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Retail Therapy: Inside the Apple Store

An Apple employee is never supposed to point when giving directions in their store. For example, when asked where the iPhone cases are sold, a specialist should either gesture with an open hand or, preferably, walk the customer to the proper location. If you’ve ever wandered into an Apple Store just to covertly check your…

Everybody Be Cool, Conan Fixed the Gold iPhone Shortage

There’s been a gold iPhone shortage since day one, although that’s likely more Apple’s short supply than any overwhelming wave of demand. Still, though, if you’re holding out for all that glitters, Conan’s got the hookup. https://gizmodo.com/why-a-gold-iphone-5s-actually-makes-sense-1166440705 And while I’m not convinced that guy is actually the gold iPhone’s designer, he definitely seems more in…

Jony Ive and Craig Federighi Talk Design, User Experience and Touch ID

Last week, Business Week ran a fairly boring interview with Tim Cook, Jonathan Ive and Craig Federighi. Now, though, it’s released a longer interview with just Ive and Federighi, which is kinda interesting. Here are some of the highlights. Ive on making complex solutions seems effortless: I feel that it’s lovely when as a user…

Trade Your Swiss Army Knife For This Multi-Function iPhone Case

Your smartphone has already replaced everything from your digital camera to your alarm clock, so why not the pocket knife clipped to your keyring too? The creators of the IN1 feel you should demand more from your iPhone case than just a way to protect it from falls, and so have packed theirs with a…

iPhone 5C Review: A Fresh Coat of Paint Only Goes So Far

In a way, we already reviewed this phone a year ago. In fact, iPhone 5C is in every important way the iPhone 5 in different clothing. That’s not to say it’s bad phone. In fact, after spending a weekend with the iPhone 5C, I can say with certainty it’s a very good phone, in the…

Mailbox for iOS Has a Huge Security Flaw (Update: It’s Fixed)

Mailbox, the tidy iOS email app recently purchased by Dropbox, has a pretty wide-open hole that could allow bad actors to hijack your device. And unlike phishing attempts that should probably set off your sketchiness detector, this flaw involves emails that look completely innocuous. https://gizmodo.com/mailbox-review-your-bad-email-redemption-5983668 As Italian researcher Michele Spagnuolo shows, the Mailbox app will…

Good news for globetrotting Apple users: AppleCare+ now covers service in other countries. Seems the plan, which used to apply only to the country of purchase, now lets you get the coverage offered wherever you are. [TechCrunch]

According to Forbes, Microsoft will be giving away 200 bucks of in-store credit to anyone who trades in a used iPhone 4S or iPhone 5. Microsoft already has a standing trade-in offer for the iPad, so it’s pretty obvious that Microsoft is willing to throw money at you to get you to switch from Apple.

A Phone Book You Won’t Immediately Toss In the Recycling Bin

Haven’t found the perfect drawing or note-taking app to replace the hard covered notebook you still carry around? Who says you have to give it up just because you have a smartphone? Not the designers at KBme2, who want your app-laden iPhone to play nice with its new Phone + Book cahier. https://gizmodo.com/lego-adapter-turns-your-iphone-into-a-touchscreen-brick-511883543 Opening the…

Apple briefly had an option yesterday to order an iPhone 5S online and pick it up at your local store, but it seems to have disappeared. Looks like you’ll either have to wait til October for shipping, or just make your purchase at the store. [9to5Mac]

iPhone A7 Chip Teardown: Power-Dense Samsung Silicon

We’ve already seen inside the iPhone 5S and found out that its guts are blisteringly fast—but now iFixit has taken a very close look indeed at the A7 silicon that powers the new phone. https://gizmodo.com/the-iphone-5s-teardown-everything-new-is-on-the-inside-1352885479 By using an Ion Beam Etcher, it’s possible to take layers off a semiconductor and analyze how it’s made. So…

These Clever Docks Turn Your iPhone’s Flash Into a Bedside Lamp

By now our smartphones have become a constant bedside companion for most of us. But Shay Alkalay and Yael Mer over at the London-based Raw Edges Design Studio have come up with a way to make them more than just an alarm clock replacement. They’ve created a series of very clever concept docks that turn…

Slow-Motion iPhone Destruction, Shot With iPhone Slow-Motion

Best way to show off the iPhone 5S’s slow motion video capture? By using it to shoot Apple’s new smartphone being destroyed at 120 fps. How delightfully meta. https://gizmodo.com/the-new-iphone-caneras-flash-illuminates-photos-withou-1278459315 Between lighting the thing on fire and letting a dog lick peanut butter off the device, this is some very creative iPhone annihilation. Destruction is fun…

Apple sold more than nine million iPhone 5Cs and iPhone 5S’s over the weekend, making for the biggest launch ever. Impressive, but it’s worth pointing out that this is the first time the iPhone has been available in China at launch.

Why do people still wait in line for the new iPhone?

Why do these people still wait in line to buy a new iPhone? Or a new console? Or a new game? What’s the point? Do they think they’re going to be more special than the rest of the world for 24 hours? A week perhaps? This video tries to get some answers. Ultimately, however, it…

The NYPD Really, Really Wants You to Upgrade to iOS 7

Not too keen on leaving iOS 6 for the brave new world of iOS 7? Well there’s a pro-7 lobbying group that you might not expect: New York City cops. iDevice theft in NYC is bad. Real bad. So bad, the NYPD has a squad devoted to dealing with it. But both Apple and the…

Can you use your nipples to unlock your iPhone 5S? Look at this guy

If true, this is really weird. This video shows a Japanese iPhone 5S user using his nipples to lock and unlock the new iPhone 5S, which has a fingerprint sensor built-in. Apparently, the sensor works on nipples and toes! It looks real, but it can be some trick—like a another guy putting his finger inside…

Anyone Can Blow Past Your iOS 7 Lockscreen to Make Calls

Just the other day we came across an iOS 7 vulnerability that will let creeps see your photos and even share them from behind the lockscreen. But that’s not all! Turns out you can make calls from behind the lockscreen too. This bug was discovered by Karam Daoud, and it’s even easier to pull off…

How To Talk Your Friends and Family Through iOS 7

It’s already happened to you and now it’s happening to the ones you love. They’re staring at their iPhones in bewilderment and disbelief. Everything that made so much sense a few days ago is different, and scary. You want to talk them through the change, but where can you start? Here’s a template: [Mom/Dad/Bro/Sis/Grandma/Grandpa/Roommate/Stranger crying…

iPhone 5C First Impressions: An iPhone 5 With a Hard Candy Shell

When we got our hands on the iPhone 5C, our very first thought was that it feels like the iPhone 5 permanently ensconced in a case. That was also our next four or five thoughts. Because basically, that’s all the iPhone 5C is. While the less expensive iPhone certainly doesn’t feel cheap, it’s obviously not…