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Jan 2, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 11:53 AM ETMark/Space syncs time and energy into iPhone
Seems a little odd that a third-party developer would choose to roll out an application for syncing your Mac with your iPhone—after all, wasn't that the whole point of the iPhone in the first place? Still, that hasn't apparently deterred Mark/Space, makers of popular phone-syncing application The Missing Sync, who've...
Jan 2, 2008 - Posted by Christopher Breen at 3:02 PM ET
iPhone 1.1.3 and the update conundrum
iPhone Central's Big Cheese, Dan Moren, recently reported on leaks of a purported 1.1.3 iPhone firmware update. These leaks are based on pictures and video showing off some alleged upcoming iPhone features. Personally, the evidence look kosher to me but if you want to doubt, be my guest. I'm offering...
Jan 2, 2008 - Posted by Dan Pourhadi at 4:00 PM ET
iPhone market share looking towards the sky
The Mac isn't the only Apple product ruthlessly stomping its competition and spreading its Grey goo-like grasp on the web: Net Applications reports that the number of iPhone users browsing the 'net jumped 89% from November to December, accounting for .17% of all internet users.* Broken down by country, the...
Jan 3, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 3:04 PM ET
Jumping onto train tracks not a good idea. Even for an iPhone.
It's one of those eternal questions that means something different to each person to whom it is posed, and yet still seems to cut across all demographic lines: "what would do (oooo-ooh) for a Klondike Bar?" But Klondike Bars are so 20th century that it was only natural that this...
Jan 4, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 2:10 PM ET
French iPhone sales bring in plenty of bread
If you're a fan of carnival games like "Guess how many marble are in the jar," then you might be interested in our new game: "guess how many iPhones Orange and Apple sold in France." If you cast your mind back a ways, you may recall Orange CEO Didier Lombard...
Jan 8, 2008 - Posted by Philip Michaels at 1:06 PM ET
Are games a good fit for the iPhone?
Dan Moren, who normally leads the posting charge round these parts, is patrolling the spacious confines of the Consumer Electronics Show, keeping an eye out for any interesting iPhone developments and accessories. Judging by the news coming out of Las Vegas, it seems like phone-related announcements in general are few...
Jan 8, 2008 - Posted by Jason Snell at 9:26 PM ET
iPhone Trojan: Let's be careful out there
Macworld's Jim Dalrymple reports that the first Trojan for the iPhone has been discovered. As originally discovered by modmyifone, this Trojan only works on phones hacked to use Installer.app. So stock iPhone users are safe, but users with hacked iPhones should be vigilant. Of course, you should be vigilant...
Jan 9, 2008 - Posted by Philip Michaels at 1:14 PM ET
Gimme, gimme
Just in case Apple was unsure of what to add to any iPhone updates—software or otherwise—that it might be about to release at a certain San Francisco-based trade show, we've got a handy checklist for them. Specifically, Dan Moren went through the feature wish list we painstakingly compiled last summer...
Jan 9, 2008 - Posted by Dan Pourhadi at 4:00 PM ET
ID that mysterious tune
The beauty of jailbroken iPhones is the ability for developers to demonstrate the amazing potential of native iPhone apps, inducing the salivation of mouths throughout the techie world. And indeed, some incredible examples of mobile possibilities have already hit the interwebs, like the neat-o PlayStation emulator I wrote about before....
Jan 11, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 6:34 PM ET
BoA banks on an iPhone-specific site
It's always a pleasant surprise when a company does something helpful. This past week, while I was attending the gargantuan Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, I suddenly realized that my cash reserves had dwindled to one lonely dollar bill and a handful of change. Hoping to avoid the ridiculous...
Jan 14, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 1:25 PM ET
Apple and China say "let's call the whole thing off"
China and its population of over 1 billion are certainly an attractive market for Apple when it comes to the iPhone and the company has been in talks with the country's largest cell phone operator, China Mobile, for a few months now. At the time, there were whispers that China...
