The new Cubit iPhone case for iPhone 4/4S from X-doria allows users to design their own case. The case, which comes in black or white, is made from shatterproof polycarbonate. There are 40 equal size square openings and 42 soft rubber cubes that can be mixed and matched to create designs. The designs can be changed…
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Trautschold & Ritchie’s iPhone 4S Book Covers Everything
At 632 pages, the new iPhone 4S manual, iPhone 4S Made Simple, by Martin Trautschold and Rene Ritchie, with Gary Mazo, is a serious guide for iPhone users, whether beginners or advanced. iPhone 4S Made SimpleThe book, published by Apress, December 21, 2011, is available in softcover at US$29.99 and as an eBook at US$20.99. Both…
Poldera’s iKeep Holds Your iPhone Close
At Macworld yesterday I was introduced to a brand new product from a brand new company. The product is called iKeep and the company is Poldera LLC. They are in the process of testing and releasing several products, but the iKeep caught my eye because of it’s simple, functional concept. It provides a way to keep…
An iPhone and Words With Friends Saved a Man’s Life
Three months ago, during a session of the game between Beth Legler and Georgie Fletcher, Mrs. Fletcher mentioned that her husband was feeling ill. As Mrs. Legler’s husband is a doctor, she asked Mrs. Fletcher to describe her husband’s symptoms via the chat feature of the game. Upon reading the symptoms, Mr. Legler insisted that…
iPhone 4S: Optrix’s HD Sport Case Is The Ticket For Sports
Extreme sports enthusiast’s are a breed of their own and the ability to film their sports activity as it happens is something they enjoy doing. Optrix has created a case for the iPod touch and the iPhone 4/4S that allows them to do just that, taking advantage of the advanced video capabilities of both Apple products.…
iPhone 4S: Case Mate’s Barely There Case is Sleek
The Barely There case for iPhone 4 and 4S by Case·Mate is constructed from a hard plastic and contains a brushed aluminum inlay. It is very thin, yet very strong. The case package features an image of the case being hit with a hammer. It’s available in black or silver. The design is form fitting…
Broken iPhone 911 Call: I’m Just Not Very Smart (Video)
The CNN video below is from an Anderson Cooper RidicuList report where he played excerpts from the tapes. Mr. Skopec started by stating that his iPhone wasn’t working, but that he didn’t need police, fire, or ambulance assistance. Subsequent calls got no further. He refused to give his address, except for the one time he…
Samsung’s Australian iPhone Injunction Hearing Coming in March
Samsung pushing for Australia iPhone injunction in March“The case will be fixed for a hearing for three weeks, commencing in March, 2012, with the date to be fixed on Friday,” said Judge Annabelle Bennett, according to Reuters. She isn’t imposing any restrictions on iPhone 4S sales ahead of the hearing. Apple and Samsung have been…
Hello, iPhone & Don’t Play with the Dead
iPhone 4S: Who’s Crying Now? Who’s disappointed that the next iPhone is an evolutionary 4S rather than a revolutionary 5? Indications seem to be no one. Apple issued a press release Monday — which I sure thought was some sort of holiday in the states — saying that iPhone 4S pre-orders had topped one million…
RIM on the Decline, iPhone 5 Rumors & Microsoft’s Flash Dance
RIM Shot Research in Motion announced some pretty dismal numbers late last week, and one analyst says the next iPhone is only gonna make things worse for the Canadian phone and kind-of-sort-of tablet-maker. I say “kind-of-sort-of tablet-maker” because, last quarter they were only able to ship 200,000 of their PlayBook tablets. Well, they were probably…
Dude, Where’s My iPhone?
