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9 hours ago

 

Rate Review: SquareTrade iPhone Insurance

Original at The iPhone FAQ external link    9 hours ago

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By Thomas Estilow Your iPhone comes with 90 days of technical support and a one year warranty from Apple, and many users have extended this coverage to two years with AppleCare. Unfortunately, if your iPhone is dropped and damaged or accidentally gets wet, Apple will not cover the repair.

Rate Opinion: The Week In iPhone Apps: Childhood v3.0

Original at Gizmodo external link    12 hours ago

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By John Herrman • Facebook 3.0 for iPhone Adds Events and Photo Albums, But No Push (Yet) • iPhone OS 3.1 Features: Better Video Editing, Voice Control Over Bluetooth, And More • Doom Resurrection for iPhone Hits the App Store, Costs $10 • A Whole Lotta Quake Will Be Blowing Up Your iPhone

Rate Opinion: Pocket Universe ups the astronomy app ante

Original at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) external link    13 hours ago

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By Mel Martin When the fireworks stop and the smoke clears, it would be a great weekend to look at our beautiful summer skies. Pocket Universe [App Store] is a US$2.99 app that has been updated to make star finding easier for those that have a new iPhone 3GS.

This Week

 

Rate Opinion: Cruising with the AT&T Navigator

Original at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) external link    21 hours ago

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By Mel Martin GPS has come a long way, and AT&T has released their subscription based Navigator [App Store] for the iPhone. It requires OS version 3.0. It is fee based, and will set you back US$9.95 a month on your AT&T bill. It is loaded with features, and has voice guided turn by turn directions. It als...

Rate Review: 2XL Supercross for iPhone

Original at Macworld external link    Thu, Jul 2

By Tim Mercer The high-end graphics in 2XL Supercross make it one of the best-looking racing games for the iPhone and iPod touch. In fact, everything about this game is visually pleasing.

Rate Opinion: The 88 Records New Single Using Nothing But An iPhone, Available On iTunes

Original at iPhone Alley external link    Wed, Jul 1

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By Michael Johnston One of my personal favorite bands, The 88 [iTunes Store], recently recorded an entire single using nothing but an iPhone and their instruments. The app they used is called FourTrack [our review] and the song is called "Love Is the Thing" [iTunes]. We could honestly go on and on about how cool...

Rate Review: Altec Lansing BackBeat 903 wireless headphones

Original at CrunchGear external link    Wed, Jul 1

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By John Biggs The era of stereo Bluetooth is upon us. While AD2P - essentially the part of Bluetooth that enables stereo transmission of audio - has been around for years, it’s taken Apple two years to get off its duff and add it to the iPhone Bluetooth stack and, me being an iPhone LUVR, it took me [...]

Rate Phones Review quick insight to the new Apple iPhone 3GS

Original at Phones Review external link    Tue, Jun 30

By Mark The new iPhone 3G S comes with the OS 3.0 already installed which adds landscape keyboard for multiple applications, cut and paste, Spotlight search, MMS Messaging etc, but it is the new iPhone 3GS that comes with a better camera at 3 megapixels, video recording with editing, voice contro...

Rate Opinion: TUAW First Look: Cellar puts your wine collection in your pocket

Original at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) external link    Sun, Jun 28

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By Michael Rose Beverage choice should be simple: coffee or tea to rev up, wine or beer to spin down (App Store links). Of course, when it comes to drink choices, there's definitely an app for that: from the makers of espresso-instructions app Barista, we now have the $0.99 Cellar (under App Store review and...

