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These Two iPhone Apps Made Me Realize That My Love Life Sucks

While trying out Stud/Dud and Single?, two romance-themed iPhone apps, I've realized that I've got a lousy relationship history. First I discovered that several ex-boyfriends were "duds," then that one was actually married...to his grandmother. I can't look anymore!

Gifts for Angry, Rant-Prone Apple Haters

Motorola Droid: Sure, Matt may have called the Droid "the second best smartphone you can buy," the best being the iPhone 3GS, but Apple haters will find plenty to love about the Droid—and plenty to loathe about the iPhone. I won't rehash our review (or Verizon's intimidating "Droid Does" a...

Steve Jobs Responds to Passionate App Developer, Curtly [Blockquote]

Apple told The Little App Factory to change the name of their popular app iPodRip, as it had the word iPod in it. The CEO sent a passionate letter to Steve Jobs, and he got a response. Dear Mr. Jobs, Best, John Devor And Steve replied: Steve Sent from my iPhone

Remainders - Stuff We Didn't Post (and Why)

Google Talk Knows When You're on Android, and Likes It The thing about Android is that we all depend on Google for all kinds of things, whether or not we ever plan on using an Android phone. So if Google wants, they can exert some pressure, through sweet exclusive features (like the Droid's tu...

CatPaint for iPhone Single-Pawedly Justifies the Existence of the App Store

See?!? A dollar. [iTunes via Macworld]

Application Makes Your iPhone Blow Air

The developers say that you can use it to "blow out candles, herbs, and refresh your skin during hot summer nights." I wonder how many birthdays you can go through before your speaker breaks from all the vibration. [iTunes App Store via Krapps]

Video: iStetho Turns your iPhone into a Stethoscope

It's only intended for recreational use, but this feels like another step towards a real-life tricorder. A new start-up called RidRx is selling an adapter that connects stethoscopes to the iPhone/iPod touch, and uses their app for fancy spectral imaging.

The True Google Phone May Be Coming Soon

Samsung has a long-standing relationship with Apple, supplying tons of parts for the iPhone, so maybe LG would step up to the plate and develop this phantom device. LG's no stranger to Android, but has been a minor player up to this point—maybe they've been working on this mysterious Googl...

Opinion: Remainders - Stuff We Didn't Post (and Why)

AT&T's 3G Network Sees 2,000% Increase Since iPhone 3G Release In the wake of a big $65 million upgrade to its network here in the San Francisco Bay Area, AT&T revealed that the improvement was due to 3G usage being up 2,000% after the release of the iPhone 3G last year. That sounds li...

Star Wars Trench Run for the iPhone

Looks nice in the screenshots, but remember that the $5 Star Wars Trench Run is one of those games that has special graphics features if you run it on the iPhone 3GS. You know, because everybody knows the Force is stronger in that one. [iTunes App Store]

Gifts for Outdoorsy Geeks Not Averse to Sunshine or Sweat [Gift Guide]

Mountain Hardware heated jacket: Turn it off while moving, turn it on while resting. Easier than peeling off and reapplying layers on a cold snowy day. $400 [Review; Mountain Hardware] Remember, though, that Nike Plus doesn't map your routes. If you've got an iPhone, I recommend Motion X GP...

$3 Million of iPhones Stolen in Belgium Heist [Theft]

A company named CEVA Logistics was housing somewhere between 3,000 and 4,000 iPhones in a warehouse when intruders climbed up a fire ladder and sliced a hole through the roof. The hole was conveniently cut directly above the crates of iPhones.

Apple Black Friday Possibly Leaked (I Really Want It to be True) [Rumor]

According to Boy Genius Report, this may be Apple's Black Friday deals. According to this graphic, there will be only applicable on November 27th in "select" Apple Stores opening at 6am. They seem too good to be true: • Up to 15% of all accessories, Apple software, and Apple hardware.

Palm Pixi Review

Software The Pixi comes with webOS 1.3.1. Palm's definitely tuned things up since webOS originally shipped in June with stuff like more support for Yahoo services, the ability to buy songs over 3G, performance improvements and other interface sprucing up, but it's not a radically differe...

Magellan Sends Its Eldest Child Into the iPhone Turn-By-Turn App War, Tearfully [IPhone Apps]

I can't pass judgment on this app without running it through its paces (which yes, we will do eventually) but it comes at an awkward time. While cheap apps have been nipping at the heels of more expensive, prestige brand apps for a few months now, Google's telegraphed their intention to nuke...

iPhone Apps Have to Be Approved By Robots Now, Too [IPhone Apps]

Apple gives developers a bunch of public application programming interface (APIs) which are essentially documented, permitted tools or calls that they can invoke in their apps. For example, Apple has an API for recording microphone input, which developers can use, and which Apple, by...

