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Unconfirmed: Third Party Native iPhone Apps Coming

There’s no confirmation other than some guy’s word, but Macapper says third party native (Cocoa) iPhone apps are coming soon. Apparently, during one of the WWDC evening parties, an iPhone engineer responded, “Yeah. There will be” to the question of “are there going to be third party Cocoa apps on the iPhone.” The iPhone engineer…

Geek Sugar replicates the Nintendo 64 video with the iPhone [Geek Sugar]

Contest Reminder: Win an iPhone

We’ve been getting great entries for our Made in Eureka contest. You guys must really want an iPhone ;). We’ve got another example of a great entry here by Sean Ross for a holographic rear vehicle display. It’s got three states, left or right turn, stop and stolen (which is triggered by the car alarm).…

iPhone FAQs For Current AT&T Customers: All Customers Eligible For iPhone

There’ve been plenty of details on how you buy an iPhone and sign up for AT&T service if you’re not a current AT&T customer, but until now current users have been jabbing in the dark about what they have to do. Well, AT&T’s finally put up a FAQ, and what a great FAQ it is.…

Everything We Know About the iPhone

Following up our list of features the iPhone was finally confirmed not to have, here’s a comprehensive list based on the four reviews currently out detailing everything we know about the iPhone so far: what it has, what it doesn’t have, its known problems and what we still don’t know. https://gizmodo.com/finally-confirmed-what-the-iphone-doesnt-have-272571 What it has: •…

Man Mugged For iPhone He Didn’t Have?

According to reports floating around the intertubes, a young man was walking at night in Kunitachi, a suburb of western Tokyo, when when muggers attacked him for his iPhone, which turned out to be a cigarette case. Besides the fact that the alleged mugging took place in a country where iPhones aren’t yet remotely for…

Next iPhone Video Shows Fast Typing, Even for Fumblefingers

Apple continues to crank out the instructional videos, with this latest episode showing you how to use the iPhone’s touchscreen keyboard. Notice the way the guy flies through the typing at the end of the piece. Soon, everybody will be iPhone typing. Those cats will be fast as lightning. In fact, it might be a…

Opinions Side-By-Side In Our iPhone Review Matrix

If you were too lazy to actually read the four iPhone reviews that came out last night, we’ve done the hard part and stuck the most salient tidbits into a chart, hoping to see both agreement and dissent among the elders: David Pogue of the New York Times, Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal,…

What Will Happen On iPhoneDay?

Speculation runs rampant about what’s going to happen on Friday when the coveted iPhones are released in malls and stores across the land. No, Jesus is not going to descend from the clouds to personally bestow iPhones into the hands of the multitudes. But we are hearing some chatter about what might happen. Leakers of…

iWait, Therefore iAm a Student (or Unemployed)

Want an iPhone? Too busy being lazy/filthy rich/nonchalant/a sex slave? If you have money to burn, then you could get one of these nice young men to loiter sadly outside your local Apple Store, your greenbacks in his mucky paw. The going rate seems to be around $250 in Manhattan (although one New Yorker is…

Newsweek’s Steven Levy Loves the iPhone

Heavy weather and an unexpected overnight stay in Pittsburgh gave Newsweek tech whiz Steven Levy ample time to play around with the iPhone. How’d he spend his time? Doing what anyone would do, really: e-mail, get help negotiating downtown, check the weather, keep tabs on some sports, listen to music, and, of course, check out…

Finally Confirmed: What the iPhone Doesn’t Have

• Songs as Ringtones • Games • Any flash support • Instant Messaging • Picture messages (MMS) • Video recording • Voice recognition or voice dialing • Wireless Bluetooth Stereo Streaming (A2DP) • One-size-fits-all headset jack (May have to buy an adapter for certain headphones) Stuff we already knew it didn’t have • 3G (EV-DO/HSDPA)…

AT&T’s Website Updated To Locate iPhone Retailers

So you’re not blessed with an Apple store in your home city—tough cookies. Since Apple stores are closing at 2pm on Friday anyway, perhaps you should make other arrangements to snag your new phone. AT&T has updated their Find-A-Store webpage up to locate nearby AT&T stores that will be selling the iPhone starting Friday at…

USA Today’s iPhone Review (Verdict: They Like It)

Agreeing pretty much with Pogue and Mossberg, Ed Baig of USA Today says the iPhone’s keyboard (or lack of one) was so good that he “rarely made a mistake”. https://gizmodo.com/breaking-pogue-reviews-the-iphone-gives-it-1-5-thumbs-272543 In addition, he loved the visual voicemail, didn’t miss the scroll wheel found on actual iPods, and enjoyed picture and video viewing on its screen.…

The iPhone’s Camera: Great Under Ample Light

Pogue’s review in the NYT had a slideshow on the iPhone’s camera. What were his findings? Well, if there’s plenty of light and little to no movement, the iPhone’s cam works wonders. If you’re in the dark or the subject is in motion (even you’re outdoors), pictures turn out blurry. Seems pretty similar to other…

Steve Jobs Kinda Answers Some iPhone Questions

Mossberg gets Steve Jobs to talk iPhone. Except when he asks about version 2.0. Those questions are forbidden. The rest of the questions are important ones. Like will we see this on other carriers? Why no 3G? Will you include GPS? Will there be lower cost versions? Aaaaand, Jobs dodged those, too. An old lesson,…

Mossberg’s iPhone Video Review

Mossberg’s lost the funky music in the intro, and compared to Pogue’s video, he’s all business. The interesting bits left out of the text review are here, like, in regards to the keyboard, "I wanted to throw it out the window after 3 days". (Of course, he came around eventually, comparing it in speed to…

Mac or PC: The Rap

Of all the Mac vs. PC ad spinoffs, we like this rap version the most. Mac or PC [Thanks Pez!]

Breaking: Mossberg Reviews the iPhone, Says Keyboard A-OK After Five Days

Mossberg and Boehret review the iPhone, 3 minutes after Pogue at the NYTimes. In a nutshell: Our verdict is that, despite some flaws and feature omissions, the iPhone is, on balance, a beautiful and breakthrough handheld computer. Its software, especially, sets a new bar for the smart-phone industry, and its clever finger-touch interface, which dispenses…

Breaking: Pogue Reviews the iPhone, Gives it 1.5 Thumbs Up

David Pogue of the NYTimes got his iPhone review up (the first one by 3 minutes. Suck it, Mossberg!), oh boy! So what’s he think of it? Well, he likes it. Sort of. He’s taken with the design, but has some reservations overall. First, he likes the design. The phone is so sleek and thin,…