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Is Verizon’s data network down? [Update: California Only]
We’re not sure how wide spread it is (Update: seems to only be effecting California. ), but I’m seeing a whole lot of reports that Verizon’s 3G data network is down in various parts of the country. The majority of the reports seem to be coming out of the SF Bay Area and South Bay. While the handsets...
CrunchDeals: All Konami iPhone games on sale for $.99
Got a buck? Own an iThing? Like to game and save money? Sweet! Then you’ll be really happy to hear that Konami’s entire collection of iPhone / iPod touch games are all on sale for $.99 until Saturday, November 21. Ordinarily, most of Konami’s iGames go for anywhere from $2 and up. But enough abou...
iPhone 3G and 3GS coming to Virgin Mobile Canada
Virgin Mobile Canada has announced that it will begin to sell the iPhone 3G and 3GS in Virgin Mobile Retail Stores and online in Canada in the "coming months." VMC joins fellow Canadian carriers Telus, Bell Canada, Fido, and Rogers in becoming an authorized iThing dealer.
Yesterday
iPhone gets official government approval in South Korea
A little while back, we wrote about the Korea Communications Commission's decision to make an exception for the iPhone, essentially clearing the way for Apple to submit the phone for radio approval (a la FCC procedures in the States). Now, two months later, the KCC has officially approve...
Tuesday, Nov 17
AT&T plans San Francisco Bay Area network upgrades for 2010
Independent of just pleasing iPhone owners, this is obviously also good news for all AT&T customers throughout the Bay Area. As more and more customers make the switch to data-happy smartphones, carriers must improve the robustness of their 3G networks to meet the growing data dema...
iPhone to be the best phone in all of China
China Unicom’s chairman believes that the iPhone will be the most popular phone in China, beating out Nokia and RIM for the crown of Bounteous Emperor of the Eastern Phone World. Interestingly, the iPhone will cost over $1,000 in China and there expectations that gray market sales won’t e...
Monday, Nov 16
Pictured: Magellan’s new iPhone car cradle
Hey, you! I know you. You’re the one that gets all hot around the collar over shots of unreleased iPhone accessories, aren’t you? Boy, oh boy – are you gonna love this.. Sure, it’s not much – but here’s the world’s first look at the just announced, GPS-boosting, speakerphone-touting iPhone ca...
Magellan Gets Into The iPhone GPS Game, Car Cradle Incoming
Just minutes ago, Magellan announced that their first application, Roadmate, has hit the App Store at an “introductory price” (which, more often than not, tends to be the final price pitched as “introductory” for the sake of pumping launch sales) of $79.99.
Thursday, Nov 12
Five stars: Wrestling Observer Newsletter/Figure 4 Weekly now has an iPhone App
Another problem: you can only listen to the radio shows while connected to Wi-Fi. According to today’s Figure 4 Daily, Apple initially rejected the App because it was using too much bandwidth when used over 3G, so the guys had to move it over to Wi-Fi.
Tuesday, Nov 10
Antares: Friend of misleading singers, enemy of misleading apps
Here’s a bit of App Store drama for you: Antares Audio Tech, the company that built the underlying technology licensed for the popular “I am T-Pain” iPhone App, has unleashed their lawyers on Steamboat Mountain Designs, an indie developer and maker of the now-removed iPhone app, “AutoT...
Monday, Nov 9
Ten Apps All New Android Users Should Check Out
Description: While it’s getting better over time, the Android platform isn’t exactly known for its killer battery efficiency. Android allows users to run apps in the background – and a running application gobbles up battery, whether it’s visible or not. Power manager helps to improve yo...
Thursday, Nov 5
Opinion: Smartphone Showdown: iPhone 3GS vs Motorola Droid Round 2
Camera: Droid photos are on the left, with iPhone 3GS photos on the right: Winner: The iPhone, if only because it focuses when I ask it to. Droid: iPhone: Winner: If WiFi isn’t available, iPhone. If it is, Droid. Winner: iPhone, by a bit over 8 seconds. The Winner: iPhone. Winner: iPhone
Tuesday, Nov 3
Opinion: Newly discovered Safari bug could mean big fees for some iPhone users
The flaw, as discovered by Estonian Apple Site AppleSpot: If the user visits a site which uses Motion-JPEG (most commonly used for security cams and live feeds) in Safari, Safari will continue to gobble up bandwidth even after Safari is closed. Safari is one of the few apps that Apple allow...
Monday, Nov 2
Opinion: 5 iPhone Accessories We’re Still Waiting For
It’s almost ridiculous that this one hasn’t been made yet – and that even when it is, support will likely be so limited that it’ll suck something fierce. That is, of course, unless Apple lends a hand. If a third party does it alone, app devs will need to manually add support for the keyboard, one...
Wednesday, Oct 28
Two More iPhone Overhaul Concepts: Multitasking And Dashboard Widgets. Would You Use These?
Multitasking on the iPhone; it’s unlikely to happen on the current hardware due to battery limitations, but that hasn’t stopped the users from clamoring on about it every chance they get. Ocean Observation’s solution is very webOS-meets-Coverflow. You swipe back and forth between apps...
