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Review: Samsung Moment smartphone
Original at Macworld
• 7 hours ago
By Ginny Mies Sony may be on the cusp of introducing the PSP Go, a new handheld gaming system that seems to have borrowed some design cues from the iPhone and iPod touch.
TiPb’s Top 5 iPhone Photo Apps
Original at The iPhone
• 8 hours ago
By Leanna Lofte Today’s TiPb Top 5 will be directed towards our iPhone and iPod Touch wielding readers who love photography. Just like our other TiPb’s top 5 must-have posts, all of these applications are available in the App Store. For the full overview, follow us after the break!
Weekly Wrapup: Mega Content Sites, Gen Y on Twitter, iPhone App Recommendation Services, And More...
Original at Read/WriteWeb
• 8 hours ago
By Richard MacManus ReadWriteStart Our channel ReadWriteStart, sponsored by Microsoft BizSpark, is dedicated to profiling startups and entrepreneurs. Web Products Discovering Great iPhone Apps: 5 Recommendation Services Compared Below we've posted a chart comparing the features of 5 new services f...
iPhone App Store Hits 100K, Leaves Others in the Dust
Original at PC World
• 8 hours ago
The iPhone may soon be getting stiffer competition from upcoming products like the Motorola Droid, but one area where Apple's commanding lead seems untouchable is its mobile app store.
Rumor: Smaller iPhone on tap for Verizon in Q3 2010?
Original at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
• 16 hours ago
By Steven Sande If you're tired of dropped calls and dead zones, and pondering the merits of turning in your iPhone for a DROID... hold on there, champ. AppleInsider says it's received a copy of a report by OTR Global, claiming that Apple has signed contracts to produce a UMTS / CDMA hybrid iPhone to be released...
Opinion: iPhone vs. DROID: Which One Should You Buy?
Original at The iPhone
• 18 hours ago
By Rene Ritchie Lastly, the DROID has a physical keyboard and a virtual keyboard. The iPhone only has a virtual keyboard. Early reviews suggest the DROID physical keyboard is a little flat, a little hard to differentiate one key from another, and a little off-center to accommodate the 5-way control. In oth...
Apple readying dual-mode GSM/CDMA iPhone?
Original at Electronista
• 18 hours ago
An analyst report sent today hints at Apple producing an iPhone that would work with both GSM and CDMA networks. The OTR Global note obtained by AppleInsider claims to know of an iPhone in development with a hybrid Qualcomm chipset that will support the two normally incompatible standard...
5 Must-Have iPhone Apps for Wine Lovers
Original at Mashable!
• 22 hours ago
By Megan Berry More iPhone resources from Mashable: - iPhone TV: Top iPhone Apps for Live Streaming Television Top 10 iPhone Apps as Judged by Mashable Readers 7 iPhone Apps That Can Save Lives 15 iPhone Apps to Tame the Kids 20 Creative Apps For Your iPhone
Opinion: The iPhone-to-Android Switch: 10 Things You Need to Know
Original at Gizmodo
• Fri, Nov 6
By matt buchanan If you're on a Mac, it's easy to keep your Contacts synced—just tell Address Book to sync with Google. On Windows, you'll need a third-party app, like GO contact. That way, you can manage your contacts on your desktop, and have a local copy that's always synced up with what Google's got.
Podcast: The 404 462: Where we make it too easy
Original at 13952_1(www.cnet.com)
• Fri, Nov 6
By Justin Yu In the spirit of all things Apple, we present to you the typical dating profile of the average iPhone user. A new study from Retrevo reveals the absurdity behind what makes iPhone users tick. Among other things, one in five iPhone owners have admitted to watching "adult material" on an Apple...
How To Get the iPhone Kindle App Outside the U.S.
Original at Wired
• Fri, Nov 6
By Charlie Sorrel It turns out there is. Thanks to the iTunes Store option to choose “none” as a payment method, you can sign up for a US iTunes account with nothing more than an e-mail address (not the one you normally use), a real address and a cellphone number. Any free applications are then available to downl...
Opinion: The iPhone-to-Android Switch: 10 Things You Need to Know [Android]
Original at gizmodo/full(feeds.gawker.com)
• Fri, Nov 6
If you're on a Mac, it's easy to keep your Contacts synced—just tell Address Book to sync with Google. On Windows, you'll need a third-party app, like GO contact. That way, you can manage your contacts on your desktop, and have a local copy that's always synced up with what Google's got.
