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Our iPhone hands-on is massive, but our verdict is short: Wait a little while. https://gizmodo.com/apple-iphone-review-276116

Duke Absolves Apple, Fingers Cisco

Duke University has now shifted the blame from the iPhone to Cisco, for causing the reported wireless outage. Duke ‘s chief information officer, Tracey Futhey, detailed; “Cisco worked closely with Duke and Apple to identify the source of this problem, which was caused by a Cisco-based network issue.” https://gizmodo.com/dukes-wireless-lan-is-being-eaten-alive-by-iphone-mac-a-279127 Though the specifics of the trouble…

Gene Munster Predicts $205 For Apple in 2008

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster has moved Apple’s stock price projection for 2009 up a whole year to 2008, making Munster’s projection the highest price anyone has ever given Apple: $205 per share. Is there method to his madness? Of course. And it has something to do with our obnoxious graphic. One thing we learned…

The Linux Lottery

Winners collect $25,000. As for the smug satisfaction of not being a pawn of Microsoft or Apple, no purchase necessary. [flickr]

Duke University has officially retracted any iPhone implication in wireless network outage. [CNET] https://gizmodo.com/dukes-wireless-lan-is-being-eaten-alive-by-iphone-mac-a-279127

Is that a Braun ET44 in Your iPhone?

Does this 1970’s Braun ET44 calculator look familiar? Well for you iPhone users it should, it seems to bear more than a striking resemblance to your calculator application, no? [Wired]

Arriva iPod Shuffle Headphones Make us Laugh, Cry a Little

Could these possibly be the worst headphones ever made for the iPod shuffle? Yes, yes they could. Instead of making them something a normal person would wear, Arriva’s gone and made them “wireless,” in the sense that they have a built-in iPod shuffle dock and hangs the player off the back of your head. Sure,…

Really like reddit.com? Buy the two Apple G4 PowerBooks that helped code it so you can lick the keyboard and hope some of their juice rubs off onto your own project. [eBay]

The 85W MacBook Pro charger gets an update that shrinks its gigantic size, but still manages to deliver 85 watts where it needs to go. [Apple]

Stephen Colbert Gets His Free iPhone

Stephen Colbert, who’s been begging for a free iPhone for months now, finally gets his free iPhone. In his segment on mankind being enslaved by robots and technology, he whips it out and yells at it, not quite being thankful for getting it for free. [Comedy Central – Thanks Kevin!]

iHome iH52 vs. XtremeMac Tango vs. Eton Sound 100 iPod

Round two of our iPod Dock Bracket continues as three docks battle it out for our eternal love and loyalty…until the next round. It’s heavyweights iHome iH52 and XtremeMac Tango duking it out in the same ring as the welterweight Eton Sound 100 iPod. Who will win? Why would you even read the teaser anymore?…

High School Musical iPod Clock/Radio and LCD TV Make You Jealous of Little Kids

The smartest way to produce cool-looking electronics is to hire someone who already knows how, someone from frog design, for instance. Disney’s electronics team is helmed by two former froggers, Chris Heatherly and John Guerra, and they’ve started turning some wild designs into hardware realities. The High School Musical Clock Radio above probably won’t outblast…

“Hello World” 3rd-Party iPhone App Compiled, Loaded, Run

Another Free iPhone checkpoint has been reached. It has been reported but unconfirmed that the first 3rd party, non-Safari iPhone app was run today in the wild. Developer “Nightwatch” did the compilation and execution of the program using his ARM/Mach-O Toolchain. Check their progress report after the jump. After many, many hours of intense work…

OtterBox iPhone Case Looks Rugged, But Not Quite Waterproof

OtterBox is known for their rugged cases, and this forthcoming iPhone case looks like it’s going to continue their tradition. It’s got “complete” protection, which means not only are all the sides and back covered (the buttons work through pass-through buttons), there’s a built-in screen protector that works through their “patented touch-screen membrane”. The case…

Colorware Colors Up iPhones in Style

Want your iPhone in a color other than silver? Apple can’t help, but Colorware’s got you covered. You saw what a good job they did on on Xbox 360, so there’s no reason to think their quality will be anything but spectacular for the iPhone. You can send in your existing iPhone and have them…

Turn iPhone’s Back All-Black with Back Cover Replacement Kit

We’re perfectly happy with the brushed aluminum backs of our iPhones, but some people are disconcerted by the difference between the back’s black bottom and aluminum top. Now the Cellular Nationwide Network is offering the Apple iPhone OEM Metal Black Rear Cover, a replacement for that aluminum back that gives your iPhone an ominous-looking, totally…

Twitter fever’s all but subsided at GizHQ, but if you’re still Twittering away, here’s the iPhone client for the faux-mini-blog app. [Thincloud]

iPhone Nano Before Holidays? (Again)

It sounds crazy, so soon after launch, but the iPhone nano could be coming out before Xmas. Kasper at Apple Insider claims: • “The second iteration of the handset is presumed to marry iPod functionality with rudimentary cellular capabilities.” •”More resource-heavy internet browsing and email capabilities are not expected of the device.” •”Pricing of the…

iPhone Applecare $80$69 For an Extra Year, Says Pogue [UPDATED: Confirmed]

[UPDATED: Confirmed at $69.] Applecare is supposed to be available for the iPhone this month, and the price may be $80. Joel Johnson, walker-of-Gizmodo-halls-of-lore, noticed this statement in Pogue’s Missing Manual PDF, on page 277: “The iPhone comes with a one-year warranty. If you buy an Applecare contract ($80) you’re covered for a second year.…

Apple Applies for Wireless iPod Patent, Welcomes Us to the Social?

Apple’s had a few smash hit releases lately, so we’re watching its patent applications more closely than a brownnoser’s lips to his boss’s ass. Here’s another patent app, this one showing an iPod wirelessly controlling a media server running iTunes. Beyond that, the server can also send files back to the iPod for some wireless…