This article also contains excerpts from The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

Apple Beats Nokia In Profits, Apple Doesn't Beat Nokia in Profits, We Don't Really Have a Clue [Smartphones]

the numbers don't add up to Apple's overall handset profitability exceeding Nokia's during third quarter, unless someone is making the bold assumption that all, or nearly all, Apple profits came from iPhone. They surely do not. What? Apple made only $700,000 on iPod, Macintosh, retail a...

Opinion: This Week's Best iPhone Apps

Full Browser: As with every alternative browser in the App Store, Full Browser isn't really its own browser, since it's still using Mobile Safari's WebKit renderer. That said, FB's added features are worthwhile: the tabbing system, which is more traditional and desktop-like than Safa...

Opinion: 10 iPhone Apps To Augment Your Sad Reality

True to their title, augmented reality apps add something to what you see, using a combination of camera, GPS, and sometimes, in the case of the iPhone 3GS, a compass. The result is something like a real-life heads-up display on your phone, and it's spectacular.

HTC Touch HD2 Review: A Tragedy [Review]

Meeting the HD2: Hardware HTC's got a funny way of designing hardware, where they settle on a basic set of components then pump out virtually every iteration of this basic spec set they possibly can. (See also: HTC as Taco Bell) It's a rare occasion, then, that we get something like the Touch...

This article also contains excerpts from SlashGear

HTC Touch HD2 Review: A Tragedy

Let's just get this out of the way: in terms of hardware, the Touch HD2 is the nicest phone in the world. It's ostentatiously huge and amazingly slim; it's business-savvy and utterly pornographic. But hardware like this deserves better software.

This article also contains excerpts from SlashGear

Zune HD Update 4.3: Speedier Browser, Predictive Text and More [Zune Hd]

It's good to see Microsoft offering optimizations, but we're still waiting for a more major firmware upgrade: Social networking, IM, and YouTube should be top priorities. That being said, I still love the Zune HD—it's even wowed the notoriously hard-to-please Brian Lam.

Opinion: This Week's 10 Best iPhone Apps

The Best Chorus: Hey, Apple, when people start making apps just to help people find new apps, take it as a sign that your App Store interface could use a little help. Chorus crowdsources the effort to cut through the endless jungle of trash:

Why You Should Think Twice Before Dating An iPhone User

• One in three iPhone owners say that, if their partner had out-of-date gadgets, it would be a turnoff. • One in five iPhone owners admits to frequently watching "adult material" on their iPhones. (Twice as many as BlackBerry owners).

Motorola Droid Review

Hello, Moto These things are true about Droid: The camera's not great; the keyboard isn't mindblowing; Android 2.0 lacks the polish and multimedia prowess to completely match the iPhone. What's also true is that a killer design, Google's services, Android's exploding app ecosytem, pow...

Patch: Blacksn0w App Now Ready, Eager to Unlock Your iPhone 3G and 3GSes

Blacksn0w, child of overserious shadow-lurker GeoHot and brother of equally straighforward jailbreak app Blackra1n, is now available, and should make unlocking your late-version iPhone 3G or 3GS a dead-simple process. Before you dive in, though, there's one caveat:

EcoModo - The Best of TreeHugger [Roundups]

iPhone just might be a device for Kindle to really keep an eye on as a competitor. In September, the number of book-related apps sold for iPhones outpaced games for the first time, indicating that the iPhone is gaining popularity as a convenient device for ebook reading.

This Is a Next-Generation iPhone 4 Part, China Ontrade Claims

In June 2009, the actual iPhone 3GS teardown confirmed that China Ontrade's parts were indeed the real McCoy. Somehow, the Chinese wholesaler's ninjas—who sell spare parts for all Apple iPod and iPhone products—got the next generation pieces one month before the product reached the st...

Android 2.0 Review: Almost Human

Well, It Would Be a Better Camera More controls! Yay! White balance, focusing mode, color and more. It's just too bad that on the Droid, the camera's completely unresponsive garbage. I don't know if it's software or hardware, so I'm mentioning in it both here and in our Droid review. Fix pleas...

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iPhone Ebooks: The New Fart Apps

Pick your favorite public domain book. No, scratch that, pick your least favorite public domain book—something you had to read back in freshman year of college, and that you immediately and angrily sold back to the campus bookstore. Now, search for it in the App Store. Here's our answer:

Opinion: Gizmodo's Essential iPhone Apps: October '09 Edition

Each month, the best new iPhone apps—and some older ones—are considered for admission into Gizmodo's Essential iPhone Apps Directory. Who will join? Who will live? Who will die? • Backgrounder, a jailbreak app, for giving everyone a taste of what a multitasking iPhone is like. (Hint: pre...

