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CrackBerry addicts will be able to get their fix in a major way with Research In Motion's upcoming BlackBerry Bold 9000, and the company knows that the iPhone is the big boy to beat. With that in mind, it's 3G-ready,...
POSTED Monday, May 12, 2008
Looks like our parent company NBC has brushed aside iTunes for its online iPhone viewing, and gone directly to the people. If you navigate to NBC.com on your iPhone’s Safari browser, you can now watch full episodes of 30...
POSTED Thursday, May 8, 2008
Canadians have been shut out of the whole iPhone movement (some might say that's a relief) since no service provider in the Great White North had stepped up to make the phone work on their network. That's all changed...
POSTED Tuesday, April 29, 2008
The problem with most iPhone cases is that, by and large, they have to keep the screen clear so you can use it. A touchscreen isn't much good with something blocking it, after all. But that's not the case with...
POSTED Friday, April 11, 2008
Has your iPhone been dropping calls on you? Not giving you the number of bars you were hoping for when you picked it up? Well, don't return it! No, you don't want to do that. Instead, get an ugly case...
POSTED Friday, April 4, 2008
As Apple continues to delay the rollout of the iPhone in Asia, the area's largest players are hard at work making sure Steve Jobs' crown jewel will never gain a firm foothold in the East. The latest candidate capable of...
POSTED Saturday, March 29, 2008
When you’re not docking your iPhone or iPod into this iTam Tam, it looks like you can just dock your butt on it. But wait just a second. While it looks a bit like a stool, it’s not for...
POSTED Friday, March 28, 2008
One of the biggest selling points of the iPhone is the sweet multitouch screen that lets you use your fingers to do any number of things. So it seems kind of odd to me that anyone would want a stylus...
POSTED Thursday, March 20, 2008
Gameloft plans to expand its mobile gaming service to iPhone owners when Apple's App Store launches this June. Gameloft puts out a lot of simple arcade puzzle game clones, but is also responsible for some pretty well-received ports of big...
POSTED Monday, March 10, 2008
Apple's long anticipated Software Development Kit (SDK) has spawned a bunch of nifty ideas for third party iPhone applications, but inevitably we are now seeing a few whacko ideas popping up. My favorite so far is Box Fab's 3D...
POSTED Monday, March 10, 2008
Yesterday Apple introduced its iPhone software development kit (SDK), and we at DVICE had a lot to say about it: Charlie White imagined 14 new applications for the phone, while Kevin Hall devised plans that would bring six of...
POSTED Sunday, March 9, 2008
With the unveiling of the iPhone's software development kit, it turns out the iPhone may be a serious handheld contender in the mobile gaming market on top of being a smart phone killer. We're not just talking Pong and Tetris,...
POSTED Friday, March 7, 2008
Attention all technology companies: you have three months to get your act together. Start pedaling now because in June Apple may steal your business. Why all tech companies? Because Apple's software development kit (SDK) announcement today revealed the real...
POSTED Thursday, March 6, 2008
It feels like the world just changed. Apple opened up its iPhone and iPod Touch platforms to developers, and putting muscle behind them is $100 million from Silicon Valley moneybags Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Beyers. With that kind of cash...
POSTED Thursday, March 6, 2008
Apple opened up the iPhone and iPod Touch for a wealth of new applications today. In a press conference at its Cupertino, California headquarters, CEO Steve Jobs revealed details about a software development kit (SDK) that will finally allow...
POSTED Thursday, March 6, 2008
Dear Vonage, I've been meaning to tell you this for over a year, but I just couldn't bring myself to do it. I mean, you've been such a cheap date, costing me about $19 per month compared to those...
POSTED Friday, February 15, 2008
The Apple iPhone is 202 days old, and that means we've had plenty of time to really live with it. Tuesday's firmware update added some welcome new features, but the coveted iPhone still isn't perfect. If you're thinking maybe...
POSTED Thursday, January 17, 2008
It's an iPhone belt clip with a swivel clip. It's an iPhone add-on rechargeable battery that supplies 20 hours of talk time. It's an iPhone add-on small speaker system. It's an iPhone camera flash/flashlight. It's an iPhone earbud cord...
POSTED Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Instead of fumbling around for both earbuds and the iPod charging cable, here's a clever combination of the two from a company called Taylor Tech. The thing plugs into the iPod/iPhone 30-pin connector. When you get home, the earbud...
