We love seeing nature infused with high-tech gadgets like the iPhone. The iWood iPhone case was the first wooden iPhone case on the scene, but now there’s another option for anyone looking to get wood for their iPhone. Vers has just released a new line of wooden iPhone cases that start at an affordable $40!…
iTunes Gets OK from USB Forum to Block Pre Media Sync
Palm has been persistently updating its media sync capabilities to match Apple’s continued blockage in iTunes updates, but the iPhone-maker can claim a larger victory today. The USB Implementers Forum, who essentially regulate the use of USB of all kinds, have ruled that if the Palm Pre is caught pretending to be an iPhone again…
Apple approves 1,400 iPhone apps in one day, mostly crap
The flood of iPhone apps hitting the AppStore doesn’t seem to be abating anytime soon. While the likes of the BlackBerry App World and webOS App Catalog add handfuls of apps at any one time, the AppStore last Friday saw an incredible surge of 1,394 iPhone apps going live. Apple, in a single day, approved…
Apple launches AppStore Resource Center, falls on its face
iPhone developers the world over have been up in arms recently over Apple’s handling of iPhone application submissions and approvals for the AppStore. Apple has been criticized for keeping their AppStore certification process as transparent as coal and basically giving some iPhone developers the cold shoulder. So, in an attempt to right its AppStore wrongs,…
Apple looking into iPhone OS 3.1 battery drain reports
Apple’s latest iPhone OS 3.1 update was initially welcomed with open arms. The new iPhone OS promised genius mixes, phone number copy/paste, improved video editing, remote lock (via MobileMe) and better Exchange support. Alas, iPhone OS 3.1 proved to be a headache for Exchange users on older iPhone hardware (iPhone, iPhone 3G). And, there are…
iTwinge hard-keyboard makes your iPhone ugly
The iPhone’s on-screen keyboard is either crazy convenient or arduously awkward. iPhone owners that have mastered tap-typing at 40 words per minute probably have little to no complaints over having to type on a glass touchscreen. Those with less nimble fingers have likely adjusted to life with a virtual keyboard, but still curse the iPhone’s…
Google: Apple lied about rejecting Google Voice from AppStore
The latest development in the FCC investigation into the Google Voice iPhone app rejection by Apple is a juicy one. Following on Apple’s denial that the Google Voice iPhone app was explicitly rejected, Google has gone ahead and posted their full comment on the situation. In their statement, they allege that Apple’s own VP of…
This is your iPhone 3GS on x-ray
What happens when you combine the iPhone 3GS with a gratuitous dose of x-rays? You get an intriguing look at the inside of an iPhone 3GS. We’ve seen the iPhone 3GS’s innards splayed across the internets for all to see, but the x-ray video below gives us a look at the iPhone 3GS internals as…
iPhone Dev Team cracks iPhone 3.1 OS, except for iPhone 3GS
iPhone and iPhone 3G owners still waiting to update their jailbroken smartphone to the iPhone 3.1 OS are in luck today. The iPhone Dev Team has just released their latest PwnageTool update! With the new PwnageTool utility, iPhone users can update to jailbroken iPhone 3.1 OS firmware without worrying about losing the jailbreak (which allows…
Apple eats up world’s NAND flash memory supplies, again
Apple’s got a pretty big appetite for NAND flash memory modules. Now that the iPhone 3GS boasts 32GB of onboard storage, and is headed to China Unicom’s massive subscriber-base, Apple is gobbling up flash memory chips faster than suppliers can punch them out. DigiTimes is reporting that the world’s main NAND manufacturers are prioritizing Apple’s…