Past Two Weeks

 

Rate Opinion: The Week In iPhone Apps: It's Never Too Early To Dance

Original at Gizmodo external link    Fri, Jun 26

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By John Herrman •iPhone 3GS's Upgraded Hardware Means Console Emulators No Longer Suck •First Apple-Approved iPhone Porn App •iPhone Remote App Now Supports Apple TV Controlling With Gestures •AT&T Wants You to Pay $10 a Month for Their iPhone GPS Navigator

Rate Opinion: WWDC Demo: Parranda for iPhone and iPod touchVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) external link    Fri, Jun 26

By Victor Agreda, Jr. Parranda has pre-set rhythms to choose from, plus vocalizations to add a little spice to the performance. Already a hit in Puerto Rico, I think Parranda has a good shot everywhere, as it's a fun little app. Perhaps a bit more than you're used to paying at $2.99, but I think it's a fair price for th...

Rate Opinion: iPhone icons all over the place in version 3.0

Original at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) external link    Fri, Jun 26

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By Mel Martin Filed under: iPhone, iPod touch But not the right place, and that's the problem. Apple support boards are seeing increasing message traffic about icons that vanish, or attach themselves to the wrong app. This seems a problem with iPhone 3.0. Older versions seem unaffected.

Rate Opinion: Farts v. Explosions: Which iPhone App was rejected from the App Store? You’d be surprised

Original at CrunchGear external link    Fri, Jun 26

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By John Biggs In conclusion, the Fracture application can’t create a confusion in its users’ mind, it’s clear enough that it’s a software, it’s a virtual photo frame glass and not the actual iPhone screen. The fracture application is following the HIG and there is then no reason that may prevent the app...

Rate Opinion: Vlingo adds voice control to older iPhones

Original at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) external link    Sat, Jun 20

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By Michael Rose Some of our readers have apparently been so dazzled by Apple's enthusiastic promotion of the new iPhone 3G S that they were fooled into believing that the hardware-linked features of the 3G S (the compass and the voice controls, specifically) would be made available on the 3G with the del...

Past Month

 

Rate Opinion: The Week In iPhone Apps: Here Come the OS 3.0 Apps

Original at Gizmodo external link    Fri, Jun 19

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By John Herrman • Sirius/XM iPhone App Is Now Live (Also) • MLB Streaming Full Live Games to iPhone Over 3G, Starting Tomorrow • TweetDeck for iPhone Lightning Review • 94 God-Awful iPhone Apps Designed in MS Paint • iPhone 3.0 Features Slightly Clueless "Objectionable Content" Warnings

Rate Review: Sirius XM for iPhone/iPod touch sans Stern

Original at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) external link    Thu, Jun 18

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By Mel Martin Filed under: iPhone, App Store, iPod touch, App Review I found the interface slow to respond at times. I often had to tap a few times to change stations. Audio quality was not ultra high fidelity, but about what you'd expect from streaming radio. I listened on Sennheiser headphones.

Rate Opinion: Hands On with iPhone 3.0's Best New Features [Screenshot Tour]

Original at Lifehacker external link    Wed, Jun 17

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By Adam Pash Camera/Photos tweaks: Your Camera and Photo apps both saw some minor but cool feature updates. Pictured, you'll see that the Camera app now sports a tiny thumbnail of the last picture you took that, when tapped, takes you to your Camera Roll. When you're sending, copying, or deleting photo...

Rate Opinion: 5 things you need to know about the iPhone 3G S

Original at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) external link    Wed, Jun 17    1 related articles

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By Michael Jones Not quite. Installing the 3.0 update will get you several of the new features, such as copy and paste, voice notes, MMS, and tethering (if your carrier supports it, anyways), but some of the features will only be available on the 3G S. Things like voice control, video editing and sharing, comp...

Rate iPhone OS 3.0 Software Review: What To ExpectVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Gizmodo external link    Wed, Jun 17

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By Mark Wilson The iPhone 3GS is Apple's current mobile flagship, but most of us using iPhone 3Gs won't be paying for the upgrade. So instead, we get the new 3.0 firmware—not such a bad deal. Stocks It's so great watching my devastated portfolio in the new landscape mode!

Rate iPhone 3GS Review

Original at Gizmodo external link    Wed, Jun 17

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By Jason Chen What's the point in buying a new iPhone if it looks exactly like the old one? Because once you start using it, the speed of the iPhone 3GS will amaze you. Our first generation iPhone review verdict was to wait. Our iPhone 3G review gave the go-ahead to finally mount up. The only issue with the iPho...

