Sure, there are ringback tones that let your friends listen to a song as they wait for you to pick up the phone. You can choose a particular picture or ringtone to identify your friends’ incoming calls. But, how about deciding what your friend sees and hears when you call them? With the new Monikker…
T-Mobile acquisition of SunCom approved; T-Mobile forced to allow Department of Homeland Security snooping
When Deutsche Telekom bought up VoiceStream in 2001 to bring T-Mobile USA online, the FBI and Department of Justice (DoJ) essentially forced the company to comply with regulations that would allow constant communications surveillance (presumably under the pretense of national security). Well, now that T-Mobile USA is acquiring SunCom, the merger is under renewed scrutiny…
Just when you thought the iPhone couldn’t get more coverage – iPhone is now official “American Idol” handset
Product placement is the best way to subtly (sometimes not so subtly) advertise your wares to a captive audience, and Apple really knows how to advertise. In case you haven’t gotten enough of the iPhone in the past months, you’ll be getting blasted with yet another advertising campaign during your “American Idol” broadcast. You see,…
BBC iPlayer coming to iPhone soon; Flash to hit iPhone?
Europeans always get to have all the fun. Even with the iPhone, it seems. The BBC has announced that they will be launching their iPlayer streaming TV service for the iPhone in the next few weeks. Lucky Brits will be able to watch their favorite BBC TV shows on their iPhones via the coincidentally-named iPlayer…
HTC: No Imageon video drivers, but we’ll improve video acceleration for our customers
It’s always nice to see corporate big-wigs actually putting the customer ahead of any internal-policy nonsense. HTC has apparently done an about-face regarding the poor video performance on their HTC smartphones that use Qualcomm’s MSM7500 and MSM7200 chipsets. Peter Chou, HTC’s CEO, and Dr. Florian Seiche, Vice President of HTC Europe, have both stated that…
Tether your iPhone to your Leopard machine – use iPhone EDGE data on your laptop
It may not be a fast data-connection, but your iPhone’s EDGE data service can prove invaluable if you’re stranded and in need of wireless data ASAP. Jonathan “NerveGas” Zdziarski has just released a new method to tether your iPhone to your Leopard computer (laptop). For the uninitiated, “tethering” your iPhone to your laptop allows you…
Sprint prepping $60 unlimited calling plans?
Following on the heels of the unlimited calling plan announcements from the big-dogs in the US wireless landscape, we’re hearing on the grapevine that Sprint might be planning to undercut the industry with a super low-price unlimited wireless plan. Apparently, analysts are expecting Sprint to “offer flat-rate calling plans at up to a 40 percent…
Use CoverFlow to view everything on your iPhone
Apple’s CoverFlow view is slick indeed. Paired with the iPhone’s capacitance multi-touch display, CoverFlow really shines. Well, it shines in the iPhone’s album/music browsing function and nowhere else. It’s just a shame that CoverFlow wasn’t more fully developed to work in other iPhone features – thanks, Apple. And, that’s why we love the third-party iPhone…
Submit your WiFi access point to Skyhook database – now with less headache
Skyhook’s WiFi database is a great way to increase the accuracy of your iPhone v1.1.3’s faux-GSP positional features. With WiFi range maxing out at something like 100 feet, using WiFi access points to pin-point your location is a fairly accurate method – providing that you have a WiFi AP in range. Unfortunately, Skyhook’s WiFi database…
iPhone bedtime reading – the auto-rotating conundrum
For me, bedtime usually means iPhone-time. Whether its browsing through my RSS feeds, keeping up to date with my favorite forums, or reading an eBook through Safari, the iPhone is critical to my bedroom experience (well, there are other things too). The one problem is that I usually read whilst lying on my side, and…