Archive for the iPhone Category
Posted on February 15, 2012 by eli courey
The fully funded Kickstarter project ‘cellhelmet’ has 24 more days to go and will start production on March 10. cellhelmet is the first and only iPhone 4/4S case to insure against physical damages. Besides looking awesome and offering great protection, if your iPhone does happen to accidentally break inside of a cellhelmet, they will repair [...]
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Posted on February 13, 2012 by vincent oliver
ThinkGeek is taking pre-orders for the iCADE 8-Bitty wireless game controller for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. It looks similar to an NES game controller, but has a few extra buttons. The iCADE 8-Bitty controller cost $24.99 and is coming later this year. In addition to the 100 classic Atari favorites, numerous iOS developers have [...]
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Posted on February 10, 2012 by vincent oliver
Apple has released two new iPhone 4S television ads, “Road Trip” and “Rock God”. Both ads show the various ways to use the Siri feature on the iPhone 4S, like finding directions, locating a restaurant and sending text messages.
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Posted on February 9, 2012 by winston porter
The national Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is officially discontinuing RIM’s BlackBerry from its list of supported mobile devices. The U.S. government will supply workers with iPhones and iPads running iOS 5 and above instead. Source: The Loop
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Posted on February 8, 2012 by eli courey
Check out these awesome retro cases by Schreer Design. Retro Macintosh For those who missed out on the very first iPhone back in 1989, here’s your chance to rock a retro look on your new iPhone! This case simulates the original’s trademark vent grooves, SCSI port, ADB printer and modem ports as well as a [...]
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Posted on February 8, 2012 by eli courey
Sprint announced its holiday quarter earnings today, including some interesting information about the iPhone. Forty percent of Sprint’s 1.8 million iPhone sales in the fourth quarter were new customers. This means that around 720,000 Sprint iPhones went to new customers. Source: 9to5Mac
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Posted on February 4, 2012 by eli courey
Hands-Free Control is a cool tweak that enables a continuous listening service on your iPhone 4S to activate voice functions while in sleep mode. When you speak the keyword Siri, Voice Control will be activated without pressing or holding any buttons. Because Hands-Free Control is running continuously in the background, noticeable battery usage is to [...]
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Posted on February 4, 2012 by winston porter
During a lecture at a California school, former iPhone product marketing engineer Bob Borchers recounts how Steve Jobs motivated the first iPhone team. AppleInsider has a great article about the insight into the thought process during the early days of the iPhone’s development, and how Jobs convinced Corning to resume productions of its then-abandoned Gorilla [...]
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Posted on January 30, 2012 by kelly maddox
Investment bank Morgan Stanley believes Apple will partner with both China Mobile and China Telecom over the next year. This would make the iPhone available on all three Chinese carriers, a move that could bring sales of as many as 40 million unites in 2013. You can read the full analysis at AppleInsider.
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Posted on January 30, 2012 by eli courey
QuasiDisk is a $1.99 file manager app that just received a hidden internet tethering feature. I’m guessing Apple will pull it very soon, so you should get it quickly if you’re interested in tethering without jailbreaking or paying additional fees to your carrier. To activate the tethering feature, just follow these steps: Start QuasiDisk’s FTP [...]
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