California-based RKS Design has decided to take advantage of Android’s open platform philosophy to design a phone around it, and make it kinda-sorta look like a Treo crossed with an iPhone, with more iPhone UI than Palm. Appropriately named “Mimique,” The entire front face — including the antenna — is a perfectly flat (glass [...]

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For you strapping lumberjacks who like your accessories shiny and able to withstand a piledriver from a ten foot turnbuckle (I’m allowed to mix my metaphors, it’s my article), Xtand is for you. This beefy holder will keep your iPhone or iPod Touch elevated for comfortable viewing, and is capable of rotating 360°, so you [...]

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Introduction:
Apple Inc. (website) announced their exclusive innovative first-time attempt at a cellular device on January 9th, 2007 – at the corresponding years MacWorld presentation. The company calls it, the iPhone.
The iPhone was first available later that year, on June 29th, 2007, in the United States of America. (see here)
The device was then later announced available [...]

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Commercial developer MobileAge signed on early in the SDK game, but until now nobody knows what they’ve been working out. Now they have finally released a couple of teasers for two games they are working on: Blackjack 21, and touchTile Mahjong.
Blackjack 21 is precisely what it sounds like, even if its title is superfluously [...]

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Another one? Already? Surely you jest.
Not at all. And don’t call me Shirley. Remember that bit about catching up and having lots of news? I wasn’t just ducking ducking Bosnian sniper fire as I deboarded the plane there. So I’m going to get this eleventh edition of Touching Up [...]

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Register Hardware tells us that Apple is looking for 3G-savvy iPhone field testers in Australia. Specifically someone with “technical understanding and experience with GSM/GPRS, Edge, CDMA and UMTS”.
This information was found via a job advertisement posted on the company’s website, though it’s unclear how long the job description has been up. The position is based [...]

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On May 9th, AT&T Removed the exert where they were stating that iPhone users would get free Wi-Fi access at 17,000 participating locations.
However, since that removal, it has been said that AT&T will in fact be provided free Wi-Fi for all you residing in the United States of America – but we just don’t know [...]

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The 5th beta release of the iPhone SDK adds limited support for YouTube videos within the mobile Safari web browser. According to iPodNN, you can view videos embedded into websites which now function as links.
Once clicked, these links open the iPhone’s dedicated YouTube application, which also lets them quickly return to the page they were [...]

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It is being rumored that the 3G iPhone may be announced later in May, leaving Apple to announce something completely new at their WWDC08 presentation.
It is being said that Apple would instead announce a brand new portable device at WWDC. No other details of what this device might be, but there have been rumors that [...]

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The instruments keep on a-coming. To be fair some of these existed prior to Band’s official release, but I didn’t think to check MooCowMusic’s forums for them. (Yeah, not very bright, this one.) We’ve got 10 more for you this time. These are all going to be manual downloads because to the [...]

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Looks like the add-ons for Band are already turning up, as a nice little treat popped up on Installer this evening: 5 new instruments for MooCowMusic’s Band by Siiver. You can now add lead guitar, rhythm guitar, flute, Electro, and Daft Band.
Rhythm Guitar: 3 sets of 5 rhythm guitar chords to layer some harmony [...]

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Pre-App Store commercial games seem to be coming along more frequently of late, which I’m sure is upsetting to the “purists” of the scene. Nevertheless, Ukrainian newcomer Simiotica is looking to contribute to their fits of apoplexy with two games so far: One new, and one forthcoming release, entitled Amaze and Accelerate respectively. [...]

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Been looking forward to Moo’s Band app? Drooling in anticipation, perhaps? Well, you can chuck the bib, because Band has officially been released. For that one or two of you who have been
vacationing in a singularity for the past few weeks, Band is an all-in-one music application that combines an assortment of [...]

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USB Fever released an updated version of their Universal SIM Unlock Card for the iPhone. However, this isn’t a prefered way to unlock your device because cutting is required, and the product page states that firmware 1.2.3 is required, which doesn’t exist.
This SIM unlock is made of a very thin piece of FPC (0.10mm) with [...]

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