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How Long Does It Really Take To Browse NYTimes.com On EDGE?

[UPDATED: A few more trials yielded faster results]The Apple iPhone ad showing off Safari brags that it doesn’t have the Kinda-Sort-Looks-Like-the-Internet on board….just the Internet. But as you’ve heard for months, when using AT&T’s EDGE, it’s actually the real Internet, kind of slow. Watch. On WiFi things get considerably faster (10 seconds), but you can’t…

35WPM On an iPhone Keyboard

Here’s another guy claiming he gets 35wpm by typing with a thumb an his index finger. Personally, we don’t see how using the index finger on one side and a thumb on the other helps the typing. Unless of course, he’s got a foam rubber thumb on his right hand. YouTube (see related videos for…

A Little iPhone SIM Card Irony, Courtesy of AT&T

Stop me if you’ve heard this one… I stick the paper clip into the hole at the top of the iPhone and out pops a 3G SIM card. So does that mean that when the 2.0 iPhone comes out, with HSDPA and all that, at least I’ll be able to keep the SIM? Or is…

Virtual Magic With the iPhone

Marco the virtual magician pulled some funny tricks with his iPhone on the street last Friday. It’s not getting your iPhone to actually activate on AT&T in a timely manner—that’d be some real magic—but it’s charming.

Followup: AT&T Offering Refunds For Forced iPhone Accessory Bundles

AT&T saw our story about several stores forcing customers to purchase accessories with the iPhone last Friday, and let us know that they’re aware of the problem and they’re taking steps to remedy it. First, they claim that this is not a company-wide policy and “no one is required to buy accessories in order to…

Businessweek and teardown experts Portelligent quote the hardware cost of the iPhone at $220. They’re following up iSuppli’s price teardown, and Semiconductor.com’s video. [Business Week] https://gizmodo.com/iphone-only-costs-250-to-make-rest-of-price-is-fanboy-229664

Tired of iPhone? Use it for Napping

There are a few details about the iPhone that haven’t quite been mentioned yet, so we thought we’d offer a snippet or two, starting with this little feature for nap-takers: a countdown alarm. At the end of the count, choose one of those hokey iPhone ring tones to wake you up. It’s going to be…

Root password has been cracked (“Alpine”); we’re on our way. [hackint0sh]

Wait! Ten Things You Should Know Before You Buy an iPhone

Although Apple’s iPhone may be feature-packed and great to use, it, like every other product, has limitations. And that’s why we’re putting it through our Ten Things You Should Know buyer’s guide series so new buyers and people who don’t live and breathe the iPhone (your parents, your co-workers, or your wife) can be just…

Contest Reminder: Win an iPhone

Just because the iPhone’s already out doesn’t mean we’re stopping our iPhone contest! Keep your submissions to our Made in Eureka contest coming, because we’re still giving away a free iPhone. Hit the link below to see how you can win one for yourself. Contest [Gizmodo] https://gizmodo.com/were-giving-away-an-iphone-270738

iSkin, DLO and XtremeMac Intro iPhone Stuff

Man, it’s like all of these accessories makers have been just waiting for iPhone to launch. First we had the availability announcement of Belkin cases and accessories, now DLO, iSkin and XtremeMac have jumped on the pile-up with some wild, if not all universally appealing, add-ons. https://gizmodo.com/belkin-iphone-accessories-arrive-274258 iSkin has a futuristically styled case, the “revo,”…

Bitching About Too Much iPhone Coverage? Listen Up.

We’ve been writing a lot about the iPhone. That’s because it’s a huge launch, the biggest new gadget of the past few years, and people are interested in it. It’s also because tech companies don’t want their announcements to get buried by the iPhone avalanche, so they’re holding off ’til it dies down. I know…

Great News Poopers!

The iCarta Toilet Paper iPod dock works with the iPhone. The world can relax. What else the iPhone works with [Gizmodo] https://gizmodo.com/iphone-works-with-ipod-music-docks-but-not-video-docks-274052

Adam Frucci Talking iPhone on Attack of the Show

Check out a live version of our Adam on G4’s Attack of the Show, talking about the iPhone.

Still Having iPhone Activation Problems?

We feel your pain. Hell, some of us took almost 48 hours for our iPhones to activate (it was actually our previous provider’s fault, because they took their sweet time letting go of the number). AT&T’s even put out a press release yesterday saying they’ve solved all problems on their end and everything should be…

Apple Finally Gets its Hands on iphone.com for at Least $1 Million

Up until last week, the name iphone.com belonged to a guy called Michael Kovatch. Not any more, it doesn’t. The entrepreneur, who registered the site in 1995 and was planning on building a business around it, has just flogged the domain name to Steve and Co. for an undisclosed seven-digit sum.

iPhone Battery Replacement Plan Details

You probably know by now that the iPhone only lasts about 300-400 charges —and that’s most likely full charges, not topping it off from 80% to 100% at night—before you have to send it into Apple for a replacement.[Updated: That’s wrong. Here’s proof.] Apple’s just thrown up a page saying it’s going to be $79…

Belkin iPhone Accessories Arrive

Belkin just announced its lineup of iPhone accessories. There are three cases we gave you a video peek at last week: a clear acrylic one for protection and use on-the-go, a sport armband and a leather wallet, each for a reasonable $30. But that’s not all. https://gizmodo.com/the-floodgates-are-open-iphone-accessories-273236 There are two stereo audio cables that resemble…

Slate Calls Out the iPhone and Its Adoring Press

Not one, but two Slate regulars blaspheme the iPhone amid the media lovefest of the past week. First, Tim Wu flatly (and rightly) says that “the iPhone is—so far—not a product that will turn any industry inside out.” It’s a great phone, but a crappy, and moreover, locked computer. Here’s the money quote: “Judged by…

iPhone Web 2.0 Standards Support Sucks

Steve Jobs: “Our innovative approach, using Web 2.0-based standards, lets developers create amazing new applications while keeping the iPhone secure and reliable.” Yeah, they’re going to have to create them since the iPhone’s current support of “Web 2.0” standards, in a word, blows. No Java, Flash, full AJAX (the cinchpin of innumerable Web 2.0 apps)…