May
17
Remember how Pierce Brosnan, in his role as 007 in Tomorrow Never Dies, where he drove a BMW 750iL with a Sony Ericsson handset? Well, you might not be as suave and debonair as the dashing super spy, but you too, can live out your fantasy of driving your dream car with a phone, too. [...] Read More
May
17
Olloclip has a case that supports the 3-in-1 Olloclip lens system, solving the problem of you not being able to use the clip-on photo accessory when your iPhone is in a conventional case. We got our hands on the new Olloclip Quick-Flip Case at Digital…
May
16
Mophie has unveiled its third battery case to its line for the iPhone 5, this time dubbed the Mophie Juice Pack Plus. You'll still be getting the same protective design, however the battery space has been upped for the battery drainers in the crowd, now…
May
16
Mophie has unveiled its third battery case to its line for the iPhone 5, this time dubbed the Mophie Juice Pack Plus. You'll still be getting the same protective design, however the battery space has been upped for the battery drainers in the crowd, now…
May
16
Mophie has unveiled its third battery case to its line for the iPhone 5, this time dubbed the Mophie Juice Pack Plus. You'll still be getting the same protective design, however the battery space has been upped for the battery drainers in the crowd, now…
May
15
Google has announced a redesign and new features for its Google Maps applications for Android and iOS. Several features have been shown (using a Nexus 4) during the company's Google I/O developers conference, including a new offers experience which adds…
May
15
Golf is a beast of game to get right. Even after countless hours of practice on a range and years of games on a course, you can still end up shanking a ball into someone's back garden, with little understanding of what went wrong. So anything that can…
May
15
Activision has launched an iPhone and Android app for Bungie's epic science-fiction-themed persistent world shooter Destiny
May
15
Our brains are officially damaged…by our smartphones. Take a look around a restaurant, look for the table of one, and I guarantee that you’ll see that person playing on their smartphone for fear of sitting alone and starring aimlessly. The calm mind is no more and it’s not healthy. To ween yourself off your unhealthy [...] Read More
May
14
There's a lot to be said for monkeys, particularly ones wearing shades. That's the prime reason that we downloaded Don't Steal My Banana, an app in which you need to hold a line of defence by lobbing fruits to fend off a variety of hungry mammals whom,…
May
14
BBM looks set to take on the likes of iMessage and WhatsApp by launching its own free messaging service on both iPhones and Android smartphones like the Galaxy S4
May
14
The $79 PowerSkin for iPhone 5 provides both a battery boost and a moderate amount of phone protection in a svelte package that minimizes bulk. Additionally it’s an excellent choice for those looking for a battery case that will let the iPhone 5 be synced without having to be removed. Read More
May
14
When the US' fourth-largest carrier T-Mobile finally introduced the iPhone 5, the company said it would only charge $99 down when on T-Mobile's 24 month "UnCarrier" payment plan. However, things have changed. Now, the carrier says the $99 was introductory…
May
13
The Lockitron is probably the easiest DIY solution for those looking to automate, for lack of better words, their front door’s deadbolt. It simply fits over the existing lock (on the inside) and using a motor and Bluetooth sensor, it unlocks your front door when instructed by the authorizing and accompanying iPhone app. Entering the [...] Read More
May
13
T-Mobile may have killed contracts, at least in the traditional sense, but that hasn’t absolved them from all misgivings. Today, T-Mob bumped the introductory price of the iPhone 5 from $99.99 to $149.99. At this price point the upfront savings have largely been negated. However, I should note that T-Mobile’s monthly plans are still cheaper [...] Read More
May
11
Amazon has released its new Cloud Drive Photos app for iPhone with 5GB free Cloud Drive storage
Jun
18
Buzz Player can stream movies in any format to your iPad, from anywhere
Buzz Player is an iPad (and iPhone and Android) app that lets you stream video from pretty much any device on your network. That means you can watch movies stored on a network-attached hard drive without switching on a computer. It’s pretty amazing.
There are other solutions for streaming video to the iPad. Air Video takes any file on your Mac or PC and converts it on-the-fly to an iPad-friendly format, but requires a computer to do it. Another app named FileBrowser will stream movies direct from, say, a Time Capsule, but they need to be H.264 MP4 files. This probably means you’ll have to convert the files first.
