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Celebrity Mac Chick Sighting: Sophia Bush

You may remember Sophia Bush as Brooke Davis in the CW series One Tree Hill, but to me she’ll always be the celeb who was down to Earth enough to carry her iPhone in one hand, and her dog’s poop in the other. [via UseMyComputer]  Read More

Apple will sell over 11 million iPhones in Japan, despite Godzuki’s wishes

A new survey has come out which for some reason is being used by the media to forecast the iPhone’s failure in Japan. Apparently, in a survey of a 402 Japanese internet users, only 9% said they would definitely buy an iPhone when it is released. Headlines such as “Survey shows 91% of Japanese don’t care about iPhone 3G” are making the rounds across the blog-o-sphere, and even the legitimate press. However, to quote Lisa Simpson (by far my least favorite... Read More

I just registered my “dummy” iPhone

Above: Don’t bother, I already registered it. Remember a couple weeks back I reviewed that “dummy” iPhone from USB Fever? The company claimed aside from the actual “working parts”, it was a real iPhone made from the same OEM parts as the real iPhone. Well, yesterday I was showing it to a friend at work, and I joked how it would be funny to take the iPhone into Apple, tell them it wasn’t working, and try to swap it out for a replacement (just... Read More

Apple admits to first iPhone-related fatality

Developers have long been hungry to to get their hands on the iPhone for some time, but who would have suspected the iPhone was hungry for developers as well? Apple has admitted on its site that an iPhone has eaten an engineer in what can only be described as a tragic turn of events. Apple, apparently wishing to downplay the severity of the situation, buried the story in the “Job Opportunities” section of its site, and gave a somewhat detached account of the attack,... Read More

Watch Woz jailbreak Kathy Griffin’s iPhone

This is likely old news, as Woz and Kathy Griffin have been broken up for months, but since I doubt anyone has ever watched Kathy’s “My Life on the D-List” show, this is likely new to you. In fact, this clip running on our site might represent Kathy’s highest ratings to date. Chicks are obviously drawn to the “bad boy”, and you don’t get more bad-ass than Jailbreaking an iPhone made by your former company on national TV. Er, well, Bravo,... Read More

OK, now this is just getting embarrassing

Remember a couple weeks ago when I accidentally washed and dried my iPhone headphones? Miraculously, despite being somewhat crinkly, they appeared to work just fine. Well, for about a week anyway. After a week or so the left earbud began emitting a horrible static sound about 80% of the time, so it was off to the Apple store for another $20 pair of earbuds. Well, wouldn’t you know it, lightning has struck twice, and my brand new set of earbuds have followed in the in the... Read More

Cheap plastic? Hardly. The back panel of the 3G iPhone costs $3000!

All of you guys worried that Apple had cheaped out by going plastic for the 3G iPhone’s back panel can now relax. Apparently, the back panel of the 3G iPhone costs $3000 . Given that Apple has dropped the 3G’s price to $199, that’s some hit Apple is taking! OK, actually, $3000 is just what Apple parts supplier appleowner.com is trying to get for the darn thing, and who can blame them? Much like Christopher Walken‘s character in Pulp Fiction, odds are... Read More

My highly anticipated thoughts on the new 3G iPhone

That’s one, small, very girly device for a man, one giant leap BACKWARDS for Apple’s industrial design” -Dr. Macenstein (on the 3G White iPhone) That’s right, I have actually quoted myself in an article I am writing. It’s sort of like when you plug a video camera into your TV’s RCA jacks and point it at the screen. Sorry if I blew your mind. Above: Adding Hello Kitty to the back of the white iPhone is one way Apple could make it more manly. The... Read More

Apple’s Tim Cook “excited” and “thrilled” about iPhone rollout, in that order.

Immediately following Apple’s WWDC Keynote, a slew of Apple Press Releases flooded my inbox detailing the myriad of international iPhone agreements Apple has worked out with various carriers. It appears Tim Cook, Apple’s COO, only has two emotions at this point; “excited” and ‘thrilled”, with “excited” barely beating out “thrilled” by a score of 9 to 8. Now, granted, there is a lot of similar news to announce, but a... Read More

The most realistic (but still probably fake) 3G iPhone pics we’ve seen so far

So, what do we make of these shots from web-mobile.net? Read More  Read More