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New Apple Products--as Imagined by the Elite Gadget Press
Some might scoff that the iPhone can already do much of what McClusky envisions. Well, it can but at a hefty price--and not nearly as well. The exerPod is an inexpensive device (we see it costing $99) for folks who don’t want an Apple cell phone and simply need a small, rugged gadget that includ...
TomTom Provides Update to App For iPod Touch/First-Gen iPhone Users
Fans of TomTom who use an iPod Touch or first-gen iPhone can now not only navigate their music, but can navigate around town too according to Apple Insider. The catch is, one needs TomTom's car kit, due to the Touch and phone lacking a GPS chip.
Tuesday, Nov 17
Using Non-Visual Voicemail to Take Voicemail Notes
If you’re lucky enough to have Google Voice (invite-only at press time), the service transcribes any voicemails you receive and can send you a copy as an SMS text message or email it to your Gmail account. Apple has declined to allow a native Google Voice app on the iPhone (and pulled all thir...
$3 Million Worth Of iPhones Stolen In Belgium
“We have the serial numbers of the stolen iPhones block[ed] anyway so they cannot be used,” says a Mobistar spokesperson. “[For] people who want to buy an iPhone, [it] is best done in an approved outlet and not on the street or on the black market.”
AT&T Battles Amazon For Cloud Dominance
Synaptic Compute As A Service leverages Sun Microsystems hardware and VMware software and will launch in the fourth quarter of 2009. Compute services can be billed on a credit card or as a line item on an enterprise bill, offering yet another level of convenience. The service will be in U.S. da...
iPhone Start-Ups Invade Bay Area
Apple has sold more than 30 million iPhones and 20 million iPod touches and the App Store is home to more than 100,000 apps, ranging from entertainment to utilities. The majority of apps are free or cost just 99 cents, with Apple taking 30% and the developer the remaining 70%. It may not sound l...
Monday, Nov 16
European iPhone Carriers At Warranty Risk After First Year
9to5Mac today cites a recent Strand Consulting report putting the spotlight on iPhone warranty risks for European carriers. The dilemma? A European law demanding a two-year product guarantee for all consumer electronics buyers, where Apple’s free warranty is for one year only.
Apple’s Famed Tablet: An “Everything” Killer?
So what makes the rumored tablet so desired? The rumors propose that it’s a magazine-sized, touchscreen, all-in-one device, something like half-iPhone, half-Macintosh computer. “This will be the next big thing,” says Laura DiDio, a principal analyst at ITIC. “Apple is going to wow eve...
Apple's Black Friday Sales Hints
The ad, which is supposedly about to be emailed to Apple stores, says on that day only Apple will be offering up to 30% off on iPods (excluding iPhone and iPod Shuffle), up to 25% off on all Macs, and up to 15% off on accessories and software. It also says that "select" Apple stores will open at 6 a....
Satire: 10 Ideas Steve Pitched to Disney
Hakuna Mac-tataWhy shouldn’t the Mac have its own theme song? Sung to the melody of Elton John’s classic, Steve sketched out a veritable marketing blitz around “Hakuna Mac-tata,” with heavy in-store rotation, free iTunes downloads, commercials and mailers built around Apple’s bran...
Call of Duty: World at War: Zombies Arrives on App Store
Touch Arcade is reporting that Activision has released Call of Duty: World at War: Zombies for the iPhone and iPod touch. The game, adapted from the console version, is a zombie survival mode that allows you to shoot endless waves of Zombies right on your iPhone!
Magellan Finally Navigates Onto iPhone
Just about literally bringing up the rear in terms of major GPS hardware companies coming to the iPhone, Magellan quietly slid into the App Store this weekend with its RoadMate 2010 North America for 3G and 3GS. Magellan RoadMate 2010 for North America is available right now in the App Stor...
Friday, Nov 13
AT&T Responds to Verizon Ads
Still, their claims that "Unlike Verizon, AT&T customers have access to more than 100,000 applications, more than with any other wireless company" and "Unlike Verizon, AT&T's 3G network lets wireless customers simultaneously talk and surf the web or do e-mail" should score...
Wednesday, Nov 11
Apple vs. Nintendo for Handheld Market
The Wall Street Journal reports that Satoru Iwata, the president of Nintendo Co., doesn't see Apple as a competitor for control of the handheld market, but Apple sure does. According to Apple's head of marketing, Phil Schiller, the Nintendo DS and the Sony PSP were "so cool at first" but "do...
Sunday, Nov 8
Apple Rejects Bobble Rep App, Cites "Objectionable" Content
According to The rejection letter posted by Richmond, the iPhone Developer Program wrote it could not post the app to the app store “because it contains content that ridicules public figures” in violation of the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement.
Monday, Nov 2
Marvel Comics on iPhone, Can DC Be Far Behind?
The apps also differ on previews of the comics and other features. Some are strong in some aspects, while outshined by others elsewhere. Marvel's cautious approach in letting third-parties act as distribution channels could also be seen as a wise first toe into the mobile market before th...
Sunday, Nov 1
Command & Conquer: Red Alert iPhone
The game felt buggy and slow on an iPhone 3G. Especially after creating a big army, audio effects stuttered, and we had to make multiple scroll and zoom gestures to see results. Red Alert took about 35 seconds to first load, and often 30 seconds to begin a level. It crashed occasionally, too.
