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Shamoononon: I shave my legs.: That's very jocular. hint hint Ah, never mind. #iphone more »
bobdobbs: So wrong on so many levels. #iphone more »
fleebailey33: one more thing i would like to add, is on android i use spanning sync to sync with ical, and address book. also works well with google sync! [spannin... more »
fleebailey33: I feel as though i have to give my 2 cents. on android. I bought a G1 near its release, And yes something things it did better then iphone, But honest... more »
Bigbadbikernerd: I find this quite humorous. Surely there is one person who works at Apple that must understand this apps reference??? #iphone more »
tande04: Tower madness (either version) is flat out one of my favorite games for the iPhone. I've downloaded a lot more since then, played the hell out of the... more »
not_a_virus.exe.vbs: For all you guys suffering from crappy battery life, I recommend you get a program called APNdroid, it kills your 3g and 2g connections saving you a t... more »
Tawnie is saving no daylight: The main holes I am seeing is the price. $550.00 for the Droid is my breaking point. I will be patient and wait until June when there is a discount du... more »
Dr Durdon: I use my iPhone primarily as a phone and app device -- no music/video/podcasts for me. I like the sound of Android, and if I hadn't just jumped on th... more »
Nick: i knew a guy that owned a Harley cause he liked constantly working on it. that is what i like about my Hero. now, i don't have to constantly work on... more »

#iphoneapps

New For iPhone: 2 Balls 1 Cup
Presented for your approval without comment. [iTunes Link via The Awl]
#iphoneapps

This Week's Best iPhone Apps
In this week's never-gonna-switch-so-stop-asking app roundup: Free games, reinvented! Airplane anxiety, averted! Photos, wirelessly printed! Cool apps, discovered by other cool apps! Navigation, cheapened! Black Friday rush, preempted! Google Wave, appified! Screens, pointlessly tapped! And more! More »
#android

The iPhone-to-Android Switch: 10 Things You Need to Know
You've had it. Maybe with AT&T. Maybe with Apple's crushing, dictatorial grip strangling the App Store. Whatever the reason, you're going to Android: Land of freedom, carriers not named AT&T, and the great Google. Here's what you need to know. More »
#iphoneapps

Another iPhone Developer Gets Busted Stealing Phone Numbers
iPhone game developer Storm8, creator of games such as World War, iMobsters and Vampires Live, has just been hit with a suit for secretly gathering the phone numbers of everyone who purchases its games. More »
#iphoneapps

iPhone App Interprets Babies' Tears While Excusing Pathetic Parenting
The Cry Translator iPhone app is supposed to assist those with little parental instinct by translating the sobs and screams of their children and providing advice. How ever did we all make it to adulthood without apps like this? More »
#blockquote

David Pogue: "Smartphone Is Too Limited...It's An App Phone"
Before David Pogue wrote his review of the Droid, he had trouble deciding what to call the device. He argued that "smartphone" is an outdated label for the "iPhone-like" devices coming out and so he looked for a new one. More »
#iphone

Why You Should Think Twice Before Dating An iPhone User
I'm an iPhone user and not ashamed of that fact. What I am ashamed about is that a study done about iPhone users' characteristics pretty much deems us a rotten, undatable bunch. And some of the results struck a chord. More »
#apple

100,000 Apps Now Available for the iPhone/iPod touch
The unofficial count of Apple's approved apps had already topped 100,000, but now Cupertino has confirmed that you can download over 100,000 apps in the App Store. That's the widest selection of Booty Gongs (and other booty-related instrumentation) in the known Universe. More »
#accessories

99-Cent Cardboard iPhone Case Illustrating Contest
Case-Mate released a $0.99 cardboard iPhone case as a tongue-in-cheek, recession-appropriate gesture—and people bought them, and drew on them, and now they've got a contest to see whose creation is best. More »
#iphone

The Ultimate iPhone Waste of Time
Some people spend countless hours watching reality TV shows. Others like to collect leaves. Then there are a few who enjoy watching the washing machine go round. And lastly, there are those who play Million Tap Challenge on their iPhones. More »
#iphone

