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Jimmy Rogers is an undergraduate at George Mason University (Fairfax, VA) and an avid tech blogger. He loves the iPhone, iPods, and watching Steve Jobs talk about them. He aspires to one day research in the field of microbiology. When not writing for iPhoneFreak, he keeps his own blog, Mason Tech Beat (http://masontechbeat.blogspot.com), updated and freelances for a number of other technology blogs.

Walt Mossberg Reviews the iPhone

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

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Recently on AllThingsD, Walt Mossberg gave the new iPhone a favorable review. He begin by talking about the biggest weaknesses of the first iPhone, “[The] first iPhone had two big drawbacks: It was expensive, and it couldn’t access the fastest cellular-phone networks.” Clearly these were the two biggest concerns for Apple in the next incarnation. [...]

Apple Punishes Rogers for Expensive Coverage Plans

Sunday, July 6, 2008

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Apple Punishes Rogers for Expensive Coverage Plans

A blogger named Daniel Smith is claiming (with a number of sources) that Rogers, the Canadian iPhone distributor, is being punished by Apple in the most effective way possible. Their shipments for the 3G iPhone launch are being severely diminished and much of the stock that was supposed to go to them has been rerouted [...]

No Texts in the 3G Plan? No Problem!

Thursday, July 3, 2008

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One of the big negative factors about the new iPhone (for me anyway) is the lack of text messages in the basic plan. While the old plan had 200 messages with the standard data fee, the new generation only gives you those 200 messages after a $5/month fee is tacked on. If you still want [...]

Google Talk Comes to the iPhone

Thursday, July 3, 2008

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If you’ve been missing gTalk capabilities on your iPhone, never fear, Google has just created a webapp. If you’ve forgotten what those are…well they’re just like the new 3rd party apps, but lamer. Anyway, the “site” is up on www.google.com/talk and ready for chatting. There are some downsides to the webapp version of Google [...]

Rolando, A New Game for the iPhone [Trailer]

Thursday, July 3, 2008

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The new iPhone SDK has really inspired some developers to not only think outside of the box, but practicly get out and run around the box too. This ingenuity can be see in Rolando, a new iPhone game (probably coming this August) which reminds one of Lemmings or some other “get the things herded from [...]

One HALF of Smartphone Buyers Are Considering 3G iPhone

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

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RBC Capital Markets, an investment bank, has conducted a private study on consumers looking to purchase a smartphone in the near future. Over one half of those surveyed stated they are intent on purchasing the new 3G iPhone once it launches in July. The numbers come from a survey of 3,600 participants shortly after Apple’s World [...]

3G iPhone Packaging Will Be Green!

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

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In a continuation of Steve Jobs’ effort to reduce Apple’s impact on the environment, Apple has enlisted the aid of Dutch company PaperFoam in “greening” their packaging materials. The tech company has ordered “millions of PaperFoam packages,” according to PaperFoam CEO Hans Arentsen [via the Dutch blog Bright]. PaperFoam, founded in 1998, uses potato starch or [...]

iPhone Firmware 2.0 Launch Date, We Had It All Along…

Monday, June 30, 2008

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iPhone Firmware 2.0 Launch Date, We Had It All Along…

I think everyone feels a little bit silly right now. TUAW just pointed out that the original iPhone press release from Apple specifically states that the iPhone 2.0 firmware would be available on July 11th, right along side of the 3G iPhone launch. Here’s the quote from the press release (paragraph 8): “iPhone 2.0 software will [...]

Apple Releases iPhone SDK 8, Mentions Free iTunes Remote App

Thursday, June 26, 2008

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Apple Releases iPhone SDK 8, Mentions Free iTunes Remote App

Tonight developers for the iPhone received a nice little gift from Apple. They pre-released iTunes 7.7 as well as iPhone SDK Beta 8. These are the central developer tools for anyone in the process of designing 3rd party Apps for the iPhone. So, anything new or interesting? Well the iPhone firmware included with [...]

What’s on John McCain’s iPod?

Thursday, June 26, 2008

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Since Barack Obama’s iTunes library was recently reported on, let’s take a look at his main competition, Sen. John McCain. It seems that unlike Obama, McCain is completely unfamilier with modern computers. He is self-described as “computer-illiterate.” It makes me shudder to think that any technological decisions he makes will have to come (at least [...]