it has nothing to do with all the reliability, simplicity, wonderfully executed everything (almost). i could go on but its more of a show and tell knida thing. Anyway, all i know is that ive owned, used, and watched sooo many reviews on other phones and there is no other choice for me personally. Shit I saw a app today that waits on hold for you when you're on the phone and calls you when you get connected FTW!

Yeah ive used an evo, it crashed TWICE in the time i spent with it. All of the transitions suffer from clipping is display looks like a joke after owning an iphone iv and combined with 4G it murders battery life. FAIL. your phone does cool stuff but only for the time you can use it. of course you can be one of those fools that carry their charger everywhere, but i digress..

I'll say this: people who own and understand the true nature the iphone will stick with it. the HTC EVO is definitely a good phone-great even, but the iphone 4 has truly set the bar again and unfortunately the evo came out first so they could copy what apple has done yet again: made every phone on the market look and feel like garbage.