Jan 14, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 4:15 PM ET
MW08: Google updates iPhone interface
And the Macworld news onslaught is underway. Already this morning, we've gotten an announcement from Google about the new, gussied-up version of their iPhone interface. We covered the first iteration when they rolled it out back in December, but they've made some tweaks. The toolbar is, now, for example, blue—try...
Jan 14, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 4:41 PM ET
MW08: Macworld Expo booth list, straight to your iPod
Voyaging into the heart of darkness that is Moscone Center for 2008's edition of Macworld Expo? Wouldn't it be nice if you could somehow use technology to guide you to precisely the places you want to go, rather than fumbling with unwieldy paper maps? Zami has teamed up with IDG...
Jan 14, 2008 - Posted by Philip Michaels at 7:43 PM ET
Feel the burn, the iPhone-way
Not to disclose too much personal information, but I have a body built for journalism, which is a polite way of saying the folks from Muscle & Fitness won't be asking me to grace their cover anytime soon (well, unless they need a good "before" shot...). And I've been meaning...
Jan 16, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 2:40 PM ET
First look at iPhone 1.1.3
You might think, given the lack of new material at the top of this page, that nothing new was announced at Macworld. You might also be living under a rock. Hey, I make no judgments: that's just how some people roll. And rock. Have no fear, dear iPhone users, for...
Jan 16, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 7:41 PM ET
How to sing along with iPhone 1.1.3
Reader Markito has a question about the lyrics functionality that Apple added in the 1.1.3 software update. He asks:I was excited to see the display of lyrics as a new iPhone feature, but post-update, I can't seem to figure out how to do it. Can you please shed some light?We're...
Jan 17, 2008 - Posted by Jason Snell at 1:34 PM ET
San Francisco: The EDGE of madness
What happens when tens of thousands of Mac geeks, Apple fans, software developers, booth personnel, and journalists crowd into downtown San Francisco on a sunny week in January? Macworld Expo happens, yeah. But that's not what I mean. Speaking as someone who works approximately five blocks from Moscone Center (I...
Jan 17, 2008 - Posted by Jason Snell at 1:39 PM ET
Two new jailbroken iPhone apps
Correspondent Chris Barylick reports: On Wednesday, the New Zealanders as Polar Bear Farm announced two native applications for jailbroken iPhones capable of running third party applications. The programs, referred to as ShowTime and Search, allow users to capture video and search through contact information, respectively. ShowTime, which is still in...
Jan 21, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 1:01 PM ET
iPhone is finally business in front, party in back
No, I'm afraid that the long-awaited iMullet is still just a dream, but to those iPhone users who've been waiting since launch for a chance to use their business account with the handset of their dreams, that time is now. At long last, AT&T has made corporate plans available for...
Jan 21, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 5:50 PM ET
More on iPhone 1.1.3: SMS limits, two-finger typing, manual management
Last week's 1.1.3 software update to the iPhone brought a bunch of new features, which we painstakingly detailed over at the Mothership with a careful detail usually reserved for Talmudic study. But even under the magnifying lens of our scrutiny, one or two minor changes escaped our notice. Fortunately, the...
Jan 22, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 11:52 AM ET
Put yourself on the map with Skyhook for better iPhone location
Thanks to the iPhone's new self-location feature, the Zen amongst us can finally find ourselves—or a radius of where we're likely to be. But your results may vary depending on the data available for your area. If you're relying on cellphone location, it's only really handy if you've, say, been...
Jan 23, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 11:44 AM ET
The iPhone's real Halo effect
Maybe you can't play Halo on your iPhone, but that doesn't mean that they don't go together like modernist art and utter confusion. Kato, over at WITFITS has revved up an iPhone-specific way to view your Halo 3 stats online. Just pop ihalostats.com into Safari and enter the gamertag you...
Jan 23, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 12:23 PM ET
1.1.3 is ready for iPhone apps, plus bonus speed dial hack
iPhone hacker Nate True has been digging around in update 1.1.3 and he's made a couple of interesting discoveries, most of which shouldn't come as a surprise. The changes basically add up to signifying that the 1.1.3 update appears to be all ready to support applications developed with Apple's forthcoming...
