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By Adrianne Jeffries 1/10/11 1:37pm

iphone

OMG Verizon iPhone Coming Tomorrow

Looks like we owe the idiot rumormongers an apology.

The Verizon iPhone that people have speculated about since September 2008 is really coming true.

Really! This time there is really, definitely going to be a Verizon iPhone, like, for sure!

Verizon has a press event tomorrow at Lincoln Center. ”Join us as we Read More

By Adrianne Jeffries 1/06/11 9:20pm

service!

No Verizon iPhone Announced Today. Thanks, Idiot Rumormongers.

There was hope that Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg would announce a Verizon iPhone during his keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show today–he didn’t.

Tech bloggers and mainstream media outlets have been obsessing over Apple’s exclusive deal with AT&T, whose service is notoriously slow and frustrating in New York and San Francisco. Read More

By Adrianne Jeffries 12/28/10 4:21pm

AT&T

AT&T Launches Wi-Fi Hotspots in Manhattan to Buoy Crappy 3G Coverage

AT&T has offered free Wi-Fi in Times Square to its customers since May as part of a pilot program to test ways of shoring up its cell coverage in areas with heavy use.

The pilot was apparently successful, because AT&T has expanded the area of Wi-Fi coverage in Times Square and is adding more by Read More

By Adrianne Jeffries 12/27/10 10:21pm

app for that

No New Year’s Eve Plans? Party With Your Phone

Can’t be in Times Square when the ball drops? Here’s the next best thing! Or not.

The Times Square Ball App will stream a live video feed of the party in Times Square, with a countodwn clock and Twitter, Foursquare and Facebook Integration, reports Charlie White at Mashable.

The app is available for iPhone, Read More

By Adrianne Jeffries 12/21/10 1:46pm

service

AT&T Finally Going 4G, But No Salvation For iPhones In Sight

2011 could be a rough year for AT&T.

The carrier is about to drop almost $2 billion to buy spectrum for its 4G network, according to CNET, which will be finished some time in middle of the year.

But it’s no help to the millions of iPhone users who put AT&T in last place Read More

By Nate Freeman 12/14/10 7:07pm

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iPhone Cooking Thermometer Lets You Examine Your Meat Anywhere in the House

Like all things not yet rendered effortless by an Apple product, cooking can be very hard. Impossible, even. Unlucky for us that certain times of the year make it hard to go without preparing elaborate suppers for our families and loved ones — Christmas, for instance. That holiday is close enough that we should now Read More

By admin 11/10/10 9:33pm

Free the Phone

How to get an iPhone without AT&T for $30 a Month

Desperately want an iPhone but can’t bear the thought of AT&T’s nightmarish phone service in NYC? 

As Nick Saint notes, the new ZTE Peel case essentially transform any iPod touch into an iPhone running on Sprint’s new 4G network. 

With the ZTE, any iPod touch can surf the web, run apps that need the Read More

By admin 11/05/10 5:27pm

Smartphone Wars

Whither the Crackberry: More Big Companies Ditching RIM

Blackberries, once the ne plus ultra of business phones, have been taking a beating in the modern smartphone era.

Today Dell announced that it will be moving its 25,000 employees from Blackberries to its own Dell Venue Pro – a phone running the new Windows Phone 7 operating system.

(The move by Dell stings, Read More

By admin 10/15/10 8:06pm

Metro Tech

Viral Video: Atomic Tom Rocks the Subway Using iPhones as Instruments

The band Atomic Tom claims that their instruments were recently stolen. Luckily, the thief left them an amp and their smartphones.

Rather than despair, Atomic Tom decided to respond by rocking out with their iPhones on the subway.

For the record, dudes blasting medicore rock for four and half minutes of a crowded Read More

By admin 10/12/10 7:09pm

Jason Hirschhorn is Tired of AT&T’s Lies

Jason Hirschhorn, former president of Myspace, prominent New York angel investor and beleaguered iPhone user, is tired of AT&T spotty service and ridiculous claims.

“AT&T sucks beyond language’s ability to describe how much it sucks. 4 dropped calls in 1 min. Keep selling your lies about how robust u r,” Hirschhorn tweeted this afternoon. Read More

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