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Leica i9 Case Concept Gives iPhones a Proper Working Camera

All you Hipstamatic Instagram-addicts that love nothing more than cloaking something digital in an analog costume need to rally Black DA with me and demand that their Leica i9 iPhone standalone camera case goes into production. Calling it a “dream project,” Black DA proposes to combine the Leica cameras’s good looks and smart lens with…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Best Buy Pegs White iPhone U.S. Launch Date at April 27

Mere days ago (two, specifically), the UK caught wind of the much ballyhooed, but oft not seen white iPhone 4. It might ship next week! Exciting, if you’re into white smartphones, but what of the U.S. market? https://gizmodo.com/the-white-iphone-4-shows-itself-in-the-uk-possibly-hit-5794920 Today, we’re learning that Best Buy has the device listed under an April 27 date in its…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Why Is This iPhone 4 on T-Mobile?

Boy Genius has what they claim is a white T-Mobile iPhone 4 that was built to run on T-Mobile. Check out more pictures at BGR. [BGR]

Tech News Casey Chan

Are You Sure You’re Sober Enough To Be Sending That Text?

My greatest alcohol-related fear is that in a drunken stupor I’ll text my boss and tell him to do all manner of anatomically-impossible things to himself. Textalyzer for iOS, like Gmail Goggles before it, offers you some protection against such social nightmares. The app allows you to blacklist contacts, requiring you to beat a series…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

This Week’s Best Apps

In this week’s app roundup: Panoramas, produced; Sword & Sworcery EP, miniaturized, slit-scan photography, discovered; mobile browsing, made social; Wikipedia, beautified; The Civil War, learned about; the wisdom of age, brought to your iPad, and much, much more. The week’s best iPhone apps Photosynth: Basically, Photosynth is a panorama photography app. It’s got Microsoft’s Photosynth…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

The iPhone 5 Looks Weird (If This Is What It Looks Like)

This is a third-hand depiction—a mockup of a sketch from a source—of what the iPhone 5 may look like, from the guys at This Is My Next. So, what all’s going on in this mockup here, which they’re careful to say “isn’t fact” and might be based on “design prototypes and not production-ready phones”? •…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

The White iPhone 4 Shows Itself In the UK, Possibly Hitting Stores Next Week

Engadget says that’s the box for the white iPhone 4 shipping to Vodaphone retail outlets in the UK. Someone unwitting sales associate sold one to a customer before Vodaphone sent out a comapny-wide email halting sales until “next week.” There’s also a shot of the phone itself here, which offers up another piece of legit…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Play Kalei Transforms Your Photo Collection Into Endless Fun

Crafted by casual game developer LoadComplete for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad, Play Kalei is one of those incredibly simple games that you just can’t seem to put down. A kaleidoscopic image is generated from a certain point in… [Kotaku]

Tech News Kotaku

Why Apple Collects Detailed Location Data from Your iPhone

All iSpy conspiracy bullshit aside, you are probably more interested in what your iPhone does with location data. Well, if you opt-in to the iPhone’s location services, detailed—but anonymized—location data is transmitted back to Apple on a regular basis. Gadget Lab reminds us of a letter Apple general counsel Bruce Sewell sent to a couple…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Top 5 Musical Uses for Your iPhone’s Formerly Secret Location Log

As reported by Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden on O’Reilly on Wednesday, Apple’s iPhone and iPads with cellular data connections have been recording their users’ whereabouts in a file that gets backed up to their computers for reasons unknown. This is bad news for privacy advocates, and computer users of all kinds, for that matter,…

Tech News Eliot Van Buskirk - Evolver.fm

Why Your iPhone Is Secretly Tracking You: A Very Probable Explanation (Updated)

Why has your iPhone been secretly recording everywhere you go since iOS4, in a way that a simple program can extract everywhere you’ve been from either your iPhone or your computer? Well, probably, a bug. Or “more likely, an oversight,” according to John Gruber and his sources (who, for the uninitiated, are most probably inside…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

iSpy Conspiracy: Break Apple’s Secret Tracking with This App

Not entirely cool with the idea of your iPhone or iPad following your every move without your consent? Understandable! Luckily, only a day after the privacy revelation, a fix has been cooked up that switches off Apple’s covert tracking. https://kotaku.com/ispy-conspiracy-your-iphone-is-secretly-tracking-every-5793925 The root of the tracking problem is a single file that logs your location. Untrackerd…

