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AT&T's Free Wi-Fi Hotspots for iPhones Now Online for Real

AT&T's Free Wi-Fi Hotspots for iPhones Now Online for Real It's been a saga of the on again, off again, on again, off again type, but it looks like AT&T's free wi-fi hotspot access is live at last. 17,000 sites across the US are available to iPhone users, including the fabled Starbucks sites....

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iPhone Apps We Like: Aurora Feint The Beginning

iPhone Apps We Like: Aurora Feint The Beginning Aurora Feint is the first strategy/RPG game that I've played on any system for more than five minutes, and I'm addicted. The main focus is a Bejeweled-like game of matching tiles, and you earn points and power to increase your abilities. You rotate the...

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Extending The Life of Your iPhone 3G With Battery Packs

Extending The Life of Your iPhone 3G With Battery Packs If you are simply not satisfied with the battery life of your new iPhone 3G, you do have a few options. You could try and maximize it, or you could pick up some battery packs like the iPhoneck. Sure it extends your iPhone 3G by a whopping...

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What is Your Take on Push Email? Love it, Hate It, Or Somewhere In Between?

Question of the Day: What is Your Take on Push Email? Love it, Hate It, Or Somewhere In Between? I don't know about you, but I receive far too many emails to be messing around with push email. Those emails constantly chiming in annoy me, which is why I have everything set to manual update. However,...

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NJ Mall AT&T Employees Hand Out Anti-iPhone Propaganda to Customers

NJ Mall AT&T Employees Hand Out Anti-iPhone Propaganda to Customers It looks like not everyone in AT&T land loves the iPhone. When reader Dennis' mom went to the AT&T stand in the Moorestown Mall in New Jersey to ask about iPhone insurance, they laughed in her face. They then handed her a bunch of...

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Apple Admits MobileMe Snags, Gives Free 30-Day Extension

Apple Admits MobileMe Snags, Gives Free 30-Day Extension Apple's MobileMe service hit so many snags during its launch period that Apple have just issued an email apology to members. Saying "The transition from .Mac to MobileMe was a lot rockier than we had hoped," Apple's apologizing with a 30-day...

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Lightning Review: iPhone Tetris App

Lightning Review: iPhone Tetris App The App: Tetris with excellent touch implementation. In a matter of seconds anyone will be comfortably rotating, placing and flicking blocks around the screen, and the block placement preview is a welcome addition. The Price: $9.99 The Verdict: Tetris isn't...

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iSuppli Official Estimate: The iPhone 3G Build Price is $174.33

iSuppli Official Estimate: The iPhone 3G Build Price is $174.33 Late last month iSuppli, the authority on gadget teardowns, released a guess that the 8GB iPhone 3G cost $173 to manufacture—only a hair away from the figure of $174.33 they have arrived at as their official take. This figure does not...

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iPhone 2.0 Tips: Firmware 2.0 Has A New URL Trick

iPhone 2.0 Tips: Firmware 2.0 Has A New URL Trick Just a quick note for you iPhone 2.0 users regarding entering domain names. In the original firmware there was a handy ".com" button when entering URLs, but you had to manually type ".org" and ".net" and ".co.uk" and other domain suffixes. Now,...

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iPhone 2.0 Tips: Safari Shows Embedded YouTube Clips

iPhone 2.0 Tips: Safari Shows Embedded YouTube Clips Much like the way Safari has handled Quicktime videos on former versions of the firmware, the new 2.0 release now allows you to see embedded YouTube content with your iPhone or iPod Touch on Safari. Click and it hands off video duties to the...

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Are You Still Excited About the iPhone 3G, Or Are You Sick of It?

Question of the Day: Are You Still Excited About the iPhone 3G, Or Are You Sick of It? The iPhone 3G hype has been building steadily over the last few months and now that it has been launched, I'm willing to bet that many of you are feeling completely saturated by now. However, there are probably...

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Set Up Push Email, Contacts, and Calendar on Your iPhone for Free

Set Up Push Email, Contacts, and Calendar on Your iPhone for Free One of the coolest features available in the new iPhone 2.0 software update is the ability to get new email messages, contacts, and calendar events pushed to your device automatically. The catch: If you don't want to shell out $100...

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Apple Doesn't Have a Problem With iPhone Cut and Paste, They Just Don't Care

Apple Doesn't Have a Problem With iPhone Cut and Paste, They Just Don't Care In an interview with Extreme Tech, Apple product head Greg Joswiak explained the lack of cut and paste in the iPhone: it's just not a priority right now. He says Apple worked its way as far down its "priority list" of...

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A Few Stupid iPhone Apps - gizmondo.com

A Few Stupid iPhone Apps Benny tested out a few of the obvious timewasters in the iPhone App Store, including iMilk, Crazy Mouth, and iPint. They range from fun (the $1 Crazy Eye) to the dumbest app ever (the $1 CowToss), but a mixed bag is expected when so many apps come out at once. Normally,...

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iPhone 3G Unlocked with SIM Card Adapter

iPhone 3G Unlocked with SIM Card Adapter Just four days after its launch, the iPhone 3G has been unlocked for the first time exactly like the original iPhone: using a special card that piggybacks to your SIM card, fooling the phone into thinking it's using an official carrier. While this is not the...

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Macally PowerLink is Flash drive, Sync Cable, Emergency Juice for iPod, iPhone

Macally PowerLink is Flash drive, Sync Cable, Emergency Juice for iPod, iPhone You know how it is: you're camping in the wild, and your iPhone suddenly runs out of juice, just as you get bored stiff with the music selection you've got aboard it. Previously you'd've had to carry a bunch of stuff...

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iPhone 3G Cursed by Demonic Steve Jobs Up For Sale on eBay

iPhone 3G Cursed by Demonic Steve Jobs Up For Sale on eBay, if You Dare If you thought the activation servers being down on launch day made for a lousy unboxing of your shiny new iPhone 3G, you have nothing on this person. When they opened their iPhone, the screen was already on with a menacing...

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iPhone 3G Battery Life Beats the Competition - gizmondo.com

iPhone 3G Battery Life Beats the Competition, Apple's Own Tests The first iPhone 3G battery test results are in, and it seems it beats the competition and Apple's own benchmarks with an average of five hours and 38 minutes talking non-stop on AT&T's 3G network. Apple's own tests give the new iPhone...

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iPhone Customers Strike Back @ Reporter - gizmondo & youtube

KTLA 'Reporter' Makes Fun of iPhone Line-Sitters, Gets Called a Jackass on Live TV KTLA Reporter Eric Spillman went down to the local iPhone line on Friday to cover it for his station. His version of coverage consisted of standing next to the line and asking hard hitting questions such as "Have any...

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iPhone 3G Review Addendum: Reception is Better - gizmondo.com

iPhone 3G Review Addendum: Reception is Better Among other tweaks, I've updated the iPhone 3G review with some more data on reception. In both EDGE and 3G calls, the phone has better reliability, on top of the better Wi-Fi range. Apps have also been noted to take a long time to backup and install....