Apparently Apple has been regularly recording the position of your iPhone and storing it into a hidden file since the release of iOS 4. A free app can be downloaded here to access the contents of your secret location file. Where have you been?

ATT claims that 98% of its users do not use more than 2GB of data per month. Looking at my data usage over the past 6 months, I am a member of that 98%. I wonder how much my data usage will grow once I have the ability to tether my iPhone.

Another factor to take into consideration is the addition of HD video capabilities on the iPhone. Will Apple/ATT allow HD video uploads to Youtube and Facebook over 3G, or will that feature be wifi only? A 2 minute video on my Flip MinoHD is roughly 150MB, which means 10 short video uploads would put most users over the new 2GB data limit.

How much data do you use?

Tomorrow April 8th, at 10AM Pacific, everyone's questions, expectations and the future of the iPhone OS will be answered. Rumors, rants, and speculation about future iPhone updates have been flying around the net since the last major OS update, and every fanboy has a list of features they want to see included in the new OS. Here are some of my desires and speculations for iPhone OS 4.0.

Desires:
Spell check, multiple push accounts, notification info displayed on the lock screen, multitasking, file storage, and tethering or the ability to create a wifi hotspot.

Speculations:
In my opinion one of the major things missing from the iPad is some type of integration between the iPhone and the iPad. Currently to my knowledge they do not talk to each other or interact at all, providing no benefit to owning both devices. This might be a long shot, but I am thinking Apple might try to up the anticipation for the release of the 3G iPad by announcing a new feature within the iPhone OS that encourages current iPhone owners to purchase an iPad.

No matter what Apple announces tomorrow, I am sure we will all be waiting until June/July before getting our hands on the actual update.

In last nights episode of V on ABC they showed an aerial shot of what was supposed to be Georgetown, CT. I grew up in Georgetown, and do not recognize the area they claimed to be Georgetown. Anyone know if this is an old aerial shot that pre-dates me? Or is this just random stock footage?

I stopped in at my local Apple store earlier this evening so I could finally make my own hands on opinions about the iPad, and this is what I found...

The iPad is really cool! Hands down there is no other gadget out there like it (yet). It's a frankenstein device that was born from an orgy between and iPhone, a laptop, and a Kindle. While the iPad can definitely not replace my laptop, I personally would not even consider buying a Kindle knowing I could have an iPad for a few hundred dollars more. As an e-reader you have the choice of using the free Kindle app or the Apple book store, both are great options and the iPad's backlight allows you to read in the dark.

Browsing the web is a great experience on sites that do not require the flash plugin or have implemented support for HTML5. Sites that are not HTML5 compliant and heavy on ajax features and or flash frustrated me pretty quickly, and I was ready to grab my laptop. While Apple does not have the fastest track record at updates with the iPhone, all of the browser shortcomings on the iPad are fixable through software updates.

The screen on the iPad is beautiful, and viewing media on iPad is an experience like no other. I am not much of a portable gamer, but the few games that I checked out on the iPad were really cool. The kids checking out the iPad next to me really seemed to be enjoying them as well!

The biggest turn off I experienced on my introduction to the iPad was not with the device itself, but the staff at the Apple store. Not only could they not answer a few of my own questions, I watched the staff fumble with other consumers questions as well. I know the device just came out, but it appeared that the Apple staff had no training on the device at all.

The iPad is definitely the coolest content consumption device to date! I am not sure I can justify the $500 price tag, but more likely than not I will eventually find one sitting on my desk.

It looks like Google is launching some design/layout changes to their search pages. I am really digging the new sidebar!