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dragon:ONE: Hey, John, ever consider a "This Week's Best Android Apps"? Us Android users need some love, too. Also, can one of the Gizmodo Powers That Be(tm) rem... more »
weatherman: Even if it is slightly different, and even if the developer thought of it on their own, I'd still like to take credit for having inspired ARGH when I ... more »
natejosiah: "It may be a fundamentally empty experience, but holy crap the Droid's 265 ppi screen is amazing." alt="iPhone or Droid" Hover Text #xkcd more »
hairejordan: Okay does any one else hate the fact of a slide out keyboard.... if you have a full onscreen keyboard why do you need a slide out one? #xkcd more »
Nathan Obbards: That's the truth John, sometimes it hurts. It's ok, embrace it and, over time, the pain fades. or you can take the easy route and just become apathe... more »
slim934: I always kind of found these jokes sort of silly. People wine and complain about "crass commercialism" but then go out and engage right in it. The t... more »
TheSonOfKrypton: No, I saw this earlier on Digg and just died laughing. Win comic. #xkcd more »
bill cant fart: Why are you sobbing? Because you have yet to embrace the world of not-Apple! Sure, it's not as shiny, but you don't have to wear a gay turtleneck! #xkcd more »
Kaiser-Machead: I guess it should be funny, but with "there's an app for that" and (insert reference to something being arbitrarily being rejected from the app store)... more »
blankmind13: I love how the fact that HTC's unit growth is not even mentioned. If anything, this chart shows that HTC is the one to look out for. Who gives a shi... more »

#iphoneapps

This Week's Best iPhone Apps
In this week's slightly more transparent app roundup: Malls, navigated! Instant messages, never ignored! Browser, bettered! Messaging, replaced! Hotel rooms, snagged! Photos, translated! Ghosts, faked! Blu-ray movies, supplemented! And more... More »
#painfultruths

iPhone vs. Droid: Whoever Wins, We're All Still Losers
I mean, I know this is funny—I get the joke, and it's clever!—but every time I try to laugh, it comes out as a sob. What gives? [XKCD]
#data

The Year Apple and RIM Ate Everyone Else's Lunch
For today's data dump: the iPhone now accounts for nearly a fifth of new smartphones, and BlackBerrys are on a surprisingly serious tear, passing a 20% in world market share. So, uh, who's losing? More »
#itunes

iTunes Enters the Web Browser with iTunes Preview
This probably won't affect your day to day life (yet), but it's an interesting development nonetheless. iTunes now allows you to window shop through your web browser. More »
#remainders

Remainders - Stuff We Didn't Post (and Why)
YouTube;s Going 1080p So That You Can Watch Silly Videos In High-Def...Yet Another "Virus" Attacks Unsecured Jailbroken Phones...USB AM/FM Tuner Made By Company Who Hasn't Heard Of Internet Radio...Pirates Decorate Their MacBooks With Crossbones... More »
#iphoneapps

10 iPhone Apps To Augment Your Sad Reality
Augmented reality. It's definitely a buzz phrase, but what is it, exactly? How do you experience it? Is there an app for it? Oh, most definitely. Here are 10. More »
#iphone

One Day, This Will Be Remembered as the First Real Tricorder
Leave it to a NASA scientist to create the first Star Trek Tricorder using a stamp-sized sensor chip, an iPhone, and some spiffy programing. What does it do? It can detect killer gasses in the air. More »
#iphone

Vimeo Videos Get Friendly With iPhones and Android
I love Vimeo's video quality, but unlike YouTube, it doesn't make my uploads iPhone friendly. But that may change: they've already converted all "Staff Picks" and HD video showcases into iPhone and Android-friendly formats, and say there's more to come. More »
#relationships

Loving A Gadget-Obsessed Person Is Easier Than You Think
I've warned you about dating someone gadget-obsessed, but you just couldn't help yourself and fell in love with one of us. Let's talk about avoiding feeling like you're in a ménage à trois with a person and some circuits. More »
#iphoneapps

Apple App Store Approval Process Becomes Slightly Less Inscrutable
The shroud falls a bit further: Apple's now letting developers see where their apps are in the mysterious approval process! It's not much, but it is progress. Maybe one day we'll learn about the shadowy figures doing the approving. [Wired]
#iphone

