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Re: Phanfare iPhone App Rebuilt - Better, Stronger, Faster

Andrew Erlichson — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:55:33 -0000

The issues are mostly with the OS and slightly with our SW. There is a small memory leak in the app (new one already submitted to Apple, awaiting review). If you turn the phone off and on, the app begins to work again, which is pretty much proof-positive that the problem is with the OS, not our app.

Apple has said that they are aware of the problem and plans a september OS release to fix it. It was reported in apple insider today.

Re: Phanfare iPhone App Rebuilt - Better, Stronger, Faster

Ash — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:53:42 -0000

Just to note that your app crashes consistently when taking a pic, under the iphone firmware v. 2.0.1. The only way I can use it is to take a pic using the iphone camera and then import it. But that kills the resolution.

Is this a known problem ? Because I have seen other reviewers complain about it as well on iTunes.

Re: Phanfare iPhone App Rebuilt - Better, Stronger, Faster

Alan — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:14:13 -0000

New version is much snappier. Nice job!

It did not show up as an available update on the iPhone. I had to uninstall Phanfare and then download again to my iPhone.

Looking forward to further upgrades.

Thanks,
Alan

Re: Phanfare iPhone App Rebuilt - Better, Stronger, Faster

Andrew Erlichson — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:40:24 -0000

Just to get the story totally straight. This is our third version of the Phanfare app for iPhone. The first was fast shutter, later pulled. The second version had the power management features, a bare bones UI and removed a couple of features (we rushed to get it out when the previous app was removed). This version adds back all features removed in the second version and new features. Complicated enough? going forward you will see updates in the App Store. If you have the original version, you can keep it our delete it. It can sit side by side with the new app.

Re: Phanfare iPhone App Rebuilt - Better, Stronger, Faster

Andrew Erlichson — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:36:42 -0000

The original app (in the store from July 11th to July 15th) was removed from the app store because it used a non-public camera framework. Hence, the new app is not considered an upgrade to that app. Note that the original app has a very snappy camera acquire time (and a cool cyclon style shutter effect). This new app has more features than the original app, but the acquire time is longer. We are hoping that future updates to the iPhone will make acquire time faster.

Re: Phanfare iPhone App Rebuilt - Better, Stronger, Faster

BackupFan — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:52:41 -0000

Unfortunately the App Store considers this is a new application and not an upgrade i.e. it installs a second Phanfare application with a different icon. No user settings or data is saved over to the new application.