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T-Mobile is making a big to-do about its no-contract plans, but prepaid carriers like Cricket have been offering contract-free phones for years. To up the ante in the no-contract marketplace, Cricket introduced a new family bundle and is lowering the price on its iPhone plan. Cricket’s new family plan lets you add two smartphones to…
Here comes the iBeetle! No, it’s not an iPhone controlled insect. Volkswagen has announced the future of its classic Beetle line, the iBeetle, which is essentially the iconic Volkswagen Beetle outfitted with an iPhone dock and an iOS app that takes advantage of the iPhone’s prowess. The iBeetle will be outfitted with an iPhone dock that connects…
What we have here is apparently the first photo of Apple’s upcoming budget iPhone. As you can see for yourself, this polycarbonate unit looks a lot like the iPhone 3G and 3GS though it has a flat back instead of the curved one, and a LED-based flash next to the camera. Moreover, this model has…
While Apple is still the most valuable company in the world, its place as a leader in innovation may be shifting. The lack of Steve Jobs could be one of the reasons they may face challenges, but there’s also a rising competition from the likes of Samsung and Google. MoneyChoice.org prepared a neat infographic to…
Facebook’s new messaging platform, Chat Heads was launched yesterday for iOS, and lacked a certain something, well, quite a few things actually. It took no time for a developer named Adam Bell to remedy the problem, creating a workaround that provides an Android-like Chat Heads experience for those who have jailbroken iPhones. Chat Heads unifies multiple…
We’ve all seen it before, dominoes lined up to fall and form a pattern after the first domino falls. Today, Aatma Studios takes that concept and applies it to smartphones, more specifically, the iPhone. Aatma Studios has created this amazing video which shows what happens when over 9000 (10,000 to be exact) iPhones are lined…
Funny or Die became the first company to release a film about the life and times of Steve Jobs. Starring Justin Long of Apple’s Get a Mac commercials and Jorge Garcia of Lost, the tongue-in-cheek video is heavy on the humor and light on the accuracy. The low-budget biopic is based on Steve Job’s Wikiepedia entry…
T-Mobile recently aired its second iPhone 5 commercial and is going straight for the competition’s jugular. The ad prominently features the revolutionary iPhone and points out that other carriers are trying to stifle the device with contracts, data caps and congested networks. T-Mobile is portrayed at the carrier that will unlock your iPhone and give…
Stuart Hughes, a jeweler which custom-made luxurious versions of Apple’s products we’ve seen before, is back with the world’s most expensive smartphone – iPhone 5 with gold and diamonds. Hughes says it took him 9 weeks to build this super-expensive device that is made out of 24-carat gold, while its home button consists of a…
Facebook updated its iOS app to version 6 and included several new features that’ll bring some of Facebook Home to iOS owners. The most notable addition is the inclusion of chat heads in oth the iPhone and iPad version of the app. This implementation of chat heads is not as robust as the version on Android,…