- With the arrival of Apple’s fancy new iPhone 3G this Friday, we thought we’d celebrate with a gift to our users on these wonderful devices. So, we’re proud to announce a new feature, which delivers a totally new view of News Askew (optionally) to your iPhone and iPod Touch. Now, we DID design the site to display fine as-is on these devices, as many of you have been using yours to view us already. And that option remains. However, the next time you refresh News Askew, you’re likely to see this new view. It’s a work in progress, just out of the box, so we’ve got image customization planned and a lot more. But, with the addition of the 3G network, it should be FAST. And good news for those of you (like me, for now) sticking with your first generation iPhone - It’ll be a LOT faster for you on the Edge internet network as well. COOL, right?
Check it out and let us know what you think. More updates and features on the way, of course. The iPhone is probably the coolest mobile device of all-time, so we want to do something special here to support it. If you have issues or don’t dig the look, simply look to the bottom of the page to switch back to the mini-mobile News Askew you’ve grown to know and love.
Now if we could only convince Apple or AT&T to thank us by sending us a couple of those fancy new 3G phones, it’d sure save us a lot of time waiting in line this Friday…
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July 10, 2008 at 01:58
Awesome. Looks great on iPhone.
I actually get my newsaskew on google reader now though, so sadly won’t use this a lot, but when I click on “see original” on reader, it automatically takes me to the default iPhone format page, which is good.
Incidentally, Brad, iPhone plans have been announced for a bunch of countries, and thank God you’re in the US, because it’s a fucking ripoff just about everywhere. NZ, Australia, Canada don’t appear to have unlimited data plans, and as much as I use mine for internet, I would be paying hundreds a month.
I plan on waiting for the NEXT big iPhone release in another year before thinking about replacing mine.
July 10, 2008 at 05:58
Thanks sir — I remained hopeful that there would be somewhere to get an iPhone at a fairly reasonable rate without being stuck with a carrier commitment, but it seems that Apple and the carriers can just go ahead and set their prices as they want. It’s business, and it’s a great product — I just don’t like the way Apple touts the phone as “cheap” when essentially it will cost us hundreds more a year for the same service once we upgrade. Sigh!
July 10, 2008 at 08:25
Does this iphone site have a separate URL? Some of us have similar devices and would like to make use of the lower bandwidth site.
July 10, 2008 at 14:43
I agree with Buur. It’s be nice to see it on my Blackjack II.
July 11, 2008 at 19:04
Let me see what I can do. I love the Blackjack phones as well. I’ll research it and see what I can come up with for you guys.
July 13, 2008 at 20:53
You know there was a special “celebrity line” for the iPhone. Glad to see the site is keeping up with evolution. Nice touch. (was that a pun?)
July 16, 2008 at 09:49
Loving this on my 3G iPhone! Thanks Brad & Chris!