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3G iPhone’s Proximity Sensors Get an Upgrade
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3G iPhone’s Proximity Sensors Get an Upgrade

June 12, 2008 | Jimmy Rogers

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The new 3G iPhone has a very small number of body changes, but one of them is a new proximity sensor. The “third sensor” that had been rumored by iLounge last month is a second proximity sensor to comp…

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The iPhone May Be Coming To Universities
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The iPhone May Be Coming To Universities

June 12, 2008 | Jimmy Rogers

If you’ve lived on a college campus recently, you know the dominance of the Apple brand. Macs are a leader in notebooks for college students and some academic majors even require them. There have not been…

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70% of iPhone Apps May Be Free
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70% of iPhone Apps May Be Free

June 11, 2008 | Jimmy Rogers

In a survey of 20 iPhone developers at WWDC, Gene Munster, an analyst for Piper Jaffray, found that about 71% of the planned Apps would be free on the App Store. He also found that among those with a cost, the averag…

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TomTom Wants to Give Your iPhone Turn-By-Turn Directions [UPDATE]
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TomTom Wants to Give Your iPhone Turn-By-Turn Directions [UPDATE]

June 11, 2008 | Jimmy Rogers

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The iPhone’s mapping features have had an interesting evolution. Initially, they simply gave you Google Maps on your phone. This App wasn’t any different from Google Maps on a desktop, except it…

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The Jailbreaking Phenom May Have Caused Unintended Consequences
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The Jailbreaking Phenom May Have Caused Unintended Consequences

June 10, 2008 | Jimmy Rogers

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Everyone has seen the wonders of unlocked phones. They can play games, play screensavers, and had multi-pane icon storage way before the legitimate firmware did. Of course jailbreaking infringes on the EULA…

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Steve’s Big Day Now Up for the World to See [Streaming Video]
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Steve’s Big Day Now Up for the World to See [Streaming Video]

June 10, 2008 | Jimmy Rogers

The keynote today was a blast! That being said…I am still watching it now, not quite 12 hours after it launched. For some reason it takes those graphically-oriented people over at Apple 6-8 hours to relea…

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iPhone Service Plan Pricing Comes to Light + Special Upgrade
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iPhone Service Plan Pricing Comes to Light + Special Upgrade

June 9, 2008 | Jimmy Rogers

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It appears that the service plan for the iPhone from AT&T will closely resemble that of the previous one. Gizmodo reports that it will be a standard plan for minutes and $30 extra (presumably per month) for t…

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Apps Carried the Day at WWDC
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Apps Carried the Day at WWDC

June 9, 2008 | Jimmy Rogers

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After all of the speculation about the new iPhone launch, we can now look back and see how we did. I feel that the most important feature of WWDC was largly omitted from all of the hype surrounding the conference. T…

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Will AT&T’s 3G Network Crack Under the Weight of the iPhone?

June 9, 2008 | Jimmy Rogers

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There are some doubts about AT&T’s new updates to the 3G network being able to withstand the data-sucking force that will be the new 3G-enabled iPhone. iPhone users are reported to use twice as much b…

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iRandomStuff: A Primer for the WWDC
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iRandomStuff: A Primer for the WWDC

June 8, 2008 | Jimmy Rogers

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Hmm. I envisioned this weekly segment to be a round-up of everything we missed or anything that needed special attention. This week, I hope, we haven’t missed ANYTHING. With WWDC on Monday, any rumor, sn…

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