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iPod Wins T3’s “Best Gadget of All Time” Award

You will call us fanboys, you will say we love Apple more than our own mothers, you will state we have had sexual relations with sheep and proclaim you have photographic proof. Despite all the evidence supporting your assertions, one thing is certain; Apple’s iPod has just scrolled home with T3’s “Best Gadget of All…

The Gadget Wars, Who Won/Lost Last Week?

Every week is a battle. There’s seldom any bullets and generally no poison gas. But every week is a battle for the consumer mind and the consumer heart. Here’s the way we saw things this week: one big winner, one loser and one company that’s dead in the water. + AT&T Part of AT&T’s Terms…

Red iPhone? Engadget has what appears to be an AT&T internal product list, with a red iPhone listed on it. The part that sounds fishy? 4GB sizes. Why would Apple bring the now discontinued capacity back? Wouldn’t be the first time Low level AT&T employees have provided questionable Apple facts. But colored iPhones aren’t such…

Earlier today the online Apple store had listed a ship date for Mac OS 10.4 Tiger as October 26th, which coincidentally is the rumored release date for 10.5 Leopard. Could this be more evidence for Leopard’s release date or simply a mistake on Apple’s part…

iPhone Dashboard Widgets Imminent?

Leander over at Cult of Mac (and managing ed at Wired.com) says he heard that the iPhone is getting the HTML + JavaScript-based Dashboard widgets that OS X has had since 10.4. The programs would sync over from iTunes. Timing? Imminent. I’d guess this is one of the surprises that’ll happen on the Leopard launch.…

Microsoft Phone Patent Looks Just Like the iPhone

In a patent filed this July, Microsoft wanted to stake their claim to a new interface for use on a touchscreen in a mobile device. The patent, entitled “Extensible filtered lists for mobile device user interface” looks kind of familiar… where have I seen it before? Oh, right. It’s the iPhone’s exact interface. Whaa? I’m…

Universal Plans Total Music Anti-iTunes Initiative With Free All-You-Can-Eat Music

Not only is Universal not signing multi-year contracts with Apple, it is now creating a service to confront iTunes and nurture iPod competitors like the Zune. Called Total Music, it may include Universal, Sony BMG and Warner—75% of music sold in the US—and would offer a twist on the traditional download and “PlaysForSure” subscription concepts.…

Reverse an Unlocked iPhone to its Virginal State

Here’s a complicated but well documented method for taking an iPhone from a unlocked state to a factory fresh state, so you can go on and upgrade to 1.1.1 if you’ve been testing unlocks. It works by refreshing the baseband firmware to factory default; meanwhile, bricking is supposedly caused by the altered unlocked basebands being…

iPod Touch Running iPhone Apps

Reader Felix just let us know that he’s jailbreaked and installed many of the iPhone third-party apps onto his iPod touch—including the new Summerboard hacked Springboard that lets you scroll between many different homepages. He’s got Google Maps from the iPhone running on there, as well as all the other fun ones like Apollo and…

“Transparent” Touchscreen: LCD the Front, Fingers in the Back

The iPhone touch interface is innovative, there is no doubt about that—but it does have some drawbacks. For example, multi-touch is ill suited to fat fingers and the process of navigating obstructs the screen. Wigdor at MERL, and Patrick Baudisch at Microsoft Research are hoping to change all that with a new touch sensitive gadget…

Apple iPhone Webapps Directory Live…No IM?

The Apple iPhone Webapps directory is live right now, with over 200 apps like Bank of America Banking App, Digg App, and a few other “apps” you could run through Safari’s real web browser already, but it’s useful to find them all in one place. What’s weird is that there are no IM clients, like…

Apple Applies For Another Force Sensitive Touchscreen Patent

With this patent and the one filed last week, Apple’s got more force sensitivity than Luke and Darth combined. The latest one, titled “Force and Location Sensitive Display,” detects both where your finger is and how hard you’re pressing down on a display. Skipping over the technical details of how this is done, the end…

Even a Dog Can Scroll Through Pics on an iPod Touch

Here’s your proof that the iPod touch is easy to use: It’s such a no-brainer that even a hairy mammal with a brain smaller than most humans can scroll through the pictures on it. Hey, it also shows how scratchproof that glass screen is. [Core 77]

iPhoneSIMFree Releases First 1.1.1 SIM Unlock, Fixes AnySIM-Bricked iPhones

Click to viewiPhoneSIMFree, the company that released the first GUI iPhone SIM unlock, has just provided an updated version of their SimFree unlocker for iPhone 1.1.1 phones. According to them, they can apply their unlock thanks to the iPhone Dev Team’s 1.1.1 Jailbreak. Their new software will work with virgin, never-unlocked iPhones with firmware 1.1.1…

Will You Hack Your iPhone Again?

Minutes ago, version 1.1.1 of the iPhone’s software was jailbreak’d or Jailbroken, or whatever. Apps and other hacks will start flowing again. I’m happy, but not as happy as when I thought Apple was cool with the Apps. And I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t nervous about hacking my iPhone again. I’m worried…

iPhone Dev Team’s Working 1.1.1 Jailbreak Reopens Door to Apps and Unlocks

Click to viewJust shortly after the first iPhone 1.1.1 jailbreak was released, the iPhone Dev Team follows up with a different method that can be incorporated into future graphical tools, unlike the previous one. While this one is still not quite ready for mass consumption since it still has the problem of having to use…

Non Dev Team iPhone Firmware 1.1.1 Jailbreak Released (Verdict: Wait!)

Hackers not part of the official iPhone Dev Team have released an iPhone and iPod Touch jailbreak that’s based upon the Safari TIFF image exploit we first saw a few days ago. There are a few major things wrong with it, which means this isn’t exactly ready for normal people to use yet. We’ve been…

Java Phone: Sun Microsystems and Samsung May Be Developing Cheaper iPhone Alternative

Rumor has it that Sun Microsystems and Samsung are jointly developing a “Java Phone” that is cheaper and more feature rich than Apple’s iPhone. Details are scarce, but a Samsung spokesperson confirmed that a meeting has taken place between the two companies regarding the phone, but the details of that conversation have not been made…

Turn Your iPhone/iTouch Into a 3G Web Device

We haven’t tested this ourselves, but Pyrofersprojects came up with an interesting, but ultimately impractical, way to turn your iPhone or iPod touch into a 3G internet-using device. All you need is a 3G smartphone with Windows Mobile 5 or 6, a 3G data account, and the know-how to follow a guide teaching you how…

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