Todd Swarthout sent in a link from the Wall Street Journal reporting that Google’s talks with US phone carriers are expanding past the original rumored T-Mobile and they are in “advanced talks” with Verizon and Spring currently. No news on where they stand with AT&T/Cingular at the moment, but with Apple raping AT&T with the [...]
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Google Common Social Networking APIs
John Hering sent in news that Google is prepping it’s launch of OpenSocial Thursday. The interesting think here is that OpenSocial isn’t another social networking service, but instead is a common set of APIs used to develop software against any social networking site participating in the OpenSocial community. Think of this like OpenID, but instead [...]
Instant Jailbreak for iPhone & iPod Touch
Grant Gochnauer sends in some kick-ass news that the Jailbreak hacking team has released pretty much a 1-click installer for Jailbreak. NOTE: Jailbreak installs onto your iPhone and iPod Touch, adding Installer.app and unlocking the devices disk access. This allows you to install any 3rd party app you want. This may or may not be [...]
Gmail Adding IMAP Support
Holy mother-bitches… Chris Hunkele just sent in the scoop that it looks like Gmail is finally adding IMAP support. Something I’m almost certain they’ve had sitting in the wings for more than a year now, but with the release of gPhone looming, my guess this begins the beta of IMAP support while will eventually be [...]
Apple to 3rd Party Devs: We Love You
In a complete about-face, Apple now loves 3rd party developers and 3rd party apps… who would have thunk it?! John Hering sends along the scoop that Apple has officially announced (the once rumored) iPhone/iTouch SDK will be released February. Apple says the reason the SDK is taking a long time is due to the complexities [...]
Official iPhone SDK Due 2008
Grant Gochnauer sends in the scoop that an official Apple iPhone SDK could be released in January 2008 at MacWorld. The rumored hold-up was Leopard itself. Those not familiar with why this is important, is that developers have been requesting an open SDK for the iPhone since it’s release, and hackers have been breaking and [...]
Google's "gPhone" an OS Play, not Hardware
A lot of folks, including me, was under the impression that the Google Phone (gPhone) was going to be a complete-solution-play like the iPhone, with custom hardware and software coming out of Google. As NY Times reports (TIP: Install BugMeNot plugin to get around registration) the gPhone is more of an operating system or software [...]
Upcoming iPhone Update Bricks Hacked Phones
Grant Gochnauer sends in the news that if you hacked your iPhone to work on another network, or just because you are hardcore, keep in mind that the next software update from Apple will likely brick the phone (read: “kill it”). Apple’s reason? They are saving baby seals and fighting terrorism with locked iPhones, or [...]
Cell Phone Makers Agree on Plug Standard
A group of the major cell phone manufacturers (Samsung, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, LG, and Nokia) sat down and agreed upon a new standard for plugs on cell phones, it looks like they ended up agreeing on using the newly announced Micro USB standard. The only downside is that you need to go buy new accessories, [...]
iPhone 1.1.1 Feature List
Nothing amazing, some basic updates. I’m sure the full list of bug fixes and improvements is longer, but this was some of the more notable ones: Now Playing controls throughout (even when locked). I’ve complained about this before and thankfully, it’s on the way. Double clicking home screen goes to “Favorites” or “iPod” iTunes Wifi [...]
Getting your iPhone Credit
Matt Young just sent this in… you can now request your $100 in-store credit from Apple (because of the $200 price drop of the iPhone 2 months after it came out, and a lot of pissed off people). Click here to start the process of identifying your iPhone and requesting your credit.
Custom Free Ringtones for iPhone
This is a pretty slick method of creating custom ringtones out of any song for your iPhone for free. Requirements: iTunes 7.4 iPhone Steps: Find the AAC song you want to make your ringtone Rename it, using a file manager (e.g. Windows Explorer) to a .M4R extension Double-click the new M4R file, it will load [...]
Apple Give $100 Credit to iPhone Buyers
To compensate for the fact (and the online rage) that the $200 price drop of the iPhone, Jobs is saying that everyone that paid the $200 higher price will get a $100 in-store credit at any Apple store.
Google Phone (gPhone) Coming '08
Thanks to Chris Hunkele for sending this in. Looks like Google Phone is official and will be due out in ’08. The interesting fun-facts about it: Partnership between Google and HTC (T-Mo Dash, HTC Touch, etc.) Will include custom version of Google Maps + GPS Will include Google Calendar Will include Google Mail Will include [...]
Opening Email Attachments on Blackberry
I recently had trouble opening email attachments on my BlackBerry Pearl (8100) and couldn’t figure out why. After reading through a few posts online, I realized that I had excluded the BlackBerry Attachment Service from the list of apps that I was installing on the BB. Once I added that, no more problems: The reason [...]
Rumored iPhone 1.1 Update
This could all be bunk but Grant Gochnauer sent this along, potential update coming for the iPhone from Apple (Important items bolded): There will be a build in file browser like the new finder in leopard for sorting through files There will be a disk mode The reason that there currently isn’t a file browser [...]
"Playing" WoW From iPhone
I would keep the quotes pretty heavily around the “playing” part. It looks like he’s using Telekinesis to stream the video from his laptop to the iPhone. It’s a cool tech demo, but hardly looks playable. Have a look:
iPhone AT&T Rate Plans
Apple has posted the rates that AT&T will be charging for the iPhone at launch this Friday. Take a look: Individual Rates Family Rates
Stolen Phone Charges are YOUR Responsibility Say Carriers
David Bach over at Yahoo wrote a very interesting piece covering stolen cell phone charges and how the owners are getting stuck with the enormous fees. In one case a Cingular customer had her phone stolen when we went over seas and had a $26,000 bill racked up; Cingular’s response? Pay up, or file bankruptcy. [...]
Checking Product Pricing and Reviews Instantly
How cool is this… The Consumerist pointed me over to Frucall which is a mobile and online comparison service. You essentially text message the number “fru” with the bar code from the item in question, and the response you get back is a summary of the average rating of the product and it’s price online. [...]
Getting GCalSync Working on T-Mobile BlackBerry Pearl
Update #1: I notice that a lot of folks are visiting this page, especially from the GCalSync Google Group, and wanted to let you guys know that Google has added official Google Calendar/BlackBerry Calendar syncing support by way of their Sync mobile application for BlackBerry. You can read more about it here. Ok so I [...]
Samsung T509 Sync Support
Bah! So I got the Samsung T509 for my wife because it has Bluetooth support and I recently created a monster contact-list in my PDA that I wanted to transfer portions of over to her phone once she got it so she would be ready to rock and roll. As it turns out, the Bluetooth [...]
Nokia Aeon: iPhone Sexiness With RAZR-ish Form Factor
Techfresh has the scoop on this story. It looks like Nokia unveiled a concept phone called the “Aeon” recently, but have a look at this beauty: The key thing to recognize in the screenshots above is in the green version of the phone, notice how you have a “keypad” on the bottom then on the [...]
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