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The Scout Observer: Your Personal SATCOM, Powered by iPhone

There’s not really much that needs to be said about this six-pound beast of a box than what’s hinted at in the headline: Basically, this is a portable satellite communications device that’s built around an iPhone dock. Inside the box are a spectrum analyzer, power meter, multimeter and a Low Noise Block Downconverter. The latter…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Better Than a Pacifier, But Not by Much, Fisher-Price Offers iPhone Apptivity Case for Toddlers

I know many deluded parents will get their toddler the Fisher-Price Laugh and Learn Apptivity Case thinking it’s the first step toward raising a millionaire App developer, but come on. Gut check. The kid just likes the shiny shiny, right? Besides, he or she is just going to gum it up and use it to…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Rumor: Sprint Will Offer the iPhone 5 with an Unlimited Data Plan

According to Bloomberg, Sprint will not only sell the iPhone 5, they’ll have an unlimited data plan to go with it. If true, it will be huge for Sprint because neither AT&T nor Verizon offer unlimited data anymore. From the Bloomberg story: Sprint, the third-largest U.S. wireless carrier, plans to begin selling the device in…

Tech News Adrian Covert

You Can Now Blog On Blogger Using Your iPhone

If you blog on Blogger and wish you could post using your iPhone, Google has some good news for you. On Thursday, Google released the official Blogger app for the iPhone and iPod touch. The app is a modest first effort that’ll let you post to your blog, upload photos, tag a post, add labels…

Tech News Kelly

Hey Kids, the iPhone Will NOT Cure Acne

The U.S. FTC (Federal Trade Commission) has ruled that there is no proof that iPhone apps will cure acne. The commission has settled complaints with two developers concerning claims that their apps treated acne using colored lights emitted from the iPhone. While light therapy is a recognized treatment for acne, the iPhone does not emit…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin

Prisoners Don’t Like to Put iPhones Up Their Ass

According to a Folsom Prison guard, the iPhone is not a very popular cellphone among convicts. It’s hard to smuggle it inside the prison because “they take too much… real state.” The question now is: would the new iPhone 5 form factor increase Apple’s market share in the US prison system? And how popular is…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

SFPD Investigating Department’s Role in Missing iPhone 5 Search (Updated)

According to CNET, the SFPD is now investigating their role in the search for the missing iPhone prototype that occurred in late July. They’re trying to figure out how, exactly, four of their officers got mixed up in all this. An internal investigation into how the officers assisted two Apple employees search the Bernal Heights’…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin

Airplane Crash Victims Found at Sea Thanks to iPhone Signal

A military airplane with 21 people aboard was lost over Chile’s sea this weekend. It disappeared from radar and the authorities didn’t know where it crashed. Surprisingly, they started to recover their bodies thanks to Apple’s Find My iPhone feature. Remains from the CASA 212 from Chile’s Air Force were found floating in the sea…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Facebook Improves Its iPhone App, iPad App Still MIA

Download the new Facebook app for iOS and you’ll be able to tag your friends and places, share external links from a web view and bring some improved privacy settings to your iPhone. Though the iPhone app is better than ever, the iPad app is still MIA. And it looks like it won’t be arriving…

Tech News Kelly

11-Foot Tall iPod Dock Puts Your Device Out of Reach

The award for ridiculous iPod docks clearly belongs to Jarre Technologies’ 11-foot tall AreoDreamOne. Let’s forget for a moment that you have an 11-foot speaker in your house that looks like a heat lamp outside of a restaurant. The dock requires you to climb a built-in ladder to plug in your iOS device. Need to…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin

GameStop Will Let You Trade In Your Gently Used iPhone for Store Credits

Well, it’s clearer than ever that GameStop thinks mobile gaming is its future. At a trade show in Vegas last week, they officially dragged iDevices into their kinda bad trade-in business while also carrying new ones. The good news? They might sell iPhone 5s, too. https://gizmodo.com/gamestops-plan-to-stream-games-to-tablets-like-onlive-5788745 Selling the full array of iOS devices is probably…

Tech News Kwame Opam

Cthulhu and other eldritch horrors prepare to invade your iPhone

Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land is an iPhone-based RPG set in World War I. When it comes out later this year, you can help these doughty British soldiers stave off insanity and defend the world from horrors beyond time and space. Developer Red Wasp Design hasn’t set a firm release date yet (they pointed…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

BGR: Best Buy Expects iPhone to Come On the First Week of October (Updated)

The folks at BGR have stumbled upon some documents that allegedly detail basic first steps and prep work for a Best Buy iPhone 5 launch in the first week of October. We’ll add this evidence to the growing pile. Updated. https://gizmodo.com/the-iphone-5-rumor-roundup-redux-5836942 While it’s unclear at this time, the docs suggest a preorder period. Also mentioned…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Could the iPhone 5 Be Smaller Than We Think?

