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Samsung Instinct, the iPhone’s Closest Competitor
On June 20th Sprint is set to announce the iPhone’s closest competitor: The Samsung Instinct. The Instinct offers the same approach to a phone device that the iPhone made popular: slapping a myriad of features into a “slab” touch-screen design but wrapping all that functionality with an intuitive design. The Instinct is bringing all the usual suspects [...]
Continue reading...True Cost of 3G iPhone: $6.66/mo More
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Gizmodo put up a 3G iPhone True Cost comparison that I found interesting, especially given the shenanigans surrounding the 3G iPhone upcoming release (pertaining to AT&T’s lockdown). It looks like when you consider the SMS fee and 3G fee, the new 3G iPhone will cost you a total of $160 more dollars in a 2 year [...]
Continue reading...Momail Announces Support for 3G iPhone and Samsung Omnia
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Momail has announced support for the upcoming 3G iPhone and Samsung Omnia releases. For the folks fuzzy on what Momail does, it more or less acts as a super mobile-mail-service in that all the receiving, delivery and sending of mail is optimized around the “mobile device” environment you are on. That includes respecting multiple sender addresses [...]
Continue reading...3G iPhone May Not Work on T-Mobile 3G Network
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Update #1: Chris Hunkele has provided an analysis at the end of the post that seems to suggest the iPhone 2.0 is fundamentally incompatible with the T-Mobile 3G network that is rolling out now, check it out. Update #2: Chris Hunkele has confirmed that the 3G iPhone will not work on the 3G T-Mobile network, see [...]
Continue reading...AT&T Cracks Down on iPhone Unlockers
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
We have covered it here before that Apple got the long… really-long end of the stick when they partnered up with AT&T for the iPhone 1. Not only were they getting full price for their devices on each sale, but also a portion of the service contract, while AT&T got the rest. It seems that with [...]
Continue reading...New iPhone Requires in-store Activation
Monday, June 9, 2008
In an effort to “lock this bitch down” AT&T seems to be done placating Apple and letting folks buy the phone, take it home and JailBreak it. It looks like the new iPhone is going to require in-store activation along with requiring more expensive AT&T standard data/voice services to function. I think the days of buying [...]
Continue reading...sipgate Brings VoIP to the iPhone
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Do you have an iPhone but wish you could make/receive VoIP calls at certain times? Good, because sipgate is bringing you just that. This is especially important for making international calls as they can sometimes be as high as $3/min and eat away at your minutes with service charges from your provider. sipgate, like Skype, [...]
Continue reading...Securely Formatting / Erasing an iPhone
Thursday, May 22, 2008
With the news getting around that pre-owned iPhones are actually shipping with previous-owner personal information on them, cops recovering data off of iPhones and word that AT&T is ramping up their pre-owned iPhone plan, learning how to correctly wipe your iPhone so all traces of personal information are gone is important. Luckily Securosis put together a [...]
Continue reading...Apple iPhone vs BlackBerry Bold
Thursday, May 22, 2008
A detailed, mostly physical comparison between the iPhone and the BlackBerry Bold. If you saw the Bold and were curious how thick, wide, tall, short, heavy it was, this is the article to read. The gist of it is that the BlackBerry Bold is a bit thicker, has almost exactly the same surface form factor and [...]
Continue reading...Edit iPhone Notes on PC Using RemoteNote
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
RemoteNote is PC software that allows you to edit and work with the Notes stored directly on your iPhone using a web-admin interface on your PC. You need to have a JailBroken iPhone or iPod Touch with firmware 1.1.3 or 1.1.4 installed though and also require a wifi connection on the phone to connect to it [...]
Continue reading...Watching Live TV on iPhone / iPod Touch
Friday, May 9, 2008
Grant Gochnauer sends in a heads up that Orb, makers of some badass media-streaming software from your PC to your mobile devices, has released Orb Live. Orb Live is an installable piece of software for Jailbroken iPhones or iPod Touches that allows you to watch media and Live TV from your Orb-enabled PC. You can watch [...]
Continue reading...iPhone Review (Part 3 of 3)
Saturday, March 8, 2008
iPhone Review, Part 1 of 3 iPhone Review, Part 2 of 3 iPhone Review, Part 3 of 3 Well we have looked at the Gripes and Praise for the iPhone, now let’s wrap this review up… {smartads} Conclusion [8 out of 10] First let’s look at why this wasn’t a 10 out of 10 to get an idea of what [...]
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008
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