Steaming services like Pandora, Spotify, and Rdio are all the rage these days, but before those we had something called Internet radio.
All you needed was one of the many streaming radio URLs, and you could stream music, talk shows, and virtually everything in-between.
Believe it or not, Internet radio still has a huge following, as evident by WeeRadio — a Notification Center widget for iOS 5, which places your favorite Internet radio stations right at your fingertips...
After our initial use, we had a sneaking suspicion that Apple pumped up the volume on the iPhone 4S, so we figured that it would only be right to perform a test.
I happily headed over to iDB labs (my office) and put together a test that was as accurate as I could possibly pull off.
The results? Well, they speak for themselves. The iPhone 4S's speaker is much louder than the iPhone 4's, and this video proves that without a doubt...
Itching for a new way to perform Google searches? Well, sure, you could use Spotlight, but that's so 2009. iOS 5's new Notification Center is all the rage these days, and that's where StatusGoogle resides.
For a jailbreak widget, it really doesn't get any simple than this. Check out our video walkthrough inside...
Unless you've been living under a rock the past few months, you've no doubt caught wind of BBSettings, the so-called "SBSettings killer" for iOS 5's Notification Center.
True enough, it is a very beautiful widget, and its function is certainly promising, but can it take down the reigning king of all jailbreak apps?
Find out the answer to that question and more, as I go hands-on with BBSettings on video...
Which is faster? Well, obviously the iPhone 4S is faster, but you might be surprised at just how much faster.
In certain areas, namely gaming, the iPhone 4S blows the iPhone 4 out of the water. In other areas, the differences are surprisingly less discernable.
We've pitted the former heavyweight champ against the newcomer, and we've documented the results on video. Who wins? Watch and see...
AT&T has not one, but two worthy competitors ready to battle it out for iPhone 4S supremacy, and this time the playing field is far more level than it's ever been.
No longer is Verizon relegated to playing catchup, and did you hear? There's a new kid in town named Sprint.
How does the iPhone 4S match up on America's three biggest mobile providers in terms of sheer network speed? We'd thought you'd never ask. Tune in as we go head to head...to head.
Yep, we've got three iPhone 4S', running on three different networks, exposed on video...
I've always thought that Siri looked good, just not as great as Apple would want you to believe. I was a skeptic. I was a skeptic until about an hour ago when I first tried Siri for myself.
It's not perfect, but it's definitely better than any other voice recognition/control/A.I. you've ever used. It integrates commendably with the iPhone 4S, and best of all, it just works...most of the time.
Siri will, without a doubt, change the way we communicate with our devices going forward; it's like the missing link that we've needed all along.
Check inside and see what it's like to have small talk with Siri...
One of the biggest reasons to upgrade to the iPhone 4S from the iPhone 4, is for the upgraded camera.
While the iPhone 4 had a good camera, the iPhone 4S has a great camera. In fact, you might consider it so good that you decide to permanently ditch your dedicated point and shoot.
Regarding the camera, Apple has improved snapshooting, but they've also highly improved the phone's video capturing capabilities as well.
Check inside for my first test with the iPhone 4S' 1080p video capture...
After an agonizing week of waiting, my iPhone 4S finally arrived on my doorstep this morning.
I greeted the friendly UPS driver, and rushed to my office to get this puppy opened.
Join me inside as we unbox the iPhone 4S...
Just picked up your iPhone 4S? Excited? You should be.
But that excitement may be quickly quelled when you try to activate your new device.
Apparently, AT&T's servers are getting hammered, and it's causing activation to fail over, and over, and over...
As promised, the iPhone Dev Team released an update to the UltraSn0w unlock for iOS 5 today. This update allows users with unlockable basebands running iOS 5 to unlock their iPhone 3GS, or iPhone 4.
This version of UltraSn0w (1.2.4) doesn't add any new basebands to the compatibility list, but if you're running basebands 4.26.08, 05.11.07, 05.12.01, 05.13.04, or 06.15.00 on the iPhone 3GS, or baseband 01.59.00 on the iPhone 4, then you can unlock your device right now...
If you're looking to preserve your iPhone's baseband when upgrading to iOS 5 on a Windows machine, then Sn0wBreeze is your ticket to baseband freedom.
Preserving your unlockable baseband is integral to being able to unlock your phone when an updated version of UltraSn0w is released tomorrow.
Windows users, this one's for you. Check inside for the full video tutorial that shows how to preserve your baseband, while upgrading to iOS 5 using Windows...