Wednesday, Oct 28
Opinion: Change the Text Message Alert Sounds On Your Jailbroken iPhone
gt;Jailbroken iPhone gt;GarageBand, Audacity or other audio-editing application gt;iPhone Explorer We'll use GarageBand '09 1. Open GarageBand and open the iPhone Ringtone area. Choose Example Ringtone. Getting it on your iPhone
Tuesday, Oct 27
myPantone
We’ll get this right out of the way: Pantone’s foray into the App Store is a success -- myPantone is slick, clever and imminently useful. But we can’t describe the killer utility of the app without first getting into the whys and hows of Pantone itself. So, color experts, please excuse the pre...
Tuesday, Oct 20
Pioneer VSX-819H
Once you have your iPod or iPhone attached to the receiver, you have a very important decision to make. What do you do with the tiny front panel on the front of the receiver that hides the USB port? The panel comes off, instead of being on hinges. This is fine if you’re a bit anal-retentive, but it...
Monday, Oct 19
Pixel Research Labs Ringer
For several years now, the music industry has had quite a scam going. No, we’re not talking about the insane price of physical CDs. And no, we’re not talking about the fact that major label artists--the folks who actually did the work--make pennies on the dollar for the sale of those CDs. We’re...
Hands-On Impressions: Rock Band for iPhone
Rock Band should be as good as any iPhone music game, especially with downloadable tracks to expand your playlist. It'll be a strong iPhone clone of the console game, but I was hoping it would take the iPhone's features into deeper account, branching out more from this familiar ground.
Wednesday, Oct 14
Radio on the iPhone
While the iPhones and iPod touches have had the hardware capabilities to receive FM signals, the functionality has lain dormant (save for the Nike+ peripherals). Apple is said to be working hard to get the app to play nicely with the iTunes app to lead to something like in-app purchases for...
Tuesday, Oct 13
Podcast #111 - iPhones Branch Out Around the World and Disney Looks to Apple for Retail Redesign
Disney asks Steve and the Apple retail team to help with Disney retail redesign and Apple responds to reports that it wants $10,000 in production fees for iTunes LP in the iTunes Store. To subscribe to the Mac|Live podcast series through an RSS feed, click here; if you want to subscribe thr...
Monday, Oct 12
TextExpander touch
If you already use TextExpander on your Mac, you can even import existing snippets to your handheld device via your local Wi-Fi network. In the Groups view on your iPhone or iPod touch, tap the + icon, then Add Via Local Network. As long as your device and your Mac are connected to the same Wi-Fi...
iHome iP1
The iP1 features a pair of 4-inch woofers and 1-inch dome tweeters mounted on a smoky acrylic face. Besides the dock connector, which sports Power, Volume Up/Down, and the aforementioned Bongiovi button, the unit is free of any extra bells or whistles, giving it a clean, elegant look. At ab...
Friday, Oct 9
25 Items the iPhone Has Rendered Useless
When we got our first iPhone, we had an inkling it would be the last cellphone we’d ever buy, but we never thought it would be the last iPod, too. But iPhone is so good at being "a widescreen iPod with touch controls," we can’t find a reason to drop any more money on another music player, even if it...
Wednesday, Oct 7
Patch: iPhone 3.1.2 is Live
Plug that iPhone into iTunes, it's time to update. Apple has unleashed a new update for our precious iPhones. Apple states that the new release will fix the following issues: Resolves sporadic issue that may cause iPhone to not wake from sleep
Tuesday, Oct 6
Podcast #110: Creating iPhone Apps with Flash and More Mac Rumors
Adobe announced that Flash Professional CS5 will allow developers to create native iPhone apps and we discuss the pros and cons of the announcement and ready ourselves for the upcoming swarm of Flash games converted to iPhone games in the App Store.
Wednesday, Sep 23
Not Much Longer Now -- MMS Friday
For those of you who missed your chance to pick up your message at www.viewmymessages.com, that service has been disabled. Whether or not existing MMS messages will be retrievable after Friday's activation date is still unclear. While Apple's European iPhone partners have had MMS for some...
Opinion: 21 iPhone Apps -- Benchmarked for Their Data-Sucking Assaults on the 3G Network
iTunes The confusingly named iTunes app doesn’t play your music library like iTunes on your Mac does. Rather, it’s the iTunes store, and it lets you grow your library, no computer required. App Store Yelp Uno Once again, video makes a bandwidth hog out of the iPhone. Safari
Thursday, Sep 17
Opinion: For Fat-Fingered You -- A Physical iPhone Keyboard
Meet the iTwinge. This handy little skinned device slides up over the bottom half of your iPhone and draws a slow trickle from your battery to power it. Lightweight, the iTwinge comes in at around 1 ounce, works on 3G and 3G S models and will set you back thirty bucks.
Wednesday, Nov 26
iPhone 3G Ad Banned in the UK
The iPhone is getting flak in the UK for the claim that it’s incredibly speedy on the 3G network. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned an iPhone ad after consumers complained that the commercial exaggerated the capabilities of the device. read more
Monday, Nov 24
Firmware 2.2 Finally Jailbroken
QuickPWN has already managed jailbreaking the iPhone’s 2.2 firmware updates, thanks to the incredible efforts of their own developer team. QuickPWN 2.2 is already available for free for both Windows and Mac users. read more
Friday, Sep 19
Recall Alert! Apple's Ultracompact USB Power Adapter for the iPhone 3G
Anyone who is in possession of the Apple Ultracompact USB Power Adapter can join the official exchange program to be compensated for a new adapter. The power adapter’s metal prongs can break off and remain in the power outlet, increasing the risk of electric shock. As of yet, there have been...
Friday, Sep 12
iPhone 2.1 is in the Wild
The much anticipated iPhone firmware 2.1 update has been released by Apple and is ready for your iPhone. Just plug your iPhone into iTunes and check for updates. What could possibly go wrong? Drop your iPhone 2.1 update success or horror story in the comments below.
