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Gizmodo’s no-lifecam is online again, I’m filming some iPhone stuff live. [iPhone SF Campout Live Video] https://gizmodo.com/sf-iphone-line-is-a-friggin-circus-p-s-were-live-273439

Unconfirmed: Activate the iPhone With Extra iPhone

Most people know by now that the iPhone is essentially a brick without a contract and activation. But a lot of the phone’s features don’t require phone service at all, like WiFi and music playback. And pending that you have two iPhones handy, we have unconfirmed instructions on how to activate those latent features without…

iPhone Firmware in the wild; so far, useless but it could lead to some nice hacks. [Engadget]

What To Do With the iPhone While Waiting for Service

Waiting for the painfully long iPhone activation has brought about all sorts of creative, unlisted functions from the iPhone’s feature set. Reports of iPhone coasters, sushi trays, and tear collectors have filled the Internet. And then, of course, there is this…Video by Richard Blakeley. So what have you been doing with your iPhone while waiting…

Woman Wants to Buy $100,000 in iPhones, Can’t

Click to view For anyone who hasn’t heard this story, we highly recommend it. A woman buys the front spot in line to purchase $100,000 in iPhones to sell on eBay. The catch? She has no clue about the one per customer limit (at this AT&T store). Still, our favorite moment is when the boy…

iPhone Availability Shifting, Apple Promotes Their Lines

While it hasn’t been tough for those who didn’t wait in line to pick up an iPhone, Apple has updated their site with new availability instructions for their (fleeting?) stock. 1. Check iPhone availability after 9:00pm the night before you would like to buy an iPhone. iPhones arrive most days and availability is updated nightly.…

Semiconductor.com discovered that the iPhone’s CPU is the same as used in the HTC Titan yesterday, but the geeks dug up more detail. [Engadget] https://gizmodo.com/videos-of-the-iphones-guts-both-academic-and-destructi-273996

Videos of the iPhone’s Guts, Both Academic and Destructive

The first video includes an iPhone and a Hammer, and speaks for itself. The Second video shows the iPhone for more academic reasons.Not too surprisingly, the phone has components you’ve seen in other handsets. Namely: It has the same processor on the HTC Titan, Same sound quality and storage RAM as the iPod Nano. Balda…

Breaking: Several AT&T Stores Forced Customers to Buy Accessories With iPhone

Click to viewFollowing up on the launch difference between AT&T and Apple stores, we’ve got three separate accounts of people reporting that AT&T is forcing them to buy accessories along with their iPhone at three different AT&T stores. This was definitely not the case at Apple stores, and for AT&T to decide this on their…

Aha! The Trick to Typing On an iPhone

Minutes after the first time I typed on an iPhone, I realized a trick that bumped accuracy to almost 99%. Instead of hunting and pecking, I’ve been sliding into place, letting the popups tell me what letter I’m on before releasing the key and triggering the keystroke. It’s been good training. I’m still not typing…

Top Five iPhone Apps of the Moment

Here are the top five most useful iPhone apps we’ve come across so far. • iPhone AIM Chat: No iChat? Use Web-based iChat. AIM only. • The Gas finder app and OneTrip shopping list: Save money and time • Digg: An interface to browse digg. Great until Digg makes an iPhone-friendly version of their site.…

LG Prada vs iPhone Comparisons Imminent, Stupid

Get ready for an onslaught of LG Prada vs iPhone comparisons. They’re both touch screens, but the only way an LG Prada phone can beat an iPhone is if the iPhone is a papercraft model. I’m not going to honor it by doing a side by side. My comparison last month, based off of previous…

The iPhone Superfans, A Tribute

There are Apple fanboys—they run around with mommy and daddy’s credit card, wear earbuds, occasionally write for Gizmodo and will defend touchscreen typing to the death minor injury. Then there are the superfans—these Great Beings will go months without food or water, living off of the occasional sprays of Jobsonian phlegm that’s carefully rationed between…

iPhone Launch, AT&T Vs. Apple Store

One of our readers, Frank Beacham, wrote in this morning after experiencing the iPhone launch first-hand in lines at both AT&T and the Apple. We thought his piece was well-written and quite telling about the difference in customer service between the two companies, so we posted it after the jump. Last night, at the last…

iPhone Shopping Trip Quite Different Today

Are you pondering a purchase of an iPhone, but all that Day Zero gnashing of teeth and marathon line waiting is holding you back? Well, the experience today, one day later, is quite different. We departed Gizmodo’s Midwest Test Facility today at 1:15 p.m., heading to the Apple Store at our local mall for an…

Having Trouble Activating Your iPhone?

If you are, you’re probably familiar with the image above. You’ve probably seen it about 100 times while pawing hungrily at your $650 paperweight while waiting for that activation email from iTunes/AT&T. It’s not your fault, it’s AT&T/T-Mobile/Sprint/Verizon’s. Join the club. Post your grief in the comments and we’ll all have a pity party.

All of Our iPhone Launch Galleries, Chronologically

Hit the jump for our complete collection of iPhone launch galleries. Because we love you—even if you are lazy. Whew, thank goodness for the digital revolution.

iPhone Live Sizemodo

Here it is, the Sizemodo you’ve been waiting six months to see. The iPhone vs. other music devices (iPod, Zune) and smartphones (AT&T 8525, Helio Ocean, Sprint Mogul). Which one’s the smallest and thinnest, and which one looks dirtier after months of use? Which do you think?

Gizmodo’s Top 5 iPhone Movies

We’ve posted a lot of video in the last 48 hours, but after the jump are our five movies that you absolutely cannot miss. (Well, you can, but you may find yourself to be less of a person.) What will you do with your iPhone? The SF Apple Store closes early. People are pissed. We…

Companies Unlocking iPhones?

At the moment, this is not much more than a website sucking email addresses from innocent victims. But if what they claim is true, iphoneunlocking.com has unlocked 1,917 iPhones from the shackles of AT&T service. Apparently the company sent out legions of black-shirted employees to Apple launches in NYC. If anyone wants to test the…