Now you can play your iPad and iPhone games using the iCade 8-Bitty retro wireless (bluetooth connectivity) controller.  It will set you back $25 bucks

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BLACK HISTORY NOTE: AFRICAN AMERICANS LIKES SMARTPHONES

A new Neilsen survey found that 45 percent of Asians and Hispanics and 33 percent of African-Americans are smartphone users, while only 27 percent of Whites are. Asians lead the way when comes to Iphones and White look like they really don't care as i don't as long as I can get a call.


VIA: huffingtonpost
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IPHONE GADGETS KEEP POPPING UP

While devices like Sphero or Parrot’s AR.Drone that use the iPhone or iPod Touch as a remote control usually just rely on the device’s built-in wifi or Bluetooth, these AppToyz, from a UK-based company called MediaSauce, use a cheap add-on dongle to communicate over RF I assume.

And instead of interfacing with the dock connector on the bottom of the iPhone or iPod Touch, the AppToyz dongle plugs into the headphone jack which seems to be standard procedure for third-party remote control hardware like this. As a result, when available sometime this year, they’ll be a bit more affordable than something like the AR.Drone with an RC helicopter selling for ~$80 (£50) and an RC car that’s a bit cheaper at ~$47 (£30).
I guess this is cool if you lose your original remote.

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SOLAR POWER IPHONE CHARGER

If you can still see the sun where you live, you could be charging your iPhone with its power thanks to the Eton Mobius ($TBA). This battery pack/case/solar charger is custom cut to fit your iPhone 4, and features a battery large enough to double your iPhone's runtime, a rear-mounted monocrystal solar panel, open access to all ports and controls, and a jeans-friendly form factor that won't necessitate bringing a bag along with you.

They need to make this for all phones.

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WEEKEND WRAP UP; IT'S FINALLY 2011, LITTLE FOCKERS RULE, THIS IS HOW JAY-Z, KANYE, AND RIHANNA PARTY, IF YOU HAVER AN IPHONE YOU PROBABLY MISSED NEW YEARS

The world celebrates  New Years over the weekend and here is a look of the videos.
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TECH TUESDAY: WHITE IPHONES FOR SALE

A New York teen with a passion for electronics and serious initiative got tired of waiting for white iPhone 4s. So he skipped Apple and ordered the necessary parts from Foxconn. Now he has $130,000—and legal threats.
Seventeen year old Fei Lam, only a high school senior, tells the Observer that "I knew a guy from a few years back that had somewhat of a relationship with folks in Foxconn." This "guy" was able to export the exact same components that go into Apple's certified phones straight to Queens, where Fei packaged them up and sold them online as conversion kits. Clever! And lucrative—the grey market business has put over $130,000 in Fei's pockets since August—a sum he hopes will help him pay for a degree in computer science or business at NYU.
Honestly who realy cares about having a white iphone or any Iphone for that matter. They suck. Get a droid.

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8 MILLION DOLLAR IPHONE

Stuart Hughes, the British jeweler known for his expensive remakes of popular gadgets, is at it again, this time with a diamond-clad iPhone 4 with a price tag of 5 million pounds, or roughly $8 million.

The handmade bezel contains approximately 500 individual flawless diamonds that total more than 100 carats; there’s 53 additional diamonds in the back, and the main navigation button is made of platinum, holding a single cut 7.4 carat pink diamond.
Funny pay all that money for the Iphone and you still can't make a call on it.

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IPHONE PROPOSAL IS PRETTY DAMN CREATIVE

There are plenty of things you can do with an iphone and of you're Chad Clay, you can use it to get engaged.

"I used a lot of apps that I downloaded, like a drum app, a keyboard app," Clay said of his creative process.
But the real music was recorded in his home studio, and with the help of a little autotune and Photoshop, the idea was born.
It took the budding musician about four months to write the song and produce the video. He said the easiest part was getting the movie theater to play along. While most people ignore coming attractions, Clay told his girlfriend of six years that a mutual friend was being featured in one of the movie trailers.
Just before the film wa about to start, what looked like an ad for the iPhone popped up one the screen, helping Clay pop the question.
This was pretty creative she must be the ish for him to take all that time and effort to make that proposal video.

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SALT COULDN'T BEAT INCEPTION, MEL GIBSON JUST WON'T SHUT UP, IT'S OK TO HACK YOUR IPHONE , POLICE REFUSE TO SAVE A CHILD

Salt could'nt beat Inception at the box office which means it has to be good enough for me to at least check it out. Here are te rest of the totals.

Weekend Box Office Estimates (U.S.)

