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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.
Zune HD users should be able to download the latest firmware update now, and it's substantial enough to warrant grabbing ASAP. There's a speedier browser, predictive text entry (a la iPhone), and that's just the beginning. The download should be available through the Zune software, but s...
The latest round of iPhone rumors reads like a roundup of everything we've heard before. Now the mythical iPhone nano is back, and supposedly said device will be coming to Verizon in 2010 featuring a new hybrid cellular radio. Rumor has it that the new iPhone will have a hybrid UMTS/CDMA radi...
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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:
In 1989, Franz A. Wakefield invented the iPod, the iPhone, and iTunes. Then the FBI stole his trade secrets and he confided in Sarah Jessica Parker and now he's suing her and Apple...and my head's spinning. Such a nice guy. I'm sure he'll win. [Apple Insider]
I love that smartphones let me avoid cramming my pockets with extra gadgets like an MP3 player or camera. But Dr. Martin Cooper—the former lead engineer of the Motorola team that developed the first cellphone—reckons that's just phooey.
It's hearsay at this point, but Boy Genius Report's sources claim the 8GB 3G will be swapped with a 3GS. They've had a decent-enough record with rumors lately, and it makes sense against the $99 Droid Eris. We'll see. [BGR]
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Yesterday
The issue that's raised is the redistribution of Google's proprietary applications like Maps, GTalk, Market, and YouTube. They are Google's intellectual property and I intend to respect that. I will no longer be distributing these applications as part of CyanogenMod.
Wednesday, Nov 4
• One in three iPhone owners say that, if their partner had out-of-date gadgets, it would be a turnoff.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).
It's running BlackBerry OS 5.0 which isn't tons different than the OS that shipped on the original Bold or Curve 8900, but it's definitely springier and it has a few brushstrokes of added polish here and there. One place you notice is the browser—while not as fast as the iPhone 3GS or Android,...
Tuesday, Nov 3
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...
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:
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.
Monday, Nov 2
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...
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...
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:
Saturday, Oct 31
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...
Friday, Oct 30
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
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...
Thursday, Oct 29
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...
• 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.
Wednesday, Oct 28
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...
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...
Monday, Oct 26
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...
Friday, Oct 23
• 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"
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.
Wednesday, Oct 21
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...
Tuesday, Oct 20
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...
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Electronista, Ubergizmo, iPhone Alley, Gearlog
Monday, Oct 19
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.
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'...
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Friday, Oct 16
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 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
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.
Tuesday, Oct 13
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...
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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...
Friday, Oct 9
• 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 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]
Thursday, Oct 8
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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Tuesday, Oct 6
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...
I'd like to think that 6.5's stunning failure to innovate is a symptom of a neglected project—maybe Microsoft just needed something, anything to hold people over until the mythical Windows Mobile 7 comes out, whatever it is. But as Steve Ballmer himself has plainly admitted, it's worse: M...
Monday, Oct 5
The Hardware HTC is the Taco Bell of the handset world—they've only got a few ingredients that they put into their long menu of products, but the results are consistently pretty good, if not spectacular. Of the bulging ranks of 528MHz-Qualcomm-based touchscreen handsets, this is one of m...
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.
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'...
Sunday, Oct 4
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...
Friday, Oct 2
• iPhone Gets Better Image Stabilization from Pro-Camera App • iFukkin iPhone App Maybe Is Not What It Seems • Why iPhone TV Apps Are Doomed to Mediocrity • CNN's iPhone App Makes Other News Apps Look Lazy • Ping is Like a Free SMS Client For iPhone and iPod Touch Users
The Gadget What the hell is it? It's a $400 Wi-Fi printer all-in-one (yes, this includes fax). It has a touchscreen that includes a string of different branded widgets. The widgets do many things you can do on your cellphone or a computer, but they all center around printing. So you don't just o...
Thursday, Oct 1
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...
Monday, Sep 28
Once you've gotten over the fact that no, CNN somehow didn't already have an iPhone app, consider the feature list: CNN.com's text content is formatted into swipeable panels, organized by category. You can save stories for offline reading, and select subjects to create personalized new...
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...
Battery Life In a mixture of movie playback, gaming and general interface navigation, the PSPGo ran for 4 hours and 47 minutes at max brightness with Wi-Fi on. That's about the same battery life of the last few PSPs. Unfortunately, those who liked to use an extended or extra battery with the P...
Friday, Sep 25
• 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
Thursday, Sep 24
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...
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...
Wednesday, Sep 23
•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.
Friday, Sep 4
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.
Thursday, Sep 3
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.
Tuesday, Sep 1
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.
Friday, Aug 28
• 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
Thursday, Aug 27
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...
