Sunday, July 1, 2007
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Videos of the iPhone’s Guts, Both Academic and Destructive
2:01PM Seamus Byrne | The first video includes an iPhone and a Hammer, and speaks for itself. The Second video shows the iPhone for more academic reasons.Not too surprisingly, the phone has components you’ve seen in other handsets. More »
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Sega Toys’ Robotic Animal Extravaganza
1:49PM Seamus Byrne | A couple months ago, we were excited about robotic chickens; now, Sega Toys announced that they’re coming out with three new robotic animal types for their highly popular Dream Pet series: a short-haired cat, an owl, and a parrot. I can’t wait ’til they all hit the market so I can finish building my robotic animal farm… More Super Realistic Robotic Animals From Sega Toys [TokyoMango] More »
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Several AT&T Stores Forced Customers to Buy Accessories With iPhone
12:29PM Seamus Byrne | Following up on the launch difference between AT&T and Apple stores, we’ve got three separate accounts of people reporting that AT&T is forcing them to buy accessories along with their iPhone at three different AT&T stores. This was definitely not the case at Apple stores, and for AT&T to decide this on their own to cash in on the launch is pretty damn shady. The first comes from the University Village AT&T store at 4626 25th Ave NE, Seattle, WA (Phone 206-729-7184). When buying the iPhone yesterday, the store said all customers must by two accessories with an iPhone, but the accessories could be returned, opened, without a restocking fee. Add to that the fact that the salesman didn’t even know a charger was included and tried to upsell a different charger to the reader. More »
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Aha! The Trick to Typing On an iPhone
12:25PM Seamus Byrne | Minutes after the first time I typed on an iPhone, I realized a trick that bumped accuracy to almost 99%. Instead of hunting and pecking, I’ve been sliding into place, letting the popups tell me what letter I’m on before releasing the key and triggering the keystroke. It’s been good training. I’m still not typing that fast, at this point, but the video was shot last night before I passed out from exhaustion — that’s 3 minutes after I started typing on the iPhone. I can’t believe that after days with the iPhone, the first reviewers didn’t figure this trick out. More »
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Top Five iPhone Apps of the Moment
11:03AM Seamus Byrne | Here are the top five most useful iPhone apps we’ve come across so far. • iPhone AIM Chat: No iChat? Use Web-based iChat. AIM only. • The Gas finder app and OneTrip shopping list: Save money and time • Digg: An interface to browse digg. Great until Digg makes an iPhone-friendly version of their site. • Chess: No games on the iPhone means this bandwidth light app will occupy you on the bus, plus make you look like a pseud-intellectual if you play this instead of Bejewelled. • LivePhone: Look up Xbox Live profiles. Great for gamerscore nerds like us. Ok, me. More »
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The iPhone Superfans, A Tribute
7:59AM Seamus Byrne | There are Apple fanboys—they run around with mommy and daddy’s credit card, wear earbuds, occasionally write for Gizmodo and will defend touchscreen typing to the death minor injury. Then there are the superfans—these Great Beings will go months without food or water, living off of the occasional sprays of Jobsonian phlegm that’s carefully rationed between keynotes. This gallery is to them. galleryPost('Superfans', 8, 'Superfans'); More »
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iPhone Launch, AT&T Vs. Apple Store
7:30AM Seamus Byrne | One of our readers, Frank Beacham, wrote in this morning after experiencing the iPhone launch first-hand in lines at both AT&T and the Apple. We thought his piece was well-written and quite telling about the difference in customer service between the two companies, so we posted it after the jump. More »
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iPhone Shopping Trip Quite Different Today
7:20AM Seamus Byrne | Are you pondering a purchase of an iPhone, but all that Day Zero gnashing of teeth and marathon line waiting is holding you back? Well, the experience today, one day later, is quite different. We departed Gizmodo’s Midwest Test Facility today at 1:15 p.m., heading to the Apple Store at our local mall for an iPhone, and now it’s 2:45, and not only have we made the 45-minute round trip but we’ve brought home the iPhone, synced up our contacts and tunes, and successfully transferred an existing mobile number over to AT&T. We even had time for a quick lunch in the midst of all that. More »
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Having Trouble Activating Your iPhone?
7:00AM Seamus Byrne | If you are, you’re probably familiar with the image above. You’ve probably seen it about 100 times while pawing hungrily at your $650 paperweight while waiting for that activation email from iTunes/AT&T. It’s not your fault, it’s AT&T/T-Mobile/Sprint/Verizon’s. Join the club. Post your grief in the comments and we’ll all have a pity party. More »
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