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The iPhone 4 Review (By You)

This is the final update from your tweets, emails, comments and Facebook messages. Here is the review that you’ve written for the iPhone 4. (For the most part, you seem to like it…aside from that pesky antenna issue.) https://gizmodo.com/review-your-iphone-4-early-5569994 Last updated 1:04PM ET, 6/25/2010. Unboxing [Ed note: The first 5 seconds cracked me up.] –…

Tech News The People

New Romance

This simple iPhone 4 comic made me laugh this morning. I guess, to some extent, it explains why we’re all here. [explosm via TNW]

Tech News Mark Wilson

Call Apple To Test Out FaceTime With A Real Person

If your friends don’t have iPhone 4s, you’ll have no one to FaceTime with! Good thing Apple is letting you test FaceTime calls with Apple employees at 1-888-FACETIME. I got to talk to Dave. It was kind of awkward. They’re taking calls from 8AM-8PM CDT, so no late night freakshows. The employee gives you a…

Tech News Casey Chan

Fighting Words From BlackBerry

RIM’s so confident that its upcoming two flagship phones and OS 6.0 will pound the competition into mincemeat, their co-CEO Jim Balsillie has taken to using physics to express his excitement. It better not just be that flip-phone, RIM. [BusinessInsider] https://gizmodo.com/two-blackberry-phones-on-way-before-august-says-rim-5572452

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Froyo Available on Sprint “In Near Future,” Motorola Droid X in August

Google may’ve let Froyo out of the bag, but until the networks and manufacturers release it that won’t mean anything to those ready to kick Android 2.1 to the curb. Sprint and Motorola’s (rough/unconfirmed) plans are detailed below. UPDATE https://gizmodo.com/android-2-2-froyo-available-today-5570938 Sprint’s announcement about the roll-out of Android 2.2 is vague, saying only that it’ll be…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Let’s Make Those Boring iPhone Lines a Little More Interesting

The lines for the iPhone 4 were long, slow and boring. Let’s spice them up, shall we? Take some line photos and add in some elements that would’ve made the new phone everyone was waiting for boring in comparison. Send your best entries to me at [email protected] with iPhone Line in the subject line. Save…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Design Test Note: Fragile Beauty

iPhone 4, you’re the most beautiful thing. Holding you—so solid, so smooth, your zowielala screen glowing—makes me greedy. My precious. I want to lick you. I can’t stop looking at you. But your industrial design is a failure. Don’t get me wrong. Like I said back when we found you, you are oh so pretty.…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

.xxx Domain Approved

After several years of discussion, pornographic content has been awarded its own, top-level domain: XXX. And it couldn’t be more timely, as the moniker “XXX” only faded out of use just a few years before the web took off. (I kid! It’s a good idea that should make filters that much more effective, and it’s…

Tech News Mark Wilson

The iPhone 4, Slow-Mo Sniped by Navy Seal

A retired Navy Seal fired a .50 caliber round from a Barrett M82A1. His target? An iPhone. I can only hope the guy camps outside my neighborhood hipster-laden Starbucks and POW—right in the Face(Time). [Telegraph] UPDATE UPDATE: It looks like the shooter was a really a Navy Seabee, not a Navy Seal. (Telegraph had incorrect…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Spruce Up Your Place on Us

Throw that raggedy-ass couch out on the curb and buy yourself some nearly-adult furniture. Just fill out this survey, email the last question to [email protected], and you will be entered to win a $150 gift card to the one-and-only Ikea! [Rules]

Tech News Gawkercreative

Play Those iPhone Apps Like a Real, Live Guitarist

There are heaps of rhythm guitar apps available now (even a Guns ‘N Roses-branded one), but tapping your fingers on an iPhone does get pretty tired. Strumming on your iPhone inside a guitar though—now there’s an idea. https://gizmodo.com/slash-gets-his-own-arcade-rocker-iphone-app-5559863 It’ll come as no surprise that the Fingerist originates from Japan. With an inbuilt speaker (or line-out…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

The Latest iPhone 4 Problem: Some Have Swapped Volume Buttons

Clearly, this is not the best Apple launch in history: After the pre-order debacle, the yellow tinted screens, the pixel constellations, and the antenna problems, now it’s the turn for the swapped volume buttons. Oh, you Foxconn rascals, you! [9-to-5] https://gizmodo.com/apple-iphone-4-pre-ordering-is-a-total-disaster-5563909