Has Tapjoy solved monetization of free apps on the iPhone and Android?
Tapjoy, the small development shop that brought us the incredible TapDefense for the iPhone [iTunes link], has quietly built out an extremely strong toolset to provide monetization options for app developers. Through two strong offerings, they claim to increase ad revenue for free ap...
Thursday, Oct 22
Opinion: Volkswagen ‘launches’ the 2010 GTI on the iPhone with Real Racing GTI game
If you’re not familiar with Real Racing, here’s a 10-second review: it’s a racing game for the iPhone (and iPod touch) that has been very well received. Like, it’s currently sitting on 4.5 stars on the iTunes Store. That’s pretty much it.
ScrollMotion releases in-app purchase, has sold over 200,000 e-books on the iPhone
Many of us already read news on the iPhone, so reading books is not too much of a stretch. Granted, there are tons of dedicated e-book readers already on the market, but I don’t know that I want to walk around with a bulky Kindle, Nook or IREX when I’m on the go. For people like me, buying a book or tw...
Review: EasyPlay makes your iPhone/iPod Touch slightly less dangerous to use while driving
If only you had Faceplant’s EasyPlay! EasyPlay for the iPhone and iPod Touch wants to save buses full of orphans by enabling full iPod playback control via no-sight-needed gestures. The concept is incredibly simple – so much, in fact, that it’s somewhat amazing that Apple didn’t incorpo...
Create and order personalized Nike sneakers straight from your iPhone
The free app (iTunes link) has been available on the App Store since the beginning of this month, but surprisingly there hasn’t been a lot of coverage about it. Even despite this excellent video about it (embedded below). Kudos, Nike, kudos. Via DutchCowboys)
Thursday, Oct 15
Opinion: In-App Purchase In Free Apps: A Shot Across The Bow of iPhone Piracy?
Just hours ago, Apple made an announcement that has developers everywhere dancing down their collective, metaphorical street: In-App Purchase is now good to go in free applications. This, of course, comes just months after Apple essentially told a room full of journalists that such id...
Wednesday, Oct 14
Rumor: Apple to ‘unlock’ Radio.app for iPhone and iPod touch?
9 to 5 Mac has received word that Apple is working on bringing FM radio capabilities to its iPhone and iPod touch lines. More specifically, Radio.app (as it is known) will purportedly have permission to operate in the background (because Apple’s apps are better than the 80,000 other apps th...
Thursday, Oct 8
Rock Band for iPhone officially announced
Seems like just yesterday when we started to get a funny feeling about an official Rock Band for iPhone release. Turns out, our very own Inspector Gadget, one Mr. Kumparak, was spot on with his sleuthing – Rock Band for the iPhone / iPod touch was officially announced by Electronic Arts earli...
Wednesday, Oct 7
Yes, Rock Band is coming to iPhone. Here’s proof. [Updated]
A few weeks back, we got a press release from EA’s PR company. It was tucked within an attachment titled “Rock Band Verizon iPhone Fact Sheet_V3.docx”. As if seeing “iPhone” behind “Verizon” wasn’t strange enough, the rest of the press release made absolutely no reference to an iPhone relea...
Thursday, Oct 1
Opinion: iPhone calculator app takes steps to save the children
TLA Systems has had enough. Looking to stifle these inappropriate text-based outbursts and ensure that the Apple App Review team had absolutely no issues with the content of their app, they’ve taken it upon themselves to censor the most popular bit-based blasphemes in the latest build o...
Wednesday, Sep 23
Opinion: Bionic Eye app creates augmented reality on your iPhone 3GS
While Bionic Eye isn’t the first augmented reality browser, it is the first one (at least, the first official one) for the iPhone/iPod crowd, and definitely looks like fun. I don’t know if I’d use the part where it directs you to a location however, that looks like a good way to get mugged.
Thursday, Apr 30
Review: iPWR Backup Battery for iPhone and iPod
Short version: The iPhone may be good at a lot of things - but one thing its definitely not known for is its good battery life. It definitely has better battery than some devices (we’re looking at you, T-Mobile G1), but it still pretty terrible. If you’re a heavy user, you’ll want a backup batte...
Friday, Sep 19
QuickPwn 2.1 released for Windows
It took a few days after the iPhone-dev team managed to tear the iPhone 2.1 update open for them to make the port, but Windows users are now free to get in on the 2.1 jailbreak good times. If you’ve yet to use QuickPwn, prepare to be amazed. As long as nothing goes awry during the [...]
Monday, Sep 15
NetShare gone from the App Store for good
I won’t get into the argument of whether or not Apple should be removing applications that do not explicitly violate the terms of service, because that argument is happening in a million places around the internet at any given time. I will mention, however, that this specific decision is a...
Wednesday, Apr 16
iPhone Price Lowered in Britain
Carphone Warehouse and O2 cut the price for the basic iPhone in Britain by 100 pounds ($197). The 8 gigabyte iPhone will be sold for 169 pounds until June 1. The 16 GB iPhone price will not be lowered and sells for 329 pounds. Sales of the iPhone have slowed in Britain since its launch [...]
