Seriously, if you’re iPhone is on fire, you might want to drop it… like it’s hot. Immediately. While flame-engulfed iPhones are more the exception than the norm, Tim Colburne recently found himself in that rarest of minorities when his iPhone caught fire. Colburne plugged in his iPhone for a little recharging action, only to find…
Have you noticed better MobileMe performance?
At this point, it’s already old news that Apple has updated their MobileMe service with faster web-apps, more reliable “push” data functionality, and faster cloud-syncing. But, just how much of a difference did Apple’s MobileMe update make? From our vantage point, MobileMe has been working well enough for the past couple months that the new…
Watchmen MMO game coming to iPhone
Watchmen is, without a doubt, one of the most anticipated movie releases of 2009. Legions of fans have been waiting to put eyes on the graphic novel-turned-movie since last year, and the hype is building to a frenzy. So, it’s befitting that the much-hyped Watchmen movie is getting a little positive PR from the likewise-hyped…
Mac OS 7 running on an iPhone!
Just how powerful are our mobile phones these days? Powerful enough to run a desktop-class operating system from just a dozen, or so, years ago. This time around, the iPhone is being used as a surrogate computer for the Apple computer OS known to harder-core Mac enthusiasts as Mac OS 7, or System 7. A…
iPhone blows away competition with 66% of all mobile web traffic!
When it comes to using the mobile web, you’ll be hard-pressed to find anyone that denies the iPhone’s multi-touch web browsing experience as anything less than top-notch. The mobile world scurried to bring their own touchscreen competitors to market when the iPhone blew up the scene with its inaugural launch in 2007, but no other…
Who knew the iPhone camera was this good?
We certainly had no idea. The iPhone and iPhone 3G’s meager allotment of 2-million pixels on its image sensor leaves a lot to be desired. In a day and age where even business-oriented smartphones are sporting high-quality 3.2-megapixel cameras, the iPhone’s 2-megapixel shooter seems woefully inadequate. But, these latest set of artsy pics shows off…
Photo PhoneBook – Sync your iPhone contacts photo with Facebook!
It’s nice and all being able to assign profile pictures to your iPhone contacts, but there’s a steep price to pay if you’d like to have all, or even most, of your contacts assigned to their profile pictures. The time that you have to invest to ensure that all your contacts are pictured-up is enough…
CBS brings FREE streaming TV to iPhone with TV.com application!
Want some FREE, streaming TV on your iPhone? Of course you do. As the first major US network broadcaster to embrace the iPhone and its media-consuming customer-base, CBS has released their new iPhone application, appropriately named TV.com, that pulls down streams of full-length CBS TV shows. Better yet, the application serves up episodes over WiFi…
Saudi Arabia racks up 25,000 iPhone 3G subscribers in just hours
The iPhone 3G, almost a year old since its launch in 2008, is still grabbing headlining attention around the world. Sure, there are more attractive and powerful handsets coming down various product pipelines. But, there’s just something about the Apple Phone’s sleek lines and sexy UI that make it one highly sought-after cellphone. So much…
If you can hack an iPhone, you can win $10,000!
But you can’t just be any, run-of-the-mill hacker. In order to score one of the bigger prizes at the annual Pwn2Own 733t hacker competition in Vancouver, Canada, you’re going to have to prove your hacking fortitude by finding security exploits in the Android, Symbian, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry and iPhone mobile operating systems. With the flood…