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Report: The Next iPhone Is Coming in August

iMore is reporting that Apple will release its next-gen iPhone in August. Obviously, the device will be stronger, better, faster, and so on, but the real takeaway is the timing. For years, iPhone releases were as predictable as the tides, coming every June. But the iPhone 4S came in October, the iPhone 5 in September,…

Best Buy’s Deal of the Day Ad Uses (GASP!) a Jailbroken iPad (Updated)

Can you spot anything amiss in today’s Best Buy Deal of the Day page? Anything out of the ordinary? Look a little closer. Still don’t see it? Here’s a better look: That’s right! Hiding out among all the boring lazy stock iOS apps is Cydia. Good ol’ Cydia, app haven to jailbroken miscreants the world…

The iPhone Was Almost Called Telepod, Mobi or Tripod

During a talk at the University of Arizona’s Department of Marketing, Apple’s former head of advertising, Ken Segall, let slip about some of the alternative names seriously considered at Cupertino before the launch of the iPhone. They’re surprisingly bad. Fortunately, 9to5mac was at the talk, and has published Segall’s justifications for some of the names.…

AppConverters iPad Aquarium: You Supply the Tiny Castle, It Supplies the Fish

If you’ve always wanted a pet, but are so irresponsible that even keeping fish alive is a challenge, you’ll be happy to hear you don’t have to worry about feeding, cleaning, or even remotely caring for the creatures inhabiting this iPad-powered virtual aquarium. Using the same optical tricks that power teleprompters, the AppConverters Aquarium uses…

Can This iPhone 5 Case Really Boost Your Wi-Fi Reception?

If you’re stuck with a limited iPhone data plan and rely heavily on Wi-Fi to avoid overage charges, spending $50 to vastly improve your reception when leeching from free hotspots might sound like a real bargain. That is, if the Linkase manages to deliver on its promise of boosting Wi-Fi reception by as much as…

Chrome for iOS has just been updated to let you access your tab history at the tap of a button.

A Giant iPhone Will Look Stunning

If you shut your eyes and listen closely, you’ll hear the clop-clop of the inevitable: an iPhone that keeps getting bigger and bigger. And as much as we generally hate phablets, if an iPhone Plus looked like this, we’d melt. Gizmodo reader Martin Hajek put together these gorgeous renders for Nowhereelese.fr, which imagine the iPhone…

No, the iWatch Isn’t Definitely Coming This Year

There are headlines this morning, in abundance, that an Apple iWatch will be coming in 2013. They are declarative. They are definitive. They are wrong. The iWatch might be coming this year, or might come in 2015, or it might not come at all. And nothing in this Bloomberg report changes that. Here’s what Bloomberg…

Good news, iMac buyers: Apple has ironed out supply issues, so they’re now shipping in 1–3 days rather than 2-3 weeks.

Apple’s Lightning Digital AV Adapter Hides a Tiny Computer

Apple’s Lightning Digital AV Adapter is 50 bucks. That’s expensive. Apple’s Lightning Digital AV Adapter hooks up your iOS devices’ Lightning port to HDMI. But it lags and gives artifacts. Apple’s Lightning Digital AV adapter actually hides a tiny computer inside in the cable…wait what? Yes. The folks at Panic Software broke open a Lightning…

Judge Cuts $450 Million Off the $1 Billion Samsung Owes Apple

Judge Lucy Koh has given Samsung a huge discount on the damages it owes Apple. Originally billed to pay Apple over $1 billion, Judge Koh has cut $450,514,650 from Samsung’s tab. The new total that Samsung owes is $598,908,892. Still an unfathomable amount of money but an unfathomable amount of money less now. The reason…

Apple Is Deleting iCloud Emails That Have the Phrase ‘Barely Legal Teen’ in Them

Something really weird is happening to iCloud emails. It turns out, Apple is straight up deleting emails sent from iCloud email accounts that have the phrase “barely legal teen” in them. Like, if you sent out an email that included that phrase in the body of the message, it would never be sent to the…

The Proper Way To Make a Bottle-Opening iPhone Case

This is far from the first attempt at incorporating a bottle opener into an iPhone case. But the Fortress 2 from XGearlive is hands down the only design you should consider. Instead of a clunky slide-out mechanism, or an unsightly bulge on the back, it neatly integrates a subtle opener onto the edge of its…

Conan Knows What You’re Really Using That iPad For

Apple’s new iPad commercial that aired during the Oscars would have you believe that there’s a lot of film-making going on with that device, and maybe there is. But there’s a lot more watching, and Conan’s gotten to the bottom of exactly what’s being watched. There’s no denying it: an iPad is a great for…

The Miracle Bendy Displays of the Future Are Still Years Away

The frustration with devices like a hypothetical iWatch—or a completely imaginary roll-up tablet (maybe a Vaio or something?)—is that they’re made up of parts, and sometimes those parts don’t exist quite yet. Or, in the case of Corning’s brilliantly flexible Willow glass, they exist, but no one knows quite how to use them yet. https://gizmodo.com/what-crazy-gadgets-will-be-made-with-cornings-new-flexi-5915478…

iCloud Had a Real Bed-Shitting This Morning

Apple’s iCloud portfolio of various streaming and syncing services has existed for two years. And in those two years, Apple still hasn’t been able to keep it from regularly fucking up. It happened again today! 9to5Mac noticed the outage, which began at around 4 AM ET and just ended about an hour ago—and hit iCloud…

Apple has hit one billion iTunes U content downloads, which means a whole lot of people are almost getting educations!

The Judge Who Forced Apple to Publicly Apologise to Samsung Now Works for… Samsung

The judge who came up with the bizarre idea of forcing Apple to apologise on the front page of its web site after a court battle with Samsung went wrong has a new job, working for… Samsung. According to research by patent law expert Florian Mueller, The Rt. Hon. Professor Sir Robin Jacob was one…

The Most Stylish iPhone Cables You Can Get Now Work with the iPhone 5

When we first saw Eastern Collective’s super snazzy cloth iPhone cables, we lusted after them but didn’t buy any because they were about to become outdated by the Lightning adapter. Now? We’re buying as many as we can because the swirly cloth is covering both lightning cables and micro USB cables. https://gizmodo.com/too-bad-these-stylish-iphone-cables-are-about-to-be-obs-5933687 The lightning cable…

Hardware Comes Last

Google’s Chromebook Pixel is aspirational in nearly every way. It’s designed within an inch of its life, a physical specimen worthy of Rodin. Its lines are sharp, its display is crisp. And nearly every review has had the same takeaway: It’s amazing. Don’t buy it. It’s enough to give you whiplash, or at least a…