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Schadenfreude: iPhone Dropped 1 Second After Opening

What would you do if you opened up your iPhone box and dropped your precious phone before you could even look at it? We’d cry like a toddler that got kicked in the nuts, but Shawn is a braver man than we could ever be. Good on you for keeping a straight face, Shawn. Thanks…

iPhone Availability Update: It’s Everywhere?

According to Apple’s availability checker, the iPhone is still in stock at every Apple store in the whole country. Seriously, there’s no place where the iPhone isn’t available. Either the stores were too busy selling iPhones last night to report in to the availability checker, or Apple really shipped out a bunch of units to…

iPhone Stress Test: Scratching and Dropping

PCWorld is sadistic. To simulate a couple months of usage (read: damage), they threw an iPhone into a plastic bag with a set of keys and jiggled it around like crazy. They then rubbed the two together next to a table, to simulate when you’d go and rub your crotch next to a table—what, you…

The $5 Million Leetspeak iPhone Promotes Experimental Relations

It was only a matter of time before the first legitimate iPhone buyer listed their unit on eBay for millions of dollars, but at least seller “ansiv” has an excuse: like a puddle of water forming the Virgin Mary, the serial numbers of his iPhone spell out “toyzsex” in Leetspeak. We love his listing, so…

ATVHD has a comprehensive list of HD podcast content for your HD-capable AppleTV. [ATVHD]

Meizu MiniOne Out Next Year

Meizu has confirmed that their MiniOne will be released early next year. Meanwhile, importers like Negri Electronics are still listing a December 7th launch date (which looks to be jumping the gun at this point) along with their revealed price of $989. So much for our New Year’s resolution of picking up a cheap iPhone…

2-Year Agreement NOT Required for iPhone

Yesterday we told you that AT&T would be performing credit checks with the purchase of an iPhone to warn those with bad credit. What we didn’t know at the time, however, is that these credit checks weren’t to penalize potential iPhone buyers with bad credit, but to draw in their business. https://gizmodo.com/good-credit-required-for-iphone-service-at-t-stores-wi-273622 Because to those…

Leopard + iPhone = Tears

Don’t ask how we know, but if you happen to be using a copy of Leopard you found on the internet, you’re probably having some trouble activating your iPhone. iTunes updates and installs to 7.3, but hangs on the first activation screen when the iPhone’s plugged in. Anyone else have similar experiences? Similar to this…

Apple iPhones Still Available in SF, NY

All the people who camped out for over 24 hours—ahem Greg Packer—should feel really foolish right about now. As of 9:17 PM PDT (12:17 AM EDT), the San Francisco store has both 4GB and 8GB iPhones in stock. The New York 5th Avenue Store? The same. If you still want one, head on down and…

CNBC Goes on Cable BitchFest Thanks to Non-Access to iPhone

You think CNBC’s not bitter because they didn’t get an iPhone? Think again. Watch as solemn TV news voiceover meets an impudent teenage girl whose parents won’t…uh…give her an iPhone. Yeah, we didn’t think that metaphor through. Thanks Ray!

iPhone Scientifically Rated (Verdict: Great Call Quality)

Wirelessinfo knows what they’re talking about when it comes to cellphone calls. They’re the Mythbusters of cellphones, pulling out all sorts of scientific equipment to determine whether call quality is good—not just doing a “oh, this sounds good” test. Their results for the iPhone? Best they’ve seen. It scores higher on the frequency response test…

Early reports are coming in that some iPhones are bricking during activation. [MacDailyNews]

Video of My First 60 Seconds Typing On iPhone (Subject: Rump Shaker)

My first sixty seconds of iPhone typing were spent typing the lyrics to Rump Shaker. While listening to Rump Shaker. It’s not bad when you hunt and peck by index, but it’s terrible by thumbs. A minute later I found a typing method that gave me nearly 100% accuracy. (Video to come.)

Apple iPhone Dismantled

The crazy folks over at Think Secret took apart an iPhone. They’ve got 49 shots of the process, but we just wonder how many shots they’ll need to put the thing back together. iPhone Takeapart [ThinkSecret]

iPhone: Entering Kool-aid Central

Picture this. We’re heading in to buy our iPhones, and what do we see? A massive wall of Apple employees, clapping and cheering and offering high fives to all. It was a very surreal, and frankly scary experience. Remind us never, never to do that again, even if the Jesus Phone rises a second time.

iPhone’s YouTube Ad Tested Over EDGE (Verdict: Surprise!)

We were actually “surprised” that the video loaded as quickly as it did. We were in EDGE, so the quality was downgraded, but the experience was shockingly close to the Apple ad. Score one for the Jobs-man. Seriously, we were not expecting such an easy job.

Snaps With the iPhone

Here’s a little demo of the iPhone camera feature. Say, who are those two lovely guys on the first photo? Working hard, from the looks of it! The iPhone zooms and slides easy, and the pinch, after you figure out which way you’re going, is nice and smooth. The gyroscope is great for landscapes and…

Apple Store is Now Up

Go get your iPhone. Without waiting lines, but limited quantities. So hurry up. Wait, don’t hurry up. Now the checkout is frozen. Oh, there, it’s working now. No. It’s not. Apparently, a gazillion people are accessing it now, so good luck.

iPhone Touch Typing: Day 1

Click to viewOK, it’s just Day 1. Whether I turn out to be a Mossberg (typing is “a nonissue”) or a Levy (“Maybe I’m a spaz”) remains to be seen, but on my very first outing it took me a while just to type a simple text message. (1 down, 199 text messages to go!)…

In Case You Missed Our Live iPhone Unboxing

We assume you tuned in at 6:15pm EST and caught us live—without sound. (Sorry gang, but this was beta to the max.) In case you didn’t, though, you can watch the camcorder version, with a rockin’ soundtrack.