Blacksn0w App Now Ready, Eager to Unlock Your iPhone 3G and 3GSes
Blacksn0w, child of overserious shadow-lurker GeoHot and brother of equally straighforward jailbreak app Blackra1n, is now available, and should make unlocking your late-version iPhone 3G or 3GS a dead-simple process. Before you dive in, though, there's one caveat: More »
#iphoneapps

Chorus for iPhone Puts a Better App Store Inside the App Store
Oh, App Store: You're a chore to navigate, difficult to search, and offer only the most superficial guidance as to which apps are actually good. Chorus—an app recommendation app, as awkward as that sounds—helps cut through the noise. More »
#nintendo

iPhone 3GS to Be Unofficially Renamed Nintendo iPhone 3GSN64
Zodttd, the developer who brought us GBA4iPhone, has announced plans to release a N64 emulator for the device. But does the 3GS have enough power? Maybe. More »
#rumor

This Is a Next-Generation iPhone 4 Part, China Ontrade Claims
China Ontrade calls this the iPhone 4 Generation Midboard. Not very exciting, but the last time they announced a next-generation iPhone part, they were right. A month later, the iPhone 3GS appeared with exactly those parts. What could this mean? More »
#iphonevsdroid

Darth Droid's Terror Is Insignificant Against The Power Of The Fanboy
As tiresome as the Droid vs iPhone arguments are lately, I'm happy to have finally found something to sum up my feelings on the issue. Doesn't hurt that it has a Star Wars reference either. More »
#iphone

Dutch Hacker Holds Jailbroken iPhones Hostage For €5 Ransom While Exposing Security Vulnerability
Many of us have jailbroken our iPhones, but did everyone remember to change the default root password? Those guilty of that oversight are vulnerable to the simple intrusion method this guy used to hold iPhones hostage in the Netherlands. Updated. More »
#apple

Adobe Gets Sharky Snarky With Apple's iPhone Flash Ban
Pulling a Donald Sutherland in Body Snatchers, Adobe shows its darkest side screaming and pointing the finger at Apple in this Flash installation web page for iPhone users. Their razor-sharp message: More »
#iphoneapps

iPhone Ebooks: The New Fart Apps
A buzzy new report says that iPhone ebook apps are on the rise, and accounted for more new apps in October—nearly a fifth—than even games. It's unexpected and exciting, but what does it mean? Spam, is what. More »
#imagecache

iPup
The iPup begs one question: Is this puppy wearing an iPhone, or is this iPhone wearing a puppy? [Cute Overload]
#appstore

The iPhone Now Officially Runs Doom
id's classic shooter has finally been (officially) ported to the iPhone. And thanks to oversight from John Carmack himself, there are a number of improvements that make it worth a purchase even for Jailbreakers. More »
#windows

Windows 7 and Intel Chipset Causing iPhone Woes?
Users on Apple's discussion board have been experiencing issues with their PCs locking out iPhones when using Windows 7 with the Intel P55 USB chipset. It's a pretty specific combo that you're probably not running, so don't panic. More »
#iphoneapps

Gizmodo's Essential iPhone Apps: October '09 Edition
Each month, the best new iPhone apps—and some older ones—are considered for admission into Gizmodo's Essential iPhone Apps Directory. Who will join? Who will live? Who will die? More »
#jailbreak

iPhone OS 3.1.2 Unlock Accomplished, Dropping November 4
Geohot, the same hacker who first jailbroke OS 3.1.2, is now also the first to crack the 3.1.2 baseband. Previously, anyone who had unlocked their phone at version 3.0 or lower was fine as long as they were careful when upgrading, but anyone running 3.1 or higher was out of luck. Good news for anyone looking to unlock a newly purchased device. You'll have to be patient, though. The exploit won't be released until November 4. [BGR]
#iphoneapps

This Week's 10 Best iPhone Apps
In this week's not at all scared app roundup: Nikon teaches a photography class, the NBA gouges its most devoted fans (and they like it), board games go digital, Disney gets app-y, and, well, Zombie Bikini Babes From Space! More »
#iphone

Photos of Next Gen iPhone 3G C(ake) Leaked!
I thought I was ahead of things with my Chocolate Edition Apple Tablet, but Jerry Brito and his iPhone 3G C(ake) beat everything. It looks like the real thing, except for one teensyweensy mistake. More »
#chargers