Podcast: Gadgettes 161: The Geeks in Love Episode
Original at 13877_7(reviews.cnet.com)
• Thu, Nov 5
By Jason Howell Listen now: Download today's podcast Subscribe with iTunes (audio) Subscribe with iTunes (video) Subscribe with RSS (audio) Subscribe with RSS (video) EPISODE 161 Motorola Droid The commercial Dating habits of iPhone users: A profile
CONTEST: We Want You to Pitch Your Killer Mobile App
Original at Mashable!
• Thu, Nov 5
By Ben Parr To many, it’s becoming increasingly clear that mobile is the next big platform. First, the iPhone revolutionized browsing the web. A year later, the iPhone app store launched, bringing a new platform and new possibilities to developers and smartphone owners everywhere. Now with growing...
Carmack on iPhone Fallout, Quake Live and Elves and Orcs
Original at Kotaku
• Thu, Nov 5
By Brian Crecente But that internal concern quickly disappeared when Wolfenstein Classic hit the App Store. While more people are being brought on to help with iPhone development at id Software, it's clear that Carmack wants to stay involved with the growing business.
Patch: Blacksn0w App Now Ready, Eager to Unlock Your iPhone 3G and 3GSes
Original at Gizmodo
• Tue, Nov 3
• 2 related articles
By John Herrman 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:
Related articles from gizmodo/full(feeds.gawker.com), colamaniac (WordPress).
Patch: Blacksn0w App Now Ready, Eager to Unlock Your iPhone 3G and 3GSes [IPhone]
Original at gizmodo/full(feeds.gawker.com)
• Tue, Nov 3
• 2 related articles
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:
Related articles from Gizmodo, colamaniac (WordPress).
Pizza Hut’s iPhone App Has Generated $1 Million in SalesOriginal at Mashable!
• Tue, Nov 3
By Christina Warren Reviews: App Store, iPhone Tags: iphone, mobile applications, Pizza Hut IPhone applications capture consumers’ imagination in a way that WAP sites simply can’t do, so the decision to expand to the iPhone was as good one for us.” Reviews: App Store, iPhone
The daily roundup: here's what you might've missed
Original at Engadget
• Mon, Nov 2
By Ross Miller Apple restricts use of technologies required by products like Flash Player. Until Apple eliminates these restrictions, Adobe cannot provide Flash Player for the iPhone or iPod."Other news of import More on the DROID: thoughts from the rest of Engadget
Opinion: Gizmodo's Essential iPhone Apps: October '09 Edition
Original at Gizmodo
• Sat, Oct 31
By John Herrman 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...
Opinion: Change the Text Message Alert Sounds On Your Jailbroken iPhone
Original at Mac
• Wed, Oct 28
By Roberto Baldwin 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
Podcast: Endless Reboot Endless
Original at mevio.com
• Tue, Oct 27
Google voice expands capability. I like Google voice. Win 7 mis-priced? Or not? Endless re-boot problem not resolved. New Eclair SDK a tasty treat. iPhone now number two smartphone. Telecom industry wants a bail out? LA has adopted Gmail for 30,000 government workers. IBM doing big stock bu...
Patch: Blackra1n RC2 iPhone Jailbreak Tool Released and Unlock Update
Original at The iPhone
• Mon, Oct 26
By Jeremy Sikora iPhone hacker, geohot, has released blackra1n RC2 for your enjoyment. It corrects a few small bugs from the first release and can be downloaded here. Fixed 3G issues Tethered jailbreak for 3.1 OOTB ipt 8GB and new 3GSes Fixed icy issues Both Windows and Mac If you used RC1 with success, no need...
Patch: blackra1n RC2 Released – New Features, Clean Icy
Original at Apple iPhone School
• Sun, Oct 25
By Brooke Last night, GeoHot has released blakra1n RC2. The jailbreak offers a few more features such as a tethered jailbreak for out-of-the box 3.1 firmware as well the new iPhone 3GS that ships with the new bootrom. The new version of blackra1n also includes a working version of Icy… the previous ver...
How to Jailbreak iPhone 3GS running iPhone OS 3.1.2 Using PwnageTool
Original at iPhone Hacks
• Sat, Oct 24
By iPhoneHacks iPhone Dev Team released PwnageTool 3.1.4 for iPhone OS 3.1.2 couple of weeks back to allow users to jailbreak their iPhone and also preserve the baseband firmware so that they can unlock their iPhone. This step-by-step guide will show iPhone 3GS users how to use Dev Team's PwnageTool 3.1.4, whi...