Monday, Aug 24
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...
Friday, Aug 21
• Apple and AT&T Answer FCC About Google Voice Rejection: It's All Apple • App Store Approval Process Slowly Getting Less Horrendous? • i.TV iPhone App Grows a Remote Control Framework, TiVo Gives It a Whirl • Apple Exec Phil Schiller Reaching Out to Rejected App Developers
Sunday, Aug 16
The Verdict: At just $20 more than Apple's In-Ear headset, the Klipsch Image S4i is a no-brainer, assuming Voice Control and VoiceOver are priorities to you. If they don't matter, or if you've got an older iPhone or non-Apple handset, the choice is less clear.
Friday, Aug 14
• The 10 Most Expensive iPhone Apps • Apple's Phil Schiller Continues Quelling Faithful's App Store Unrest With Polite Letters • Sex Offender Locator Back in the App Store For Some Reason • CourseSmart Dumps 7,000+ Textbooks Into the iPhone App Store
Sturdy, simple design Only iPod case rated for such extreme depths Offers an experience beyond that of most dive gear Expensive (costs more than an iPhone) So large that it can get in your way Headphone cables add two more wavy bits around your mask and regulator H20 Audio]
Friday, Aug 7
• Apple Yanks Sex Offender Locator From App Store to the Relief of Perverts Everywhere • Now Apple's Blocking All Ebook App Store Submissions? Update: No • The Stupidest App Store Incident Yet: Apple Censors a Dictionary • Third Largest App Store Developer Gets Banned, For Sucking
Tuesday, Jul 21
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]
Friday, Jul 10
• 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
Tuesday, Jun 30
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]
Friday, Jun 19
• 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
Thursday, Jun 18
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...
Tuesday, Jun 16
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...
Friday, Jun 12
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...
Monday, Jun 1
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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Friday, May 22
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
Tuesday, May 5
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!
Friday, Apr 17
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....
Monday, Apr 6
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)...
Thursday, Apr 2
As the product team was working on the future roadmap we realized that the hardware on the older boxes would not support the kind of high quality streaming video and advanced features across all platforms we want to offer moving forward.
Friday, Mar 20
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.
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Thursday, Mar 12
Boy Genius has some data on the iPhone 3.0's new features, including MMS and Bluetooth and USB data tethering to a laptop from ATT's 3G. [Boy Genius]
Friday, Mar 6
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...
Paid apps are currently available in Cydia, but purchase has to be arranged on an app-by-app basis, usually through unwieldy product key schemes or PayPal. While a centralized Cydia payment system would make purchasing apps such as Snapture and PDAnet simpler and could breed innovatio...
Monday, Feb 16
Palm has joined Adobe's Open Screen Project—an industry initiative designed to bring full web browsing and Flash-based apps to televisions, desktops and mobile devices. So, by definition, this will not only bring a complete web-browsing experience to the Palm Pre, it could also resul...
Thursday, Feb 12
• 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
Wednesday, Feb 11
AppleInsider isn't too clear on whether or not devices like Apple TV or the iPhone/iPod touch will be part iTunes Replay. Apple TV seems more practical for the time being than the iPhone, and it'd add a needed dimension to it. No mention on a release date for it, just that it would be part of iTun...
Friday, Dec 19
• 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
Thursday, Nov 20
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...
Friday, Nov 14
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.
Thursday, Oct 16
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...
Thursday, Oct 2
EdgesRazor: Correct, although someone did build one by using a zip tie to keep the side buttons pressed in. gizak.
Tuesday, Sep 30
The full guide is here for those that want exact measurements and a tutorial: [www.deanying.com]. LittleBigPlaneteer.
Get a DSLR and make a quality panorama! Hell get any good digicam and make a quality panorama. Aaaaand Photoshop. Ike_Skelton.
Friday, Sep 19
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...
Monday, Sep 8
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]
Friday, Sep 5
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...
Friday, Aug 22
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...
Wednesday, Aug 20
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,...
Tuesday, Aug 19
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...
Monday, Aug 4
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...
Friday, Aug 1
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!]
Friday, Jul 25
• 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...
Tuesday, Jul 15
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."
Monday, Jul 14
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...
Friday, Jul 11
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...
Thursday, Jul 10
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]
Tuesday, Jul 8
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...
Wednesday, Jun 18
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...
Monday, Jun 16
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...
Monday, Apr 14
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...
Tuesday, Apr 8
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...
Thursday, Jan 24
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...
Friday, Dec 7
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...
Wednesday, Oct 17
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]
Friday, Sep 7
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...
Tuesday, Sep 4
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...
Monday, Jul 23
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...
Wednesday, Jun 6
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