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Tech NewsWSJ: The iPhone 5 Will Be Thinner, Lighter and…Complicated?
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the next iPhone is going to be thinner and lighter than the iPhone 4, which isn’t exactly unexpected. But apparently, being thinner and lighter is making the next iPhone a pain to make. Citing suppliers of components to Apple, the WSJ also says the next iPhone will pack … Continued
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JailBreakMe 3.0 for the iPad 2 and iOS 4.3.3 now live (Updated)
After a false start, Comex has finally let loose with JailBreakMe 3.0. This time it’s for real and not a leak. https://gizmodo.com/now-you-can-finally-jailbreak-your-ipad-2-5817651 The web-based tool works on the iPad 2 (yay!) and all iOS devices running iOS 4.3.3. So what are you waiting for, fire up your iOS device and point your mobile browser to … Continued
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Home Button Stickers Bring Teen-Inspired Bling To Your iPhone
Not even the home button is safe from gaudy stickers that cheapen the sleek industrial design of the iPhone. Unless you are teenaged girl, then these stick-ons are the best thing that ever happened to you in your whole entire life. Available online from Strapya, these stickers give your home button some flair with their … Continued
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It’s Official: There Are More iPhones Than BlackBerrys (But Android Still Dominates)
Smartphones are finally outselling dumbphones, but not everyone’s a winner. ComScore’s latest numbers show that still aren’t looking good for RIM. https://gizmodo.com/smartphone-sales-beating-dumbphone-sales-for-the-first-5817082 After losing 4.2 percent of their market share in the US, they’re down to 24.7 percent vs Apple’s 26.6 percent. Looks like their “superphone” can’t come soon enough. https://gizmodo.com/10-inch-blackberry-playbook-not-coming-after-all-5816438 On the other hand, … Continued
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Woman Sees Mother’s Face For First Time In Five Years After Photo Becomes a Hit On Chinese Twitter
When a 71-year-old Chinese shoeshiner spotted an iPad-user walking past, she begged him to take a photo of her face, and somehow send it to her daughter, who she hadn’t seen for five years after moving to a different city. The man uploaded it to a social-networking site with much the same premise of Twitter, … Continued
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Prototype iPhone 4 On Sale at eBay For $1,500
A prototype iPhone 4 similar to, ahem, a model that turned up last year has appeared on eBay, with the seller Jtmaxo claiming to be a licensed cellphone repairman who was sold the iPhone for parts. Given the iPhone won’t connect to a network nor appear in iTunes, it’s not looking like the best upgrade … Continued
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Samsung “Streamlines” Lawsuit Against Apple, Pledges to Fight On
The ongoing patent lawsuit shenanigans between Apple and Samsung got a tad bit simpler this week after Samsung withdrew its coutersuit against Apple over some patents or something. The whole thing is—oh hey look new iPhones in October! [AppleInsider] https://gizmodo.com/samsung-wants-to-block-all-ipods-iphones-and-ipads-fr-5816756
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The Best Apps of the Week
In this week’s app roundup: Google+, unveiled; GPS, painted with direction; North Korea, photographed; iPhones, playing dead; Instagram, challenged by Google; background checks, forever creepy; fourways, on Fring; and much, much more. The week’s best iPhone apps TapNav: It’s a GPS app that cleverly uses Augmented Reality to show you which direction the road is … Continued
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New Starbucks iPhone App Combines Two Older Apps and Adds Gift Giving
The new Starbucks for iPhone app is a replacement for both myStarbucks and Starbucks Card Mobile. In addition to combining mobile ordering, online payment, and access to Starbucks Card features in one app, fans of the coffee franchise can now use the app to gift the chain’s mediocre coffee to friends. Free from [iTunes]
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All Adult Swim Apps Are 99¢ Through this Weekend
Adult Swim is having an app sale in celebration of the 4th of July, America, and freedom. This includes Amateur Surgeon, Meowcenaries, Robot Unicorn Attack, and more. Because nothing says patriotic like Robot Unicorns that poop rainbows. 99¢ from [iTunes]
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TDK 3 Speaker Boombox: Papercuts Would Be a Better Use of Five $100 Bills
Unfortunately, the 90s happened. Along with vanquishing the 80s, they ushered out the over-the-top audio stylins of the previous decades. Yeah, the 90s killed boomboxes (WTF). TDK is bringing the ghetto blaster back with its 3-Speaker Boombox. Like SOOOO beautiful, with retromod curves, exposed drivers, brushed metal and leather accents, and a smoove plexi front. … Continued
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Smartphone Sales Beating Dumbphone Sales For the First Time
Nielsen’s new national survey of U.S. mobile phone customers reveals that smartphones are outpacing traditional feature phones for the first time ever. According to the May survey, 38% of all mobile phone owners now use a smartphone. And within the last three months, 55% of new phone purchases were of the smartphone variety (that’s a … Continued
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Samsung Wants to Block all iPods, iPhones, and iPads from the US
Last we heard, Apple brought the you-copied-our-shit fight to Samsung’s home turf. Now Samsung’s firing back, asking the International Trade Commission to ban US imports of every iPod, iPhone and iPad. http://gizmodo.com/5815230/apple-brings-the-legal-fight-to-samsungs-home-turf If the ITC hears the case, it’ll be 16-18 months before a decision is reached. [FOSSPatents]
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I Wouldn’t Be Surprised If the iPhone 5 Looked Like This
This isn’t the iPhone 5. But it wouldn’t surprise me if, come this fall, it looks very similar to this prototype created by Antoine Brieux. It feels to me like a natural evolution. Check the gallery. Apart from making the next generation iPhone a piece of pure glass, this seems like the most logical way … Continued
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Lenny Kravitz: You Use Your iPhone Like a Dickhead (Updated)
What do you do when you used to have some songs that were on the radio a decade ago, but nobody really thinks about you anymore? Why, walk around the streets of Manhattan with a giant, conspicuous, idiotic iPhone handset. Maybe I just don’t understand Lenny Kravitz’s out of control rock lifestyle, and maybe I’m … Continued
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Get Over-the-Air Updates For iOS5 Over 3G
Even though Apple promised OTA updates for their devices during WWDC, it was still unclear whether or not it could only be done over WiFi or if 3G could handle the load. 9 to 5 Mac reports that it can and will. But! There is a catch, though. Based on these SDK findings, it looks … Continued
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Tech NewsThis Week’s Best Apps
In this week’s app roundup: Cut the Rope, finally on Android; videos, edited with different sources; coding, done on the iPad; grills, made; calls, filtered; cars, unlocked; Wacom, iPadified; and much, much more. The week’s best iPhone apps Flixlab: It’s an app that lets you edit movies using clips on your phone AND clips from … Continued
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Foodie iPhone Cases Fool Your Eyes
Flash drives disguised as sushi are totes old fish. But iPhone cases made to look like sushi? That’s fresh. https://gizmodo.com/sushi-usb-flash-drives-23561 These handmade Japanese iPhone cases made to look like food probably won’t feel to good in your pocket (or belly) but they are pretty delicious to look at. There are all kinds of options, from … Continued
By Mat Honan