Appstand Turns Your iPhone Into a Proper Digital Picture Frame
Is a picture frame that you slide your iPhone in completely ridiculous, or only mostly ridiculous? I mean, it does allow you to recharge your iPhone in the frame by tucking away the dock connector cord. More »
#iphone

Surfing the Road On an iPhone-Controlled Oldsmobile
Remember that smart German iPhone-controlled car that used cameras, GPS, and lasers to perfectly run through the streets of Berlin? Well, screw German efficient engineering. That's not how we do things in America. More »
#iphone

Python Skin iPhone Pushes Naff to Sickening
So you think that nothing could get more tacky and disgusting than this $3900 pink python-skin iPhone with 124 Swarovski crystals and gold bezel, right? RIGHT? WRONG: More »
#remainders

Remainders - Things We Didn't Post (and Why)
Apple Stomps Over Nokia to Become Most Profitable Phone-Maker in US...Windows Mobile 7 Is on Track for an Early 2010 Release to OEMs...Bing Videos Aggregates Hulu, YouTube, ABC and More...Non-Apple Companies to Support Mini DisplayPort Soon... More »
#movies

Hahahaha! Blockbuster Renting Movies on SD Cards! Hahahahaha! From Kiosks!
Oh, I hope whatever exec came up with this idea scores a huge bonus. Blockbuster is piloting a new program that will load a DRM'd movie rentals onto an SD card from a kiosk. The future! More »
#iphone

New iControlPad Prototype Controls the iPhone with Dual Analog Nubs
The iPhone gamepad case is back with an overhauled design that brings controls to the front, and adds dual analog nubs (the same as the Pandora gaming handheld). There's also an internal battery that charges the iPhone while playing. More »
#google

Google Buys AdMob, Secures Strength in Mobile Advertising
Today, Google purchased AdMob for $750 million. AdMob provides mobile advertisements in places Google doesn't, like in apps or while web-browsing, but what it really means is that Google is staking its claim in the mobile ad world. More »
#android

The Android iPhone
Matt told me the other day that Droid looked like Tim Burton Batman's cellphone. "True—I replied—and I don't want a gold latex 80s cellphone. I would like something sleek like the iPhone, running Android." Behold, the APhone A6. More »
#concepts

A Media Chair for Starship Captains
This sweet-looking ergonomic media chair is but a concept in the mind of industrial designer, Martin Emila, but I dig the look, and the integrated iPhone/iPod dock and projector. 3-way speakers on either side of the head also provide surround-sound. More »
#displays

20 iPods Cluster Into One, Big, Interactive Display
The neatest thing about this demo isn't that 20 iPod touches have combined to make a giant touch display; the neatest thing is that the technology can scale: More »
#iphone

First iPhone Worm Discovered: Rickrolls Jailbroken iPhones
Jailbreakers in Australia are being infected by a worm that changes their wallpaper to an image of Rick Astley. And while that sounds kinda funny, it's another reminder to make sure you've changed the default password on your jailbroken iPhone. More »
#verizonwireless

Verizon Wireless Launches Three More Anti-AT&T 3G Network Commercials
Today Verizon responded to AT&T's "There's a Map For That" lawsuit by releasing a slew of new commercials with similar themes and messaging. The battle continues, this time on the infamous Island of Misfit Toys. More »
#apple

Watch Jonathan Ive's Segment in Objectified
Objectified, Gary Hustwit's look at the world of industrial design, featured a lengthy section on Apple Chief Designer Jon Ive—and now that clip is online for impatient Apple fans to see. [Brainstorm Tech] More »
#rumor

The iPhone Nano Rumor Strikes Again: Coming to Verizon in 2010?
The latest round of iPhone rumors reads like a roundup of everything we've heard before. Now the mythical iPhone nano is back, and supposedly said device will be coming to Verizon in 2010 featuring a new hybrid cellular radio. More »
#iphone

Gigabyte BIOS Update Fixes iPhone Syncing Issues
Gigabyte's been listening to all of the iPhone syncing issues from motherboard owners using Intel's P55 chipset. They've put out a beta BIOS that addresses the problem. Unfortunately, that doesn't help all the Asus and MSI users who are having the same troubles, but hopefully now that Gigabyte has set an example the others will follow. More »
#iphoneapps

