Have you ever tried to look at your screen through a pair of sunglasses, only to find yourself staring at a black or distorted display? Most mobile devices suffer from this problem, which can make them nearly unusable in broad daylight.
While product innovation and screen protectors have improved screen visibility, it's still an issue. AppleInsider is reporting that Apple has done some serious investigating, and might have a solution to the "glaring" problem...
Have you ever had an amazing idea for an iPhone application but didn't have the means to get it off the ground? Producing an iPhone app can seem like a daunting task to even the most experienced developer, so what about the folks that are just starting out?
I've been tinkering with XCode for over a year now and still can't quite make heads or tails of a lot of things. Luckily, there appears to be a few options for novices to turn ideas into apps without any programming...
You might remember a few months ago, when we covered the story of Fei Lam, this kid who had made over $130,000 selling what he claimed to be authentic white iPhone 4 conversion kits via his website. Heck, the kid even sold a kit to Steve Wozniak.
According to MacRumors, Apple filed a lawsuit against Lam and his parents yesterday, "claiming infringement and dilution of its trademarks and engaging in deceptive practices through his conversion kit sales through his website at whiteiphone4now.com."
Earlier today, Google unveiled yet another product: Google Wallet. Very simply said, Google Wallet is the result of a partnership that will allow Google to have NFC (Near Field Communication) built in most of upcoming Android devices.
For those of you who don't know, NFC is a wireless technology, which among other usages, will allow you to replace your credit card with your smartphone. Sounds awesome, doesn't it?
A couple days ago we told you about AndroidLoader, an upcoming jailbreak application that replicates the way Android lets you see all your apps on one single page. AndroidLoader is now available in Cydia for $2.99.
Looking at the comments left on our previous post about AndroidLoader, it is my understanding that you guys wouldn't find it very helpful and that it might be a bit overpriced for what it does...
Whether you're a PlayStation user or not, you've most likely heard about the problems Sony has been having maintaining its online gaming network up lately. The company has repeatedly been the target of hackers for the past couple months, and things are still not looking up for the electronics giant.
Adding insult to injury, a developer created an iPhone app that checks the status of the PSN, reporting whether it's up or down...
NowStream is a web application that was developed during this weekend's TechCrunch Hackathon by Carnegie Mellon student, and future Google intern Sohail Prasad. The web app allows you to stream torrents directly to your iPhone via Mobile Safari.
The app allows you to grab any torrent link, paste it in the web interface of the app and start streaming. There's obviously stuff happening in the background but we don't know much about it so far...
In the shadow of intuitive notification systems from Palm and other competitors, the iOS push notification system is certainly lacking. Luckily there are some great utilities for us jailbroken folks to change the look and feel of your iOS notifications.
Although tweaks like MobileNotifier look promising, they don't seem quite reliable yet to handle the daily grind. But don't worry, there's still hope to bring a revamped notification system to your current device...
I'm ashamed that I didn't notice this detail before, but props to the eagle eyed Kurt178 and Appman over at iFans for noticing the details.
When you take a look at the leaked shot of what is purportedly an iPhone 5 back plate, it appears that it was snapped with an iPhone...just not any iPhone currently in production.
The phone's reflection shows what looks to be a camera opposite from the flash, incidentally, just like the item that is being captured on camera.
Apparently, some Photoshop magic was used in order to better highlight the device in the reflection, rendering it pretty easy to spot...
Another one of these stories that fall under our newly-created FML category.
You've most likely heard about Apple's Find My iPhone app, which when installed on an iPhone or iPad, allows you to track the location of the device in the eventuality it would get stolen. In short, that's a great app that allowed many people to recover their stolen iPhones.
The problem is this app can also come back to bite you, or rather to punch you, as 27 year old iPhone owner Brent Johnson was unfortunately able to verify not too long ago...
Ever thought the glowy status bar that shows up when tethering your iPhone was kind of dull? Want to spice things up a bit? Then Tetherize may be for you, assuming you use the native tethering capability, and not a jailbreak app like MyWi or PDAnet.
Tetherize is a new jailbreak application that allows you to slightly customize the tethering status bar by adding text to it, or by stopping the glossy bar from glowing. That's all there is to this app so far, although the dev promises "loads of new styles coming up"...
While the amount of data smartphone owners used each month wasn't relevant until last June of 2010 when AT&T announced a 2GB data cap, it is now.
If you're an iPhone user that often streams video, audio and download files from the internet, you probably keep a close eye on your data usage. If you're a new iPhone owner and have no idea of how to check the amount of data you've used for your current billing cycle, its fairly simply. There are several ways to check your data usage.