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Fiddle With Your Mercedes Via iPhone
It’s great to see that Mercedes is keeping in touch with the latest technology, especially cell phones. Testament to that is the partnership of Mercedes-Benz USA and Hughes Telematics Inc to come up with mbrace, a new telematics offering that allows you to connect your iPhone or BlackBer...
iPhones get some Star Wars love
iPhones are really fragile things and prone to scratches - you might just want to get these lovely cases if you happen to be a Star Wars fan though. Coming in Darth Vader and the Stormtroopers designs, these hard shell cases will help prevent nasty scratches from messing up with your iPhone'...
Apple tablet delayed again
Could the rumored Apple tablet actually end up as vaporware? Word has it that the tablet will come in a choice of either LCD or OLED displays, but bad news accompanies such nuggets of information - this would most probably push the tablet's release date back until the end of next year as Appl...
HypnosEye iPhone projector
No, we're not talking about the iPhone getting its very own built-in projector here, but the HypnosEye can connect to your iPhone, iPod touch or other mobile devices while projecting it via a separate light source by using a special anti-glare mirror and lens to blow up the screen onto a pr...
Tuesday, Nov 17
App Store Takes Off In China
While most people would think that the lack of Wi-Fi, coupled with sales of “only” 5,000 iPhones at launch would be disappointing, it seems that the App Store is doing rather well in China, despite all the hurdles that it’ll have to clear. Let’s not forget that the current official iPhone in...
Few Thousand iPhones Stolen In Belgian Heist
If you find that the iPhone 3G or 3GS that you ordered from Mobistar is taking a long time to reach you, maybe it’s been stolen (of course, not directly from you). According to latest reports, some thieves climbed a fire ladder to get to the roof of the warehouses where the iPhones were kept, an...
Monday, Nov 16
Opinion: Facebook for PS3 happening this Thursday
Folks who can't get enough of Facebook with a window open on your desktop permanently while your iPhone has a Facebook app running in the background, here's good news. As reported earlier, Facebook for the PS3 will make its grand entrance this Thursday with the new 3.10 firmware update roll...
Magellan RoadMate iPhone app rolls out
Magellan recently introduced its RoadMate iPhone app which will include text-to-speech, lane assist and in-app music controls, retailing for all of $79.99. Apart from that, Magellan has plans for a car kit which will boast an integrated GPS receiver alongside enough space to accommoda...
Black Friday deals from Apple
What you see here could possibly be Apple’s annual Black Friday deals, where it seems all iPods (save for the iPhone and shuffle) will receive a whopping 30% discount, and Macs will be 25% cheaper while other Apple software and accessories will benefit from a 15% discount. This deal is supp...
Apple tablet could feature high-end graphics card
There doesn't seem to be a shortage of rumors where Apple's tablet device is concerned, and the latest one includes a high-end graphics card which is capable of producing images with "stunning resolution." Touted to debut sometime in Q1 next year, it seems that the said "stunning resolut...
Friday, Nov 13
Opinion: PhoneSuit Primo Micro Battery Pack
So you've got an iPhone which has been serving you well for a long time now, but you really wish it came with a longer lasting battery. The PhoneSuit Primo Micro Battery Pack is here to help you out, where it delivers an 800mAh lithium-ion battery within which ought to offer another 45 more hou...
Sunday, Nov 8
Control Your RC Car Via iPhone
Want to add some zest to your world of remote-controlled cars? Well, Joker Racer looks like it’s aiming to do just that for you, by allowing you to control your RC (remote-controlled) cars through the Internet via a web browser. This is achieved by using a custom wireless computer that rece...
Opinion: RadioShack To Offer The iPhone 3GS
It looks like Apple’s iPhone has taken another small step towards nationwide domination of the mobile phone scene. Now RadioShack has officially announced that it will be carrying both the iPhone 3G and 3GS in selected stores in Dallas-Fort Worth and New York City by the end of this month. Y...
Saturday, Nov 7
Opinion: Apple Introduces Reserve And Pick-up
While buying stuff online and getting it delivered to you are a great luxury, sometimes it’s still fun to go to the store to pick things up, and at the same time check out other things to burn your hard-earned money on, right? Well, Apple is probably realized this, and that’s why it has introd...