POSTED Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Sure most Macs come with built-in web cams, but not all do (think Mac Mini, for example). Now, instead of purchasing expensive webcam peripherals, cameraless Mac users can use their expensive iPhones as webcams. The twins over at Mac...
POSTED Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Belkin's introduced a new iPod and iPhone to car radio broadcaster, this time taking the guessing out of the channel-surfing equation. The Tunebase FM has something the company calls ClearScan technology: push one button and the dock will troll...
POSTED Thursday, January 10, 2008
Meet the i.Dream, a funny looking iPod dock whose lights even a company spokesman couldn't quite explain. The sound is pretty typical for its $130 price tag, so you should only pick it up if this design speaks to...
POSTED Thursday, January 10, 2008
Let's face facts. Apple's iPhone earbuds are less than mediocre. There are some higher quality alternatives, but I'd rather use my own custom made Ultimate Ears. Monster has answered my iPhone audiophile prayers with their $20 iSoniTalk. Its jack...
POSTED Thursday, January 10, 2008
Whenever I see a portable speaker the size of the iMainGo 2, I brace myself for a tinny, garbled sound experience. But this one surprised me, and its two titanium speakers put out a reasonably balanced and pleasant sound...
POSTED Monday, January 7, 2008
Even though the iPhone has been out for a while, it as taken time for all the new docking stations to come out of the woodwork to join the ranks of docks past to part users with their money....
POSTED Monday, January 7, 2008
Scosche makes two of these cases: one for the iPhone and one for the iPod Touch. Don't think they're interchangeable, though — as you can see in the pic, the one for the iPhone has that little hole for...
POSTED Saturday, January 5, 2008
The Morphie Juice Pack promises to double the life of your iPhone's battery, and thankfully it comes in the form of a stylish sleeve rather than a bulky power brick. It uses the same charger your iPhone or iPod...
POSTED Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Can you imagine a world before the iPhone? It's difficult, isn't it? But there was a time earlier in the year when instead of reviewing the iPhone, we were making predictions about it. In April I wrote a column...
POSTED Thursday, December 27, 2007
One of the big selling points about the new Zune 2 portable media player from Microsoft was that you could sync it with your computer using WiFi. That means you could just walk in your house, and as soon...
POSTED Wednesday, December 5, 2007
If you were looking for a reason to hold off on buying an iPhone until next year, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson just gave you one. That's because when asked whether or not a 3G iPhone was in the pipeline, he...
POSTED Thursday, November 29, 2007
CES has a weird taste for what is innovative, like this speaker lamp, and occasionally gadgets that don't exist. This year one of our favorites of CES's "favorites" was Vestalife's Ladybug speaker dock. It's a portable set of speakers...
POSTED Tuesday, November 20, 2007
It looks like an Apple and works like an Apple, but this isn't your ordinary iPhone. Designed by Tobias Wong, CITIZEN:Citizen's ccPhone is a limited edition iPhone with a matte black finish and a few extra additions to sweeten...
POSTED Wednesday, October 31, 2007
If you want to make your iPhone feel more yours, and I don't mean by just hacking it, you could take a page from Mark Hoekstra's book. He modified his iPhone to be all black, super slick, and sporting...
POSTED Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Have you ever been to one of those homes where all of the living room furniture is wrapped in neatly fitted clear plastic slipcovers? The designer of the Matias iPhone Armor must have grown up in a home like...
POSTED Wednesday, October 24, 2007
The mess surrounding the iPhone, more specifically, third party applications that aren't web-based is finally over. Steve Jobs announced today that Apple is working on a software development kit (SDK) for the iPhone and iPod Touch that will be ready...
POSTED Wednesday, October 17, 2007
That's Technology. Those two words by Steve Jobs were the equivalent of throwing gas on the fire that had already been ignited by the $200 price cut of the Apple iPhone. While Jobs was attempting to explain the sudden...
POSTED Thursday, September 20, 2007
Audiophile iPhone owners, rejoice. You can chuck Apple's awful included earbuds now that the first iPhone-compatible earphones with an in-line microphone and controls are starting to arrive from headphone manufacturers. Up first: the new Altec Lansing UHS-306 ($90). Like...
POSTED Thursday, September 20, 2007
My poker buddy Seiji bought an iPhone an hour after I bought mine on June 29th. But instead of kibitzing for 13 hours in line with a couple of thousand other nincompoops at Apple's Fifth Avenue showcase store in...