What Buzz Player does is connect directly to any SMB or FTP server. From there, you can browse the folders until you meet a movie you’d like to play. Tap it and you can choose to copy the file to your iPad, or just play it. The movies starts right away, and plays stutter free in seemingly any format.
And I mean any format. Not only will it play H.264 MP4 and WMV in a range of containers (AVI, MOV, OGG, DIVX and more), it will handle things like Sorensen, Real Video and Theora. It also supports pretty much any sound format, and allows you to connect over the local network or even via 3G using most networking protocols. Buzz Player even supports subtitles, and lets you tweak not only their appearance but to offset their timing — handy for getting things to sync up.
It’s not all great, though. The interface is ugly, unintuitive and looks more like an open-source Linux project than a polished iPad app. Once you get past this, though, it’s easy enough to use.
I also get some crashing. Every time I hit the “X” in the top left corner to back out of the current movie or section of the app, it dies. When playing movies and working with the network, though, it is stable.
You really need to read the iTunes description to see just how much this thing can do, but let me just add one more point. You can also load up the app with movies via iTunes, just like any other video player. That way, you have pretty much every possibility covered.
Buzz Player is just $4 for the iPad, $3 for the iPhone and 499 (around $6) for Android.
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Jan
10
by Sam Biddle
Tuesday is the day a lot of you have been waiting for — theiPhone 4 taken under Verizon’s big red wing. We know the announcement’s happening, but what else do we know for sure? And what about thosefloating rumors?
First, here’s what we’re sure of.
It doesn’t get much more solid than this. Verizon’s sent out invites to tech writers, and, though only through the always-nebulous “people familiar with the matter,” the Wall Street Journal has confirmed.
The odds of Apple giving Verizon anything other than a CDMA version of the same iPhone 4 AT&T has are extremely low. If a new Apple product — say, the iPhone 5 — were about to be loosed on us, you better believe it’d be Apple doing the unveiling, not Verizon. There’s also a whole host of reasons whyan LTE iPhone doesn’t make sense right now — poor coverage, battery-life murder, Apple’s early-adoption anxiety, and existing knowledge of a CDMA model’s development behind closed doors. Engadget’s alsodug up photos of an adjusted antenna design, likely made with CDMA optimization in mind.
Finally, if Apple had something shiny and exciting to debut, they’d be doing it themselves. So keep your pants on until this summer, when a new version is likely to be announced.
Now we head into slight uncertainty territory. AWSJ report — again, via “a person familiar with the matter” — says Verizon’s planning an unlimited data plan. This makes sense, as it would give Verizon a competitive edge over AT&T, which terminated its own unlimited plan in favor of capped data (except for those subscribers grandfathered in with an unlimited plan that predated the change).
The original WSJ report points to an end-of-the-month release for Verizon’s iPhone, whileBGR says sometime between Feb. 3 and 6 (based on a Verizon employee-vacation blockade during that time). Not much of a difference, either way.
All Things D, citing “sources in a position to know,” says Jobs’ appearance alongside Verizon is “likely,” unless there are “unforeseen circumstances” (a flat tire?). The significance of Jobs’ attendance, and what role he might take, of course a whole other barrel of speculation.
The elusive great white whale of mobile electronics! Could it show up tomorrow?ZD Net’s “educated guess” is that, yes, Verizon will indeed land the oft-delayed white model.
This story was written by Sam Biddle and originally appeared on Gizmodo.
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Jan
10
Apple has dropped the price of the iPhone 3GS to $49, a week after AT&T did the same. That Apple has made this official, even adding the price to the blurb on the phone’s web-page, makes this an permanent price-drop, not just a offer from a telco to boost new year sales.
The 8GB handset can be had for this price only on a new two-year contract, which means that buyers will miss out not just on the iPhone 4 but also the iPhone after that, whatever it may be called.
Apple has established a pattern of selling last year’s iPhone model for $99 in the US, and we imagine that this will continue with the iPhone 4 in the summer. This is the first time, though, that the iPhone has cost just $49, likely a side-effect of the 3GS using the almost three-year-old body-design first seen in the 3G.
