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Thursday, July 17, 2008

IPhone Developer: Apple's Secrecy Makes Things Difficult

Apple’s insistence on secrecy meant that developers were cut off from their air supply: a large and vocal group of beta testers. Worse still, Apple’s vetting process means that each and every update has to be hand-checked by Apple staff. The result: Although Apple shifted a staggering 10 million apps in the first weekend, many of them were buggy.

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Seven Reasons Why the New iPhone Sucks

Look before you leap before buying the new iPhone. This is the iPhone that all of us have been waiting for. It promised to address the deficiencies of the first generation iPhone, but does it really?

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The iPhone Is As Powerful As The Dreamcast

EA said it's more powerful than the DS, and now Sega—the guys who made Super Monkey Ball for the platform—is saying that it's just as powerful as the Dreamcast.

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Why Nearly 1 in 7 Americans Still Lack Cell Phones

But a handful of start-ups are aggressively pursing wireless holdouts. The bulk of the un-mobile fall into three groups, says senior analyst Chris Collins of Yankee Group: children, the elderly and the credit-challenged. (There's actually a fourth group, prison inmates, but companies haven't yet found a way to target that elusive niche.)

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Official iPhone and iPod Touch Apps Reviewed

With over 500 applications and games available at launch. . .and over 700 now. Who has the time or money to go through each and every one. Reviews include text, screenshots, and video so you know what you're getting into before spending your money(or time) on a worthless application or a game with horrid controls.

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Apple Sells 1 Million iPhones in 5 days Worldwide, So What?

Everyone's reporting how remarkable it is that Apple was able to sell a million iPhones in just five days, but let's think about this for a moment, shall we? As TechDirt politely points out, though, it would have been newsworthy had it been a US-only event, it wasn't, it was global, with millions of people eligible to get the new handset...

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Star Wars: The Force Unleashed for iPhone

CrunchGear has a cool video of the upcoming Star Wars: The Force Unleashed running on an iPhone. The first half is just dialog and cinematics from the game, so feel free to jump ahead a bit.

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The Ultimate iPhone App: Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

You want an iPhone app? We’ll give you an iPhone app. Take a look at Star Wars: The Force Unleashed for the iPhone which uses the accelerometer for game play. It should be available in September but we have some cool video over at CrunchGear.

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Applications for the iPhone help you save gas

Take a look at these five programs which were designed to help owners of a brand spankin' new iPhone save a few bucks on gas.

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10 Useful iPhone Applications for Travelers

Since Jeeves came on the scene in 1996, the web has quickly become an indispensable resource of know-how for travelers of all motives and means. However, many hostels still have unreliable wireless connections, and there’s usually a line for their £3 per hour Easy Internet booths (which are suspiciously sticky). Here’s where the mobile web comes in

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iPhone Apps We Like: Mocha VNC Lite

Mocha is a VNC client that supports full QWERTY and safari-like zooming as well as landscape mode. Double click works, but right click doesn't, but there is no official App store equivalent so this is your desktop remote client of choice.

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Predictions for Next Gen iPhone

The latest shiny new iPhone with its super fast 3G web browsing is here and selling out fast – but that may in part be due to low initial stocks in the stores as well as consumer demand. The launch was not smooth with problems in the USA with AT&T activation server crashes and with O2 in the UK causing Gizmodo to call the event “iPocalypse”.

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iPhone App Review: Twitterific

Twitterific is an application that lets you read and post to the social network site Twitter. The free version of Twitterific is ad supported, but there is also a premium version available for $9.99. Twitter users will feel right at home using Twitterific.

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Hold On! It’s Crap!

The truth behind the seemingly innocuous and absurd Hold On! app for the iPhone.

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DIGG THIS: If You Think the Mac Mini Needs an Upgrade!!

It is time! We have waited too long Apple!

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Chris Pirillo Launches Digg, For iPhone Applications

The idea is similar to Digg in that you can submit iPhone apps and people can vote them up or down, giving you a nice community snapshot of what app is performing, and what app isn't at any given time.Sure, you can read reviews in the Apple Store, but you don't get the full story like you do on a site with simplicity and ease of use.

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2 of 3 iPhones Defective and 3rd can't get Calls

Reader Michael is having a rough time with the iPhone. He says that two out of three of the iPhones purchased by his family were defective, and the third one wouldn't receive calls. Weirdly, this story has a happy ending, because Michael found some contact information on Consumerist that got his problem solved in 5 minutes.

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Pandora Usage Stats Prove It’s iPhone’s Killer App

Pandora’s internet radio has always been one of those sites that was really cool in concept, but too inconvenient to ever go mainstream. The service was long tied to computers only, and it still has yet to become a household name. But with the launch of Pandora’s new iPhone app last Friday, it looks like the service is about to hit critical mass.

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Killer Apps - Webmonkey

When Apple first announced it would open the iPhone to third party developers, we thought things like mapping tools, Twitter clients or perhaps a Facebook app would rule the diminutive screen. As it turns out, the killer app for me is Pandora’s streaming radio player.