Rate Opinion: De-clutter: How I used my iPhone and Evernote to travel light

Original at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) external link    Wed, Jun 10

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By Dave Caolo This time I went nearly paper-free (I'm sticking with paper boarding passes for international flights, although iPhone scanning has been done and is now officially supported by some carriers), thanks to my iPhone and 2 applications. Here's how I did it.

Rate Opinion: 6 Steps to Building a Better iPhone App

Original at Mashable! external link    Wed, Jun 10

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By Brian LeRoux To build native iPhone apps you need to have a Mac OS X computer and obtain an Apple Developer Connection membership (which is free, but to submit to the App Store there’s a $99 fee) in order to download the latest version of Xcode and the iPhone SDK.

May of 2009

 

Rate Opinion: Stop the presses! AP News for iPhone is a mess

Original at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) external link    Wed, May 27

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By Mel Martin Frankly, if you like this update, it will be news to the rest of us.Stop the presses! AP News for iPhone is a mess originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 27 May 2009 14:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Rate Opinion: This Week In iPhone Apps: Deer Carcasses and Browser Tabs

Original at Gizmodo external link    Fri, May 22

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By John Herrman This week, we revisit some classics from your (and your grandfather's) childhood, iPhone browsing gets upgraded, and I play what it probably the best 3D multi-animal hunting game available for the iPhone. • Kindle 1.1 for iPhone Now Available

Rate Review: iPWR Backup Battery for iPhone and iPod

Original at MobileCrunch external link    Thu, Apr 30

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By Greg Kumparak 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...

Year 2009

 

Rate A secret look into the iPhone App Review Process: It’s run by eight-year-olds

Original at CrunchGear external link    Fri, Apr 24

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By John Biggs Hot on the heels of the Great iPhone Baby-Shaking App Debacle of 2009 we have another example of the crack Apple iPhone App Review Team in action. Alkali Media, a little programming shop run by three college grads, decided to make a crude soundboard and entitled it, fittingly, CrudeBox. The...

Rate Opinion: List of Must-Have Utility and System Applications

Original at Apple iPhone School external link    Fri, Apr 17

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By Brooke I decided that it is time to create a list of the all the must-have system/utility applications for the iPhone and/or iPod Touch. So, below are 16 system and utility applications that you will definitly want to check out…for more info about each one, click on their title, it links to more inf...

Rate iPhoneWorld.ca: Kindle: iPhone App Review

Original at iPhoneWorld.ca iPhone News Headlines external link    Wed, Mar 25

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By Nabil Books on iPhone: iPhone eBooks portalGoogle Books now optimized for iPhoneiPhone Manual: The iPhone BookiPhone Manual: The iPhone Pocket GuideTux Rider World Challenge: iPhone Game Review App World / iPhoneWorld.ca writes:iPhone App Review: Kindle Reviewed by: Nabil Alanbar -App...

Rate iPhoneWorld.ca: Phonesuit MiLi Power Pack: iPhone 2G/3G Backup Battery Review

Original at iPhoneWorld.ca iPhone News Headlines external link    Fri, Mar 20

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By Cyprian iPhoneSuit’s MiLi Power Pack doubles your iPhone’s battery lifeRichardSolo 1800: iPhone/iPod Backup Battery ReviewFastmac iV: iPhone Battery Pack ReviewMore Battery Power by Mophie IncMophie Juice Pack Air: slick external iPhone 3G battery coming soon App World / iPhoneWorld.ca...

Rate iPhoneWorld.ca: Belkin Eco-Conscious and Formed Leather: iPhone 3G Case Review

Original at iPhoneWorld.ca iPhone News Headlines external link    Tue, Mar 17

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By Cyprian Case Mate Signature Leather iPhone Case ReviewCase Mate Carbon Fiber Leather Case/Holster Combo Review3G iPhone cases from BelkinCapdase Classy Leather Case for iPhone ReviewGriffin Elan Form Chrome: iPhone 3G Case Review App World / iPhoneWorld.ca writes:iPhone 3G Case Review: B...