POSTED Thursday, September 6, 2007
Although Japanese Mac fans have been patiently biding their time until the iPhone comes to Asia in 2008, one of the country's top cell-phone makers isn't waiting to get it's head taken off by Steve Jobs. Docomo has unveiled...
POSTED Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Didn't you hear? Apple unleashed an entirely new lineup of iPods today. But that's not all! Here's a rundown of some of the smaller news items you might have missed in the product explosion:Ringtones on the iPhone: for an...
POSTED Wednesday, September 5, 2007
The iPhone's influence is more than apparent on Samsung's latest MP3 player. From the sleek touchscreen to the icon-based menu to its overall size, the Yepp YP-P3 is definitely an imitator, not an innovator. But that's OK — the...
POSTED Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Ever since the iPhone was released, legions of hackers and tinkerers have been racing to see who could unlock and modify the much-hyped device first. Well, it looks like someone might have gotten the somewhat-coveted prize, as the ability...
POSTED Monday, August 13, 2007
Are you exhausted by the barrage of iPhone stories out there? Even complaining about them has become cliché. There just aren't many other new gadgets to write about in July (like TV pilots, most gadgets launch in the fall)....
POSTED Sunday, July 22, 2007
The problem with the iPhone and iPod being so insanely popular is that they aren't just popular with tech lovers, they're popular with thieves as well. The expensive little gadgets are everywhere, and those white earbuds are just begging...
POSTED Friday, July 20, 2007
Are iPhones already too ubiquitous for you? Do you not feel special and unique anymore? Well, that's a shame. It's the whole reason you dropped $600 on a phone, after all. But don't worry: there are ways to make...
POSTED Friday, July 20, 2007
Ever since Steve Jobs announced the coming of the God Phone in January, industry analysts started taking bets on which cell-phone manufacturer would meet the Apple challenge first. My money has been on Samsung, the new electronics leader in...
POSTED Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Belkin stopped by New York yesterday to show off its latest new toys, including a pretty cool router and a sweet USB hub as well as some iPhone accessories, shown in the picture above. Notice the empty space in...
POSTED Thursday, July 12, 2007
Last week, I told you I'd let you know if waiting 13 hours in line for an iPhone was worth it. Yes. Oui. Affirmative. Si. Uh huh. Yup. Ja. You betcha by golly. D'UH! Is wicked cool still an...
POSTED Sunday, July 8, 2007
The scene: iPhone Day. I was near the end of a 13-hour wait. At around 5 p.m., 12 hours into my iPhone vigil, friendly security guards moved the line east down 58th Street then north onto Fifth Avenue into...
POSTED Thursday, July 5, 2007
Few gadgets in history, if any, have commanded the attention that the Apple iPhone has. Lineups that began almost a week in advance, major media outlets upset over getting snubbed by Apple, people who got advance units becoming 5-minute...
POSTED Sunday, July 1, 2007
It is done. I have descended into the bowels of the Apple Store and, fighting my way through preternaturally joyous black T-shirted Apple drones lining the store's entry like the Munchkins lining the yellow brick road high-fiving incoming and...
POSTED Friday, June 29, 2007
If you're going to be one of the first people to get an iPhone, you're automatically resigning yourself to a nonstop cavalcade of attention, with friends, colleagues and complete strangers coming up to you and asking excitedly — and probably...
POSTED Friday, June 29, 2007
Who takes an entire day and dedicates it to standing in the summer sun on a NYC sidewalk in the name of getting a fancy new phone? That's the question I set out to answer, picking an Apple fan at...
POSTED Friday, June 29, 2007
Bzzzzzz! No, that's not the buzz of all us nuts on line waiting to buy a $600 cell phone (yes, the 4-GB iPhone is $500, but a quick poll reveals that everyone is willing to spend the extra $100...
POSTED Friday, June 29, 2007
Think you know your iPhone? Or did you just think that giant lineup was for John Mayer tickets? While you wait for the seconds to tick by until this year's It gadget goes on sale at 6 p.m., you...
POSTED Friday, June 29, 2007
Maybe you're waiting in line right now. Maybe you're there, outside an Apple or AT&T store, psyching yourself up for that fine piece of touchscreen goodness that you're going to hold in your hands sometime a little after 6...
POSTED Friday, June 29, 2007
Good 'ol American capitalism. A sharpie a couple seats down from me sold his spot in line for $250. He had come with his cousins to keep them company with no intention of buying an iPhone. Sensing an opportunity,...
