If you wanted to listen music from your iPhone while driving but just couldn’t do it, Belkin’s thinking about you. Their newly announced TuneBase FM and TuneBase Auto are made to allow users to stream/transmit music from their iPhones/iPods to the local FM frequency so they could listen to it on their car audio system.…
iPhone owner denied service from Apple for using custom non-iTunes ringtone
We already knew that any iPhone needing warranty or repair service from Apple should be restored to its factory state before giving it some hands-on time with an Apple “Genius.” We’re going to keep using putting “Genius” in quotes because we definitely don’t think they’re anything more than hired monkeys. Anyway, we digress. Doug Rodriguez…
First iPhone trojan discovered – 2008 kicks off with first iPhone malware
It was predicted to happen. The New Year was supposed to usher in a new wave of evil iPhone coders, and it looks like an 11-year old kid decided to kick off the new year with his very own piece of iPhone malware. The iPhone Trojan sneaks in through jailbroken iPhones’ Installer.app and starts deleting…
EA Mobile: iPhone is hurting mobile gaming industry
Right from the floor of CES, Macworld brings us an interesting story about Apple and how it hurts mobile gaming industry. According to EA Mobile’s VP of worldwide studios Travis Boatman, iPhone is “a replacement for someone who had a RAZR before. They still want their content but there’s no distribution platform in place so…
FlyTunes announces new personalized radio-like music service for Apple iPhone, other phones
FlyTunes announced a new kind of music service, designed for WiFi and 3G-enabled mobile phones and media players, Apple iPhone and iPod Touch included. The idea is to outradio the (satellite) radio, by providing users with thousands of high quality music channels that can be personalized and enjoyed on your iPhone or other mobile phone,…
France’s Orange reports 70,000 iPhones sold in first month
Now before you get all crazy with talk about how many handsets your favorite manufacturer sells worldwide every day, or how crappy the iPhone is, or how much you like 3G (check out our 3G shootout, by the way), just remember that the iPhone is Apple very first foray into the mobile phone market. So,…
Apple patent application for wobbly iPhone homescreen icons; throwable icons
The world of tech-rumors is a “wobbly” one indeed (you see what we did there?). The juicier and longer the lead-time of a rumor, the more skepticism and doubt enshroud said rumor. But enough with the flowery rhetoric – the “leaked” iPhone v1.1.3 firmware from Gear Live has been the topic of hot debate as…
Third-party app adds TrackID functionality to iPhone
Erica Sadun has developed a neat app for iPhone called Listen, which allows Apple handset users to identify a song from the radio or any other source. The application, still “very beta”, is available as a free download from here, and all it requires is that your iPhone is jailbroken, so you could install 3rd…
Altec Lansing T612 speakers work with the iPhone
Altec Lansing T612 are the new speakers from the Plantronics-owned company that officially work with the iPhone and other new-generation iPod models. Unlike Altec’s other iPod-only speaker systems, the T612 is primarily made to work with Apple’s handset, hence it features incoming call support – allowing users to actually hear the iPhone ringing (music stops).…
Can Navizon survive Google’s location mapping in iPhone v1.1.3?
As the iPhone gets more and more comfortable with itself as the “gotta-have” gadget of 2007, nay 2008, the Apple handset just keeps getting better with time. Firmware upon firmware, the iPhone keeps adding more usability and functionality at the click of a (“Sync”) button. The next iPhone firmware release, previously rumored and now widely…