Anyhow, if you’re happy to sign up for two years with AT&T, then you can now have an iPhone for the price of an iPod Shuffle. And that’s plain nuts.
iPhone 3GS [Apple]
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Jan
8
American iPhone users frustrated with AT&T’s slow data speeds and dropped calls may soon have an alternative.
Verizon yesterday sent out invitations to a Tuesday, January 11 press event in New York.
Many believe that this event will be the debut of the iPhone on Verizon.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that “a person familiar with the matter” had confirmed the Tuesday event would be the announcement of a Verizon iPhone. Earlier, the New York Times cited “people with direct knowledge of Apples plans” who said that Verizon would soon be adding the iPhone to its lineup. Both phrases typically mean that a company has delivered a controlled leak to the newspaper.
Adding credence to the codewords, Gizmodo reports that it did not receive an invitation, despite having a good relationship with Verizon — while Apple-centric blogger Jim Dalrymple, who never covers Verizon, did. Gizmodo has been excluded from every Apple press event since it published photos of the then-unreleased iPhone 4. Gizmodo’s conclusion: Apple is behind Verizon for this event.
Many iPhone users have been frustrated with AT&T, the exclusive U.S. carrier of the iPhone since its launch in 2007. The company’s network frequently drops calls (especially for iPhone users) and many users crave faster data speeds and more extensive geographic coverage. Despite adding additional infrastructure, AT&T appears to have had difficulties keeping up with the demand for the wildly popular phone. Many hope that Verizon would do a better job — or would at least offer an alternative to customers who like Apple’s phone, but don’t like AT&T.
We’ve been unable to confirm the NYT and WSJ reports independently, but the signs point strongly in one direction: Verizon is about to get the iPhone.
Maybe it will even be available in white.
An award-winning writer specializing in technology, science and business, Dylan Tweney is a senior editor at Wired.com and publisher of tinywords, the world’s smallest magazine.
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Jan
8
LAS VEGAS — Speakal has created a dock for your iOS devices in the shape of the iconic TARDIS from Doctor Who. The bottom of the box slides out like a tray, revealing a small docking station. Speakers are built into the windows, and there’s a volume knob in the back.
The company has also created an iOS app that turns your iPhone or iPod into a wireless remote control for your home theater, controlling the TV, stereo and DVD or Blu-ray player. The free app connects to the TARDIS via Bluetooth, and the commands are beamed to your various home theater devices using a small infrared emitter in the lamp at the top of the TARDIS.
It will be available this spring for around $130, and it will be slightly smaller than this demo unit (It’s actually bigger on the inside than it is on the outside).
Speakal has a few other official BBC-licensed products, including a dock shaped like Stig’s helmet from Top Gear. Your iPhone plugs into the top, which looks kind of silly, but it’s still a wicked cool piece of art.
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Jan
5
If you’re tired of speed traps and don’t have the cash to buy a high-end radar detector, Cobra Electronics has a solution that makes use of your smartphone — at a price point that isn’t too hard to swallow.
The iRadar hardware is straightforward. It’s a small, oblong device (above left) weighing less than six ounces, mountable to the windshield interior of your car without being an eyesore. It’s like any other radar detector, but more sleek and without all the annoying LEDs.
But the kicker comes in the smartphone connection. After downloading the free iRadar app from the Apple store, the iRadar hardware connects to your iPhone or iPod Touch via Bluetooth, displaying visual alerts on the phone’s screen — like, say the presence of a red light camera at an intersection, or the nearest po-po sniping at you with his laser gun at a known speed trap.
Although it’s only available for iOS devices now, Cobra will be launching the app for Android smartphone platforms in March.
As the iRadar network expands, users will eventually be able to see potentially risky areas encountered by other iRadar units on the road. That’ll give you some advance warning of a speed trap well before the radar gun actually paints your car. The device also has access to AURA, a continuously updated database of driving threats and hazards used by much of the GPS and navigation industry.
iRadar is priced at $170, and is currently available through select electronics retailers.
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