This Week's 10 Best iPhone Apps
Original at Gizmodo
• Fri, Oct 23
By John Herrman • 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"
RUMOR: Verizon and Apple Already Testing 4G iPhone
Original at Mashable!
• Mon, Oct 19
By Barb Dybwad This rumor simply has to be taken with a grain of salt, but word has it that Verizon and Apple are testing a version of the iPhone on Verizon’s upcoming 4G LTE network. This rumor simply has to be taken with a grain of salt, but word has it that Verizon and Apple are testing a version of the iPhone o...
Opinion: With N900, Nokia Still Not Close to The iPhone
Original at GigaOM
• Mon, Oct 19
By Om Malik Hardware: Why I wasn’t surprised The device has all the modern hardware trappings: WiFi, 3G, GPS and lots of storage. These are table stakes for any modern smart phone, so these features aren’t really much of a surprise. Software: Why I was surprised
Podcast: BOL 1087: Google's leaky cloud
Original at Buzz Out Loud
• Mon, Oct 19
By buzz@cnet.com (CNET.com) Subscribe with iTunes (audio) Subscribe with iTunes (video) Subscribe with RSS (audio) Subscribe with RSS (video) EPISODE 1087 Verizon’s anti-iPhone gets its first commercial: ‘Droid Does’
Podcast #111 - iPhones Branch Out Around the World and Disney Looks to Apple for Retail Redesign
Original at Mac
• Tue, Oct 13
By Mac|Life Staff 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...
[THE MOGUL GROUP] Blackra1n Guide: How to Jailbreak your iPhone, iPhone 3G/3G...
Original at arcelay (Vox)
• Tue, Oct 13
This video will show you how to jailbreak 3.1.2 firmware iPhone, iPhone 3G/3Gs and iPod Touch ANY generation using the Blackra1in. Notes: - If you continue to have problems with this just wait for Redsn0w jailbreak from the DevTeam. It will wor... Read and post comments | Send to a friend
Patch: iPhone 3.1.2 firmware jailbreak blackra1n now available
Original at Phones Review
• Sun, Oct 11
By James Apparently iPhone users can now jailbreak the iPhone 3.1.2 firmware with the aid of the blackra1n software which has now gone live reports an article over on daily mobile. To boot it all you need to do is rerun blackra1n and as usual if you jailbreak your iPhone do not update the iPhone firmware...
Podcast: TiPb Presents: iPhone Live! #70 — Got VoIP?Original at The iPhone
• Thu, Oct 8
By Rene Ritchie Our podcast feedDownload DirectlySubscribe via iTunes Join Chad and Rene for AT&T’s VoIP over 3G announcement, Flash on iPhone and Jailbreak updates, and all the week’s news and views! Listen in! I Called You — iPhone Remix by Pete Leidy via Sneakmove iPhone Ringtone Challenge Thi...
How To: Using an External Microphone with Your iPod Touch
Original at Associated Content
• Thu, Oct 8
By Phil Dotree Here's a look at how to choose and use an external microphone with your iPod Touch or an iPhone. Contributor: Phil Dotree Published: Oct 08, 2009
How To: iPhones Without AT&T
Original at PC Magazine
• Wed, Oct 7
Want a WiMAX iPhone? A Verizon iPhone? We show you how to transform your iPod touch into an "iPhone".
Patch: What do you think of AT&T iPhone MMS Service?
Original at Phones Review
• Thu, Oct 1
By Sharon We’ve waited for it and now it is here, AT&T’s iPhone now has the capability to send multimedia messages to another phone number. The update has only just gone live, and already we have news of a successfully sent MMS on CNET’s iPhone 3G. And also we’ve had confirmation that photo’s have b...
Will Orange spark an iPhone price war?
Original at EducationGuardian.co.uk
• Mon, Sep 28
By Richard Wray In other countries where Apple has released the iPhone to more than one network, its partners have not had to sign away some of the ongoing revenues they make from customers so it is unlikely that O2 is being kept to its original terms. Part of the reason for the change in tack at the California...
iPhone 101: How to Maximize iPhone Battery Performance
Original at The iPhone
• Mon, Sep 21
By Jeremy Sikora The battery in an iPhone is a lithium-based battery which is most common in consumer portable devices. A lithium-ion battery provides 300-500 discharge/charge cycles in its lifetime and the following tips are just a few ways to efficiently gain longer battery lifespans while extendin...