Jul 23 - 25 weekend


1 1 Inception Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution $43,505,000 TOTAL: $143,663,000


2 - Salt N/A $36,500,000 TOTAL: $36,500,000


3 2 Despicable Me Universal Pictures $24,100,000 TOTAL: $161,700,000


4 3 The Sorcerer's Apprentice Walt Disney Pictures $9,685,000 TOTAL: $42,643,000


5 5 Toy Story 3 Walt Disney Studios Distribution $9,030,000 TOTAL: $379,529,000


6 - Ramona and Beezus 20th Century Fox Distribution $8,000,000 TOTAL: $8,000,000


7 6 Grown Ups Sony Pictures Releasing $76,000,000 TOTAL: $142,412,000


8 4 The Twilight Saga: Eclipse Summit Entertainment, LLC $7,033,000 TOTAL: $279,674,000


9 7 The Last Airbender Paramount Pictures $4,173,000 TOTAL: $123,264,000


10 8 Predators 20th Century Fox $2,850,000 TOTAL: $46,568,000

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WHAT IDIOT WOULD BUY THIS IPHONE

Check out the 24ct solid gold iPhone 4 design by Stuart Hughes – known to create luxury customizations of cellphones and gadgets. If you want one, your looking at spending $33,490 without the contract and crappy At&T service.

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TOLD YALL THE IPHONE SUCKS, ALREADY HAS ANTENNA PROBLEMS

I would never buy an Iphone. Why would you buy a phone that you have to hold a certain way? Buy the way, didn' t Apple start off as a computer company, I guess now it's turning into a phone company.

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THIS IS THE NEW IPHONE BUT I STILL HATE IT

This is the new Iphone. It looks pretty cool but I still hate Apple products


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DOUBLE SIDED IPHONE TRANSLATION APP

Translation programs have always been troublesome as you need to keep switching back and forth between languages, since both parties generally don’t understand what each other is saying. Now an upcoming iPhone app is looking to tackle that problem by providing a double-ended multilingual translator. What it does is it offers two sets of keyboards, one for each party, allowing each person to type in their own native language and have the sentence translated at the other end, allowing both parties to converse easily. There will be 51 different languages supported, including non-Latin keyboards for languages such as Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Thai, Czech, Hebrew and Ukrainian. Seems pretty cool if going overseas.

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NOW THIS IS THE COOLEST THING I HAVE SEEN FOR THE IPHONE

Each rotary phone-styled iRetrofone Base is handmade from resin, and not only does it give you a stationary calling experience, it also docks and syncs via USB. Available now for $195

VIA: retrotogo

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TECH TUESDAY; NEW IPHONE LEAK

For those of you who care, (not me everyone knows how much I hate the Iphone), GIZMODO has scored a sneak peak of the next generation Iphone. Click the link for the entire article or skip past this post to read something more interesting.
Iphone = next generation still sucks

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IPHONE APP WILL CHANGE THE GAME

For a little $1 iPhone app, Line2 sure has the potential to shake up an entire industry. Line2 gives your iPhone a second phone number -- a second phone line, complete with its own contacts list, voice mail, and so on. The company behind it, Toktumi (get it?), imagines that you'll distribute the Line2 number to business contacts, and your regular iPhone number to friends and family. Your second line can be an 800 number, if you wish, or you can transfer an existing number.

To that end, Toktumi offers, on its Web site, a raft of Google (GOOG) Voice-ish features that are intended to help a small businesses look bigger: call screening, Do Not Disturb hours and voice mail messages sent to you as e-mail. You can create an "automated attendant" -- "Press 1 for sales," "Press 2 for accounting," and so on -- that routes incoming calls to other phone numbers. Or, if you're pretending to be a bigger business than you are, route them all to yourself.
Line2 also turns the iPhone into a dual-mode phone. That is, it can make and receive calls either using either the AT&T airwaves as usual, or -- now this is the best part -- over the Internet. Any time you're in a wireless hot spot, Line2 places its calls over Wi-Fi instead of AT&T's network.

That's a game-changer. Where, after all, is cellphone reception generally the worst? Right -- indoors. In your house or your office building, precisely where you have Wi-Fi. Line2 in Wi-Fi means rock-solid, confident reception indoors.
Line2 also runs on the iPod Touch. When you're in a Wi-Fi hot spot, your Touch is now a full-blown cellphone, and you don't owe AT&T a penny.
But wait, there's more.
Turns out Wi-Fi calls don't use up any AT&T minutes. You can talk all day long, without ever worrying about going over your monthly allotment of minutes. Wi-Fi calls are free forever.
Well, not quite free; Line2 service costs $15 a month (after a 30-day free trial).
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 VIA : newyorktimes

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But here's one of those cases where spending more could save you money. If you're in a Wi-Fi hot spot most of the time (at work, for example), that's an awful lot of calling you can do in Wi-Fi -- probably enough to downgrade your AT&T plan to one that gives you fewer minutes. If you're on the 900-minute or unlimited plan ($90 or $100 a month), for example, you might be able to get away with the 450-minute plan ($70). Even with Line2's fee, you're saving $5 or $15 a month.

