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Mophie Juice Pack Helium for iPhone 5 Review: Wherein Juicing Is A Good Thing

There’s no getting around the iPhone 5’s abysmal battery life. It’s by far the least desirable feature. Mophie hopes to change all that later this month when it starts shipping the helium juice pack, the first “Certified Battery Case Solution” for the iPhone 5. Awesome, right? What Is It? A case for your iPhone that…

BlackBerry Creative Director Alicia Keys Is Tweeting From Her iPhone (Updated)

Hey, Alicia Keys. I totally love that new Drake single you’re quoting, too. But you’re BlackBerry’s official Creative Director and Spokesmom and that’s an iPhone you’re tweeting from. In Mrs. Swizz Beatz’s defense, she had been tweeting from her BlackBerry, but it seems like the iPhone might be her personal phone. The Apple device is…

iOS 6.1.1 Is Out, iPhone 4S Gets First Dibs

Apple started pushing out iOS 6.1.1 for the iPhone 4S this afternoon. You can download it here. Apparently the over-the-air update fixes some issues with 3G coverage in Europe. We haven’t seen it pop up on the iPhone 5 or any other devices yet. However, since it seems to address a wireless connectivity issue, it’s…

Every Apple Product Supposedly in the Works

Did you hear the latest rumor about Apple’s “explorations” into a Dick Tracy-like smartwatch that’ll soon be attaching itself to everybody’s wrists? It’s coming soon. Or never. But it’s just another one of an avalanche of products Apple is rumored to have in the works. We’ve rounded up everything Apple’s supposed to have in the…

Spy Shots Show (Alleged) Next iPhone Under Construction (Updated: NVM, Prob)

Contrary to reports that Apple is retiring the iPhone forever, 9to5Mac pulled over these Chinese snapshots of what they say is Foxconn assembly line. And on that assembly line—yep, The Next iPhone. Maybe. The shots, if they are real (and given China’s track record with leaked photos the last time around, probably are) confirm what…

Evasi0n Jailbreak Has Unshackled Close to 7 Million iOS Devices

Earlier this week, the jailbreak tool to rule them all, evasi0n, was released and since then there have been close to seven million new jailbroken iOS devices. At least that’s what the creator of Cydia told Forbes. The actual breakdown of those nearly seven million devices as of last night boils down to 5.15 million…

There’s already an update to Evasion’s super-simple jailbreak for iOS 6.1. Fast work!

Smartphone Bow Turns Your Handset Into an Archery Simulator

Securing at least an honorable mention for the most over-the-top smartphone accessory, the BowBlade promises to turn aspiring iOS and Android archers into modern day Robin Hoods (or, sigh, Katniss Everdeens) who are never in risk of accidentally sending an arrow flying dangerously off-target. The rectangular bow uses flexible, swappable blades instead of a taut…

Augmented Reality Case Turns Your iPhone Into a (Kind Of) Accurate Tape Measure

There are already a handful of iOS apps that can turn your iPhone into a tape measure (minus the tape) in a pinch, but Incipio’s new Rugged AR Case promises a usable level of accuracy when it comes to measuring distances of up to 20 feet. The secret is a removable triangular augmented reality marker…

The Perfect Definition of This Goddamn Digital Life

Brazilian illustrator Felipe Luchi made this exquisite illustration for Go Outside Magazine. It’s the perfect definition of this digital life. We are prisoners of our phones and tablets and all our digital crap. I am. You are. We all are. We get sucked into these stupid machines, see reality through them. Instead of empowering us,…

How to Jailbreak Your iPhone or iPad

Jailbreaking is not a crime, but the special legal exemptions that make it legal have to me made and re-made every couple of years. As the EFF notes, a deadline is fast approaching, and unless the Librarian of Congress makes a special explicit call that jailbreaking is still OK, it could fall into the realm…

iPhone Math: What Would an Even Bigger iPhone Be Like?

So there have been these rumors of a larger iPhone. An ‘iPhone Math‘ is what some are calling it. Worthless, right? I rather hope not. As Marco has suggested, maybe this iPhone Plus is real, and the die-shrunk A5X is heading for this device. I’m going to assume that his wild stab in the dark…

The iPhone 5 Jailbreak Is Finally Here

Freedom! It’s been a long time coming, but following last week’s iOS 6.1 release, there’s finally a jailbreak that’ll work on your iPhone 5, and it extends to pretty much every other iOS 6.1 device out there too. Pioneered by Evad3rs, the new jailbreak is untethered and is the first of its kind to work…

You Have To Wait One More Day for an iPhone 5 Jailbreak

That iOS 6.1 jailbreak that was maybe probably definitely supposed to come out today, courtesy of evad3rs? Bad news; it’s not coming until tomorrow. Despite the rumored (and hoped) Super Bowl-day launch date, we’ll all have to wait just a little longer. When the jailbreak does eventually come through, it’ll support all iPhones, iPads, and…

The First iPhone Jailbreak Took a Whopping 74 Steps

If you’re at all up on the whole jailbreaking scene, you know that the long-awaited iPhone 5 jailbreak is probably maybe definitely coming today, finally. And even though there’s been a long wait, the exploit is definitely going to be a hell of a lot better than the first ones were. Jailbreaking used to take…

Is This a Patent for the Rumored “Budget” iPhone? (Update: Probably Not)

It’s a rumor that never dies: Apple is working on a cheaper, “budget” iPhone that will push for market-share in markets where the company’s typically premium are especially expensive. But in the absence of hard evidence, we have soft evidence. Like this patent for a plastic iPhone. Maybe this is that rumored budget iPhone? Maybe?…

The Only Case I Would Consider Using With an iPhone (Updated)

Update: Judging by the overwhelmingly negative reviews, this product looks good but it’s crap. I definitely wouldn’t consider it now. No, you don’t need a damn case for your iPhone 5—but if you have butterfingers and you must use a case, this seems to me like the only acceptable one. The SurfacePad is not only…

How the Blackberry Z10 Stacks Up to the Competition

The Q10’s physical keyboard may be the most notable feature in the new lineup, but the Z10 is BlackBerry’s best shot at taking a share of the more prominent (at least for now), touchscreen market. So can the Z10 measure up to some of the its biggest contenders? https://gizmodo.com/blackberry-q10-hands-on-we-missed-you-qwerty-5980231 Unsurprisingly, there’s not a whole lot…

An iOS 6.1 Jailbreak for iPhone 5 Is Definitely Probably Maybe Coming This Sunday

iPhone 5 users have been waiting a long, long time for a jailbreak. Sure, the current versions of iOS have been opened, but unlucky kids with A6 chips and the fancy new Apple devices they come in have been out of luck. But no longer! Probably. With today’s release of iOS 6.1, jailbreak release rumors…

You can’t really tell how a new technology will transform the world until it becomes commonplace

When it comes to new technologies, we tend to obsess over the early adopters. The so-called cutting edge. But you can’t really tell how a technology is going to change the world until you see it in the hands of the late adopters, argues Paintwork author Tim Maughan in a fascinating new interview about augmented…