Tuesday, Nov 3
Opinion: Jailbroken iPhones Open To Hack
Jailbreaking iPhones is in vogue nowadays, but sometimes people forget that jailbreaking involves tinkering with the phone in ways that Apple didn’t intend it to be tinkered with, and that could leave your iPhone open to the possibility of being hacked. Case in point, several Dutch iPho...
Monday, Nov 2
CAZE Zero 5 UltraThin case
The CAZE Zero 5 UltraThin case will target both the iPhone 3GS and 3G, where it is touted to be the thinnest transparent case for either device to date, measuring a mere 0.5mm thin. Targeting folks who want their iPhone 3GS and 3G to remain slim and svelte, as close to the original as possible, a...
Sunday, Nov 1
Opinion: Blacksn0w iPhone Unlock Is Ready
You’ve probably already checked out the Blackra1n RC2 jailbreaking software that we mentioned a short while back, which is well and good, but if you needed a baseband unlock for your iPhone, you’ll be happy to know that Blacksn0w is just around the corner, which provides a baseband unloc...
Monday, Oct 26
Apple Slate tablet mentioned by NY Times, creates new wave of rumors
Bill Keller of the NY Times has dropped the bomb by mentioning the upcoming Apple Slate tablet computer. Here's what he says in his speech to the digital group at the New York Times: Permalink: Apple Slate tablet mentioned by NY Times, creates new wave of rumors from Ubergizmo | Hot: Zune HD R...
Sunday, Oct 25
Opinion: Nokia Exploring 3D Multitouch
Thanks to Apple’s iPhone, multi-touch has become a household name, and everybody seems to be interested in the technology. It seems that Nokia would like to take things one step further though, as can be seen in Nokia’s patent application. It seems that Nokia is exploring a 3D multi-touch s...
Friday, Oct 23
Motorola Droid preview
The Motorola CLIQ was a pretty big disappointment for me personally, but oh man does the Droid make up for it. Sure, there’s a little hype sprinkled in because this is the first Android 2.0 device I’ve had the pleasure of using, but once you move past the initial “wow” factor, the Droid really d...
Tuesday, Oct 20
Opinion: Mozilla to roll out app for iPhone
A Mozilla app will be making its way to the iPhone soon, but the general public are still wonder just what this new application will be like - at least Mozilla's CEO John Lilly claims that this will "surprise people" - hopefully in a good way, that is. Could a Mozilla Firefox server be making it...
Friday, Oct 16
Android 2.0 comes with many improvements
Android 2.0 will bring a number of improvements that includes the native support of Microsoft Exchange (contacts are often not synchronized today), the Maps application will display more data, but still does not have pinch and zoom. The web browser is said to be almost as fast as the iPhone...
Thursday, Oct 15
Iron Fist Boxing 3 on iPhone features GL 1.x and GL 2.0
While many game developers are wondering how to deal with the iPhone 3GS graphics speed bump, Realtech has chosen to divide the (iPhone) world into two: OpenGL 1.x and OpenGL 2.0. In Iron Fist Boxing 3, iPhone 3GS users will benefit from better graphics thanks to bump-mapping and normal-map...
Wednesday, Oct 14
Barnes and Noble eBook early details
The upcoming Barnes & Noble will use E-ink just as expected but its screen also supports multi-touch. That begs the question: how will the multi-touch user interface work? The reader should let users access all the public domain books available via Google. There's no word on the suppo...
Wednesday, Oct 7
Kempler & Strauss Billionair 7 smartphone
Kempler & Strauss has rolled out the Billionair 7 smartphone - a business-class device that will bring together the best user interfaces of the most popular business and consumer smartphone platforms onto a single GSM quad-band 3.5G handset that will be based on the Windows Mobile p...
Thursday, Sep 24
Vodafone 360 announced
Vodafone has just announced its Vodafone 360 suite of innovative Internet services for both cellphones as well as the PC. Vodafone 360 will make sure that your contacts, status updates and messaging services are merged in a single place that makes it easier for you to navigate through var...
Friday, Nov 21
iPhone 2.2 Update Available
The iPhone 2.2 update is officially available from Apple and here are the highlights: Google Street ViewPublic Transit mapsLocation sharing (via Email)Podcasts downloads in iTunesToggle auto-correction (Keyboard) Permalink: iPhone 2.2 Update Available from Ubergizmo | Good deal...