Line2 also lets you call overseas phone numbers for Skype-like rates: 2 to 5 cents a minute to most countries. (A full table of rates is available at toktumi.com.) As a handy globetrotters' bonus, calls home to numbers in the United States from overseas hot spots are free.
All of these benefits come to you when you're in a Wi-Fi hot spot, because your calls are carried by the Internet instead of by AT&T. Interestingly enough, though, Line2 can also make Internet calls even when you're not in a hot spot.
It can, at your option, place calls over AT&T's 3G data network, where it's available. Every iPhone plan includes unlimited use of this 3G network -- it's how your iPhone sends e-mail and surfs the Web. So once again, Line2 calls don't use up any of your monthly voice minutes.
Unfortunately, voice connections on the 3G network aren't as strong and reliable as the voice or Wi-Fi methods. Cellular data networks aren't made for seamless handoffs from cell tower to tower as you drive, for example -- there's not much need for it if you're just doing e-mail and Web -- so dropped calls are more likely. Fortunately, if you're on a 3G data-network call and you walk into a hot spot, Line2 switches to the more reliable Wi-Fi network seamlessly, in midcall.
Whenever you do have an Internet connection -- either Wi-Fi or a strong 3G area -- you're in for a startling treat. If you and your calling partner are both Line2 subscribers, Line2 kicks you into superhigh audio-quality mode (16-bit mode, as the techies call it).
Your calling partners sound as if they're speaking right into the mike at an FM radio station. It's almost too clear; you hear the other person's breathing, lip smacks, clothing rustling and so on. After years of suffering through awful cellphone audio, it's quite a revelation to hear what you've been missing.
Now, this all sounds wonderful, and Line2 generally is wonderful. But there's room for improvement.
First, as you've no doubt already concluded, understanding Line2 is complicated. You have three different ways to make calls, each with pros and cons.
You miss a certain degree of refinement, too. The dialing pad doesn't make touch-tone sounds as you tap the keys. There's no Favorites list within the Line2 app. You can't get or send text messages on your Line2 line. (The company says it will fix all this soon.)
There's a faint hiss on Line2 calls, as if you're on a long-distance call in 1970. The company says that it deliberately introduces this "comfort noise" to reassure you that you're still connected, but it's unnecessary. And sometimes there's a voice delay of a half-second or so (of course, you sometimes get that on regular cellphone calls, too).
Finally, a note about incoming calls. If the Line2 app is open at the time, you're connected via Wi-Fi,  if it's available. If it's not running, the call comes in through AT&T, so you lose the benefits of Wi-Fi calling. In short, until Apple blesses the iPhone with multitasking software, you have to leave Line2 open whenever you put the phone to sleep. That's awkward.
Still, Line2 is the first app that can receive incoming calls via either Wi-Fi or cellular voice, so you get the call even if the app isn't running. That's one of several advantages that distinguish it from other voice-over-Internet apps like Skype and TruPhone.
Another example: If you're on a Wi-Fi call using those other programs, and someone calls your regular iPhone number, your first call is unceremoniously disconnected. Line2, on the other hand, offers you the chance to decline the incoming call without losing your Wi-Fi call.
Those rival apps also lack Line2's call-management features, visual voice mail and conference calling with up to 20 other people. And Line2 is the only app that gives you a choice of call methods for incoming and outgoing calls.
All of this should rattle cell industry executives, because let's face it: the Internet tends to make things free. Cell carriers go through life hoping nobody notices the cellephant in the room: that once everybody starts making free calls over the Internet, it's Game Over for the dollars-for-minutes model.
Line2, however, brings us one big step closer to that very future. It's going to be a wild ride.

WOULD YOU PAY FOR THIS

This is IPHONE application made exclusively for the rich. Apple’s iVIP iPhone app which retails for $999 is designed for the rich and famous – especially if you are willing to pay almost a thousand bucks for it. The app is – “The first premium lifestyle app for the iPhone. Bringing a world of luxury to your device, iVIP membership gives you access to privileges across a range of luxury partners including Supercars, Cinemas, Concierge, Restaurants, Bars, and more.”

Also – before you can begin to use the app, there is a screening process to verify that you are a high-income user.

via: thelifefiles

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