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Dear Steve, Wireless-N Chip for Cellphones Due 2009 (hint, hint)
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Dear Steve, Wireless-N Chip for Cellphones Due 2009 (hint, hint)

December 8, 2008 | Shawn McBee

Broadcom today announced that they’ve come up with an 802.11n wireless antenna for cell phones. What’s more, it’s an all-in-one design incorporating WiFi, Bluetooth and an FM tuner. Not…

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Apple Announces 300 Million Apps Downloaded, Forgets to Mention Revenue
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Apple Announces 300 Million Apps Downloaded, Forgets to Mention Revenue

December 8, 2008 | Shawn McBee

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Over the weekend, Apple quietly placed an App Store ad in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, which happened to casually mention that the App Store now has over 10,000 apps available and that there hav…

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While the Smartphone Market Lags, iPhone’s Share Triples
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While the Smartphone Market Lags, iPhone’s Share Triples

December 5, 2008 | Shawn McBee

Despite a downturn industry-wide of smartphone sales, the iPhone’s Q3 market share has tripled from the year-ago quarter, up to 12.9% worldwide, vs 3.4% for Q3 2007.  That puts the iPhone in 3rd place…

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Rumor: 4GB iPhone at Wal-Mart for $99
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Rumor: 4GB iPhone at Wal-Mart for $99

December 4, 2008 | Shawn McBee

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Some pictures have recently surfaced of an iPhone 3G Activation Guide co-branded with the AT&T and Wal-Mart logos.  An interior picture shows the contents page of the section on provisioning in the Point…

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iPhone App: Alien Choir
3G iPhone

iPhone App: Alien Choir

December 3, 2008 | Shawn McBee

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As someone with no musical abilities (at all), I was sort of unsure how well I’d be able to “conduct” a choir of seven singing aliens.  Turns out that I was right: I sucked.  But that was, again…

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Hands-On Review: The Clarifi Case by Griffin
3G iPhone

Hands-On Review: The Clarifi Case by Griffin

December 2, 2008 | Shawn McBee

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I’m not a fan of iPhone cases.  I broke the glass on my first-gen iPhone and had to get a replacement–twice–and I still don’t use a protective case. In my experience, iPhone cases typi…

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Apple In-Ear Headphones Now Available–Not So Fast, iPhone Users…
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Apple In-Ear Headphones Now Available–Not So Fast, iPhone Users…

December 2, 2008 | Shawn McBee

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The $79.99 In-Ear Headphones that Apple announced at the Let’s Rock Event back in September are finally available (two months late) at the online Apple Store, with a shipping time of “7 to 10 Busin…

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iPhone Case Concept Would Allow For Use by the Blind

December 1, 2008 | Shawn McBee

As great as the iPhone is, it’s not really he best option for the blind.  Bruno Fosi has devised a potential way for letting the sight-impaired join the party by combining a silicon iPhone case with embos…

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So How Good is 2.2′s Podcast Support? Pretty Good.

November 30, 2008 | Shawn McBee

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There has been some excitement about the addition of Direct-To-iPhone download of Podcasts with the 2.2 Software but there has also been some contention at the fact that this overdue feature has resulted in t…

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iPhone 3G: What’s missing?

June 10, 2008 | Shawn McBee

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We’ve been inundated with 3G iPhone rumors for months now, and there have been a lot of features speculated.  A great many were confirmed today–plus some things that no one seems to have seen comin…

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