The thing we love about rumors is also the thing we hate about them. They change every day. This has been truer nowhere else than in the Verizon iPhone hoopla. It's truly the story that just won't find a resolution and here we are.
Computer World has a lengthy update about the possibility and state of the 2011 Verizon iPhone. It isn't happening. If it is going to happen it will not be until the carrier gets their 4G network up and running...
I remember when I proposed to my fiancee almost a year ago. I was nowhere near as creative as Chad was by making this awesome geeky video.
Using the iPhone and iPhone apps only, Chad came up with this video that he managed to get played at his local movie theater, which happened to be the place where he and his fiancee Vy got their first dates. The video started playing and she apparently knew right away what was going on. The rest is history...
You have to love the mind of the opportunist. Always lurking in the weeds just waiting to strike the opportunity at the chance of making some money. That's exactly what's going on over in Britain.
9 to 5 Mac reports that the folks across the pond are lining up to buy brand new iPhone 4s and then sell them back to China (where they are made), unlocked at a higher price. The same thing is happening in New York where the New York Times is quoted saying the following about the "grey" market back and forth:
Ladies and gentlemen, please let me introduce you to the HiPhone 4G... A Chinese knockoff never looked that good! Starting at about $100, the HiPhone 4G is probably as close as you will get to an actual iPhone, while saving you a few hundred bucks in the process.
Wifi, dual SIM, TV, FM radio, dual camera, this thing is the real deal. Not only the hardware looks similar but they also replicated the iPhone iOS (in a much worse way though). Check out the pictures below...
About 4 months ago, Apple made the headlines for surpassing Microsoft in terms of market value. Today, Apple is making the headlines again, this time for becoming the world's second largest company by market value.
Apple's stock went as high as $292.76 today, passing PetroChina to become the second largest stock in the world, right behind Exxon Mobil...
Take that Consumer Reports! The iPhone might not have been good enough for you, but it seems to be for JD Power who rated Apple and the iPhone #1 in their 2010 smartphone customer satisfaction study.
For the fourth consecutive year, Apple ranks highest in customer satisfaction among smartphone makers with a score of 800 out of 1,000 points. The iPhone performs particularly well in ease of operation, operating system, features and physical design...
With the release of iOS 4.1 came Game Center, Apple's mobile and social gaming platform. Unfortunately for iPhone 3G owners, Apple decided not to include Game Center on the iPhone 3G. Why did they do that? Probably to prepare iPhone 3G users to the fact that they won't get support from Apple anymore when the next iPhone comes out in 2011.
This being said, I was tipped about Game Center running on an iPhone 3G, and while the results are kinda mixed, it works for sure. Proof is a YouTube video made by Taimur showing Game Center running (a little slow) on a 3G. So how do you get Game Center on an iPhone 3G?
I thought when Apple announced they were loosening up their restrictions as far as the App Store was concerned, that life things would snap in the other direction as far as the relationship with Adobe went. Turns out wounds don't heal at the drop of a few guidelines.
While it is certainly better, 9 to 5 Mac reports that an Adobe CEO calls the effect that Apple's new stance has had is "muted". It didn't stop there though. The entire conversation has Shantanu Narayen talking about anything except the iPhone or Apple as a whole...
I have always suspected that it wouldn't be long until our smartphones would replace our wallets. The ability to scan your iPhone to pay for groceries, postage and subway rides would make life much easier, right?
Well the New York City G Train has enabled their systems with payWave. Cult of Mac reports payWave lets your scan your iPhone in front of a kiosk in the transit station that allows users to bypass the metro card and such when you're paying for your subway ride...
LSRotator is a new jailbreak app in Cydia that lets you rotate your iPhone lockscreen. Just like it works on your iPad, this tweak lets your iPhone lockscreen rotate according to your device orientation.
If you liked SBRotator, then this app will be a nice addition and will let you use your iPhone in landscape mode on the lockscreen too...
This is not the complete title I wanted to use for this post. I wanted to say something like "Sn0wBreeze is Out - Who Cares?" but I thought it would have been insulting to iH8Sn0w who probably spent hours working on this new jailbreak.
I've never been a big fan of non-official jailbreaks (and by this I mean not endorsed by the Dev Team) because they come with tons of restrictions, and in the end very few people can actually use the jailbreak. So what's up with Sn0wBreeze?
I just read an article on the Kaspersky Blog [via Ars] about new sites popping up everywhere online and offering fake downloads of GreenPois0n containing trojans.
A quick search for "greenpois0n tool" on Google might lead you to torrents or websites that would likely put your computer at risk...