The iPhone is a smartphone from Apple that runs the iOS mobile operating system. Between its apps, communication features, the camera, mobile internet access, and other functionalities, the iPhone has quickly become an integral part of many peoples tech lives.
Microsoft is busy trying to play catch up with Apple’s runaway success of the iPhone and App Store model. According to BusinessWeek, Microsoft is actually providing financial incentives and revenue guarantees to developers that create for their new Windows Phone 7 platform: The company is providing financial incentives ranging from free tools and test handsets … Read More
Update: The final version has been released and everyone can now download iOS 4.1. You can do this through iTunes or with links to the iOS 4.1 direct download from Apple servers. Apple has released iOS 4.1 beta firmware to developers, with SDK updates that incorporate the Game Center features. When it comes out of … Read More
All the jokes and iPhone 4 humor have finally gone mainstream. David Letterman featured the iPhone 4 on his famous ‘Top 10 List’ segment. Video is hosted below for now, but don’t be surprised if it gets pulled for copyright. Here’s the list repeated below: David Letterman’s Top 10 Signs You’ve Purchased a Bad iPhone … Read More
I just picked up the newest iPhone 4 commitment free for a friend of mine who lives outside the USA. If you don’t mind paying the higher price, anyone can buy an iPhone without a contract. Here’s what you’ll need to do: Locate and visit an Apple Store Find a sales associate Tell them you … Read More
If you want to manually copy or backup iPhone data, you will need to know the locations of the database files on your iPhone. We’ll cover where to find SMS messages, Notes, pictures, videos, call history, voicemail, address book, and the calendar, they are all located within your iPhone /private/var/mobile/Library directory. Remember, you will not … Read More
It was bound to happen sooner than later, and now iPhone 4 has been unlocked. iPhone Dev Team member planetbeing announced the following today on Twitter: Looks like I now have an unlocked iPhone 4. :) The tweet was followed up with a few pictures displaying the iPhone 4 with a carrier unlock activated (shown). … Read More
Call me old school or retro, but SNES was truly one of the greatest consoles ever made. OK, so really it wasn’t just the console, it was the games that made SNES so great, and now you can play all those awesome SNES games directly on your iPad… with a little help at least. This … Read More
If you’re in a hurry to charge your iPhone, plug it into the wall outlet. Apparently you can charge your iPhone 23% faster by using the AC power adapter when compared to charging the device through a USB port, according to testing and many firsthand reports. Anecdotally, I have experienced that charging an iPhone from … Read More
Do you want to design a case for the iPhone? No problem thanks to Apple! A new page on Apple’s developer website contains full dimensional drawings with all the measurements necessary to quickly and easily design a case for the iPad, iPhone, or iPod. There are over 25 dimensional drawings of the iPhone/iPad/iPod product line … Read More
Want to use your iPad, iPhone, or iPod as a mounted USB flash disk? No sweat, thanks to this nifty program from MacroPlant. It’s called Phone Disk, and it’s actually free to download until September 1st, so get it sooner than later. Here are the features of the app: Open, copy, and save files directly … Read More
Want to disable iPhone GPS geotagging of photos and the camera? Many users may wish to turn off geotagging on iPhone photos for privacy reasons. In case you didn’t know, the iPhone Camera defaults to storing GPS and geographic tagging information in the EXIF data of your iPhone images. If you don’t want this type … Read More
The iPhone 4 price without contract starts at $599, this applies to both the Black and White models at 16GB. The following pricing information comes directly from AT&T.
If you want to access and read the iPhone SMS backup file, you’ve come to the right place. We’ll walk you through how to access this text message file, which contains all of an iPhones text messages, SMS, MMS, and iMessages, and also show you how to read the files contents. This trick works for … Read More
iPhone 5 has been spotted, and here is the first known picture: So much for reception problems! Ok not really, but it’s pretty funny. This picture was sent to us from Flickr, and it got a good laugh. Check out more iPhone 4 reception humor here (and yes, we realize this whole reception thing is … Read More
Some users who have upgraded to iPhone OS 4.0 (iOS 4) have noted that the proximity sensor behaves differently, sometimes it’s just less sensitive, a bit slow or lagged, and other times it’s just not as responsive. In the worst case scenario, the iPhone is up to your ear and the device doesn’t detect that … Read More
If you want to know exactly where a photo was taken with an iPhone, the actual image file can often tell you that thanks to it’s embedded GPS and geolocation data. This is often referred to as Geotagging, and it’s a little known feature that is used on almost all smartphone cameras by default, including … Read More
We’ve all heard about the supposed iPhone 4 reception problems by now, so why not poke fun at the issue? Here’s a collection of some of the best iPhone 4 humor we’ve come across, have a laugh and enjoy!
Want to turn off all mobile data use on iPhone? The iPhone offers a feature that allows users to easily disable all iPhone data usage when on a cellular network. This means if you’re about to hit your bandwidth cap, you can simply toggle cellular data usage off and avoid any potential overage charges from … Read More