Jan 24, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 3:51 PM ET
Make your iPhone zoom zoom with a 6x lens
You know, Apple clearly didn't spend any time at all on the iPhone's camera. I mean come on: no manual controls, no flash, and worst of all, no zoom lens. I mean, come on, what are we supposed to do with that? Only take pictures of things that are close...
Jan 25, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 12:01 PM ET
The terrible horrible mystery of the missing iPhones
Where oh where have all the iPhones gone? Well, according to some, they're sitting on the shelf. The central issues here resides in a disparity between the numbers of iPhones sold that Apple is reporting, and the number that AT&T has activated. As of December 29th of last year (the...
Jan 25, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 12:35 PM ET
iPhone 1.1.3 makes its breakout appearance
It was really only a matter of time before the devoted team of iphone hackers managed to crack the latest firmware from Apple. As of last night, a jailbreak solution for the iPhone's 1.1.3 software has been released for both OS X and Windows. One caveat before you begin the...
Jan 28, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 11:45 AM ET
This is how we say "iPhone sales" in Germany
A couple weeks back, Orange CEO Didier Lombard announced that Apple's French telecom partner had logged 70,000 iPhone sales in 2007. The number was pretty much in the middle of earlier estimates that ranged between 50,000 and 100,000. Now it's Germany's turn. T-Mobile's CEO Philipp Humm (pictured) said this weekend...
Jan 28, 2008 - Posted by Rob Griffiths at 2:14 PM ET
PRT Gear Full Leather Jacket iPhone case
I've got a box of a dozen or so iPhone covers to test and write about. Unfortunately, I haven't gotten to writing about any of them. Part of that is because, over the past couple months, I've been swamped with work. But there's more at fault here than just my...
Jan 29, 2008 - Posted by Dan Pourhadi at 12:25 PM ET
Review: OtterBox Armor Series for iPhone
I'm a klutz with...well, everything. If I can drop it, I will drop it, no matter what it is. I've destroyed several laptops--including my beloved 12-inch PowerBook G4--and multiple iPods because of unpreventable clumsiness, and I've come to accept the fact that I'll often have to buy a product several...
Jan 29, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 2:07 PM ET
O2 revamps rate plans; get more for less
Good news for iPhoners across the pond: you're about to get more for your money. Mobile phone operator O2, Apple's exclusive iPhone partner in the UK, announced this morning that it would be restructuring its rate plans effective February 1st, including those for iPhone customers. Subscribers to the £35/month tariff...
Jan 29, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 5:30 PM ET
"Missing" iPhones are taking over the world
The other day, we talked about everybody's favorite mystery: what happened to all those iPhones that Apple says they've sold, but which AT&T hasn't activated? The consensus seems to be that these phones are being unlocked and emigrating from the US to countries where the carriers don't yet have deals...
Jan 30, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 3:55 PM ET
Review: Incase Protective Cover for iPhone
With a name like Protective Cover for iPhone, where can you really go wrong? Well, you may need to start by putting asterisks next to "cover." Incase's offering is a $30 molded rubber case for the iPhone that has its fair share of strengths and weaknesses. Using the Protective Cover...
Jan 30, 2008 - Posted by Dan Pourhadi at 6:03 PM ET
General Patent attacks Apple...again
Patent lawsuits are more common these days than...uh, pre-approved credit card mailers. (Sorry. Looked around my desk and couldn't find anything else. And people say writing is easy. As if.) Apple is again being slapped by a "some thing that does some stuff" patent suit, this time by Minerva Industries,...
Jan 31, 2008 - Posted by Dan Moren at 4:55 PM ET
Review: OtterBox Defender for iPhone
If protection is your racket, you'll have a hard time finding better armor for your iPhone than the products that come out of OtterBox. The company has been making cases for sensitive equipment for years, specializing in products that are rugged and resilient, and the $50 OtterBox for Apple iPhone...
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