Rate Opinion: No, Economist. Apple is not a Network Innovation Company

Original at Wired News external link    Tue, Mar 10

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By Pete Mortensen Yet each product has been or could prove to be truly ground-breaking. Is it because Apple continually looked out to the world and saw a great solution in the world they could buy, brand and ship, as P&G famously did with the Crest SpinBrush? Of course not! The Microsoft Zune is a much bett...

Rate iPhoneWorld.ca: Sena MagnetFlipper: iPhone 3G Case Review

Original at iPhoneWorld.ca iPhone News Headlines external link    Sat, Mar 7

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By Cyprian Sena makes a variety of cases for a variety of different products, including the iPhone 3G. They offer 9 different cases for the iPhone 3G and were kind enough to send me their MagnetFlipper leather case. Advertisement: iPhone Forum iPhone World forum — here you can discuss this article!

Rate Opinion: Organizer - ToDo List, Notes, Appointments…Organizing Application

Original at Apple iPhone School external link    Mon, Mar 2

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By David Available In: App Store       Price: $6.99   First off, let me preface this review by saying that I am an organization freak. I spend more than enough of my day clearing my email inbox, keeping my calendar straight, and creating and checking off my list of to-do items. I feel like I have a prett...

Rate iPhone app review: FieldrunnersVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at CrunchGear external link    Tue, Feb 24

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By Scott Merrill The graphics in Fieldrunners are absolutely superb. The multi-touch support is great, too, allowing you to zoom in to or out of the game screen. The towers are all well animated, and the enemies are actually quite fun to watch. They’re well articulated.

Rate Review: Apple In-Ear Headphones with Remote and Mic

Original at The iPhone external link    Mon, Jan 12

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By Rene Ritchie No, that’s not a typo. Apple clearly lists the new In-Ear Headphones with Remote and Mic as not iPhone compatible. However, I am using it with the iPhone and it does work, except for the volume controls (which double as the skip forward/back). Hopefully this will be addressed in the next iPhon...

Rate Opinion: 20 Must Have Free Apps

Original at Apple iPhone Apps external link    Fri, Dec 26

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By Brian Fischer Let’s face it. Sometimes, you’d rather leave a voicemail. This app will connect you directly to the caller’s voicemail- no ringing involved. (This is, of course, assuming that they have a voicemail account, and not an old fashioned land-line.) You can even pretend that you’re upset they did...

Rate Opinion: Most Popular How-To Features of 2008 [Best Of 2008]

Original at Lifehacker external link    Thu, Dec 11

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By Adam Pash When the iPhone and iPod touch 2.0 software update hit devices this summer, users were thrilled that they could enjoy Apple-approved third-party apps on their hardware—but that doesn't mean they don't want to have their cake and eat it, too. Our guide to jailbreaking your iPhone running 2....

Rate Opinion: Gizmodo's 20 Essential iPhone Apps [IPhone Apps]

Original at Gizmodo external link    Fri, Nov 14

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By John Mahoney Google Earth: The same amazing Earth touring app found on the desktop, now spinnable via multi touch. Honestly if someone told me two years ago I would have a functional Google Earth app on my phone, I wouldn't have believed them. This is now.

Rate Review: CycorderVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Apple iPhone Apps external link    Sun, Aug 24

By Jeff Noble An upside-down triangle in the lower left corner is a little confusing as to what it does, but a quick touch shows that it toggles between the video screen and the video list screen. There are no other features at present. Pressing the edit button simply allows you to delete the video. You can SS...