New For iPhone: 2 Balls 1 Cup
Presented for your approval without comment. [iTunes Link via The Awl]
#iphoneapps

This Week's Best iPhone Apps
In this week's never-gonna-switch-so-stop-asking app roundup: Free games, reinvented! Airplane anxiety, averted! Photos, wirelessly printed! Cool apps, discovered by other cool apps! Navigation, cheapened! Black Friday rush, preempted! Google Wave, appified! Screens, pointlessly tapped! And more! More »
#android

The iPhone-to-Android Switch: 10 Things You Need to Know
You've had it. Maybe with AT&T. Maybe with Apple's crushing, dictatorial grip strangling the App Store. Whatever the reason, you're going to Android: Land of freedom, carriers not named AT&T, and the great Google. Here's what you need to know. More »
#iphoneapps

Another iPhone Developer Gets Busted Stealing Phone Numbers
iPhone game developer Storm8, creator of games such as World War, iMobsters and Vampires Live, has just been hit with a suit for secretly gathering the phone numbers of everyone who purchases its games. More »
#iphoneapps

iPhone App Interprets Babies' Tears While Excusing Pathetic Parenting
The Cry Translator iPhone app is supposed to assist those with little parental instinct by translating the sobs and screams of their children and providing advice. How ever did we all make it to adulthood without apps like this? More »
#blockquote

David Pogue: "Smartphone Is Too Limited...It's An App Phone"
Before David Pogue wrote his review of the Droid, he had trouble deciding what to call the device. He argued that "smartphone" is an outdated label for the "iPhone-like" devices coming out and so he looked for a new one. More »
#iphone

Why You Should Think Twice Before Dating An iPhone User
I'm an iPhone user and not ashamed of that fact. What I am ashamed about is that a study done about iPhone users' characteristics pretty much deems us a rotten, undatable bunch. And some of the results struck a chord. More »
#apple

100,000 Apps Now Available for the iPhone/iPod touch
The unofficial count of Apple's approved apps had already topped 100,000, but now Cupertino has confirmed that you can download over 100,000 apps in the App Store. That's the widest selection of Booty Gongs (and other booty-related instrumentation) in the known Universe. More »
#accessories

99-Cent Cardboard iPhone Case Illustrating Contest
Case-Mate released a $0.99 cardboard iPhone case as a tongue-in-cheek, recession-appropriate gesture—and people bought them, and drew on them, and now they've got a contest to see whose creation is best. More »
#iphone

The Ultimate iPhone Waste of Time
Some people spend countless hours watching reality TV shows. Others like to collect leaves. Then there are a few who enjoy watching the washing machine go round. And lastly, there are those who play Million Tap Challenge on their iPhones. More »
#iphone

Blacksn0w App Now Ready, Eager to Unlock Your iPhone 3G and 3GSes
Blacksn0w, child of overserious shadow-lurker GeoHot and brother of equally straighforward jailbreak app Blackra1n, is now available, and should make unlocking your late-version iPhone 3G or 3GS a dead-simple process. Before you dive in, though, there's one caveat: More »
#iphoneapps

Chorus for iPhone Puts a Better App Store Inside the App Store
Oh, App Store: You're a chore to navigate, difficult to search, and offer only the most superficial guidance as to which apps are actually good. Chorus—an app recommendation app, as awkward as that sounds—helps cut through the noise. More »
#nintendo

iPhone 3GS to Be Unofficially Renamed Nintendo iPhone 3GSN64
Zodttd, the developer who brought us GBA4iPhone, has announced plans to release a N64 emulator for the device. But does the 3GS have enough power? Maybe. More »
#rumor

This Is a Next-Generation iPhone 4 Part, China Ontrade Claims
China Ontrade calls this the iPhone 4 Generation Midboard. Not very exciting, but the last time they announced a next-generation iPhone part, they were right. A month later, the iPhone 3GS appeared with exactly those parts. What could this mean? More »
#iphonevsdroid

Darth Droid's Terror Is Insignificant Against The Power Of The Fanboy
As tiresome as the Droid vs iPhone arguments are lately, I'm happy to have finally found something to sum up my feelings on the issue. Doesn't hurt that it has a Star Wars reference either. More »

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