Tag: IPHONE3GS

With Verizon poised to take a big bite of its smartphone market share, AT&T has decided to slash the price of the iPhone 3GS. The company is currently selling the smartphone for $99, but, beginning Friday, both new and existing customers will be able to purchase it for just $49. (The iPhone 4 is still selling for $299.) The obvious downside, however, is that buyers will be locked into a ...

iPhone 4 users finally have an easy way to jailbreak their new smartphones -- a new browser-based tool, released just a few days after the Library of Congress officially declared jailbreaking totally cool. According to Engadget, JailbreakMe works on any Apple phone (except for the original), including the new iPhone 4, iPad and all iPhone 3GS models running iOS4. Developer Comex originally posted ...

While newer smartphones like the iPhone 4 and HTC Evo are coming with 5-megapixel (or higher) cameras these days, the lowly cameraphone is still known for its blurry, out-of-focus shots. The crew at the Fstoppers video blog claims the quality of your image isn't tied to the quality of your camera, and to test this, co-founder and photographer Lee Morris put the iPhone 3GS's camera to the test. ...

Big changes are afoot at YouTube, on both desktop and mobile fronts. The video sharing site finally launched its new TV-friendly 'Leanback' Web interface yesterday, just a month after parent Google announced its own highly touted GoogleTV platform. Leanback [Ed. Note: Does this make anyone else wanna 'Do the Rock Away?'] lets users navigate feeds, recommendations, searches and categories, by ...

After being widely lampooned for blaming its iPhone 4's reception problems on how users hold it, Apple has finally come out with a more legitimate-sounding, but equally head-scratching response to the issue. In a press release, the company said, "Upon investigation, we were stunned to find that the formula we use to calculate how many bars of signal strength to display is totally wrong." As it ...

At one time, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was a die-hard BlackBerry devotee. But when his little piggies started hurting from pounding the crap out of the device, he decided to switch to the iPhone. And he's still not happy. In a post made on his Facebook page yesterday (now removed), Zuckerberg complained that, just one week after making the switch, he'd already been forced to buy four ...

Skype 2.0, the latest iPhone (and iPod touch) version of the popular VoIP software, landed on the App Store this weekend, bringing along Skype-to-Skype 3G calls and speed enhancements. No huge surprises here; the upgrade to 2.0 went smoothly, and we had a 3G Skype-to-Skype call up and running a few seconds after opening the app for the first time. The local AT&T connection struggled, but the ...

WWDC is just around the corner, and it's a pretty safe bet that we'll be seeing a brand new iPhone there. In fact, we're all pretty sure we'll be seeing this pretty little thing, which boasts a front-facing camera for video calls, that was leaked by Gizmodo last month. But, what if you're the impatient type? What if you can't wait another two weeks? Well, Walmart, eager to dump the last of its ...

Scott Adams, the creator of the iconic Dilbert comic strip, recently found himself in a major scheduling dilemma. He desperately wanted to run a strip about the recent Gizmodo-iPhone 4G saga, but his publishing schedule would only allow him to run them on June 18th, at the absolute earliest. Adams, therefore, decided to completely bypass his routine, and published them exclusively on his blog, ...

Share We were, by turns, underwhelmed and pleasantly surprised by the much anticipated Apple keynote this afternoon. To distill it down for you, Apple is releasing a preview of the iPhone OS 4.0 software for developers today, and you can expect to see it available for your mobile device starting this summer. But there's a caveat: only certain devices (the newest ones, to be exact) will get all ...

We pick on AT&T a lot. And, if you live in either New York or San Francisco, you probably understand why. While we beat up on AT&T for its poor coverage in metropolitan areas (or at least in those two), we can't deny that, when you do manage to get service, it's blazingly fast. Now, PC World has put a feather in AT&T's cap by declaring it the cellular data speed king. PCWorld ...

We're barely into 2010 and we've already got some great news: Switched is now available in app form on Apple's App Store! You get full access to all the features, tech coverage, and galleries you already know and love, as well as offline reading (you can save stories to your iPhone or touch in case your connection drops), sharing via Facebook and Twitter, and easy access to our tech tips and ...

We love holiday shopping as much as the next person, but we could do without the mammoth parking lots (and our embarrassing inability to navigate them). Honestly, is there anything more demoralizing, after a successful raid on Walmart, than not being able to find your own car when you get outside? We think not. Thankfully, there is hope for the parking-lot challenged, and it comes in the form of ...

Apple's iPhone, with its seemingly infinite apps and functions, has inspired a multitude of innovative ideas and uses. Pre-teen iPhone wunderkinds in Singapore (Doodle Kids) and the United States (Math Time) have developed impressive and popular apps. Now that the iPhone 3GS possesses video capabilities, it shouldn't be a surprise that an enterprising company recently decided to film a music ...

The whole Internet, it seems, is currently fawning over the new iPhone 3GS. That's partially because the device seems to be a worthy upgrade to the iPhone 3G. (We're not sure we'd call it a successor, since it will be sold alongside the existing handset; it's more like choosing between the basic MacBook and the souped-up MacBook Pro.) We also lay responsibility for the hype, though, on the ...