Rate Opinion: Cut-the-Crap iPhone Headset Battlemodo [Battlemodo]

Original at Gizmodo external link    Wed, Aug 20

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By John Herrman Shure's solution to the headset problem is to sell you the earphones and microphone separately. Pairing with the fantastic SE110s will make for a fantastic combo, but the combo will set you back almost $150 total. Good thing you can use this adapter with any earphones. Voice quality is high,...

Rate Review: Marware Sportsuit Convertible Case for iPhone

Original at The iPhone external link    Sun, Jul 27

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By Casey Chan The Marware Sportsuit Convertible leaves room open for all of the iPhone’s sensors, the camera, ear speaker, and headphone jack. The belt clip works as well as any other belt clip. Most of my testing concerns the Marware Sportsuit Convertible Case as a workout Case. Usability

Rate Review: iPhone 3G Hardware

Original at The iPhone external link    Mon, Jul 14

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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...

Rate Opinion: TUAW Faceoff: Pandora vs. AOL Radio

Original at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) external link    Mon, Jul 14

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By Cory Bohon User Interface Both Pandora and AOL Radio follow a similar user interface design: they both look like the iPod feature on iPhone/iPod touch. Both of the interfaces are nice, however, I have the same gripes for both. The volume controllers in both seem to be independent of the iPhone's volum...

Rate Opinion: Downloads: Is the Nokia N95 Really Slower Than iPhone 3G? [Phone Wars]

Original at Gizmodo external link    Wed, Jun 18

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By Benny Goldman Ever since Steve Jobs showed the speedy new iPhone 3G in a browser faceoff against the Nokia N95 at WWDC, users on Howard Forums have been crying foul. They say His Steveness's test of loading the National Geographic homepage was bogus because the N95's browser uses Flash, a feature that th...

Rate Opinion: How Your Location-Aware iPhone Will Change Your Life

Original at Lifehacker external link    Thu, Jun 5

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By Adam Pash Google has already begun incorporating geotagged photos in Google Maps, giving users a more personal look at locations than the birds eye or even street views can offer. Again, jailbroken iPhone users can already install an application called iFlickr that geotags your photos as you tak...

Rate Review: iFlickr, Native App-a-Week

Original at The iPhone external link    Thu, Jun 5

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By Casey Chan Launching iFlickr opens up a Camera-like interface. At first glance, one wouldn’t notice much visual difference from the iPhone’s Camera but upon closer inspection, little details like the top status bar still being visible and the hue for the camera button is different.

Rate Opinion: Turn Your iPod Touch into an iPhone [Feature]Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Lifehacker external link    Tue, Apr 15

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By Adam Pash Now that you've got that, start up your FTP client of choice, enter the IP address as you server, and use root for your username and alpine as your password. Once connected, navigate to the Applications folder (just above the root folder). That's where your iPhone and iPod touch keep all of th...

Rate Review: Griffin's iPhone Reception Boosting ClearBoost Case

Original at Gizmodo external link    Tue, Apr 8

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By Jason Chen Here's why we think the ClearBoost works. When you're talking on your iPhone with the phone held up to your face normally, your hand is covering up the antenna on the phone—which is inconveniently designed by Apple to be located on the bottom, behind the black plastic area. The Clearboost he...

Rate Opinion: Jailbreak Any iPhone or iPod Touch in 45 Seconds [Feature]

Original at Lifehacker external link    Fri, Mar 21

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By Adam Pash Quit iTunes. (This may not be strictly necessary, but it's a good practice.) Choose the option that applies to you: iPod touch jailbreak or iPhone jailbreak. ZiPhone will cycle your device into recovery mode, perform the jailbreak, and in 45 seconds your iPhone or iPod touch will be officia...

Year 2007

 

Rate iPhone accessory mini-review and gallery: Incase Protective CoverVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) external link    Sun, Jul 1

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By David Chartier When I purchase just about any electronic gadget these days, I usually factor in the cost of at least a $20-$30 case to buy right along with it. When I went to purchase my 8GB iPhone Friday night, I considered its price to be $630, not $599; there was no way I was walking out of the Apple Store with...

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