Google Navigator for Android Review: Good For Free But Far From Perfect

Amazing voice recognition engine Live traffic and alternate route planner Text-to-speech Good routing and fast re-routing Satellite view and other views not always useful Text search features are overlapping, confusing Interface overall needs better flow

Opinion: This Week's 10 Best iPhone Apps

The Snow Report: Added Twitter feed, push notification and longer-term forecast features make this ski report app awesome; the fact that it's an ad platform for the North Face makes it free. (It's more than a fair trade.) Alice In Chains: Yeah, forget iTunes LP: Alice in Chains' companion a...

12 Things You Need To Know About Apple TV 3.0

6. No DivX "This file was not transferred because it is unable to be played on Apple TV." Steve Jobs once said that only 4% of music on iPods came from iTunes. A lot of movies that would be nice to play on Apple TV simply don't, while H.264 is an option on Handbrake and other personal-use DVD-encodin...

How Google (and Apple) Will Kill Palm Dead

• Hardware partners: Who isn't developing an Android phone nowadays? Motorola, Samsung, LG, Sony Ericsson, and HTC dwarf Palm's hardware partner list, which consists of "Palm." Android is the new Windows Mobile, but in a good way.

Giz Explains: Why Every Country Has a Different F#$%ing Plug

The more you look at the writhing orgy of plugs in the world, the sillier it seems. If you buy a phone charger at the airport in Florida, you won't be able to use it when your flight lands in France. If you buy a three-pronged adapter for le portable in Paris, you might not be able to plug it in when yo...

Amazon Chops Garmin Nuvifone G60 Price By Two Thirds In the First Month [Garmin]

To recap the only review we've ever written that didn't even have a "Good" section, the Nuvifone was a failure in about every way that the once-hot handset could've been: It's crashy, it's got a clunky resistive screen, the browser is really, really tough to use, and camera sometimes work...

Canon G11 Review: Makes You Feel Like a Real Photographer (Almost) [Review]

H-h-h-h-hardware Everything about this camera is just—solid. The full-metal jacket makes it feel indestructible, while the shape evokes the classic cameras you feel like you're supposed to be taking photos with. It's thick, remarkably so, in part because of the flip-out swivel LCD scr...

This Week's 10 Best iPhone Apps

• Nokia Suing Apple for 10-Patent iPhone Infringement • Graphs and Charts Prove iPhone to Be the Most Successful Gadget Ever (Sort of) • Ballmer: "The Internet Is Not Designed For The iPhone" • Apple: "People Are Still Just Trying to Catch Up With the First iPhone"

HP MediaSmart EX495 Windows Home Server Review (Better Time Machine Support!) [Review]

They've also still got the media streaming (DLNA compliant), web/iPhone streaming and iTunes server built in, as well as a media collector that sucks in media from all your regular machines on the network into one place on the server. All of this stuff is just improved.

Graphs and Charts Prove iPhone to Be the Most Successful Gadget Ever (Sort of) [Graphs]

Before I show these charts, created by Morgan Stanley analyst Mary Meeker, I should mention the obvious: Comparing one gadget to another in a different category is messy and inconclusive. iPhone adoption is different than, say, Wii adoption for lots of reasons: The iPhone is a phone, a ga...

Sonos ZonePlayer S5 Hands-On: Sonos for the Masses

The receiver/speaker all-in-one is smaller than you'd expect, no bigger than a mid-sized iPod dock, and conservatively styled in white metal with a grey grille. I tested it alongside the winner of our iPod dock Battlemodo, the JBL OnStage 400p, for purely sound-specific purposes, sinc...

EcoModo - The Best of TreeHugger

LG POP Cell Phone Goes Solar Powered The latest entry into the market of cell phones with embedded solar cells is the POP from LG. The slick phone - very similar to the LG Dare - boasts an optional battery cover that is a solar cell, letting users charge up the battery with sunlight.

Apple Crushes Recession by Selling More Macs and iPhones Than Ever Before

Apple just sold more Macs and iPhones than ever before: 3.05 million Macs and 7.4 million iPhones. iPods, doomed that they are, are still dying. But, Steve promises "some really great new products in the pipeline for 2010." Most Profitable Quarter Ever; Record Mac and iPhone Sales

Rock Band For iPhone Hands On: Alleviate Boredom, Suffer Hand Cramps [IPhone Apps]

Your other consideration is that the base game is 158MB already, and each song comes somewhere between 10-20MB each. If you have a smaller device, you might have to delete some stuff to fit this. It would be nice if buying a song also added an iTunes version of the song to your library, but that'...

EyeTV iPhone App Allows For Streaming Over 3G Through Built-In Backdoor (Update: And It Works Again!)

