In the news

I’ve heard from a lot of iPhone J.D. readers who purchased an iPhone 5 and are really enjoying the device.  Apple announced earlier this week that it sold over 5 million iPhone 5 devices last weekend, and I’m sure it has sold a ton more since then.  Even after a week of use, I am still finding the speed, the size, and the lightness almost unbelievable.  I also notice that I’ve been coming up with reasons to do things using the iPhone 5 instead of my iPad or computer just because using the device is such a nice experience.  What a great product.  And now, the news of note from the past week:

• Cheryl Niemeier, the law librarian at Bose McKinney & Evans, recommends iPhone apps for lawyers.  (via Third Apple)
• California attorney David Sparks calls AppleCare+the “$100 invisible iPhone case” because if you purchase the service within the first 30 days of buying an iPhone, Apple will replace your phone if you wreck it on two occasions (although there is also a $49 fee with each replacement).  I did purchase AppleCare with my iPhone 4, figuring that it was a new design so there could be issues.  I did have a problem with the button on my iPhone 4 and Apple replaced it for free; I’m not sure if that was because of AppleCare.  Otherwise I have not purchased AppleCare for any of my iPhones, and I’m not sure if I will do it for my new iPhone 5, but I am thinking about it.
• New York attorney and TechnoLawyer publisher Neil Squillante discusses the TrialWorks Mobile App, a litigation practice management app.
• One Apple accessory that I have always enjoyed using with an iPhone is a dock.  Apple gave them away with the first iPhone and sold them for every model since, but they do not seem to be offered for the iPhone 5.  9 to 5 Mac reports that a person sent Apple VP of Marketing Phil Schiller a question about the dock, and Schiller responded in an email that Apple does not plan to make one for the iPhone 5.  And of course, they do not appear on the Apple Store website.  On the other hand, Apple has said that they plan to sell a Lightning connector to VGA cord and that isn’t on the Apple website yet either, and AppleInsider reports that that the official iPhone 5 user guide references an Apple-made dock.  It could just be part of the iPhone 4S user guide that Apple forgot to update correctly, or maybe there is hope yet for an Apple-branded dock for those of us who use them.  We’ll see.
• Now that the iPhone 5 is out, we are seeing many more reviews.  A few of them are really good and worth reading if you want to learn more about the iPhone 5 — either because you are thinking of buying one, or you just bought one and you want to learn more about the features.  Attorney Jeremy Horwitz wrote a great review for iLounge.  Rene Ritchie up in Montreal wrote a great review for iMore.  Jason Snell wrote a great review for Macworld.  And I also like this review by John Brownlee of Cult of Mac.
• Bryan Gardiner of Wired wrote an in-depth article on the ultrathin, ultrastrong Gorilla Glass used on the iPhone 5.
• James Galbraith of Macworld reports that the battery in the iPhone 5 lasts almost as long as the battery in the iPhone 4 and 4S.
• iFixYouri did a drop test and concluded that the iPhone 5 is the most durable iPhone yet, thanks to the new Gorilla Glass and the light design.
• David Car of BrainYardNews explains how NASA astronauts are using iPads to train for asteroid exploration.
• Eric Slivka of MacRumors reports on a study from Opower that concludes that the electricity cost to fully charge an iPhone 5 once a day for a year is just $0.41.  That’s up three cents from the iPhone 4.
• I use a Bose SoundDock Portable to play music in my living room, but of course the 30-pin dock connector won’t work with the iPhone 5.  I’ve ordered one of the Apple connectors due to ship next month which may be a solution, but I also see in an article by Agam Shah for IDG News Service that Bose is “working to add iPhone 5 compatibility to its popular SoundDock speaker
  
  dock, which will become available later this year, a Bose spokeswoman
  
  said.”  That’s good news.
• Using iOS 6 on an iPad?  Geoffrey Goetz of GigaOm has 10 tips for you.
• Erica Sadun of TUAW compiled a good list of what you can say to Siri in iOS 6.
• I really like Apple’s new Maps app, but it is clearly a 1.0 product.  The 3D renderings are amazing, and the turn-by-turn directions are usually very good, but it needs more information on places (Points of Interest).  Others, however, are more negative on Maps.  David Pogue of the New York Times wrote a negative review of Maps.  John Paczkowski of All Things D explains the business reasons behind Apple releasing a new Maps app based on its own data instead of Google data.  And while Google’s Motorola subsidiary has been running ads making fun of an address in New York that an Android phone can find but not an iPhone 5, Daniel Eran Dilger of AppleInsider explains that it is actually a misleading address that was picked to produce what looks like a wrong result.  [UPDATE:  Apple’s CEO Tim Cook issued a public statement this morning on the Maps app.]
• Another week, another Find My iPhone to the rescue story.  According to an AP article in USA Today, a Nevada man left his iPad on an airplane, but then used Find My iPhone to trace it to the house of the flight attendant on the plane.  She told the police that she had planned to turn it in, but the police saw that she had already started putting her personal information on the iPad, so she was arrested and the iPad was returned.  (via the Jonathan Turley blog, which has a picture of the flight attendant.)
• And finally, just a month ago I linked to a concept design for a manual-style typewriter that works with the iPad.  Here is a more elegant solution, a USB typewriter for the computer or iPad.  Too funny, and this one is not just a concept video; you can buy a kit to convert your old typewriter for $74.