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Zune Store Accepting Cold Hard Cash

OK, maybe it’s not quite cash cash, but the Zune.net store has set aside the mandatory points-based purchase system for real money shopping. Now, if only Xbox Live would follow suit. [ars technica]

Tech News Mark Wilson

PlayStation Plus Explained

At E3, Sony skimmed over their new $50/year (or $18/three months) premium PS3 service called PlayStation Plus. Now, they’ve finally outlined exactly what’s included in the offer: https://gizmodo.com/the-playstation-network-gets-a-subscription-package-5564330 What PlayStation Plus Includes • Free, rotating monthly PSN games, minis and PS One Classics (at launch, those titles will be “WipEout HD, PSP minis and PS…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Hulu Plus Could Offer Different ABC Shows From the iPad App

If Hulu’s Plus subscription service launches next week as rumored, you might expect to see different ABC shows than what’s available online and on the iPad already, meaning Hulu Plus isn’t going to compete with it. Theoretically. [AllThingsD] https://gizmodo.com/hulu-plus-subscription-service-may-launch-next-week-5572340

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Careful Not to Backstroke Over the Edge of Singapore

55 storeys up, this infinity pool could glide you straight over the edge of Singapore, if not the world. It’s part of the $6 billion Marina Bay Sands Skypark hotel, which just opened this week. Ok, so if you were really to propel yourself over the edge, you’d fall into a catchment-area which sends the…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

How to Replace Your Broken iPhone 4 Screen

In this iPhone 4 teardown video, DirectFix.com explains how to repair a broken screen—very handy if you didn’t spring for the insurance, and like our very own Ryan, have suffered breakage already. https://gizmodo.com/your-iphone-4-warranty-and-insurance-options-5571866 Along with the usual caveats and warnings about doing this yourself, DirectFix’s video is a clear and comprehensive tutorial on screen replacement,…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Google Remotely Removes Apps From Android Phones For Security Reasons

Isn’t it funny that when Apple removes apps from the App Store, a major ruckus rears its head—but when Google removes apps from people’s phones, just a few quiet grumblings are heard. https://gizmodo.com/5000-casualties-of-the-app-store-boob-war-5477566 This could be because when Apple removes apps, it’s apps they don’t agree with—apps with a spot of controversy or nudity, even…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Rumor: Nikon’s Second Projector Camera Will Be Cheaper and Smaller

We were enamored by Nikon’s first-gen projector camera, the S1000pj, but for the price ($430) we expected better photographic quality. This second-gen model Nikon’s rumored to be planning is expected before August, with a lower price with any luck. https://gizmodo.com/nikon-s1000pj-projector-camera-review-screw-you-all-i-5402528 Like the first-gen model, this one is reported to be using Himax Technologies’ LCoS pico-projector…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Two BlackBerry Phones On Way Before August, Says RIM

Considering RIM hasn’t even announced a new flagship phone yet, they’ve got a lot of work to do to wrench people away from the claws of the iPhone 4 and Droid X. So, two upcoming phones—one a slider? https://gizmodo.com/blackberry-bold-9800-slider-renamed-as-torch-9800-5564798 The big news from their quarterly financial report was that they’ve shipped 11.2m phones in the…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

The iPhone 4 Review (By You)

New Romance

Call Apple To Test Out FaceTime With A Real Person

Fighting Words From BlackBerry

Froyo Available on Sprint “In Near Future,” Motorola Droid X in August

Let’s Make Those Boring iPhone Lines a Little More Interesting

Design Test Note: Fragile Beauty

.xxx Domain Approved

The iPhone 4, Slow-Mo Sniped by Navy Seal

Spruce Up Your Place on Us

Play Those iPhone Apps Like a Real, Live Guitarist

The Latest iPhone 4 Problem: Some Have Swapped Volume Buttons

Zune Store Accepting Cold Hard Cash

PlayStation Plus Explained

Hulu Plus Could Offer Different ABC Shows From the iPad App

Careful Not to Backstroke Over the Edge of Singapore

How to Replace Your Broken iPhone 4 Screen

Google Remotely Removes Apps From Android Phones For Security Reasons

Rumor: Nikon’s Second Projector Camera Will Be Cheaper and Smaller

Two BlackBerry Phones On Way Before August, Says RIM

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