05 December 2008
Well I’m sure by now you have heard the latest Smarthphone Experts Roundtable Podcast! (If you haven’t had a chance to listen you better get on it, great podcast!) You may have heard our very own fearless leader, Dieter, chime in on one thing that he hates about iPhone 3G, the fact that [...]
05 December 2008
[This is an official Smartphone Experts Round Robin post! Every day you reply here, you're automatically entered for a chance to win an iPhone 3G, Case-Mate Naked Case, and Motorola H9 Bluetooth Headset! Full contest rules here!] The iPhone 3G doesn’t have a task manager. It doesn’t have a registry. It doesn’t have a sliding [...]
05 December 2008
Ahh, sports. The thrill of victory, the agony of defeat. If you are old enough, you probably remember the “agony of defeat” guy - painful on more than one level (for him, and for you if you are old enough to know what I’m talking about). I love me some sports, and thankfully there are [...]
05 December 2008
UPDATE: Chad here giving Amazon Mobile for iPhone a try! I am very excited for Amazon’s new native app on the App Store [iTunes Link] for a couple of reasons. Mainly, I like to shop on Amazon, so this offers a convenient tool. Second, it is a really neat experimental feature called “Amazon Remembers”, more on [...]
05 December 2008
Apple has put up a special iTunes page showing off the top free and top paid apps of 2008. In addition to the overall standings, Apps are also broken out according to categories like Games, Entertainment, Music, Utilities, and Social Networks. Koi Pond leads the paid apps while Facebook owns the free. To see the complete [...]
05 December 2008
Updated! Some people have a hard time taking Apple’s earphones seriously. Consider the company’s past forays into listening accessories: several generations of low-end iPod Earphones and Lanyard Headphones, a pair of $39 In-Ear Headphones that were derided for lousy fit, and the infamous iPod Hi-Fi, an overpriced all-in-one speaker. Could this company really make a [...]
05 December 2008
This revieLITE iPhone and iPod charger night light is one of the more interesting and cool iPhone chargers to come out recently. It was released by Scosche, who is a maker of accessories for various phones, including Bluetooth. It’s an iPhone charger AND a night light, combined together. That makes it so cool. The reviveLITE cradles [...]
05 December 2008
O2 ad posted to Flickr Both Apple and O2 have started advertising the App Store in print media today. O2 posted a copy of this ad which appears in The Metro. Meanwhile, Macworld reports that Apple has placed ads in The Wall Street Jo… From MacRumors : Mac News and Rumors. Please read the [...]
05 December 2008
Amid reports of major companies such as Adobe and Creative Labs abandoning plans for exhibit booths on the showfloor at the upcoming 2009 Macworld Expo, iLounge has confirmed with Belkin that it too has made plans for a smaller presence at the show. Roughly two weeks ago, Belkin’s Melody Chalaban shared with us the news [...]
05 December 2008
Apple has quietly revealed that the App Store users have now downloaded more than 300 million applications, having passed the 200 million download mark only six weeks earlier. The announcement came in the form of an advertisement run in today’s New York Times, in which Apple touted the more than 10,000 applications now available in [...]