POSTED Friday, June 29, 2007
Oh, hyped up product launches. Nothing brings out the strangest geeks around better than you. And the iPhone is no exception to the trend started by next-gen gaming consoles. I was up at the 5th ave Apple store both...
POSTED Friday, June 29, 2007
Were you worried that you might have to dilute the Appleness of your iPhone be pairing it with a Bluetooth headset from Jabra or Sony Ericsson or some other heathen third-party manufacturer? You can chill out, because Apple has unveiled...
POSTED Friday, June 29, 2007
Just as scripture… er, Steve Jobs' Macworld keynote predicted, the iPhone is about to go on sale, pretty much right on time. Which is really a story in and of itself — how many product launches this major actually...
POSTED Friday, June 29, 2007
I'm an idiot. It's about 5:15am and I have a nearly 13-hour wait before the iPhone goes on sale at the Apple Store beneath the crystal cube at Grand Army Plaza in New York City. The sky is a...
POSTED Friday, June 29, 2007
Apple is working its way up to the iPhone launch by dropping little nuggets of updates on the super-hyped device. First it was a new screen and increased battery life, now it's YouTube functionality. Pretty sweet, right? Well, sort...
POSTED Wednesday, June 20, 2007
With the launch a mere 11 days away, iPhone fever is reaching frenzied levels. Adding fuel to the fire is Apple, who just announced that the iPhone will be getting a nice glass screen as opposed to the plastic...
POSTED Monday, June 18, 2007
The iPhone is coming! The iPhone is coming! Yes, the phone that everyone's been awaiting anxiously since January is imminent, and the release date was just made official. Mark your calendars: June 29th is the day the phone hits....
POSTED Monday, June 4, 2007
The iPod lovers down in the iLounge yesterday released the third edition of their iPod book, with 116 pages of Apple-accessory goodness. Most notable are the multiple pages of iPhone accessories. They're the first of their kind, and they...
POSTED Friday, June 1, 2007
Proving that even monolithic companies can occasionally have a sense of humor, Microsoft spoofed the iPhone but good the other day, announcing its own foray into the mobile phone market, the oFone. Featuring three "wings" that pivot around a...
POSTED Wednesday, May 9, 2007
The press loves to talk about Apple. The cynics chalk it up to Steve Jobs's public relations savvy, while some journalists might counter that Apple products are unique, influential and iconic. With the iPod, Apple swept through and dominated...
POSTED Thursday, April 26, 2007
Sure, this might look eerily similar to the Apple iPhone, but it's got a couple of tricks up its sleeve to differentiate itself from that upcoming 300-pound gorilla. Namely, it's got a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. This should please people...
POSTED Thursday, February 8, 2007
Does this phone look familiar? It looks like something else, but I just can't put my finger on it — oh! Now I see! It looks almost exactly like the overhyped Apple iPhone coming later this year! Well, what's...
POSTED Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Each week Adam Frucci takes a closer look at the latest gadget buzz in his column, Shift. Image by Falon The iPhone looks pretty sweet. Yep, it's got that fancy touchscreen that you can use two fingers on, it changes...
POSTED Thursday, January 25, 2007
The rumors are true. Yes, there will be an iPhone this year. And, yes, it will be called iPhone, despite reports to the contrary. It comes in 4-GB ($499) and 8-GB ($599) models. The iPod interface looks pretty great....
POSTED Tuesday, January 9, 2007
I've got some bad news for all you Apple fanboys out there: the iPhone was announced today, and it's certainly a huge disappointment. The number one reason it's such a letdown? It wasn't made by Apple. Yeah, those sneaky...
POSTED Monday, December 18, 2006
Kevin Rose, Digg founder, possible millionaire, and star of this controversial BusinessWeek cover story, dished some supposedly top-secret specs about Apple's rumored upcoming "iPhone" on his weekly podcast, Diggnation. Not trusting the wacky summaries making their way through the...
POSTED Monday, December 4, 2006
Apple has juiced up both their iMacs and Mac Minis today, adding a 24-inch model and Intel Core 2 Duos to the former and Intel Core Duos to the latter. The iMacs, Apple's all-in-one computer and monitor setup, have...
POSTED Wednesday, September 6, 2006
Say hello to the iPhone — that's the word from Morgan Stanley analysts who claim an iPod phone is in the works. According to the recent report, Apple is developing "an iPod with phone functions," a departure from Motorola's iTunes...
POSTED Monday, March 20, 2006
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