Tech News Sam Biddle

2.2 Million People Finally Got Their Verizon iPhone Last Quarter

In the first seven weeks that the iPhone was available on Verizon’s steadfast network, 2.2 million of the handsets were activated. That is—not surprisingly, given the pent-up demand—about 12,000 more units per day that AT&T activated in the first quarter, and goes a long way towards explaining the monster iPhone tally Apple put up yesterday…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Apple Earns $6 Billion Despite Steep iPad Sales Decline

iPad sales may have dropped more than 30% between the holiday quarter and this most recent one, but that didn’t stop Apple from having second-quarter record revenues and earnings. The iPad decline isn’t totally unexpected, considering the tablet’s popularity as a holiday gift, the looming specter of iPad 2 staving off potential sales, and there…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Ignore Telemarketers’ Crap-Selling Phone Calls by Downloading the Mr. Number App

Any old app can screen calls of well-known call centers…but what about the smaller, local ones? The Mr. Number app claims to identify 70 per cent of phone calls in the US, by asking its users to opt-in and share their contacts so they can learn from them. This app doesn’t only benefit people who…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Shooting Challenge: Cellphone II

Our first cellphone Shooting Challenge made me reassess the medium and admit that cellphones have developed into legitimate cameras. For our second cellphone Shooting Challenge? Bring it. https://gizmodo.com/395-photos-that-prove-cellphones-make-great-cameras-5576509 The Challenge Take an awesome photo with your cellphone. And dont, for lack of a better term, err…phone it in. The Technique The greatest single advantage of…

Tech News Mark Wilson

AT&T Holds Off Verizon in Fight for iPhone 4 Hearts

These last few months, for the first time since the iPhone was released, customers finally had a choice in who their carrier would be. They’d no longer be shackled by AT&T’s sucktastic network! And what did these customers do? Well, it seems like in a lot of cases they, uh, signed on with AT&T. AT&T…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Air Penguin Is The Hottest iPhone Game Right Now For Good Reasons

A little game called Air Penguin is beating its more widely known avian competition for the top spot in the iTunes paid apps chart these days. Air Penguin’s hotter than Tiny Wings and topping Angry Birds.… [Kotaku]

Tech News Kotaku

Legit News Organization Reuters Points at September for the iPhone 5 Launch

Everything and everyone seems to be pointing to September as the month the iPhone 5 will begin shipping, with today’s latest confirmation coming from three of Reuters’ sources “with direct knowledge of the company’s supply chain.” According to said sources, the factories will begin churning iPhone 5 parts out in July at the earliest, with…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Did Apple Reject This Idea for iOS Multitasking?

Floating around the ‘nets today is this video from the site Tinhte, who claim that the White iPhone 4 pictured above is a prototype running an early test version of iOS 4, featuring different/rejected/unused systems for multitasking and folders. Both Engadget and 9to5Mac believe this is a real Apple prototype (it’s seen running Radar and…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Leica i9 Case Concept Gives iPhones a Proper Working Camera

Best Buy Pegs White iPhone U.S. Launch Date at April 27

Why Is This iPhone 4 on T-Mobile?

Are You Sure You’re Sober Enough To Be Sending That Text?

This Week’s Best Apps

The iPhone 5 Looks Weird (If This Is What It Looks Like)

The White iPhone 4 Shows Itself In the UK, Possibly Hitting Stores Next Week

Play Kalei Transforms Your Photo Collection Into Endless Fun

Why Apple Collects Detailed Location Data from Your iPhone

Top 5 Musical Uses for Your iPhone’s Formerly Secret Location Log

Why Your iPhone Is Secretly Tracking You: A Very Probable Explanation (Updated)

iSpy Conspiracy: Break Apple’s Secret Tracking with This App

2.2 Million People Finally Got Their Verizon iPhone Last Quarter

Apple Earns $6 Billion Despite Steep iPad Sales Decline

Ignore Telemarketers’ Crap-Selling Phone Calls by Downloading the Mr. Number App

Shooting Challenge: Cellphone II

AT&T Holds Off Verizon in Fight for iPhone 4 Hearts

Air Penguin Is The Hottest iPhone Game Right Now For Good Reasons

Legit News Organization Reuters Points at September for the iPhone 5 Launch

Did Apple Reject This Idea for iOS Multitasking?

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