Update 3: Reader Tony wrote in to say that, while he could not download the EyeTV app through the iTunes link, searching for it on the iPhone App Store allowed him to purchase, download, and use the app to stream over 3G without any issues. Is anyone else able to still get the 1.0.0 version like th...

This Week's 10 Best iPhone Apps

This Week's App News on Giz: • The App Store Effect: Are iPhone Apps Headed for Oblivion? • Trillian iPhone App's Been Stuck in App Store Limbo for 60 Days • Pepsi Issues "Apology" For Offensive iPhone Dating App • Now This is How the iPhone Should Handle Multitasking

The App Store Effect: Are iPhone Apps Headed for Oblivion?

It's uncanny. When known software gets repackaged for iPhones and iPod Touches and passes through the hallowed gates of the App Store, something happens: Almost invariably, it gets cheaper. Waaay cheaper. Good right? Well, not always.

Motorola Cliq Review

The Motorola Cliq is the Android OS on Motorola hardware. Like Palm before it, Motorola decided that Windows Mobile 6.5/7 would be too little, too late to combat the iPhone menace. But instead of going in house and creating something from scratch, Motorola decided to take an already stable O...

Sonos Gets A Little More Affordable With ZonePlayer S5 Wireless Speaker

When it comes to controlling your S5, you simply reach into your pocket for your iPhone or iPod touch. With the free Sonos Controller for iPhone app (available on the iTunes App Store), you can search for songs and stations, choose the music and control the volume in as many rooms as you like. A...

Steve Jobs Whips Disney Stores Into Shape: High-Tech, Interactive, iPhone-Controlled [Apple]

Good old Stevesy runs pretty much the most profitable retail chain in the country, the Apple Store, and coincidentally also owns Pixar—and thus sits on Disney's board. So he heavily consulted with Disney when they decided to totally redesign their retail store's image, and it shows. From...

Opinion: This Week's 10 Best iPhone Apps

• PewPewPew (With Your iPhone): Ahem: • MapQuest Stumbles Back Into the App Store With Budget Turn-by-Turn • Flash Apps to Come to the iPhone, But Not to Safari • The iPhone App Store Gold Rush May Be Running Low on Gold • Apocalypse Nigh, AT&T Opens Network for VoIP Over 3G on iPhone

Tweetie 2 Review: The Best iPhone Twitter App, Period

Tweetie 2 is so far ahead of every other iPhone Twitter app, it's astounding. Super smooth UI, gushing with polish and animations Exceptionally good offline powers Feature-packed without feeling bloated No real syncing with desktop app iTunes, Atebits]

Patch: iPhone/ OS 3.1.2 Is Out, Solves Sleep Issue at Last

At last, Apple has released a much-needed patch: iPhone OS 3.1.2 is out and it solves the sleep issue—in which the iPhone refused to wake up—brought in by the previous version. There are other fixes too: It weighs 241.7MB. Go get it in iTunes. After the update—which is also available for the iPod T...

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Opinion: Apocalypse Nigh, AT&T Opens Network for VoIP Over 3G on iPhone

AT&T EXTENDS VOIP TO 3G NETWORK FOR IPHONE DALLAS, October 6, 2009 - AT&T* today announced it has taken the steps necessary so that Apple can enable VoIP applications on iPhone to run on AT&T's wireless network. Previously, VoIP applications on iPhone were enabled for Wi-Fi...

Garmin Nuvifone G60 GPS Phone Review: Do Not Buy

What's Bad • The resistive touchscreen reminds me of phones circa 2006, bad for everything but big-button tapping. • The web browser is all but useless, because it relies heavily on zooming in and out, and the touchscreen easily confuses swiping and tapping.

MotionX GPS Drive Review: Hands Down the Best Value In GPS Apps

I did have a few cosmetic issues with the app. For starters, it doesn't have a landscape mode, so the phone is always upright. I want landscape mode because it fits way better when it's horizontal in the dashboard mount (which, like with all other GPS apps, will run you an extra $10-$100). That'...

Flash 10.1: Full Flash for Everyone But iPhone, Actually Playable HD Vids

Motorola is excited to be one of the first handset manufacturers to ship Android based devices with Flash Player support early next year," said Christy Wyatt, vice president of software applications and ecosystem at Motorola. "As the No.1 platform for video on the Web, uncompromised bro...

Opinion: The Same Game Costs More on PSP Mini Than on the iPhone... Why?

Stop pricing these games so high, Sony. Open up your platform, just a crack, make yourselves competitive with the App Store. Because, at the end of the day, we'd all prefer to be playing these iPhone games with full-out controllers. But right now there's quite a lot more iPhones and iPod Touch...

Opinion: Bluetooth Headphone Battlemodo: The Best Isn't the Best

Since A2DP audio is encoded and recompressed at the source, leading to (sometimes drastically) differing audio quality betwen devices, I paired a number of sources—an iPhone 3G, an HTC Hero, a unibody Macbook Pro—with a veritable stack of headphones to see if the end result, the sound t...