The Streets of San Francisco… and iPhones So, San Francisco Police say — last week — that they knew nothing about an investigation into an iPhone 5 prototype lost by an employee in a bar in San Francisco. Not unlike the iPhone 4 prototype lost by an employee in a bar in Redwood City a…
iPhone Tracking Helps NZ Police Nab $17,000 in Toilet Paper
In a similar case, a truck valued at over $51,000 (US) was discovered missing. The owner activated the tracking feature on their iPhone and called police with the location where the truck was found inside a barn. An arrest was made. In another iOS-involved case, a man had his iPad stolen. He activated the MobileMe…
DA Won’t Charge Gizmodo for Stolen iPhone 4 Prototype
The situation erupted in April of 2010, two months before Apple went on to unveil the iPhone 4 at its 2010 World Wide Developers Conference. An Apple engineer had the device at a bar in Redwood City, CA, where it was then lost and found, or stolen, as the case may be, by someone the…
Developers Abandoning BlackBerry for Apple’s iPhone, iPad
“As soon as RIM brought in a touchscreen and mixed it with a thumbwheel, a keyboard and shortcut keys, it made it really difficult and expensive to develop across devices,” commented Brian Hurley, Purple Forge, one of the companies that’s backing away from RIM. “What Apple scored big on is having a touch screen and…
Sense and Sensibility Regarding Apple’s iPhone Tracking
It’s no exaggeration to say that, once again, Apple has gotten behind the public relations curve on a critical technical issue. This doesn’t happen because, from time to time, Apple slips up or because the media decides to kick some sand in Apple’s face. It happens because Apple is a large, aggressive company and these…
Senator to Apple: What’s Up with iPhone Tracking Data?
Senator Franken questions Apple’s data policies Word that the iPhone and 3G-enabled iPad track and log detailed information location data spread like wildfire on Wednesday when two security researchers released an application that overlays the information on a map. The collected data is transfered from user’s iPhones to their computer during a standard synchronization, and…
Consumer Reports Warns Readers from Verizon’s iPhone 4
Being Middle Aged First up is the fact that the device is a mid-cycle replacement. The original iPhone 4 was introduced in June 2010, following Apple’s yearly product cycle for the device. Apple is expected to introduce its successor this summer, as well, and that’s a problem for Consumer Reports. “It may be quickly replaced…
Verizon Might Dance to Apple’s iPhone Fiddle
This would mark a shift in the rumored negotiations between the two companies, as Verizon previously hadn’t wanted to pay the same stratospheric subsidies AT&T pays for each iPhone signed up on its network. The telecom has also been unhappy with the notion of leaving Apple in charge of the customer experience, as it is…
Sam’s Club to Sell Apple’s iPad & iPhone
Sam’s Club is a division of Wal-Mart, which announced earlier this week that it, too, would sell the iPad starting on October 15th. Target and Best Buy have also been announced as retail distribution points for Apple’s market-defining tablet. In September, Best Buy CEO Brian Dun waxed eloquent when he announced his company would expand…
Porn Industry Successfully Commercializes iPhone’s FaceTime
“The happy client from the United States ordered a ten minute show with Brees Kelly but was satiated enough to hang up after just over five minutes,” the company said in a statement. FaceTime is the video call platform Apple announced with iPhone 4 that allows users to speak face-to-face with the iPhone 4’s front-facing…
Particle Debris (wk. ending 8/13) Star Trek’s iPad & iPhone Hidden Features
Reader “WestCoastBob” sent me a reference to this very extensive article on all the apps that are installed on the iPad that is installed in the iCub light aircraft. If you’re into flying, you want to check it out.iCubFor those who may want to engage in a bit more speculation about the departure of Mark…
It’s Time to Make the Donuts on Your iPhone
The game features 110 levels, and players have to figure out how to use limited machinery and other options to make their donuts and ship them off to customers. Players drag their machines throughout their factories to develop an assembly line, and the company said that most levels have multiple solutions. Features: 111 levels and…
Verizon 3G Data Usage Taking Off from iPhone’s Lead
According to the company’s report that includes data from over 20,000 consumer cell phone bills from January through May, 2010, Verizon customers burned through some 428MB of wireless data on average per month, compared to 338MB per month for iPhone users.The study showed that Verizon’s heavy data users surpass iPhone users, as well. About 11…
Quick Facts from Apple’s iPhone 4 “Antennagate” Press Conference
Accordingly (links are to articles with full coverage of that topic): Customers who ordered an iPhone will be given a free case – customers who already ordered a bumper case from Apple will be given a refund iPhone 4 customers who are unsatisfied with their device can get a full refund — AT&T will cancel…