That iPhone v1.1.3 firmware not meeting your expectations? Is multiple-contact SMS text message support, Google Maps with “My Location,” WebClips, and homescreen customization proving to not be worth sacrificing your third-party applications? Well, you’re in luck. If the iPhone v1.1.3 firmware isn’t as great as you expected it to be, then you’re more than welcome…
DirecTV’s new mobile site lets you control your DirecTV DVR through your mobile phone
Imagine that, DirecTV is banking that the mobile-space is the next-step in DVR control. The satellite-TV company has rolled out a new mobile-website that its DVR-customers are going to find fairly (hopefully) useful. The new website allows DirecTV customers to log-in and schedule DVR recordings right from their mobile phone. A Macenstein reader reports that…
Add optical zoom to your iPhone with Conice 6×18 Zoom attachment
Having owned the Nokia N93, I know that having a phone with the optical zoom is a great thing. That being said I find all those “optical zoom addons” for regular camera phones quite interesting. They are not big, hence are easy to carry around… Today we’re presenting you with the optical zoom addon for…
O2 UK moves 190,000 iPhones in first 8 weeks of sales
All those European-iPhone naysayers are sure to love this little tidbit coming out of the UK. The Financial Times is reporting that “people familiar with the situation” have indicated that O2 UK, Apple’s British iPhone partner, has moved something like 190,000 iPhones out its doors in the first two months of iPhone-sales – which is…
AT&T rolls out Apple iPhone for corporate and business customers
All you corporate-types that have been waiting to apply your corporate/business account discounts toward a shiny, new iPhone can finally breathe easy. As we previously reported, the rumors about AT&T’s plan to bring the iPhone to corporate and business customers have come to fruition. Today, AT&T has made the iPhone available to all corporate accounts…
PocketGuitar lets you play the guitar on your iPhone…kind of
When it comes to menial, time-wasting games on the iPhone, Tap Tap Revolution tops our list. TTR is all about tapping the screen in sync with a particular beat – think Dance Dance Revolution for your fingers. The newest screen-tapping time-waster to hit the iPhone is PocketGuitar. With simulated, on-screen guitar frets and a strum…
Apple iPhone v1.1.3 firmware frameworks documentation
If you fancy yourself an iPhone developer, or you just want to dig around and find out what makes the new iPhone v1.1.3 firmware tick, you’ll be glad to hear that the iPhone v1.1.3 framework documentation is now live. Following on the announcement that the iPhone v1.1.3 firmware has been jailbroken (jailbreaked?), Erica Sadun from…
HOT: iPhone v1.1.3 firmware already jailbroken – full read/write access to filesystem; native third-party applications
Welp, that’s the game, folks! Just days after the third-party application-killing iPhone v1.1.3 firmware was released, the iPhone developing/hacking community has already put together a legit jailbreak solution for all iPhones and iPod Touches running v1.1.3 code. Apparently, some firmware code-digging has revealed that Apple’s codename for the v1.1.3 firmware is “LittleBear” – now that’s…
Use your iPhone to make long-distance calls at local wireless rates – RingFree allows VoIP over GSM
Now this is one intriguing method to make long-distance (international) phone calls for the price of local (domestic) wireless rates (not including any VoIP fees – which are incredibly cheap). RingFree basically allows you to call into their VoIP SIP server, pick the VoIP provider you’d like to use, and dial an international phone number…
Gold & Diamond iPhone Case makes you really stand out; Costs $20,000
Sitting on a pile of cash? Gold iPhone’s not your thing? How about one of these Gold & Diamond cases for your shiny gadget? The “world’s first” diamond iPhone case has 42 diamonds set in 18K gold, embedded in a “rare gold carbon fiber leather case.” Yeah, the superior quality is there and so is…