Opinion: The Week In iPhone Apps: Happy MMS Day, Everyone

• Bravo Gustavo iPhone App: Conductor's Baton Hero? • iPhone Navigation App Battlemodo, Part II: The Best Cheap GPS App • Griffin's iTrip FM Transmitter: Hardware Controlled Through an iPhone App • Apple Approved Almost 1400 iPhone Apps Last Friday...Fourteen Freaking Hundred

Mikey Review: Fine-Tuning the iPhone's Audio Recorder [Review]

Mikey is an external microphone for the iPhone/iPod with three sensitivity settings that allow you to record everything from lectures to rock concerts. At $80, it's tough to recommend for casual users, but for people who want to turn their iPod or iPhone into a more versatile portable aud...

Opinion: The Best iPhone Navigation Apps, Part II: CoPilot vs. GoKivo vs. Sygic

Because the thing is so damn cheap—whiners, stop right here, because full-map apps can't get any cheaper—I can forgive many of its flaws. If all you have is $35 to spend, buy this. [iTunes link] Click here for iPhone Navigation App Battlemodo, Part I, with introductory discussion about GPS...

Patch: iTunes 9.0.1 Update Now Available

•Resolves issues browsing the iTunes Store. •Addresses a performance issue where iTunes may become unresponsive. •Fixes a problem syncing Podcasts in playlists to iPod or iPhone. •Improves application syncing for iPod touch and iPhone.

Opinion: Gizmodo's Essential iPhone Apps: Fall 2009

Jailbreak: AdBlock: Blacklist obnoxious ads, just like you do on your PC. Jailbreak: Cycorder: Not everyone can upgrade to an iPhone 3GS. Everyone can, however, record video. Jailbreak: Veency: Like every other iPhone VNC app, except totally in reverse: It's a server.

Opinion: Top 10 Back to School iPhone Apps

One apparent disappointment: An iPhone app that hooks into the Blackboard software that many schools and colleges use, which seems like it could be a great help. But we stop short of recommending the free "Blackboard Learn" app that's in the App Store.

µTorrent iPhone App Rejected, Heads Over to Cydia

It kind of sux that even a monitoring app got banned. But, according to Apple: …this category of applications is often used for the purpose of infringing third party rights. We have chosen to not publish this type of application to the App Store.

Opinion: The Week In iPhone Apps: Deliciousness

• Apple Actually Approves Awesome Streaming Service Spotify's iPhone App • Panelfly iPhone Comicbook Reader Is Crying for the Apple Tablet • How Your Favorite iPhone App Was Designed • Qik iPhone Video Sharing App Now Allows For Video Uploads Over 3G on iPhone

Opinion: Augmented Reality Yelp Will Murder All Other iPhone Restaurant Apps, My Health

This is one of the first iPhone apps to use this style of augmented reality, which isn't really supposed to come of age until iPhone OS 3.1. Yelp doesn't explicitly mention this feature in their App Store listing, which I'll take to mean they're still in the testing stages. That won't stop me fr...

Opinion: The Best iPhone Navigation App: TeleNav vs. Navigon vs. TomTom

Navigon portable navigators had just started to get good when the company closed shop in the US. I can't say I miss them, really, but what's nice is that most or all of the great features of the portable product have arrived intact in the iPhone app. It really is startling to see how well both Tom...

Patch: iPhone Push May Be Sending AIM Messages to Random People

According to developer Till Schadde, random people may be receiving your AIM messages if you have a jailbroken or unlocked iPhone. In fact, anyone with a jailbroken iPhone may be getting them, according to his testing: [Update: Confirmed]

Opinion: The Week In iPhone Apps: Navigation, Inebriation, Multiplication

• The Cost of Buying Every iPhone App: $144,326.06 • SoundAMP App Turns the iPhone Into a Makeshift Hearing Aid • iTwitter: The First iPhone Twitter App With Push, Sorta • Push Gmail for the iPhone, Finally (It's Not What You Think) • Prowl Pushes Growl Notifications to Your iPhone

Patch: iPhone 3.1 SDK Available Now

The 3.1 version of the iPhone SDK is available now, bringing a couple new fixes like having the OS simulator "more closely matching the device." There are also new Interface Builder, XCode and Dashcode changes. [iPhone Developer]

Opinion: The Week In iPhone Apps: Here Come the OS 3.0 Apps

• Sirius/XM iPhone App Is Now Live (Also) • MLB Streaming Full Live Games to iPhone Over 3G, Starting Tomorrow • TweetDeck for iPhone Lightning Review • 94 God-Awful iPhone Apps Designed in MS Paint • iPhone 3.0 Features Slightly Clueless "Objectionable Content" Warnings

Installer for iPhone Is Dead

The short story is that Cydia—the other non-official iPhone app installer—won the battle against Installer. Installer was the first pretty application installer to appear for the iPhone, but Cydia became more popular over the last few months. Ripdev—which was involved in the project s...