Opinion: Everything You Wanted to Know About iPhone 3.1 But Were Afraid To Ask
Original at Wired
• Fri, Sep 11
By Brian X. Chen Amid the flurry of announcements Apple made Wednesday, the company quietly released the latest version of its iPhone operating system. And as is often the case with iPhone updates, Steve Jobs giveth some new features and Steve Jobs taketh away others. Easy iPhone App Sorting With iTunes 9
How to FREE convert HD (DV, TS, M2TS, MOD) video to iPhone 3G on Mac OS X
Original at iPhone
• Sun, Aug 16
By isurf Most humans who own an iPhone 3G apperceive they can watch HD videos but they may not apperceive how to exactly. So the afterward tutorial is committed to allowance you apprentice how to watch multiform video formats on your cast new iPhone 3G. First, let’s yield an attending at the video/au...
Review: Navigon App for iPhone Hits Bumps
Original at Top Tech News
• Tue, Aug 11
Many applications on the iPhone take advantage of knowing where you are. But despite GPS (and other location-based technologies), it's only relatively recently that apps have appeared on the iPhone that promise to turn it into a true car navigation system. Meaning turn-by-turn directi...
6 Reasons to Jailbreak Your iPhoneOriginal at Wired
• Fri, Aug 7
By Brian X. Chen Thanks to Cydia, an unauthorized app store open to jailbroken iPhones, consumers can still access some software that Apple won’t allow. Think free text-messaging and cheap international calls thanks to a Google Voice app that Apple banned. Or features that we can’t have yet, such as mult...
Engadget Podcast 158 - 08.07.2009Original at Engadget
• Fri, Aug 7
By Trent Wolbe The gang's all here, folks! Yes, it's been a rough couple weeks apart, but Josh, Paul, and Nilay have finally managed to reunite, and Engadget Podcast 158 is the happy result. Join the boys as they take Apple to task for its recent App Store shenanigans and the dismissal of Eric Schmidt from t...
Patch: Apple's iPhoneware update snuffs tethering hack
Original at Register
• Wed, Jul 15
Adds obey AT&T code Apple released its iPhone Software 3.1 beta 2 on Tuesday, and today, the web is alive with reports that the release has disabled a hack that allowed fanbois to use the iPhone 3G and 3GS as wireless broadband modems for laptops and PCs.…
Video: How To Jailbreak IPhone 3GS with Purplera1n
Original at Phones Review
• Mon, Jul 6
By James Now here’s an interesting video for our iPhone 3GS toting readers, a video showing you how to jailbreak the iPhone 3GS on Windows, and is only for the new iPhone 3GS with iPhone OS 3.0 firmware. The Jailbreaker says he will have a Mac version tutorial video soon so we’ll keep our eyes open for th...
Podcast: 3G S application that Apple forgot to mention: dog whistle
Original at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
• Mon, Jun 22
By Casey Johnston A call to Apple's tech support revealed they had no previous knowledge of this issue. They directed me to do a hard reset (holding down the Home button + the Sleep button for ten seconds) but the sound remained. The representative speculated it was a hardware issue, and recommended I take the...
iPhone 3.0 software download patches: Fixes 46 Security Flaws
Original at Phones Review
• Fri, Jun 19
By Sharon Apart from the awaited security updates, the iPhone 3.0 includes lots of new features. The iPhone review explains how the 3.0 update will totally transform your iPhone with a new cut-and-paste function, MMS, Autofill login a fantastic clear widescreen keyboard. And in the near future deve...
How To Get A Free iPhone/iPod Touch App Store (Free Paid Apps/No Computer)Original at YouTube
• Fri, May 15
By rss@youtube.com (BrentLarryproduction) Author: BrentLarryproduction Keywords: how to get free iphone ipod touch gen jailbreak app store apps no computer paid the easy way Added: May 15, 2009
How to get a customized changing wallpaper for the iPhone & iPhone 3GOriginal at YouTube
• Tue, Feb 24
By rss@youtube.com (THAFLip101) Author: THAFLip101 Keywords: How to get customized changing wallpaper ssh iPhone 3G tunnel suite cydia funny jailbreak THAFLiP101 Added: February 24, 2009
Review: iPhone 3G Hardware
Original at The iPhone
• Mon, Jul 14
By Dieter Bohn Part two will focus on iPhone 2.0 software, where a lot of the real magic this week is happening and it’s available on both versions of the iPhone. That review is coming soon, for now, let’s take a look at the iPhone 3G hardware with (much) more depth than we gave you in our iPhone 3G unboxing vid...