Yesterday, Macitynet showed off some pictures of the iPhone 4 and iPod Touch practically drowning in the now-famous iPhone 5 cases, pointing toward a thinner and wider design revamp. But MacRumors hired a designer to confirm the design. It’s smaller. Significantly so. https://gizmodo.com/picture-proof-that-the-iphone-5s-thinner-and-wider-5836936 Both MacRumors’ designer and the third party iPhone 5 cases used a…

Tech News Kwame Opam

The iPhone 5 Rumor Roundup Redux

A lot’s happened since the last time we put all the iPhone 5 rumors in one place for you. So here’s an up-to-date look at what we’re expecting from Apple’s next iPhone. https://gizmodo.com/the-iphone-5-rumor-roundup-5811488 We’re going to tackle the iPhone 5 and iPhone 4S rumors separately, since they’re often at odds with each other and very…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Apple’s Lost iPhone Search Team Flashed Three Badges to Toss Man’s Home (Updated)

In a bizarre reversal of earlier statements, the SFPD has informed the SFWeekly that officers did accompany Apple’s security team to Sergio Calderon’s house. https://gizmodo.com/san-francisco-police-now-admit-participating-in-search-5837072 According to Officer Dangerfield, “three or four” plainclothes officers did in fact take part. But, the officers did not enter Calderon’s home with the Apple security team. First reported by…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin

An iPhone Dock That Folds Up Like a Lawn Chair

Folding things is awesome. Laptops, pizza, gymnasts—foldable things are fun and great. So this foldable iPhone/iPod stand from XtremeMac better not suck or it’s going to take a dump all over my foldy worldview. The Soma Stand has dual speakers that fold in to make it more portable, which basically all we know about the…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Seriously, What the Hell Is Up With This Missing iPhone?

Yesterday, CNET broke the story that Apple lost another iPhone prototype. Juicy! Unfortunately, the CNET article created more questions than answers. https://gizmodo.com/did-apple-lose-an-iphone-5-prototype-in-a-bar-5836307 According to CNET’s source, Apple didn’t file a police report when the iPhone went missing. That threw up a few alarms—later in the article, CNET claims the San Francisco Police Department accompanied Apple…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin

iOS 5 Beta 7 Is Out

The next OTA update for iOS 5 is out for developers. It’s gotta be close to done now. We’ll know shortly what kind of goodies it has in store. [9to5 Mac]

Tech News Kwame Opam

Is This What the iPhone 5 Looks Like?

Reportedly, in the latest beta of Apple’s Photo Stream app, there’s a verrrry interesting icon repping for the iPhone—an iPhone that sorta doesn’t look any other iPhone yet. The screen is larger and seems wiiiiiider, stretching further out—with the phone having slightly different proportions than the current iPhones. (Update: To clarify! My working assumption in…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

The Scout Observer: Your Personal SATCOM, Powered by iPhone

Better Than a Pacifier, But Not by Much, Fisher-Price Offers iPhone Apptivity Case for Toddlers

Rumor: Sprint Will Offer the iPhone 5 with an Unlimited Data Plan

You Can Now Blog On Blogger Using Your iPhone

Hey Kids, the iPhone Will NOT Cure Acne

Prisoners Don’t Like to Put iPhones Up Their Ass

SFPD Investigating Department’s Role in Missing iPhone 5 Search (Updated)

Airplane Crash Victims Found at Sea Thanks to iPhone Signal

Facebook Improves Its iPhone App, iPad App Still MIA

11-Foot Tall iPod Dock Puts Your Device Out of Reach

GameStop Will Let You Trade In Your Gently Used iPhone for Store Credits

Cthulhu and other eldritch horrors prepare to invade your iPhone

BGR: Best Buy Expects iPhone to Come On the First Week of October (Updated)

Could the iPhone 5 Be Smaller Than We Think?

The iPhone 5 Rumor Roundup Redux

Apple’s Lost iPhone Search Team Flashed Three Badges to Toss Man’s Home (Updated)

An iPhone Dock That Folds Up Like a Lawn Chair

Seriously, What the Hell Is Up With This Missing iPhone?

iOS 5 Beta 7 Is Out

Is This What the iPhone 5 Looks Like?

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