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This meme isn’t dead yet, right? I know the original film producers had a bunch of DMCA notices issued, but the world needs to know how Hitler feels about the iPhone 4’s reception problems resulting from a bum antennae design and/or software problems. Despite strategic placements of microcells across war-torn 1940s Germany, Hitler’s iPhone 4…
There’s a really old joke that goes, “Doctor, my arm hurts when I move it this way,” and the doctor replies, “So don’t move it that way.” It’s stupidly funny because it’s such a simple solution, but it doesn’t really fix the problem. In the case of Steve Jobs, however, if he were the doctor…
Google Docs on mobile has moved relatively slowly, having launched three years ago, and the only significant addition since has been the ability to edit documents. Today they’ve got a pretty big new feature for the web service – now you can view previously uploaded PDFs, PowerPoints, .docs, and .docx files from an iPhone or…
We know that the Apple iPhone 4 has been selling like hot cakes and that it would blend, but how does the “magical” smartphone hold up against a .50 caliber bullet? Not much of a surprise but the iPhone 4 gets absolutely destroyed. I don’t care how much Gorilla Glass you have on it, that…
Although video chatting has been around for awhile, iPhone 4 and Facetime promises to popularize it, to the point that at least one business has sprung up aiming to equip a legion of phone sex operators with Apple’s latest toy. Adult industry like this already thrives online with webcam sex chat, but what makes the…
Like most of you new iPhone 4 owners out there, I decided to use my weekend activities to test out some of the phone’s capabilities. Mainly, its quality and ease of taking and sharing photos and videos. Taking and sharing photos was a snap. Upgrading from a 3G, I was impressed by the iPhone’s touch-to-focus…
The parts for the Apple iPhone 4 cost about $188, according to an estimate from iSuppli. The estimate doesn’t include things like labor, marketing, patents and software development but it does give us a useful indicator o the cost of the iPhone 4. The handset retails for $199 and $299 (although Apple gets significantly more…
If you dig a good book on your lap, chances are you’ve already downloaded and used the Kindle App for iPad. I know I have. Granted, I’m not a BIG reader, but the Kindle and iBooks apps are front-and-center on my iPad. Over the weekend the team at Amazon announced new features and functionality for…
Apple, iPhone 4, new sales record. Thats the story today, as Apple announces that it took the Cupertino-based company less than a week – well, only 3 days – to sell over 1.7 million iPhone 4 units. That’s means the company sold more than half a million iPhone 4 units every day in the first…
The iPhone 4 has a bit of a problem if you hold it with your left hand. You go from full bars, to no bars, and it’s caused by Apple thinking up the concept of making the antenna the actual frame of the device. Problem with this is when you touch two points of the…