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Sprint to Offer Minimum $100 iPhone Trade-in Towards a New iPhone 4S

If you’re an iPhone customer considering jumping ship to Sprint, the Now Network’s upcoming promo just might be enough to influence your decision. A trusted source has shared with us that starting on May 18th Sprint will begin offering a minimum of $100 on any iPhone trade-ins towards an iPhone 4S. This offer is available

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AT&T Ready to Unlock Off-Contract iPhones

AT&T will give select iPhone customers the opportunity to unlock their devices starting on April 8th. This comes with a set of stipulations outlined in an email to PhoneScoop from AT&T spokesperson Seth Bloom, which TechnoBuffalo also confirmed with AT&T. It reads: Beginning Sunday, April 8, we will offer qualifying customers the ability to unlock their AT&T

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You Can Now Install iOS 5 On iPhone 2G/3G And Old iPods Without Jailbreaking

Apple’s iOS 5 software offers some pretty awesome features that make using an iOS device all the more enjoyable. Features like wireless iTunes syncing, iCloud backups, Notification Center, and Twitter integration are all things that make iOS users wonder how they ever got by prior to iOS 5. But those who are still rocking the

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Your Rocketfish iPhone Case is Being Recalled

Apple products were on fire over the Black Friday weekend, and so were Rocketfish’s battery cases – literally. According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and Health Canada, about 32,000 Rocketfish iPhone 3G/iPhone 3GS cases sold at retailer Best Buy are being recalled due to a fire hazard. About 14 reports were received by Best

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Check Out This Amazing Superhydrophobic Spray That Makes Any Gadget Waterproof [Video]

If there’s one thing that your electronic devices should never be introduced to, it’s water. The two just don’t go well together, and once they meet, there’s nothing you can do to prevent the destruction that will almost always ensue. If you’re anything like me, you will have lost a number of beloved gadgets to

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Introduction to iOS Development: Understanding Your Platform

How do you develop apps for iOS?  It’s a common question, and one we hope to answer with this series of posts. Learning how to develop software can be one of the most intimidating prospects for any computer enthusiast, and with the growing saturation of applications in mobile marketplaces, it is becoming increasingly difficult to

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Four Generations of iPhone Side By Side

Now that come across the fourth generation of iPhone, the original is getting harder to remember.  Whether you remember it for its aluminum chasis, slow Edge speeds, or its barebones 1.0 software, it’s where the smartphone revolution began.   Externally, not too much has changed in three years but they’re somehow managing to cram a

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Apple Prepping iOS 4Update For iPhone 3G

Ever since iOS 4 came out there have been complaints that the supposedly compatible iPhone 3G was not playing well with the new operating system.  As the parody video shows above, owners of the second generation iPhone have been less than thrilled, but Apple finally acknowledged last month that it was aware of the issues and were looking into

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iPhone 3G Running iOS 4 Makes for a Sad Day

Apparently iPhone 3G users who decided to make the jump to iOS 4 have been left with some less than usable devices.  According to TUAW, Apple support forums are filled with dissatisfied customers who upgraded their software expecting halfway decent results.  As it turns out, iOS 4 has a cripplingly slow effect on the user

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Apple Releases iOS4

While it actually hasn’t been that long since Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced iOS4, but its features are things that fans of the iPhone and iPod Touch have been waiting a long time for.  Not only is it delivering everything users have been waiting for, but this time it’s free for even the Touch owners,

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The iPhone OS Is Becoming A Serious Mobile Gaming Platform

There was a lot of scoffing being directed at Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, when he tried to position the iPhone and iPod touch as reliable gaming platforms.  When the third-party apps were announced in 2008, he showed off a bunch of different types of games for the platform, and most people laughed them off.  Well the

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Siri is a Mini Wolfram Alpha, But Just as Cool

Remember Wolfram Alpha?  It’s the smartest search engine around that can get you instant answer for virtually anything you throw at it.  An expansion on that idea, Siri is a virtual personal assistant that can seemingly decipher anything you need to know.  It’s a search engine that’ll execute tasks so you don’t have to.  You

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Why Isn’t The iPhone On Every Carrier Yet?

It has almost become like a sport in the United States to try to guess when the AT&T exclusivity of Apple’s iPhone will end. With most indications having always been that the iPhone would move over to Verizon exclusively if the opportunity should ever arise, one has to wonder why in the world the most

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