AT&T’s Stephenson spills the beans on 3G iPhone (sort of)
At a recent meeting of the Churchill Club in Santa Clara, California, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson (apparently fed up with the constant questions about the iPhone’s 3G plans) allegedly blurted out “You’ll have it next year”. Stephenson could not provide specific details on what the new iPhone would cost, saying only Steve Jobs “will dictate what the price of the phone is”. Engadget is for some reason guessing a 3G version would debut at... Read More
No QTVR on iPhone or iPod touch? WTF?!
The fact that the iPhone has been out nearly 6 months now and I have not seen anyone bitch about this yet likely means I am wasting my breath, but who cares? It wouldn’t be the first time. Why is there no QuickTime VR support on the iPhone/iPod touch? I just happened to be trolling Apple’s site this evening on my iPhone, and thought, “Hey, it must be kind of cool to pan around a QTVR using the iPhone’s touchscreen! Lets check it out!”. (Yes, I am... Read More
Free on iTunes: Comedy Central Stand-Up Hot Picks
If you’re a fan of Comedy Central’s Comedy Central Stand-Up, as am I, odds are you’ve seen most of the clips assembled here in this free Stand-Up Hot Picks special, but there is some funny shiznit here to be sure. Comedians such as Lewis Black, Wanda Sykes, Jeff Dunham, Dave Attell, Jim Gaffigan, Brian Regan and many others are showcased in this free 24-minute, TV-14 (read, “bleeped”) laugh-fest. I actually find stand-up works extremely well on... Read More
Review: iPhone USB Sync and Charge Cradle by Wireless Ground
The iPhone’s battery boasts an impressive 8 hours of talk time and a whopping 250 hours of standby time, yet I personally find I have to recharge my iPhone daily. No, I don’t use up the battery gabbing with friends (faithful Macenstein readers will recall I have no friends), instead I primarily use the iPhone as an iPod, listening for 10 or more hours a day while at work. This near-constant use means there have been more than a few times when I have received a call... Read More
Some things should not be…
…and one of them is Duck Hunt on the iPhone. I was actually quite the marksman back in the day on the original NES version of Duck Hunt, so I was pretty excited to see Jirbo had ported the game to the iPhone. Sure, giving a young child a light gun and letting him kill virtual animals for hours on end, alone in his basement, is perhaps a recipe for disaster, but damnit, I was good. I was a dead shot from across the room (or as far as the cords reached, anyway). I even could... Read More
Review: Bowers & Wilkins’ Zeppelin iPod Speakers
If you’re anything like me, you live in a mansion, drive a Mercedes and eat lobster 3 times a day. Yes, life is good. In fact, the only downside to my fabulous life is that my iPod is shackled to plebeian-priced iPod speakers. Many is the time I have wished I could spend $600 on something to truly set my iPod apart from the speakers my hick relatives and low brow college friends use… Enter the Zeppelin Ok, so pretty much everything in the above paragraph is a... Read More
The least successful sign in history?
I came across this Flickr pic of a Clearwater, Florida Verizon store on Digg, and just had to share. Hmmm… Freudian slip? It actually seems to say “see and sell your iPhone here.” Perhaps Verizon employees want to buy iPhones? I’m actually curious as to what would happen if someone were to attempt to go in and “cancel their iPhone.” Does that sign mean they will just smash your iPhone with a hammer? I assume the geniuses at this store meant... Read More
Help an iPhone-hacking Canuck
Faithful Macenstein reader Sean writes: So I am a proud iPhone owner in Canada..yes hacked into the phone through a third party application. But I need some help now. I had been going through customizing my iPhone for a few months now. I have summerboard and customize from the installer application. Alas today I experienced my first major issue. I recently updated the customize app, and low and behold…when I went to go back into rSBT (which I had done previously several... Read More
Busting Myths with the iPhone
Faithful Macenstein reader and Mythbusters viewer chaplare, who watches the show on a slight bittorrent delay, sent us some shots from last week’s episode showing Adam Savage using his iPhone’s stop watch feature to time various experiments, thus securing his cool factor with the kids in a way his graphic T-Shirts and hat never could. Looks like an Incase case as well. Perhaps Adam is looking for sponsorship opportunities? Read More
Apple’s Top 5 current design travesties
Sure we all love Apple, but it doesn’t mean we have to turn a blind eye when they occasionally make the odd design decision. Below is our list of the top 5 most glaringly bad design decisions the company has recently (and is still currently) incorporating into its hardware. Feel free to add your own favorites in the comments. 5) The iPhone’s speakerphone volume is (still) pitiful In “reinventing the phone”, Apple chose to unnecessarily re-invent the “low... Read More
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