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Online orders from store.apple.com that were given the 2-4 week shipping date are actually shipping now, direct from China.

Crystal Icing Offers iPhone, Swarovski-Style

Crystal Icing, known for covering various electronics in Swarovski crystals, offers an iPhone given the same treatment. For $295, you can get your phone “iced” with 1,500 regular-sized crystals, or 3,000 really small ones. Patterns range from butterflies to “tons of flowers” to flames. Or even camo, for you tough guys with an eye for…

iResQ iPhone Camera Removal Service

iResQ, a company that offers an iPhone repair service, will also remove the device’s camera functionality for $100, including overnight shipping. Why would you ever want to handicap your iPhone? A lot of jobs that deal with sensitive information—R&D positions at corporations, lawyers in courtrooms, government folks, and so on—won’t allow a camera behind closed…

iPhone ringtones stored as unprotected AAC files on the iPhone. Does this mean we’ll be able to use our own files soon? [Macrumors]

iPhone Shopping Bag Sells for $305 on eBay

Our jaws collectively dropped when we saw this iPhone carrying bag, which was about to sell for $305 on eBay. It’s a shopping bag, folks. Sure, it’s more like an open-ended box than a mere shopping bag, and yeah, we were pretty impressed with it, but $305? WTF? We haven’t seen this kind of insanity…

Apple Applies for Patent for Simplified Cellphone with Click Wheel

You might be looking at plans for the iPhone nano. Here’s a patent application by Apple, dated today, that shows a simplified input pad with numbers on it, and it could conceivably be a simple follow-on to the iPhone. The touchpad “displays graphical elements to indicate input areas of the touchpad,” and as you can…

DVD Jon Cracks iPhone Activation

On top of the two phone activation tricks, DVD Jon has found a way to emulate the iTunes server, getting the iPhone to work as a Wi-Fi iPod. (No calls, of course.) [So Sue Me via Adam H.] https://gizmodo.com/unconfirmed-activate-the-iphone-with-extra-iphone-274046

iPhone and Apple Bluetooth Headset Autopair

Wondering why Apple’s Bluetooth headset is worthy of your hard-earned cash and a special dual dock? According to the Apple Store, docking both your iPhone and the headset in the dock will not only charge them both, it will automatically sync them. Apple Bluetooth Headset and Apple iPhone Dual Dock

iPhone Returns?

I swapped my iPhone today, because of some battery wonkiness. Apple took great care of me, as a customer. (I camped and bought mine, and others who returned had the same experience.) Gawker Media polls require Javascript; if you’re viewing this in an RSS reader, click through to view in your Javascript-enabled web browser. Anyone…

V-MODA Vibe Duo Headphones/Headset Come iPhone Ready

Since the iPhone’s headphones jack is leaving us all with precious few options, it’s not surprising to see headphones made specifically with the iPhone in mind. The V-MODA’s Vibe Duo headphones deliver the same quality sound V-MODA earbuds are known for, and act as a headset to boot. That means you don’t need to whip…

FCC Gives HTC Cavalier Green Light

Fans of the popular HTC Excalibur (T-Mobile Dash) should be excited to hear that the smartphone’s anticipated successor, the HTC Cavalier, has been approved by the FCC. We already saw the thing get unboxed months ago, but for those of you with short memories, the Cavalier has 3G connectivity—a make-or-break feature for most people looking…

If You Still Haven’t Bought Your iPhone a Case, Read This

Vincent Nguyen from myitablet.com has test-driven a whole bunch of iPhone cases—and overall, he’s not too impressed. Apparently, the proximity sensor gets blocked in some of them.

Unconfirmed: AT&T Sent Internal Memo Requiring iPhone Accessory Purchase? (Updated)

The AT&T bundled iPhone accessory saga keeps on trucking along, much to nobody’s surprise. This time we have an unconfirmed update with a supposed internal memo from last week telling sales associates to make customers buy at least one iPhone accessory with the iPhone. We haven’t seen the memo ourselves, but just a report of…

What Happens When a Zune and an iPod Have Sex?

Super nerd Chris Pirillo—you know, the guy that read his wedding vows off a UMPC—just made this video with his wife (?) showing off what would happen if an iPod had sex with a Zune. It’s four minutes long, but there’s only about 30 seconds to a minute of fat in it, which is quite…

iPhone May Sell Fast, But Not RAZR Fast

Click to viewIt’s no wonder Steve Jobs got into the phone business. He introduced the iPod in October 2001, and by April 2006, he had sold over 50 million of them. Now, 50 million units in less than five years is good, but Motorola sold 50 million RAZRs in less than two. It took Motorola…

NYT: Asian Handset Makers Finally Fear the iPhone, Maybe

The NYT tries to spin the same old iPhone competition story with a seemingly fresh angle: Rather than going on about handset makers writ large adapting to the iPhone, the story at first seems to zero in on Asian companies, like LG and Samsung. But after what amounts to a long introduction, it elides actually…

The iPhone Costs Apple $220 in Components

We’ve run a few stories on Apple’s iPhone manufacturing costs by now, including this dissection complete with component breakdown, but here’s another. When technology Austin analyst Portelligent dissected the iPhone, they determined the components of the 4GB model run $200, with the 8GB running just $20 more. But Portelligent admits that it’s tough to price…

Glide wins the race to work around the iPhone’s crippled Web 2.0 support—word processing ahoy. [InfoWeek/Yahoo!] https://gizmodo.com/iphone-web-2-0-standards-support-sucks-274211

Helio’s 3G YouTube Access Now Free

Helio originally wanted to charge a few bucks a month for YouTube, but in response to the iPhone’s free access, they’re doing it free, too. And that’s over 3G, so it’ll be fast where ever you have EVDO coverage. See? One-up-manship can be beneficial for all. Oh, did I mention that you can upload your…

Ten Takes on the Apple iPhone

We’ve heard the iPhone news nonstop for days. We’ve known it uses slow EDGE for months, and have always suspected that the typing might not feel right. But at the end of the day, a LOT of people are going to pick up this phone, either way. So are they suckers, or the tech elite?…