Time Inc.’s, Fortune Magazine is now available on the iPad. It appears Time is betting on digital magazines and the iPad as the future of print. With interactive ads and new content these magazine are becoming more popular as the user now can experience print magazine’s in a whole new way.

[via 9to5 Mac]

Courtesy of the fine folks over at Engadget comes news that Best Buy is giving away free ZAGG invisible shield covers which since the release of the iPhone 4 has changed. It now includes thin stripes for the metal band as well as covers for the front and back. I bought the full cover for my iPhone 4 at Best Buy before I returned it. I wonder if I can get a refund since they are free now and I bought it less then 30 days ago. If anyone else has it’s worth a call to your local Best Buy, assuming you purchased yours there.

The iPhone iOS4.1 Beta 2 is out for download, if your a developer. This update will supposedly fix the proximity sensor in the iPhone 4 that’s been causing people to accidentally hangup or dial other number while talking.

If you’re a developer download it now and let me know if it solves the problem.

So let me start off with a little explanation since many (ok, almost all) of you don’t really know me. My day job is as a graphic designer and some tech support. I work with a Mac Pro all day then I come home to a MacBook Pro. Since college I’ve lived and breathed Mac’s as I think most designers do. Needless to say when Apple announced in 2007 that it was making a phone I was on board without even seeing it. I drank the Kool-Aid so to speak. Next up was the iPhone 3G, got it. When the 3GS was released I decided to skip it. I didn’t think the upgrades were all that much more than what I had already. So I waited. At the end of 2009 I was getting bored with the iPhone, I was tired of looking at the same icons, same screen, same everything. So since my phone was out of AppleCare I decided to hack (jailbreak) my phone. I got to use wallpapers well before iOS4. I even installed a tethering app that allowed me to hook my phone up to my laptop and use my 3G connection for my MacBook Pro any where I had service (this is AT&T after all).

In January, when the iPad was released I again was in love. Then 3 months before Apple’s Annual WWDC (World-Wide Developers Conference) Tech Blog Gizmodo infamously leaked photos of the new iPhone (aka the iPhone 4) to the world. At first, I was in love again. I thought to myself what an amazingly crafted device. Jony Ive really outdid himself. Then, Fast forward to June 24, D-Day, the release of the iPhone 4. Yes, I pre-ordered in time and was able to pick up my device on the launch day.

When I got the phone home and got everything working and looked down at this glossy, sexy, device sitting in my hand, the same way my old iPhone did, it kicked in…buyers remorse. I just realized I just signed a contract with AT&T for 2 more years. I was going to have this device for 2 years. I was going to have this device with a 3.5″ screen (although absolutely stunning, I can’t lie), the smallest of the new smart phones being released. The same OS, with a few upgrades, BUT, I decided to wait it out and see if it would pass. It didn’t. Then as the whole world knows by now, Antenna-gate hit. But I still wasn’t able to give up my iPhone. I thought Apple, nay, Steve Jobs would surely nip this in the bud. So I waited again, this time for a real response. When Steve Jobs finally made his mini-keynote to journalist (with whom he couldn’t even look in the eye) I knew the antenna wasn’t going to be fixed. Their solution? A rubber Bumper® aka a band-aid. I don’t use cases, never have, never will. I think these phones are designed with style and thought and they are beautiful and I’m not going to cover up a $600.00 phone with a piece of .20 cent rubber.

After that press conference was over my mind was made up. I was going to return it. It hurt, the thought of betraying Apple, the thought of not having the phone and OS that I’ve know for over 3 years in my hands and in my pockets was actually scary. Everything I was comfortable with for my instant gratification of news, emails, social networking was going to be gone. Sure I could get a 3GS but I really don’t want outdated technology.

I thought what are my options…a regular phone, pssh right, or the slim pickings of smartphone OS’s. So I studied them all, WebOS, Nokia’s Symbian, Window’s Mobile …(yeah like that was going to happen), BlackBerry and finally Google’s Android.

In the end, I did the unthinkable. I chose the OS that’s competing head to head with Apple. The company that is matching Apple tic for tat. The company that many think of as evil, the parallel to the Terminator’s SkyNet. Google. Yes, I decided to go with Google’s Android.

I figured if I’m going Android then I’m going all the way. I was going to get the beast, the super phone of phones… the HTC EVO 4G.

To find out why I picked up the EVO, my initial thoughts, a comparison vs the iPhone 4, come back tomorrow night for the conclusion.