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Win an iMainGo: X Speaker for iPod and iPhone

Looking for a safe way to take your iPod/iPhone with you without sacrificing audio quality for portability? Well, you’re in luck. We’re giving one lucky reader a brand-spanking new iMainGo X speaker for iPod, iPhone, iPad, … anything with a mini stereo plug, really. We reviewed the previous model of iMainGo portable speaker and were quite impressed, and the new model is a significant upgrade. Boasting the same transparent touch-sensitive membrane as the... Read More

Well, in THEORY, at least

Looks like AT&T has decided to fight the Verizon iPhone by pointing out how Verizon doesn’t let you talk and surf at the same time. Of course, they neglect to mention that quite often you can’t talk on AT&T PERIOD… But all AT&T bashing aside, I have yet to see any real reason why an AT&T customer would switch to Verizon. Maybe it’s just that I have no friends and rarely, if ever, use my iPhone to make an actual phone call, but I DO... Read More

The moment we’ve all been waiting for – The first Verizon iPhone commercial

Once Verizon and Apple finally got around to announcing the Verizon iPhone, many of us in the media feared there would be nothing left in life to look forward to – most of use were resigned to packing up our Apple-blogging gear and going back to pretending to be interested in our families. Well thankfully that didn’t happen. As we all know, any new iPhone launch comes with a slew of accompanying “pseudo news” we can all obsess over and discuss, and today... Read More

Polaroid iPhone decal kicks it so old school, odds are not many people will know why it’s cool

Hey, remember Polaroid Cameras? No? Well, um, remember the song “Hey Ya” by OutKast from a few years back where they told girls to shake their butts “Like a Polaroid Picture”? Well, they were referring to the instant photos that popped out of Polaroid cameras, and which people would often shake under the mistaken assumption they would develop faster. Well anyway, someone who was apparently born before 1978 and is old enough to remember them has created... Read More

Jon Stewart – Verizon iPhone puts an end to a “National Nightmare”

Sorry about the Flash. You’d think if Jon Stewart really loved his iPhone so much, he’d have forced Comedy Central put up his clips in a format iPhone users could actually WATCH by now. Oh well. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c The Daily Show on Facebook  Read More

Games that don’t suck: Gravity Guy

GAMES THAT DON’T SUCK is a feature dedicated to games that I think are well worth your hard earned money, but not worth me sitting down and spending 3 hours crafting an in-depth review (these things are 99¢ after all). However, you can rest assured that any game bearing Macenstein’s GTDS rating is worth buying, sight unseen, based solely on my expert opinion. Gravity Guy [iPhone 99¢, iPhone Free, iPad $1.99, iPad Free] is at its heart a reflex game – something... Read More

Should we be worried that Verizon hasn’t told us what its iPhone plans will cost?

So today Verizon and Apple held a press conference to announce that the iPhone would finally be available on Verizon’s outdated, but more reliable, CDMA network. Hooray. And as happy as I am for Verizon customers, AT&T customers looking to jump ship, app developers who will suddenly have millions more people ready to buy their apps, and everyone overseas who couldn’t care less about a Verizon iPhone and who just wants these headlines to end, I can’t help... Read More

Has this ever happened to you?

I can’t think of anything I love more than infomercials. Especially ones that start with black and white footage of some overweight slob struggling with an exceedingly simple task, while our hero, fit and in color, easily tackles the problem thanks to whatever amazing gadget we’re trying to sell. Well, if you anything like me, you’re gonna love the iBottle opener, an iPhone case/bottle opener that promises to finally make your iPhone useful. That’s... Read More

Alleged iPhone 5 pics surface just in time to steal all the CES thunder

Apple may not be attending CES, but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t found a way to dominate the tech headlines. New pics and a video purporting to show the next generation of the iPhone have hit the interwebs today, and if YouTube is to be believed, Apple legal has already had them pull the video, lending some degree of credibility to their authenticity. Of course, there’s still a chance all we saw was a prototype iPhone 4 that Apple didn’t want out there,... Read More

“Max Adventure”‘s video-out gameplay demo is HUGE

All of you who love the portable gaming of the iPhone but wish it were just a little LESS portable, you’re in luck! Our good friends Natalia Luckyanova and Keith Shepherd from Imangi Studios (Harbor Master) have just released an update to their universal app “Max Adventure” which allows for the game to be played on any video monitor with the appropriate iPhone video connector. That’s right, you can now play your iPhone games on a 60 inch screen, no jailbreaking... Read More