Arnold Kim
Arnold is the Editorial Director of MacRumors and founded the site in February, 2000.
Arnold was also a practicing physician but gave it up in 2008 to focus on this website. He has been writing about Apple for over 20 years, and has been profiled by the New York Times, and interviewed by various news publications about his knowledge of Apple.
He continues to run MacRumors, and provides editorial oversight as well as business direction.
Arnold was also a practicing physician but gave it up in 2008 to focus on this website. He has been writing about Apple for over 20 years, and has been profiled by the New York Times, and interviewed by various news publications about his knowledge of Apple.
He continues to run MacRumors, and provides editorial oversight as well as business direction.
Arnold Kim's Articles
Test Your iPhone Typing Speed
iPhoneTypingTest.com provides you with a simple way to test how fast you can type on your iPhone keyboard.
Tapping the text entry field gives you a phrase to type. Pressing "Done" on your iPhone keyboard completes the test and gives you your words per minute...
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ArsTechnica iPhone Review
If you're looking for a more technical review of the iphone, Arstechnica posted their extensive iPhone review along with their own stress testing. It's hard to provide an all encompassing summary blurb but they leave the reader with these pros and cons:
Pros:
Web surfing experience is superior to other phones
Overall SMS experience is great
Practically non-scratchable
Looks...
Cheaper iPhone Nano? [Updated]
JP Morgan analysts claim that Apple is planning on launching a cheaper version of the iPhone in the 4th quarter of this year that "could be based on the ultra-slim iPod Nano music player".
The analyst (Kevin Chang) cited unspecified "people in the supply channel" as well as a recent U.S. Patent application as his sources for the information. "We believe that iPod Nano will be converted into a...
JiveTalk Instant Messanger for iPhone
BeeJive.com has released their web based instant messanging client for the iPhone at iphone.beejive.com. JiveTalk for iPhone is currently available to the public as an open alpha, and free to use. Because this is an alpha release, you may experience some problems/defects. Please report these to support@beejive.com. Thank you for choosing JiveTalk!
Overall expereience with the iPhone designed...
OS X Based iPods Soon?
Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster belives that Apple will be focusing on OS X based iPods by Macworld San Francisco 2008.
Munster's belief is likely based on an otherwise overlooked comment by Steve Jobs at Apple's Town Hall which revealed that Apple was working on OS X based iPods: There is one OS group that...
iPhone Promotion at BestBuy (Canada)
BestBuy.ca is promoting an early signup for information for the Canadian version of the iPhone. It's beautiful, it's powerful and it's been all over the news; the question on the minds of Canadians from coast to coast is "when can we get our hands on the iPhone?"...
Apple Licensing Imagination's Graphics Cores?
EETimes reports on speculation that Apple may be a licensee for Imagination Technologies Group's "next-generation" graphics and video cores.
The conclusion appears to be entirely speculative, with Imagination reporting only that "an international electronics systems company" has signed a multi-use licensing agreement. Observers have speculated that Apple will use the SGX 3D graphics and video...
iPhone iChat Application Mentioned in Survey
A web survey from AT&T has been making the rounds as "evidence" that Apple is planning on launching an iChat client for the iPhone.
The survey, conducted by a 3rd party company, asks users to give feedback for various applications on the iPhone.
The applications listed include: YouTube, GoogleMaps, Email, iChat, Weather, Stocks and Search.
"iChat", of course, is not an application on the ...
Tilt: iPhone Accelerometer Game
Web developer Joe Hewitt and team posted an alpha version of Tilt -- an rudimentary iPhone game that takes advantage of the iPhone position sensor.
The is simple, but does provide an example of how to detect the iPhone's position. Andrew Mager describes the game: This was my favorite game presented at the hack-a-thon. Javascript afficianado Joe Hewitt, along with help from Nicole Lazzaro,...
iPhoneDevCamp Wraps Up
Photo by Adam Tow
The first iPhoneDevCamp concluded this weekend. The keynote presentation has been posted (PDF) which summarizes all known information about iPhone web development.
