iPhone

How to Swap iPhone Ringtones in 7-EZ Steps

iFuntastic is a Jailbreak GUI/Checklist for simplifying the still complicated iPhone Ringtone hack. Previously, there was a tutorial, but this UI does a lot of the scripting for you, including download of the tools, prepping ringtones, unlocking the Phone, etc. Warning: Downloading and running random apps on your Mac can be dangerous for your software.…

Apple Bluetooth Headset Unboxed

Flickr user, Nomad7674, wandered into his local apple store in Marlton, NJ and they had Apple-branded Bluetooth headsets available. Nomad claims that despite its tiny stature it actually fits pretty well in his ear, and his favorite feature is the magnetic plug built in to the headset. Stock seems to be pretty limited at all…

Soonr Lets You Remotely Access Your Desktop from the iPhone

Unlike VNC clients where you actually control the desktop from the iPhone, Soonr is offering a web-based AJAX web app that lets you access parts of your desktop instead. What’s better about this approach is that the UI is customized for the iPhone display, so there’s little scrolling around to find the thing you want.…

One-Year-Old Shows Us How to Flick Through Photos on an iPhone

Some people may think that their child’s privacy is too precious, but other’s don’t give a damn. Here’s Chad the dad and Trey the bay-bay giving an iPhone master class. He’s good. See how he flicks through his dad’s photos with insouciant ease after the jump. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-so-simple-even-a-two-year-old-can-use-it-278661 Let’s have Trey on next year’s Keynote at…

Our iPhone hands-on is massive, but our verdict is short: Wait a little while. https://gizmodo.com/apple-iphone-review-276116

Duke Absolves Apple, Fingers Cisco

Duke University has now shifted the blame from the iPhone to Cisco, for causing the reported wireless outage. Duke ‘s chief information officer, Tracey Futhey, detailed; “Cisco worked closely with Duke and Apple to identify the source of this problem, which was caused by a Cisco-based network issue.” https://gizmodo.com/dukes-wireless-lan-is-being-eaten-alive-by-iphone-mac-a-279127 Though the specifics of the trouble…

Gene Munster Predicts $205 For Apple in 2008

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster has moved Apple’s stock price projection for 2009 up a whole year to 2008, making Munster’s projection the highest price anyone has ever given Apple: $205 per share. Is there method to his madness? Of course. And it has something to do with our obnoxious graphic. One thing we learned…

Duke University has officially retracted any iPhone implication in wireless network outage. [CNET] https://gizmodo.com/dukes-wireless-lan-is-being-eaten-alive-by-iphone-mac-a-279127

Is that a Braun ET44 in Your iPhone?

Does this 1970’s Braun ET44 calculator look familiar? Well for you iPhone users it should, it seems to bear more than a striking resemblance to your calculator application, no? [Wired]

Stephen Colbert Gets His Free iPhone

Stephen Colbert, who’s been begging for a free iPhone for months now, finally gets his free iPhone. In his segment on mankind being enslaved by robots and technology, he whips it out and yells at it, not quite being thankful for getting it for free. [Comedy Central – Thanks Kevin!]

“Hello World” 3rd-Party iPhone App Compiled, Loaded, Run

Another Free iPhone checkpoint has been reached. It has been reported but unconfirmed that the first 3rd party, non-Safari iPhone app was run today in the wild. Developer “Nightwatch” did the compilation and execution of the program using his ARM/Mach-O Toolchain. Check their progress report after the jump. After many, many hours of intense work…

OtterBox iPhone Case Looks Rugged, But Not Quite Waterproof

OtterBox is known for their rugged cases, and this forthcoming iPhone case looks like it’s going to continue their tradition. It’s got “complete” protection, which means not only are all the sides and back covered (the buttons work through pass-through buttons), there’s a built-in screen protector that works through their “patented touch-screen membrane”. The case…

Colorware Colors Up iPhones in Style

Want your iPhone in a color other than silver? Apple can’t help, but Colorware’s got you covered. You saw what a good job they did on on Xbox 360, so there’s no reason to think their quality will be anything but spectacular for the iPhone. You can send in your existing iPhone and have them…

Turn iPhone’s Back All-Black with Back Cover Replacement Kit

We’re perfectly happy with the brushed aluminum backs of our iPhones, but some people are disconcerted by the difference between the back’s black bottom and aluminum top. Now the Cellular Nationwide Network is offering the Apple iPhone OEM Metal Black Rear Cover, a replacement for that aluminum back that gives your iPhone an ominous-looking, totally…

Twitter fever’s all but subsided at GizHQ, but if you’re still Twittering away, here’s the iPhone client for the faux-mini-blog app. [Thincloud]

iPhone Nano Before Holidays? (Again)

It sounds crazy, so soon after launch, but the iPhone nano could be coming out before Xmas. Kasper at Apple Insider claims: • “The second iteration of the handset is presumed to marry iPod functionality with rudimentary cellular capabilities.” •”More resource-heavy internet browsing and email capabilities are not expected of the device.” •”Pricing of the…

iPhone Applecare $80$69 For an Extra Year, Says Pogue [UPDATED: Confirmed]

[UPDATED: Confirmed at $69.] Applecare is supposed to be available for the iPhone this month, and the price may be $80. Joel Johnson, walker-of-Gizmodo-halls-of-lore, noticed this statement in Pogue’s Missing Manual PDF, on page 277: “The iPhone comes with a one-year warranty. If you buy an Applecare contract ($80) you’re covered for a second year.…

iPhone Mates With Sony Dock Like a Jack Rabbit On an Antelope

At Sony’s holiday line show last night, we got to check out one of Sony’s new pair o’ docks for iPod, the clock/radio ICF-C1iP in black. Of course, the first thing we did was stick an iPhone in it, like giggling school kids watching a pair of goats getting busy at the petting zoo. Too…

Meizu MiniOne Real Pricing, Availability

Either this site is overcharging by a crapload or the previous pricing was totally off, but the Meizu MiniOne is up to $988 for the 16GB model, compared to $450, which was listed before. What could cause such a rise in price? Hard to say. https://gizmodo.com/meizu-minione-specs-revealed-its-actually-got-some-jui-261388 We do know that the phone should be available…

Stringer to Jobs, You’re One Greedy MoFo

On a panel discussion of tech elites, Sony CEO Howard Stringer called Steve Jobs “greedy” because Jobs wants a marketplace in which “only he makes money.” Moderator Anderson Cooper quickly changed the subject, ruining the potential for other such fantastic pullquotes, like: “And he never calls me anymore!” “Sony is a great company because we…