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iPhone has been ruined

This article illustrate the fear and wrongly interpreted image of iPhone ruined by jailbreakers and pirates.

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Blackberry Bold compared to the iPhone

Boy Genius has posted a long and rather thorough look at the iPhone and the Blackberry Bold. Which one is better? One cannot say, a consumer phone vs. a business phone. They both perform differently and I guess it really is a pointless exercise but still worth a look if you have the hots for both phones.

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Voice Control for iPod & iPhone

The Muso is a pocket-sized accessory for the iPod and iPhone that allows users to access their music with natural voice commands. The Muso synchronizes with the user's iTunes library directly on first use and requires no training to understand requests such as "Play me some Led Zeppelin", "How about some Rolling Stones", "Gimme jazz" or "Go to M...

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Worthy of the iPhone?

Unable to get a new 3GiPhone, Andy Jordan takes a look at who in line really deserves to have one.

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Solution to the iPhone copy/paste problem

A concept that shows that copy/paste can be implemented into the iPhone's firmware without compromising the slick UI we've all been accustomed to.

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Hard to get your hands on the iPhone

In Wednesday’s edition of the Daily Debrief, CNET News reporters Kara Tsuboi and Erica Ogg discuss the scarcity of the iPhone. Several dozen AT&T stores are reportedly sold out, forcing customers to wait as long as three weeks for new shipments. Apple stores are getting regular orders, but customers should continue to expect long waits in line.

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Star Wars: The Force Unleashed for the iPhone



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New iPhone Camera (concept)

Many people are asking for a better camera application on the iPhone. Apple still hasn't done anything about it. Here's an idea of what the iPhone's new camera app could look like.

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DIGG THIS: Kevin Rose iPhone Leak Diggnation Digg!

Kevin Rose And Scandal! Do The Two Words Even Belong In The Same Sentence!?

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AOL Radio iPhone App For Radio Anywhere On The Go

Frank Gruber of SOMEWHAT FRANK & co-founder of TECH cocktail demonstrates why he likes the new AOL Radio iPhone application which was released July 11, 2008.

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Leo Laporte to stream for 24 straight hours!

To celebrate the launch of the iPhone 3g, Leo Laporte is streaming at TWiTlive.tv for over 24 hours straight with 10 iPhone 3g giveaways and special guests. Coverage starts 9am Pacific Thursday and continues through Friday at noon Pacific (or later).

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Apple Customers Insulted by Reporter and they Strike Back

He asks iPhone customers waiting in line whether or not they have ever seen a naked woman. One guy waiting in line puts him in his place.

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Jackass Reports on iPhone Line, Gets Called Jackass



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Why Google is iPhone's default search engine...[PIC]



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Is the iPod touch 2.0 update worth $10

Maybe it’s because he knew I’d be returning from a stressful vacation and wanted to ease me back into work with a simpleton assignment—maybe not. Either way, my editor asked if, upon my return, I could weigh in on whether the iPod touch 2.0 update was worth the $10 Apple asks for it.

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iPhone 3G's final build price: just $174.33

In a teardown done with production hardware, research firm iSuppli now says a base iPhone 3G costs just $174.33 in pure manufacturing costs, or less than what it took to build the less capable original.

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Apple passes Acer to become third largest U.S. PC vendor

Macs garnered an 8.5 percent share of the U.S. PC market during the second quarter of the year, pushing Apple past Acer in the national rankings and into third place overall, according to preliminary data released Wednesday by market research firm Gartner.

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Yes, the iPhone's new App Store is a Hit, but....

For the new iPhone 3G, it's an accepted fact that the Apple App Store is its killer app. With now over 800 applications (200 of them free) it's a veritable geek toy store. Apple announced Monday that more than 10 million apps had been downloaded since the store opened late last week. But, as I started downloading apps, I noticed a negative trend...

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Facebook, MySpace Ignore Location On iPhone At Their Peril

Facebook and MySpace, the two largest social networks, eagerly launched new iPhone applications last Friday. Both quickly shot up the the top apps list. But while both applications are useful for heavy users, they won’t drive new users to the services because they failed to leverage the killer iPhone feature - location awareness.

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Control your PC or Mac Remotely from your iPhone [full demo]

A demo of Mocha VNC for the iPhone. Mocha VNC is a free application from the App Store that provides access to a VNC server. Using your iPhone, you can connect to a Windows PC or Mac OS X and see the files, programs, and resources exactly as you would if you were sitting at your desk, just on a smaller screen.

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AT&T Employees Hand Out Anti-iPhone Propaganda to Customers

When Dennis' mom went to the AT&T stand in the Moorestown Mall to ask about iPhone insurance, they laughed in her face. They then handed her a bunch of articles written arguing for the Blackberry over the iPhone, printed from places like Crackberry.com and Pocket PC Magazine. At the end, there was the name and number of an AT&T regional manager.

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The iPhone doesn't have copy & paste because...

It's just not that easy. Really.

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