Patch: TweetDeck Now Available On The iPhone

If it works anything like the desktop version, I will also be making the switch. Apparently, the app version features the same column-based friend group structure as the desktop version, the ability to synch with the desktop version, and Facebook-esque status updates. Unfortunately, t...

Smartphone Buyers Guide: The Best of the Best

The Pre is an obvious standout in that it has a hardware keyboard in addition to its touchscreen. The hardware QWERTY/onscreen keyboard debate is all about personal preference, so whether this is a boon or a burden is up to you. Typing on a screen is an acquired skill—but much more so on the Sto...

Patch: iTunes 8.2 Update Now Available

The iTunes 8.2 update has emerged from the beta necessary to run pre-release iPhone 3.0 software. Naturally, the main feature here is compatibility with the final version of 3.0—along with the usual crop of bug fixes. Can we expect 3.0 to be released next week at WWDC?

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Opinion: This Week In iPhone Apps: Deer Carcasses and Browser Tabs

This week, we revisit some classics from your (and your grandfather's) childhood, iPhone browsing gets upgraded, and I play what it probably the best 3D multi-animal hunting game available for the iPhone. • Kindle 1.1 for iPhone Now Available

QuickPwn Advertised in Apple's iPhone Application Catalog

QuickPwn allows you to bypass Apple's protection and install not-official programs in your iPhone and iPod touch. So what the hell is QuickPwn doing in Apple's own web apps catalog page? UPDATED Download QuickPWN, jailbreak iPhone and iPod Touch, games and more!

The HiPhone Nano: iPhone Clone or Nano Phone?

From the same people who brought you the Chinese iPhone-wannabe, the HiPhone, the HiPhone Nano is currently being sold in China for $125, which is an immediate discount from its $400 price tag. However, calling it a clone would be a misnomer as it doesn't use the same user interface as the OS....

Motorola's Media Mover Is a USB SlingBox and Nannycam in Your Pocket

Dave says that Motorola imagines the Media Mover as a "Swiss Army knife" of USB gadgets. It'll transcode lots of different video on your DVR and broadcast it locally or remotely over Bluetooth or Wi-Fi, kinda like Sling. Motorola was demoing it sending video to a Moto Q9M, iPhone (pictured)...

How to Make iPhone 3.0 Tethering Work With AT&T [IPhone 3.0]

In case you missed it, if you're lucky enough to be rocking iPhone 3.0, you can actually enable 3G tethering right now on AT&T. Here's a step-by-step guide. Just pray they don't drown you in data charges.

How to: Install Apps on Your iPhone 3G or iPod Touch Easily and For Free [Apple]

If you want to install cool apps on your iPhone or iPod Touch for free, easily, breaking Apple-imposed limitations without breaking your warranty or Applethingie, here is the how-to guide for Mac and...

Our Favorite Lifehacker Posts of the Week

• Get a free domain from Microsoft - They've been doing this for years now • Transfer music from any iPod/iPhone to your PC • Olivia Munn makes sexy faces at Pash • Three plants that give you better indoor air • Ten cheap or free home theater upgrades • Ten Gmail Labs Features you should enable

Opinion: The Week in iPhone Apps: Apps For Charity

• I Love Katamari for iPhone/iPod Touch Lightning Review • Apple Warns Developers App Store Approval Process Sucking More Than Usual • Wazabee 3DeeShell Adds 3D Screen to iPhone • Agile Lie Detector: Tell Me the Truth, iPhone! • Wazabee 3DeeShell Adds 3D Screen to iPhone

Patch: iPhone 2.2 Update Available Now [Iphone 2.2]

That was fast. It's barely Nov. 21 and the iPhone 2.2 update is here, all 246MB of it, as promised. Included in the update, according to the release notes and as we'd heard, are all the new Google Maps features we've been waiting for like Street View (which is so far butter smooth and delicious ove...

Opinion: Gizmodo's 20 Essential iPhone Apps [IPhone Apps]

PanoLab: Who knew multitouch is the perfect interface for stitching photos together into panoramas? It is. Plus if the photo you just took doesn't work, toss it out and take another one immediately. A paid version adds even more features.

Google Has a Remote Kill Switch For Android Apps

Just after the dust finished settling on Apple's controversial admission that the iPhone has a remotely activated kill switch for applications, Google has plainly stated in their Android Market terms of service that they've got one too. Like Apple's solution, Google's remote kill swi...

