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Wednesday, Jan 7
Modbook Pro Is Secret Son of an iPod Touch and a MacBook Pro
No XL iPod touch pro or fabled Apple tablets at the Philnote. Too bad, because I want one badly. Maybe the new pen and touch-enabled Modbook Pro will do. Hopefully, Apple will eventually supersize the iPod touch. When they do, I hope they go the other way around and add pressure-sensitive pen in...
Friday, Dec 26
Apple Patent Shows Nifty Keyboard Gestures for the iPhone
To this end, the patent describes customizable functions, which could lead to multitouch gestures that trigger the deletion of entire words, switching of keyboards, or quick input of specific characters. While many users would never take to a gesture system like this, it wouldn't get i...
Wednesday, Dec 24
The Only 10 Games Your iPhone Needs
While there are enough good games in the App Store to fill up multiple pages on your iPhone or iPod Touch, you don't need that many, nor do you need to spend that much money. If you focus on filling certain genres with single games and not doubling up on multiples, you can make yourself the ultim...
Friday, Dec 19
The Week in iPhone Apps: Apps For Charity [IPhone Apps]
• I Love Katamari for iPhone/iPod Touch Lightning Review • Apple Warns Developers App Store Approval Process Sucking More Than Usual • ReedBox Recreates Eno's Bloom iPhone App With Magnets • Earth-Shattering Changes in Google iPhone App Update
Monday, Dec 15
I Love Katamari for iPhone/iPod Touch Lightning Review
The App: Under the cover of night this weekend, the Katamari series landed in the App Store with I Love Katamari—bringing the venerable roll-up-a-bunch-of-shit-in-a-ball gameplay many love so dearly to Apple's mobile platform. The Cost: $8
Friday, Dec 5
The Week in iPhone Apps: Live From Giz Gallery [IPhone Apps]
• Lightning Review: Touchgrind for iPhone and iPod Touch • List of Most Downloaded iPhone Apps is Full of Frivolous Crap • iPhone App Makes Logging On to Free AT&T Wi-Fi Not Suck • Homebrew iPhone App Lets You Reward Sparky From Afar
Monday, Dec 1
Lightning Review: Touchgrind for iPhone and iPod Touch
Overall, however, it's a fun time waster with a seriously high level of polish. Due to the limitations of the iPhone, I'm not sure how exactly to solve the issue of not knowing where the hell you're going, but if they do come up with a solution you're looking at one of the best games available fo...
Thursday, Nov 27
The Week in iPhone Apps: A Horn O' Plenty
• Zagat To Go '09 Hits iPhone App Store • 3D Power Is Highly Varied Across iPhone/iPod Touch Iterations • iPod Touch Hack Gives Disgruntled Firmware 2.2 Upgraders Google Street View • iPhone Firmware 2.2 Jailbroken, QuickPwn 2.2 Released
Monday, Nov 24
Opinion: 3D Power Is Highly Varied Across iPhone/iPod Touch Iterations [Apple]
Since the iPhone 3G, first gen iPhone and first gen touch all have the same processor, where is this performance gap coming from? It's tough to know exactly, though there is obviously some hardware differentiation between each generation of these products beyond the processor.
Wednesday, Nov 19
Dealzmodo Hack: Accessorize Your iPod/iPhone Like MacGyver [Dealzmodo Hack]
The ubiquity of iPods has led to a ridiculous glut of accessories, some useful, most not. The best of them have essentially become a seamless part of the iPod experience, but they'll all cost you — and it really starts to add up. The expansion of the iPod universe, however, is twofold; more off...
Sunday, Sep 14
Review: Nike+ iPod Touch Workout App
Our other complaint is that you're forced to buy the 2nd generation iPod touch in order to take advantage of the app. Plugging in the dongle to your iPhone, iPhone 3G or 1st generation touch isn't even an option. Even with firmware 2.1, you still get the "This accessory is not supported by iPhon...
Tuesday, Sep 9
iPod Touch Version 2 Review
The second iteration of the iPod touch equals or improves upon its predecessor in almost every physical facet. Slimmer, lighter and more functional, the v.2 also gets new volume control buttons, full Nike+ integration and a built-in loudspeaker. It's not a radical change, but it's better.
iPod Nano Review
This generation comes in nine colors, which include pink, purple, black and silver, but no white. It's also the first nano to use solely USB charging, so old Firewire chargers are rendered useless. If you're into Apple and looking for a midrange media player, you should have no hesitations...
Apple Let's Rock Liveblog
iPhone owners get a 2.1 software update that “fixes lots of bugs.” Significantly improved battery life, fewer call drops, crashing problems, increased speed for iTunes backups and various other fixes. The iPod nano even has a voice recording feature when it detects a microphone attached.
Thursday, Sep 4
EA Announces SimCity and The Sims 3 for the iPhone: Spore Coming on September 7th [IPhone]
Spore Origins will be available globally from the Apple App Store on iPhone and iPod touch, or by simply visiting www.eamobile.com from an iPhone. Additional versions of Spore Origins are also available for the iPod, as well as other mobile devices. All iPod games are available for the third...
