Archive for May, 2008

More 3G iPhone pictures surface?

Here we go again guys, that day around a site called allabouthphones.nl has posted pictures of what they say is the 3G iPhone. Now, the device pictured does look very new. It is very thin, too much so to be a modified iPhone of the current type. The white color is one of the colors that have been ru…

iControlPad: iPhone games PSP style

If the all touch interface on the iPhone is not your style when it comes to games, soon after the iControlPad may just be for you. The peripheral enables your iPhone to be in a casing that allows for a PSP like feel. It adds physical buttons to the iPhone for the purpose of playing games. The iContr…

AT&T hiring temporary workers for 3G iPhone launch?

AT&T is hiring some workers to take temporary positions at AT&T stores. The listing says from June 16th to August 16th, the temporary workers will have jobs. that is not strange to AT&T, surprisingly decent. Last year, in anticipation of the original iPhone, AT&T did the same thing, …

New Service Sends E-mail ‘After the Rapture’

A new e-mail serviced called “You’ve Been Left Behind” lets you send e-mail that won’t be delivered until AFTER THE RAPTURE. What is that Rapture thing again? According to the Wikipedia, the Rapture is: “the future event in which Jesus Christ will descend from Heaven, accompanied by the spirits of a…

‘PDAs’ Banned At UK Amusement Park

A UK amusement park called Alton Towers Resort will BAN PDAs (by which they presumably mean cell phones — “PDAs” don’t exist anymore, do they?) in a trial. “PDA Police” will roam the park looking for violators, who will be asked to take their “PDA” to one of five “PDA Drop Off Zones” for the day.

Freight full of unknown Apple devices lands in North America

So here is the deal, a mysterious shipment from Apple’s factory partners has made its way to North American shores. Since the middle of March, there have been 188 containers of a product with a name that Apple has never before used when importing their devices. All devices must have a name, wh…

In Search of the First Super Easy Super-Phone

MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte recently railed against complexity in cell phones, saying that “simplicity is the biggest challenge that handset makers face.” He’s right. What users are really clamoring for is a phone with a beautiful screen and a brain-dead-simple user interface like the …

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