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iPhone 4 Launches in 17 More Countries, Almost Misses New Zealand, Does Miss South Korea.

Today marks the second launch of the iPhone 4 around the world, where 17 new countries join the original five of the USA, UK, France, Germany and Japan.  If you live in one of the following countries, you should be able to pop out and pick up an iPhone 4 from your friendly, local network [...]

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This Week’s App Store Updates – 30th July 2010

Browsing the App Store this weekend?  Here are fourteen new or updated apps for the iPhone and iPad worth taking a closer look at if you are: Risk: The Official Game. The official board game comes to [...]

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Chess Crusades iPad App Review – Fair Fight?

*UPDATE*  As you’ll read in the review below, Chess Crusades suffered from stability issues that resulted in numerous crashes.  Version 1.0.1 seems to have cured these problems and you can read about it here. When I was at school one of my best friends was a bit of a chess whizz.  He lived and breathed the [...]

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Apple Investigating iPhone 3G Issues When Running iOS 4

With all the attention focused on the iPhone 4’s antenna and its related issues, iPhone 3G owners who were struggling with iOS 4 on their phones seemed to have been overlooked and often had their complaints met by a cry of ‘upgrade to an iPhone 4/jailbreak it!’ But the fact is, the iPhone 3G, and occasionally [...]

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iOS 4 Problems on Your iPhone 3G? Give This a Try…

In the absence of an official Apple firmware fix, there is a limited amount of things a frustrated iPhone 3G user can do if their phone is having performance problems since upgrading to iOS 4.  If you’re lucky enough to have an old 3.1.x firmware backup on your computer, then downgrading is a possibility, as [...]

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iPhone 4 Coming to 3 UK This Week

The iPhone 4 will reach its fifth UK network this Friday, as 3 adds its name to the list.  The phone will be available on four different tariffs or as a SIM-only option.  This is an interesting idea, as many may have already got their iPhone 4s from Apple running on an existing contract with [...]

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Win an ABBYY Business Card Reader iPhone App! *UPDATED*

*This competition has now closed, winners will be notified by Saturday 31st July.  Thanks for entering everybody!* Due the success of our previous competition and to celebrate the forthcoming update to v3.0, we have FIVE copies of the excellent ABBYY Business Card Reader iPhone app to give away! We reviewed ABBYY a short while ago and found [...]

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iZones iPad App Review – Time In Your Hands

Like most utilities, they’re either helpful to you personally, or of no interest whatsoever and unlike a game where extended play may change your opinion, it’s not really possible to create a need or adapt your life around a utility.  iZones (iTunes link) is a perfect example of this, as you either really need international [...]

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Apple Sued Over Hot iPads

As seems to be the current fashion, a lawsuit has been filed against Apple for a defective product.  But instead of it concerning the iPhone 4 and its antenna, this is all about the iPad.  According to Bloomberg, a complaint has been entered in an Oakland, California court that the ‘iPad doesn’t live up to [...]

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‘Jailbreak Away’ Says US Government!

Jailbreaking your iPhone has always been a legal grey area, with Apple saying you’re breaking the law and everyone else either keeping well out of it, or defiantly waving Cydia-equipped iPhones in Apple’s face.  The US government have now stepped in to put the issue to rest and perhaps surprisingly, have concluded that jailbreaking falls [...]

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