How To: DIY iPhone/iPod Dock Made From Notebook Clips

EdgesRazor: Correct, although someone did build one by using a zip tie to keep the side buttons pressed in. gizak.

How To: The Paperclip iPhone/iPod Touch Stand

The full guide is here for those that want exact measurements and a tutorial: [www.deanying.com]. LittleBigPlaneteer.

How To: Fantastic Patchwork Panoramas Using Just the iPhone Camera

Get a DSLR and make a quality panorama! Hell get any good digicam and make a quality panorama. Aaaaand Photoshop. Ike_Skelton.

Opinion: The Week in iPhone Apps: Tired Internet Meme Edition

Do you think a store full of geek developers could let September 19th go by without a surge of pirate-related applications? Personally, I'm waiting for the app that pushes live updates of real pirate advisories so my raw shipments of bulgur wheat stop getting jacked off the Somali coast. B...

Spore Origins For iPhone: Now Available

We showed you our hands-on of Spore Origins for iPhone last week, and despite some release-date wavering, it did in fact make it to the App Store today on schedule. It's $10. [App Store]

Opinion: The Week In iPhone Apps: Spore Origins Hands-On Edition [IPhone Apps]

This week's app coverage on Giz: Remember what it was like to buy a CD? Apple's plans to include lyrics and additional album art via an app download for certain albums will help you remember.Continunig to carry the torch for political apps is Election '08 - a $1 app that collects poll data, el...

Opinion: The Week in iPhone Apps: Sniff Wi-Fi and Gas Up Your Gulfstream, But Not at the Same Time

Rooms: Until this week, IRC fans had to jailbreak to get chatting, but Rooms developed this week brings the same Colloquy-based engine to the App Store. The interface could use a bit of pretty-ing in future releases, but all of your basic IRC client functions are there, now without jailbre...

Opinion: Cut-the-Crap iPhone Headset Battlemodo [Battlemodo]

Shure's solution to the headset problem is to sell you the earphones and microphone separately. Pairing with the fantastic SE110s will make for a fantastic combo, but the combo will set you back almost $150 total. Good thing you can use this adapter with any earphones. Voice quality is high,...

Patch: QuickPwn Jailbreaks iPhone 2.0 Without a Full Restore

The iPhone Dev folks have released QuickPwn, their new iteration of the Pwnage tool. Unlike its predecessor, you don't have to do a full firmware restore to get Installer.app goodness, which is great. Quickpwn itself is still a Windows-only command-line beta, but a rough GUI version has al...

How To Tether Your iPhone With NetShare

We've been covering NetShare a lot the last couple of days, and with good reason: Apple consciously left the ability to tether out of the iPhone, yet for some reason has no problem letting someone else sell an app that does just that. Some users, though, might find the concept of tethering co...

NetShare iPhone Connection Sharing App Back Up

The NetShare App is back up on the iTunes App Store, only about 13 hours after it was unceremoniously pulled and replaced with a "not available in the US Store" message. What's the deal here? Was it approved, then unapproved, then approved again? Oddness. [App Store - Thanks Brenden!]

iPhone Apps We Love: NetShare - Share Your 3G/EDGE Connection With Your Computer

NetShare is one app we never thought would make it onto the official iPhone App Store. All it does is set up a SOCKS5 proxy for you to get your laptop/computer online through use of the 3G/EDGE connection. Does it work? Yes. Yes it does, much to our surprise. EDGE works just fine, although Mahoney...

Opinion: Our Favorite iPhone Apps [IPhone Apps]

• Remote: Control your iTunes or Apple TV over the network from anywhere inside your house. I've got a great setup for this that basically broadcasts music to every room of my home, which I will detail in a review next week. • NYTimes: Read the NYTimes from the comfort of your iPhone, because Sa...

Opinion: Round Up: Nine iPhone 3G Battery Life Test Results

CNET: 5:00 (3G talk time); 9:00 (EDGE talk time) On EDGE the iPhone 3G fell about an hour short of its rated time of 10 hours, while 3G calls matched the promised time of 5 hours. Those times aren't bad, but we'll run another round just to be sure."

How To Maximize Your iPhone 3G's Questionably Adequate Battery Life [Iphone 3g Battery]

The new iPhone's brighter screen, GPS and 3G connectivity are nice, but you know what's nicer? Not running out of batteries half way through the friggin day. iPhone 3G battery life may or may not be shorter, even the geek gods at Ars don't have a definite answer. But chances are with the new app...

iPhone 3G Review

So the hardware is interesting in the iPhone 3G, but the real story here is the new iPhone OS 2.0 firmware, which we've written about in depth here. You manage to install that, old iPhone users, you've got about 80% of this new iPhone's mojo. But if you're not making your calls on an iPhone yet, we...

