iPhone 3G Torture Tests

The key scratching test, the cleaning/washing test, and the drop test – the iPhone is still functioning!  

MINI debuts roadside assistance iPhone app (Video)

I have owned two of MINI since 2002, and a cool benefit of being a MINI owner was including the roadside assistance program that had all new MINI's. Well, it seems to have gone a step further and have created an iPhone application to make full use of its roadside assistance program. AAA roadside assistance iPhone application was released recently and it looks like this may be a trend among insurance companies. MINI USA worked with Allstate Insurance for creating your iPhone application, a... Read more...

About duplicate contacts and calendars on iPhone 3.0

When I synced my iPhone after the iPhone 3.0 OS upgrade, I wound up with double contacts and calendar entries. Checking every Mac in the house, as well as MobileMe, though, revealed no duplicate entries. They were only on the iPhone. As I dug into the problem on the iPhone, I discovered that these weren't actually true duplicates (i.e. the same event is entered twice on the same calendar), but rather I had two distinct groups of calendars and contacts. In both apps, when I tapped the Groups... Read more...

Puzzlings ($2.99)

Last summer I played a lot of DS games, usurped by the iPhone, more recently, my device from Nintendo has been gathering dust in the back closet of the old gadget.   Back then, a game that was the cause of training load of puzzle-solving dreams was Puzzle League, a simple matching game three forms on a touch-screen grid. Puzzlings clones style gameplay of Puzzle League, but then takes a notch, the setting of the game in a land of cute creatures with a clay doll. By solving some puzzles... Read more...

Best Buy to offer Apple's iPhone 3G S with insurance

Best Buy to offer Apple's iPhone 3G S with insurance Those who want added protection for their new iPhone 3G S units on launch day will have the option of queuing up at Best Buy to purchase both Apple's device as well as a rare accident insurance plan, albeit one which may cost almost as much as the phone itself. Best Buy stores nationwide next friday will begin selling the next-generation Apple handset on launch day, albeit at the big-box retailer's usual 10 a.m. opening... Read more...

Are You Happy? Your iPhone Wants to Know

How are you right now? A new iPhone-based research project aims to find out ... and in so doing, help to discover what makes you happy and others. His track Happiness, a program initiated by Harvard University doctoral student Matt Killingsworth is a psychological study that aims to find factors that influence happiness. But instead of asking participants to complete their studies in a laboratory, Killingsworth wanted to collect data from real world, throughout the day. Therefore, he chose... Read more...

iPhone 3G S screen will come with a fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating

We just heard that iPhone 3G S has a faster processor and double the RAM. Some folks who have been digging through Apple's iPhone 3G S tech specification page have stumbled upon another nice but minor change. iPhone 3G S screen will come with a fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating, something that is missing in earlier iPhones.  have been a minor but frequent complaint from users. Being a touch screen device, Apple's iPhone has always had a problem where greasy fingers... Read more...

Speed Test: Apple iPhone 3G S vs iPhone 3G vs Palm Pre

iPhone app tracks your food intake by scanning bar codes

When my eating starts getting out of control, I usually fire up the Lose It app to keep tabs on my calories for a few days. Of course, it's a hassle to have to manually enter the foods I eat. Enter FoodScanner, a new app that scans package bar codes for quick and easy calorie logging. Does it work? It does. Is it just as cool as it sounds? It is. Will it earn a spot in one of Apple's "There's an app for that" commercials? Almost certainly. It's just that slick.   To use FoodScanner,... Read more...

Apple: iPhone OS 3.0 plugs 46 security bugs

Apple has issued an advisory regarding security enhancements included in the iPhone OS 3.0 release Wednesday. Here is a synopsis of the 46 iPhone security vulnerabilities addressed by the latest operating-system update for the iPhone and iPod Touch. As may be expected, many of these security patches focus on the Web-browsing framework WebKit.   CoreGraphics Changes to CoreGraphics prevent maliciously crafted image and PDF files from causing unexpected application termination or... Read more...