Friday, Jul 11
iPhone 2.0 Software Review: Forget 3G, It's Code That Counts
Although the updated OS features such as Exchange Sync and MobileMe are only good for a portion of iPhone users, the addition of the iPhone App Store makes the phone almost infinitely expandable, allowing third-party software developers to cover up whatever holes (MMS, voice dialing,...
Friday, Jun 13
The iPhone 3G FAQ
Will activating a new iPhone 3G brick my old iPhone? Definitely not. You'll be able to give your 1st gen iPhone to someone to reactivate via iTunes on a new plan. Can I use the iPhone 3G on Verizon or Sprint? Nope, never. Not even if you unlock it.
Monday, Nov 12
Complete Guide to Zune 2's Software and Firmware [Complete Zune Guide]
vs. iTunes: What used to be quite a close match between the Zune suite and iTunes has turned into a one-sided first round knockout for iTunes. Apple's changed iTunes very little since a year ago, but Microsoft has completely re-vamped their offering. We'd rather them de-vamp this, take a loo...
Patch: iPhone and iPod Touch 1.1.2 Firmware Now Available via iTunes [Jailbreak Broken]
The iPhone 1.1.2 firmware update was previously available via manual download, but it is now available to all US customers through iTunes. The update includes a TIFF Exploit patch (meaning jailbroken iPhones will not work), foreign language support, and a custom ringtone section. As alwa...
First 6 Takes on Zune 80 (Verdict: Better Than iPod Classic?) [Frankenreview]
We'll just come out and say it: The 80GB Zune trumps the iPod Classic...For the same $250 price as the 80GB iPod classic, the new Zune 80GB offers a much larger screen, FM radio, wireless player-to-player sharing, Wi-Fi syncing with your PC, and a rear panel that can be customized with some coo...
Thursday, Nov 8
iPhone 1.1.2 Firmware: What You Need to Know [Iphone Upgrade Guide]
What's in it for iPod Touch: It actually supports adding and editing Calendar Events natively, without a patch. Although considering that you lose third-party applications and jailbreak status in exchange for a feature that you could already enable via a simple patch, it's not quite wo...
Tuesday, Oct 2
First-Gen Zune Getting All The New Features: This is How You Treat Your Customers
Every company is welcome to go and build new, advanced hardware in the race for our dollars. But contrast this to what Apple did between the iPhone and the iPod Touch. The iPod Touch is running the same OS as the iPhone, but it's artificially gimped. There's no email. There's no weather or stocks....
Friday, Sep 14
Apple: Apple iPod touch Review (Verdict: Good In the Face of Greatness)
• Here are some less extreme gripes we'll just get off our chest: No video downloads in iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store, no wireless syncing to iTunes, no external speakers, dumbing down the calendar, and no Mail or Notes apps. This falls into the same category as our bitching about the lack of ster...
Monday, Sep 10
Apple Officially Neutral on iPhone and iPod Hack
In an interview given to Gearlog, Apple VP of Hardware Product Marketing Greg Joswiak confirmed that the iPhone and iPod Touch run the same software, and said that Apple is not bothered by the flood of native, third party software for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Joswiak defined the Apple sta...
Breaking: Apple iPod Touch Calendar Can't "Add" Appointments: Why, and What's Else is Being Crippled?
According to support discussions and their own description pages, Apple has removed the ability to add events in the iPod touch's calendar, even while it uses the same operating system and application frameworks as the iPhone [Updated after the jump]
Wednesday, Sep 5
Soothsayers: Rating Gizmodo's iPod Announcement Predictions
The iPod Touch Mock-Up looks pretty close to what we got, although Jesus got a little overambitious with that fancy home button. Oh, and no Bluetooth. But otherwise, bravo, J man. We wondered about 160GB iPods when Samsung announced they had made the proper sized HDDs that large.
Apple Partners With Starbucks For Free Wi-Fi Access to iTunes Music Store
Apple and Starbucks Announce Music Partnership Wirelessly Find and Buy Music at Starbucks The iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store at Starbucks will run on the robust T-Mobile HotSpot Wi-Fi network which is available at participating Starbucks locations across the US.
iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store for iPod Touch Includes All Songs from iTMS
SAN FRANCISCO--September 5, 2007--Apple® today unveiled the iTunes® Wi-Fi Music Store, offering music fans the ability to browse, search, preview, purchase and download songs and albums from the iTunes Music Store over a Wi-Fi network directly onto their iPod® touch or iPhone™. With...
New 8-mm-Thick iPod Touch Makes Us Drool, Itch with Desire
Apple today also announced an exclusive agreement with Starbucks that allows you to access the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store for free in participating US Starbucks stores starting next month. When you enter a participating Starbucks location, your iPod touch, iPhone, or PC or Mac® running i...
