I don’t know if I’m more impressed with concept that one gallon of gas could provide 7,300 charges or that our automobiles can’t seem to get consistently better than 25miles using the same quantity of fuel.  Yeah, yeah,… I understand that moving a 3,000 hunk of steel is different that filling up a 1420mAh lithium-polymer battery.

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It’s true. According to Bill Colton, a VP at ExxonMobil, a single gallon of gas has enough energy to charge an iPhone once a day for 20 years. Of course, that’s never going to happen but it’s a point ExxonMobil uses to stress the fact that there is a lot of energy in gasoline.

That number is striking though. 20 years? And then you think about what gasoline is used for, fuel for our cars, and it all makes sense (kind of). Our cars which are three thousand some pounds and can hit upwards of 100 mph for miles upon miles rely on gas to work. If gas has enough energy to power that, it definitely has leftover resources to pump up our phones.

ExxonMobil goes on to say that gas is one of the lightest and most energy dense fuels there is, which I could not care less about because all I want now is somebody to figure out how to transform a gallon of gas into a chargeable resource for my iPhone.

Just in case my post yesterday appeared too pro-Apple, let me dish out a little criticism today.  Just because they’ve made some smart marketing, distribution, and product development moves over the past several years doesn’t mean that they aren’t kinda evil.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you probably know that the iPhone is now available on Verizon ending the exclusivity between Apple and AT&T.  Pre-sales for existing Verizon customers started on February 3rd and the rest of the world is free to get in on the action today.  Various reports project that that 1 million iPhone 4s will be sold in the first week of availability and 3-4 million will be sold in Q1.

What’s wrong with that, you ask?  Well, Apple is predictable in delivering product upgrades on more-or-less a yearly cycle and a new iPhone has been announced or released every summer since its inception.  Do the math - if it’s now February and we can expect our next iPhone announcement in June, then people who buy this month have just four months to enjoy having that ‘new phone feeling.’

I guess you could blame the consumer here too.  I mean, if you’ve already waited four years for an iPhone to come to Verizon, why not wait just four more months to get in at the top of game?  I digress… 

Of course Apple wanted to get this done as soon as possible in order to exploit the hype and sell a bunch of phones.  They know that they have enough fanboys out there that they’ll be able to sell just as many phones (if not more) when the iPhone 5 launches over the summer… probably to some of the same folks that pick one up this month.

In the end, there are reasons why AAPL is trading around the $350 mark today and is expected to reach $425+ in the near future (iPad 2, new MacBook Pros, iPhone 5)… hint: it isn’t because they care about their customers.  Agree?

The reason why people like to use the iPhone so much at first is that it’s intuitive.  Intuitiveness is always something that impresses you in an interface, because it doesn’t take additional knowledge to work the device.  Simplicity is not necessarily intuitive — just see any Web 2.0 app with a blown up kids interface or the new Nano.

I’d be willing to say iOS has the best interface on Earth right now… but just look at Microsoft Word 2003 to see what happens when you start adding feature after feature to an interface that used to exude elegance.

So it’s just a matter of time before people start re-hypothesizing that cellphones give you cancer, especially in light of recent news that Steve Jobs is on indefinite hiatus.

Rather than take the high-road, we decided to be first into the pit, and created this clever infographic to illustrate how the iPhone 4’s antenna might be a game-changer.

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If you are unfamiliar with the phrase ‘Augmented Reality,’ aka A.R. you’d best learn it before 2011.

This application is a prime example of Augmented Reality, and is almost enough to make me want to switch from Android to iPhone.  Almost.

Are you ready for the next decade?