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This Week’s App Store Updates – 16th July 2010

Browsing the App Store this weekend?  Here are fourteen new or updated apps worth taking a closer look at if you are: Star Wars: Battle for Hoth. We took a look at [...]

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Firefox Home Arrives on iPhone

It has been a couple of weeks since we heard that Mozilla had submitted Firefox Home to the App Store for approval, and while the wait hasn’t been as agonizing as it was for Opera, we were beginning to wonder if problems had arisen.  Thankfully though, everything has turned out for the best and Firefox [...]

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iOS 4 on iPhone 3G Ad Parody is Painfully True

iPhone 3G users who’ve upgraded to iOS 4 and suffered performance issues, we feel your pain.  While it won’t make up for those annoyances such as counting the seconds before Settings/Wi-Fi opens up, this video should at least see you safe in the knowledge that you’re not the only one. Aside from the musical tweaks, we [...]

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iOS 4.0.1 Available Now for the iPhone, iOS 3.2.1 for the iPad too.

Fire up iTunes, plug in your iPhone or iPad and download some new firmware.  For the iPhone, Apple have prepared iOS 4.0.1, a small but potentially key piece of software, as it brings the improved version of the formula used to calculate the amount of signal strength bars to display.  This was expected in iOS [...]

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World Watches Reception Drop in Exciting iOS 4.1 Video!

Roll up!  Here’s today’s hottest video in the mobile tech community!  It shows the wonder of the iPhone 4 running a beta version of iOS 4.1, the much vaunted – by Apple anyway – software fix for the death grip antenna issue.  Mobile Crunch have filmed what happens when they grip their iPhone 4 in [...]

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Apple Call Press Conference, Addressing Antenna Issues?

According to the Wall Street Journal, Apple have invited certain members of the press to its headquarters in Cupertino, California on the 16th July at 10am, where they will be discussing the iPhone 4.  They’ve not elaborated on this, but it seems certain they will be talking about the antenna issues which have plagued the [...]

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The iPhone and iPad: Positive, Educational Tools

When returning by plane from a recent trip abroad, I was sitting behind two parents and their young daughter, who despite the rather bumpy ride was behaving really well.  As the journey wore on, she became a little restless so to keep her entertained, her mother took out her iPod Touch, started an app and [...]

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Should Apple Recall the iPhone 4? They’ve Got Two Weeks to Decide

Read this: When your finger or hand touches a spot on the phone’s lower left side—an easy thing, especially for lefties—the signal can significantly degrade enough to cause you to lose your connection altogether if you’re in an area with a weak signal. Nothing new, right?  We’ve been hearing and reading this since the launch of the [...]

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Protect your iPad with a carbon fiber case from monCarbone

One of the issues that I have found with cases for the iPad is that they sometimes add a decent amount of weight. After all, the iPad already comes in at 1.5 or 1.6 pounds, so even a little extra can make a difference. That said, how about something carbon fiber? Its lightweight, and many [...]

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Otterbox launches Commuter & Defender Series iPad cases

So far there has been no shortage of cases and covers for the iPad. Then again, given the same is true for the iPhone and iPod touch that should come with little surprise. But while its nice to have lots of options it does make for some hard decisions — after all many of these [...]

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