A flickr photo set shows more photos from the event and a list of apps from the event is provided.
The application list is of variable quality, but a few stand out:
iPhogo - Mobile photography made...
MacUpdate Software Bundle Sale [Update]
Readers may remember the MacHeist scavenger hunt bundle last year which offered a final 10 application bundle (value $307.74) for $49.
This morning, MacUpdate has launched a week-long sale offering 10 Mac applications ($433.82 value) for $49.99. These applications include:
GraphicConverter - image editor/converter
Fetch - FTP Client
iWOW - iTunes audio enhancement plug in
GarageSal...
iPhone Word Processor: gOffice
Per Robert Scoble, Silveroffice, Inc. launched a word processor application for the iPhone at gOffice.com (iPhone Link). The web-based application allows you to type into a text field which you can save to a Word document and send it to yourself or to others.
The application offers some addition features, including special headers, text templates, a cursive signature font and live previews....
Inside Apple's iPhone Store Availability
Those of you still following Apple's Retail guide to iPhone availability may want to know how the retail store algorithm works.
At 9 p.m. every night (local time), the inventory is checked at each Apple Store. Those with less than 10 8GB iPhones are considered to be "out of stock" for the following morning. Therefore, the tool tells us nothing about the status of 4GB iPhones at the Apple...
Storing Documents on the iPhone
One current limitation of the iPhone is an inability to download and store documents.
If you have the time and ability, storing PDFs onto a web page will provide you with the best iPhone viewing opportunity, but you will have to be internet connected to be able to view them.One tip to actually store documents (PDF, Word, Excel) locally comes from dharrison9 on our forums. He noticed that...
MoviesApp: Movies Times, Tickets and Trailers
Jeff Grossman (Jeffrey903), author of GasApp for the iPhone, has released a new iPhone specific application called MoviesApp at http://moviesapp.com
MoviesApp allows you to search for movies in your ZipCode and provides basic movie information, including Length, Genre, Rating and Showtimes.
Jeff added a few iPhone specific features which make it much more useful, however. This includes...
Google Reader (RSS) for iPhone
While the iPhone's Safari will read basic RSS feeds, the lack of a RSS feed organizer makes it a difficult tool to use.
Fortunately, Google's Reader service is optimized for the iPhone (and other mobile devices). Visiting the standard url http://www.google.com/reader/ from your iPhone will take you to the mobile version of the site.
If you don't...
Apple Trademarking 'Multi-touch' [Updated]
Appleinsider reports that Apple has started trademark applications "in a Far East intellectual property office" for the term "multi-touch".
"Multi-touch" is one of the key technologies that is seen in Apple's new iPhone, but there has been analyst and user speculation that Apple would utilize this technique in future desktop or notebook functionality.
Apple's recent multitouch mouse patent...
Telekinesis: Stream Music and Videos from Your Mac
Telekinesis is an early version of a Mac OS X application that allows you to interact with your Mac from your iPhone:
Stream music and videos from your computer (0.9.8)
Screen capture with mouse click and basic typing support
Simple iTunes Remote control
Browse your files
Run applescript remotely
iSight image capture
The software is still in a very early version (alpha) and there ...
Trillian Astra (Instant Messaging) for iPhone
The Trillian team has been working on an iPhone version of Trillian: Currently the contact list and message windows are up and running. You can see the status of your contacts they update. You can send and receive messages in real-time, as long as your browser window is open. There is no need to move Windows (what a backward concept! ) around on the phone, as everything is compact and fit...
iPhone as in-car iPod replacement?
The only place I really have time to listen to my iPod is in the car. I live in Houston, and driving is a pretty huge part of life: I live about 12 miles from work and about 20 from the University of Houston, where I attend classes. The mass transit in this city leaves much to be desired, too.
Im in the car for about an hour a day, about 2 hours if I get let off work during rush hour! To...