Scosche PowerFuze Pro Charges Your USB Devices On the Wall and In The Car
The Scosche PowerFuze Pro will charge the hell out of your USB devices whether you are plugging it into the wall or into your car. More »
#smartphones

How Palm Lost (Like Apple in the '80s)
The Droid, and Android 2.0 as a whole, isn't going to kill the iPhone. That's ridiculous. Teamed with the iPhone, though, it just straight up murdered Palm—the same way that Microsoft brought Apple to its knees decades ago. More »
#iphone

The Secrets of Pro iPhone 3GS Photographer
The real key is using the limits of the iPhone 3GS's camera as a strength, Japanese pro photographer Koichi Mitsui tells BoingBoing: Its "simplicity keeps me devoted to only composition and the perfect photo opp." More »
#iphoneapps

An Early Video Peek at LaLa's Übercheap Music App
The latest news, in The Week Of The LaLa: the company's long-promised iPhone app, which would bring the bizarre play-a-song-once-for-free-then-pay-10-cents model to mobile, has been submitted to Apple. And assuming they don't abort it, this is what it'll look like. More »
#iphoneapps

Apple Approves 'Asian Boobs' iPhone App, Just to Mess With Us
Apple loves rejecting apps for having swear words in them, but a database of scantily clad Asian ladies? Approved! Who needs a rhyme or reason when you can be random and inscrutable? [iTunes Link via TechCrunch]
#remainders

Stuff We Didn't Post Today (and Why)
Dudes Who Can See Future Say Windows 7 Will Help PC Sales...There's Peek With Twitter, Then There's Peek That ONLY Does Twitter...iPhone Breathing Down BlackBerry's Neck...Google Welcomes You to the Social, But the Google Social, Which Will Be Cooler, Seriously More »
#apps

Augmented Reality iPhone/Android App Tracks Where Government Bailout Dollars Went
Layar has a new augmented reality app function for iPhone and Android that's ~~delightfully~~ depressingly topical: It'll let you see exactly where bailout money went, via recovery.gov, which is pretty sweet since you sort of own all that stuff! More »
#iphoneapps

100,000 iPhone Apps and Counting
iPhone app tracking site AppShopper—from Arn of MacRumors—now counts over 100,000 apps approved by Apple. 101,843 apps at this moment, to be precise. More »
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Harvard Medical School's H1N1 App Lets You Panic On the Go
Swine flu! It's the panic du jour, far less dangerous than eating poorly cooked chicken or getting in a car, yet apparently infinitely more scary. And now Harvard will take $2 to scare you on your iPhone. More »
#iphoneapps

Attack of the Zombie Bikini Babes From Outer Space Is 99-Cent B-Movie Brilliance
Attack of the Zombie Bikini Babes from Outer Space. It's a 99 cent iPhone game. That pretty much says it all. More »
#remainders

Stuff We Didn't Post Today (and Why)
Apple Tablet? Microsoft Courier? Pshaw, I'll Take eviGroup...Like Peter Cetera, It's Hard for CNBC To Say "I'm Sorry"...Verizon to Apple: "Please Baby, Come Back, I'll Do Anything!"...Microsoft's Apple Store Copycatting Conspiracy Gets Creepier More »
#iphone

The Cheapest Way To Smash An iPhone For Fun
Oddly enough, a website called iPhonedummy.net is selling realistic looking but completely non-functional iPhone dummies for $20 apiece. As stupid as that sounds, there are a million and one uses for this thing. More »
#solar

ReNu: Modular Solar Panel for iPod Docks and Desk Lamps
We'll suspend our general disbelief for a moment to talk about the Renu, an unbelievable but incredible solar product that's actually coming to market next year. More »
#gps

TomTom iPhone Car Kit Hits Apple Store But Misses October Ship Date
The good news: for those of you who want it, the TomTom iPhone Car Kit can be ordered for $120 at the Apple Store. The bad news: while TomTom originally promised the device for October, it's still not shipping for "2-3 weeks." [Apple via SlashGear via CrunchGear]
#costumes

"Working" Apple iPhone Costumes Just Plain Win
Powered by a car battery and full-size 42-inch LCD TVs, these working iPhone Halloween costumes from Apple costume savants "Reko and John" are surely iPhone fanaticism manifested in physical form. Updated. More »

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