How To: iPhone Apps We Like: Sketches [IPhone Apps]

script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">galleryPost('iphoneappssketches', 5, '');Sketches is a simple drawing tool for the iPhone. What's cool is that you can now use it to draw boogers, mustaches, and devil horns on your friends. [iPhone App Store]

iPhone 3G Reviews Are In

Notes: We have to say that Mossberg's review was the best in terms of completeness (save for the GPS omission). Normally, Newsweek would have a review up for the iPhone along with these three guys, but both they and Wired don't have an early review. This, we think, is because Steven Levy (the o...

Opinion: Downloads: Is the Nokia N95 Really Slower Than iPhone 3G? [Phone Wars]

Ever since Steve Jobs showed the speedy new iPhone 3G in a browser faceoff against the Nokia N95 at WWDC, users on Howard Forums have been crying foul. They say His Steveness's test of loading the National Geographic homepage was bogus because the N95's browser uses Flash, a feature that th...

iPhone 3G FAQ Update

If I buy my friend's old iPhone when he updates to iPhone 3G, can I use it as a cheap iPod touch without activating it? Yup! Everything but the calling features should be active, except it will say "No SIM" at the top. Thanks Andy. What are the chances of Apple releasing an iPhone with increased d...

First iPhone Video Recorder Software With Audio

Here's some iPhone software that is supposedly the first to record audio on top of video, at 128kbps sound and 320 x 416 video res. That makes it good fix for the iPhone's official lack. In 2 months, when official third party software goes live, will anyone be able to replicate such a feat and ac...

Blackmagic USB Recorder Captures Direct Video For iPods, YouTube

Blackmagic's new USB compatible video recorder promises to simplify your video recording process by utilizing the H.264 format for playback on the iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, YouTube, IPTV, and the web. It also features analog component, NTSC, PAL and S-Video inputs as well as simple softwa...

Review: Griffin's iPhone Reception Boosting ClearBoost Case

Here's why we think the ClearBoost works. When you're talking on your iPhone with the phone held up to your face normally, your hand is covering up the antenna on the phone—which is inconveniently designed by Apple to be located on the bottom, behind the black plastic area. The Clearboost he...

Patch: iPhone 1.1.3 Jailbreak is Here!

The iPhone 1.1.3 Jailbreak is here, courtesy of Nate True and the iPhone Dev team. It's a Windows-only download right now, but Nate tells us that they've got a Mac version coming soon and it "should be quick". Make sure you have more than 300MB free, otherwise Nate tells us that you might brick yo...

Patch: iPhone Dev Team Releases Open Source Unlock Software [Iphone SIM Unlock]

As we told you last Wednesday, the iPhone Dev Team have opened up the source to AnySIM, the free SIM unlock software for the iPhone that lets you use your phone on pretty much any GSM network in the world. The source being open, on the other hand, makes it a lot easier for Apple to see what kind of v...

The French iPhone Comes Unlocked [Unlocked??]

With all of the efforts all over the world to unlock iPhones, it's almost a slap in the face (or just a step in the right direction?) that Apple/Orange will be offering an unlocked version to France. Guess it's time to import if you don't like AT&T. [iht]

iTunes Ringtones Now Available

Crazy Frog and iPhone fans can at last rejoice, as iTunes is now providing ringtones, just as we reported last week. You know the drill: get a 30 seconds ringtone of some of the songs you already bought in the iTunes Music Store for an extra 99 cents. Or alternatively, you can avoid the rip-off a...

How To: IPhone: Free iPhone Ringtones From Directly Inside iTunes 7.4

A MacRumors forum member discovered that you can actually get free ringtones directly inside iTunes by just changing around a file extension. All official purchased ringtones have the .M4R extension, so all you have to do is rename any AAC file to a M4R file to get it to show up in iTunes under...

How To: iPhone Book Sneak Peek: Third-Party iPhone Application Tutorial [Apple]

Pash over at Lifehacker has a tutorial up on how to install third-party applications to your iPhone. It's notable because it comes straight from our iPhone Book, along with many more tips and tricks that you won't find in other books (seriously, we've read the other books, and they don't ha...

Apple: How to Swap iPhone Ringtones in 7-EZ Steps (?)

iFuntastic is a Jailbreak GUI/Checklist for simplifying the still complicated iPhone Ringtone hack. Previously, there was a tutorial, but this UI does a lot of the scripting for you, including...

Apple: An Insider's iPhone Hands-On & New Details

As always, thank you to our tipsters. Giz just wouldn't be the same without you. If you've got something to share, drop me a line. – Brian Lam AT&T Apple iPhone internal talking points [Boygenius] iPhone the Retail Test is Coming [IFOApplestore] Anandtech Forum [Anandtech Forums]

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